Dissemination Plan for Experts and Policy-makers and the Final Interactive Scholars-Experts Conference

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With regard to the elaboration of further dissemination plans for policy makers in order to maximise the impact of the project ‘Chapter 2. Project objectives’ contains a detailed description of the project’s strategic objective, which is to operationalise the knowledge gained from the project by co-operating with policy makers working in the field of anti-corruption. The respective multiple-stage plan comprises of the following details:

1. Non-academic experts such as politicians, lawyers, police officers, and representatives from the media and non-governmental organisations are directly involved in the project in different ways, i.e. as interviewees, informants, and discussants in the process of data-generation. As a result, the exchange of knowledge and information between scholars and experts will be continual throughout the entire project. These experts, among whom will be journalists integrated into the project, will function as multipliers for the dissemination of the research project’s findings.

The partners of the consortium commit themselves to disseminating their publications, the sub-project reports, the news­letter, and the discussion papers to national and international anti-corruption policy-makers. This is of special importance with respect to those policy-makers who have been selected to participate in the scholars-experts conference at the end of the project. In this manner, it will be ensured that the prospective participants are able to prepare themselves gradually and thoroughly for the task of developing the optimised preventative measures in anti-corruption policy to be discussed in the final conference.

2. In the initial phase, those international and national anti-corruption policy-makers who are to be represented at the final conference will be informed of the project’s goals. Throughout the course of the project, they will be kept informed on its progress on a regular basis via the reports submitted by the project partners. Most importantly, they will be informed of the results of the evaluation of existing anti-corruption measures by means of the individual national reports and the summary report to be compiled by the Konstanz research group.

In the course of the follow-up three-day scholars-experts conference in Brussels, the results of the overall report will be discussed on the first and second day of the conference in plenary. The third day of the conference will be open to the public, enabling attendees to interact with both the scholars and the experts.The goal of this interactive conference will be to optimise prevention measures in the individual countries. Because the conference is conceived as a forum for co-operative exchange between social scientists and policy-making experts at which new approaches to the prevention of corruption are to be discussed, all participants must be given adequate time to prepare for this conference. In order to meet this prerequisite, all participants will receive at a pre-determined date and in preparation for the conference a text presenting the study’s findings.

3. International organisations sending representatives to the conference are: EU (European Anti-Fraud Office: OLAF), Council of Europe: GRECO-Group of States against Corruption, SIGMA Programme (EU and OECD), OECD: DFE-Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs, SPAI: Stability Pact Anti-Corruption Initiative, SELDI: Southeast European Legal Development Initiative, UNODC: Economic and Social Council, The Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, World Bank: World Bank Institute (WBI), CIPE: Centre for International and Private Enterprises-regional partner. National institutions are: ministerial authorities (Ministries of the Interior and Justice, Investigators/Inspectors for the Offices of Prime Ministers´ Inspection Boards), general state prosecutors, representatives of the police forces, journalists, representatives of Transparency International’s national bureaux, as well as representatives of national anti-corruption initiatives, representatives of employers‘ and professional associations.

4. The Konstanz research group will compile the results of this conference in the form of a report. This report will be disseminated to the consortium partners, to all international and national anti-corruption instances, as well as to national representatives from the six target groups that participated in the conference. The consortium partners will additionally publish this report in their native language.