Protikorupční akademie pro UN GC
The Anticorruption Endowment (NFPK) in conjunction with Prague’s University of Economics and Management, the Association of Social Responsibility and the United Nations Global Compact National Network has presented a new concept of its educational project, known as the Anticorruption Academy.
A seminar under the keynote: Transparent Firms and Institutions was designed for those who cannot remain indifferent to the environment in which we live and do business.
After the opening speeches by A-CSR Executive Director Lucie Mádlová, NFPK Director Karel Škácha and Milan Žák from the University of Economics and Management, which actively shares in the in the inclusion of the anticorruption education project in the study programmes, the audience were introduced to interesting lecturers, including the prominent investigative reporter Jaroslav Spurný, NFPK-awarded whistleblower Ondřej Závodský, RSJ financial group’s managing partner Libor Winkler, and NFPK Director Karel Škácha. Their contributions enabled the audience to peep under the lid of anticorruption precautions adopted by various corporations, put themselves in the shoes of a whistleblower on corruption, learn about the work of a corruption-exposing journalist, and inspect the closer aspects of the lobbying business.
“We are happy to usher the Anticorruption Academy into the academic environment. University students are at the core of our target group. We teach them to realize their social responsibility and to use the instruments that serve in good stead to the purpose of actively fighting corruption,” NFPK Director Karel Škácha said after today’s seminar.
“Why do we make students think about corruption? The answer is easy: any spontaneous market transaction is a deal between the manufacturer and the consumer, and is beneficial to both. However, not all transactions are market-oriented in character. Where the exchange is brokered by a third party, one speaks about a non-market decision. The third party is led into temptation to corrupt. And corruption practices are a theft,” Milan Žák explains.
A-CSR Executive Director Lucie Mádlová pitched in: “Corruption often happens quietly but its aftermath is enormous. Anticorruption measures are an important part of sustainable business and therefore they are high on the agenda of the United Nations and the Goals of Sustainable Development. We are happy to see that Czech organizations evince an ever- growing interest in this topic.”
The Anticorruption Academy is partnered by the firms, Alza.cz and Kofola ČeskoSlovensko. “Alza.cz supports many interesting projects associated with responsibility for the society we live and work in. We consider education the best investment and therefore we decided to support also this particular NFPK project,” Alza.cz press spokesperson Patricie Šedivá said about her firm’s support to the Anticorruption Academy. “This Anticorruption Endowment activity blends education with social responsibility, something we view as an ideal connection, and that’s why we have long supported both the social responsibility and the NFPK in general,” Kofola ČeskoSlovensko’s press spokesperson Jaroslava Musilová stated.
The Anticorruption Endowment is a fully independent project, pursued by people radically unprepared to tolerate rampant corruption in the administration of this state. One of our goals is to help expose corruption in state administration and support projects exposing corrupt conduct.
Contacts: Karel Škácha, NFPK Director, tel.. 602 681 513 e-mail: karel.skacha@nfpk.cz
