RDI projects
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Project Information |
| Name | Strengthening MBA Programs on Anti-Bribery and Corruption throughout Europe |
| Start | 1.9.2019 |
| End | 31.8.2022 |
| Website | - |
| Status | Ended |
| Contact | Virpi Oksanen |
| Description | Art. 29 of the Treaty on European Union lists the prevention and combating of corruption, organised
or otherwise, as one objective enabling the creation and safeguarding of a European area of freedom, security and justice. It has been the European Commissions continuous intention to reduce corruption at all levels in a coherent way within the EU institutions, in EU Member States and outside the EU, i.e. political corruption, corrupt activities committed by and collusively with organised crime groups, private-to-private and so-called petty corruption. Despite the fact that the Council Framework Decision 2003/568/JHA on combating corruption in the private sector is already 15-year old, the situation of EU Member States is still very unbalanced, with the E.U. member states ranking from n2 (Denmark) to n71 (Bulgaria) in the Transparency International 2017 Corruption Perceptions Index. It is an area where tangible progress still needs to be made and where promoting cooperation, peer learning and exchanges of experience at European level would help upgrading the ranking of the weaker countries, based on the expertise of the best performing countries. It is also an area where a significant part of the expertise dissemination must start with higher education, because the topic of anti-corruption is still facing general skill gaps, including for educators. This is all the more true as anti-corruption has been siloed for a long time into the Law School programmes whereby recent developments in the corporate world with the multiplication of corruption cases illustrate the urgent need to better train and educate future managers and business leaders into the principles and practicalities of anti-corruption. This project aims to respond to these challenges: building a robust anti-corruption learning program for educators to train MBA students and disseminate best practice on standard terms across Europe in line with the Council Framework Decision 2003/568/JHA. Objective 1- Create a standard Pan-European course on anti-corruption for MBA students, which will be designed by a consortium formed of High Education Institutions through their Ethics / MBA Research teams and Anti-Corruptions experts, all coming from a variety of European countries to ensure an harmonized view despite different cultural backgrounds, so that the exploitation of the course can cover all E.U member states. Objective 2- Disseminate a common approach to anti-corruption among MBA professors/lecturers and students/alumni, through a live network of all participants involved, providing them with a permanent access to a database of easy to read - clear to understand document references on anticorruption, including a regularly updated library of real cases, all available on-line. Objective 3- Extend the reach of this course to at least one MBA programme per E.U. member state,through a robust exploitation plan. Practically, the project will span over a three-year period to (i) build the MBA course with the support of undisputable expert institutions and businesses teaming up with HEIs, (ii) then piloting and testing the course through the respective participating MBA programmes, to test the adequacy of the standadized course to a pan-European exploitation, and (iii) run the final version of the course into dissemination and exploitation, with a view to get it adopted by at least one MBA programme in each member state (long term plan). The partners consider that investing in knowledge, skills and competences about anti-corruption principles and processes has become a critical component of Higher Education to protect the ability of individuals, institutions, organisations and society as a whole to benefit from growth while ensuring equity, prosperity and social inclusion in Europe and beyond. It should directly contribute to the achievement of the promotion of European values in accordance with Article 2 of the Treaty on the |
| Partners | IPAG Business School in Paris, University of Gothenburg, Transparency International, Alfred Compliance, Savonia University of Applied Sciences. |
| Funded by | Erasmus + 2017-2020 |