This summer school is organised by Central European University and is supported by Siemens as part of the Siemens Integrity Initiative. Integrity Action is the project partner of CEU, which is the Integrity Partner in the project.Since 2005 Integrity Action has delivered courses at SUN addressing best-practice methods of fighting corruption and raising integrity in various institutions, with an emphasis on developing and transition countries. The courses contribute to building capacities, introducing innovative skills, and raising awareness of the challenges posed by corruption, and the opportunities and possibilities of integrity building reform. Over four hundred participants from more than 60 countries have taken the course over the years. Integrity Action has been helping and guiding towards Community Integrity Building (CIB), an approach that has by now been implemented in 10 countries, shows the promise of that initial aspiration. The findings are remarkable, the methodology works with a high level of consistency and the early indications are that it can be scaled up. Improving integrity in infrastructure and service provision may be the most cost-effective means of improving development outcomes in the world today. Community Integrity Building is a locally driven approach that helps to identify and implement appropriate, viable solutions to improve the integrity of public infrastructure and services. Integrity here is defined as the alignment of Accountability, Competence, Ethics, and Corruption Control. This course combines theoretical and conceptual insights gained from academic literature and recent research, combined with practitioner insights and experiences and the course participants own case studies and work-related proposals. Fundamentally, it is a course oriented towards practitioners from government, business and civil society, as well as academics interested in offering in related fields. The approach offered by this course is interdisciplinary, straddling law, economics, business, public administration, public sector ethics, as well as politics, statistical and ethnographic approaches. The course will familiarise participants with core ingredients to a strategic and critical approach for effective and sustainable organisational integrity reform. The first half of the day is held in plenary. During these sessions major crosscutting themes are discussed and introduced by senior practitioners and the Course Director. In the afternoons the course is divided into specialised policy labs to address the specific integrity challenges of different social sectors or sub-sets of countries. Topics covered by these policy labs have over the years included doing business in emerging markets; natural resources governance; local governance; judicial integrity; electoral integrity; social accountability; post-war reconstruction; leadership and management; e-accountability; public services; and integrity in politics. The afternoon policy lab sessions are designed to provide deeper analysis on various integrity topics, involving lectures and extensive group work.The tentative list of the policy labs for 2015 is as follows: %E2%80%A2 SMEs and Social Enterprises: Maximising Success with Integrity %E2%80%A2 Teaching Integrity: Universities and Community-Based Integrity Building %E2%80%A2 Integrity Building and Closing the Loop: Mainstreaming Integrity and Feedback in Development for Schools

Course leader
Fredrik Galtung, Integrity Action, Jerusalem, IsraelCourse faculty:Alan Barlow, Integrity Action, London, UKEllen Goldberg, Integrity Action, Jerusalem, IsraelOrnit Shani, University of Haifa, Israel



Target group
The course is aimed at two main target audiences: Practitioners who would be principally drawn from various groups: operational line managers, business executives, public administrators, internal control specialists (e.g. investigators, compliance officers, inspectors, etc.) and external monitors and change agents (e.g. media, NGOs, think tanks, etc.). Educational Administrators, particularly from higher education and Academics especially business professors - who develop similar courses at their own universities, both within the region and beyond. Integrity Action's courses are unique in implementing a multi-stakeholder and problem-oriented approach, using real-life examples to tackle integrity problems. Bringing together participants with various backgrounds enhances the information and experience exchanges and enables students to look at a problem from different perspectives. Applications are welcome from participants with line management responsibility for protecting programmatic integrity, whether in government (e.g. in a ministries, local government), in an NGO (e.g. delivering major programmes in a post-disaster setting or a low-governance environment), in business (especially those operating in some key emerging markets), or supporting and facilitating reforms in other institutions as a donor, through the UN, the European Commission, foundations, and similar organizations.Pre-requisitesThe requirements for policy practitioners is in all but rare cases the possession of an advanced degree (MA and above), as well as a minimum of five years' work experience in a relevant field. For educational administrators and academics, the minimum requirement in all but rare cases will be the possession of a PhD as well as a senior administrative position or faculty position in a curriculum that would enable the participant to develop and implement a policy-relevant course in the near future.Language requirementThe language of instruction is English, thus all applicants have to demonstrate a strong command of spoken and written English to be able to participate actively in discussions at seminars and workshops.

Fee info
EUR 1200: Payable until May 28. Early bird fee is 1080 EUR payable until April 30 EUR 800: If you are an academic (graduate student, faculty or researcher) or employed by a local non-profit organization or by the government of a developing country, you are eligible to pay a reduced fee of 800 EUR. In this case the early bird option (720 EUR) is payable until April 30.

Scholarships
Financial aid is available in the following categories:- tuition waiver- accommodation grant- travel grant (full or partial)

Central European University
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