{"id":307,"date":"2025-04-30T06:00:39","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T06:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalvscorrupt.akustikum.org\/?p=307"},"modified":"2025-08-12T06:13:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T06:13:53","slug":"youth-from-europe-and-the-balkans-united-against-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalvscorrupt.akustikum.org\/?p=307","title":{"rendered":"Youth from Europe and the Balkans United Against Corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-307\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-307-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-307-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-307-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">From May 1st to 6th, 2025, Lake Mladost in Veles, North Macedonia, hosted an international training course titled \u201cCorruption in Business\u201d, gathering 25 youth workers from 12 countries: Albania, Serbia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Bosnia &amp; Herzegovina, Slovenia, Germany, Italy, Poland, Czechia, Belgium, and North Macedonia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Organized by the Institute for Applied Research for Business from Skopje, the training was part of the DigitalVScorrupt project \u2014 a 30-month EU co-funded initiative (December 2023\u2013May 2026) promoting the fight against corruption through digital innovation and civic engagement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Over five days of interactive learning, participants explored the roots, impacts, and mechanisms of corruption in business through a dynamic mix of lectures, group tasks, simulations, discussions, and real-life case studies. The program included innovative methods tailored for youth workers, equipping them with practical anti-corruption tools and transferable knowledge to be used in their home countries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The multicultural setup was a major strength of the event. Participants collaborated in mixed teams to encourage cross-border dialogue and multidisciplinary thinking. They developed practical toolkits for combating corruption, which they will implement within their local communities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The training concluded with a Conference, which brought together youth workers, private sector representatives, academics, and stakeholders from the, public, NGO, and media sectors. The event provided a platform for dialogue, experience-sharing, and networking \u2014 reinforcing the message of zero tolerance for corruption and promoting European values across the Western Balkans.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The conference and training were widely regarded as a strong step forward in building regional cooperation, empowering youth workers, and strengthening anti-corruption capacities through international learning and collaboration.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The DigitalVScorrupt project continues to build momentum as a modern, inclusive initiative driven by digital tools, aiming to foster transparent, just, and democratic societies throughout Europe and its neighboring regions.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-308\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalvscorrupt.akustikum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Veles-Macedonica.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1968\" height=\"1312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digitalvscorrupt.akustikum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Veles-Macedonica.jpg 1968w, https:\/\/digitalvscorrupt.akustikum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Veles-Macedonica-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/digitalvscorrupt.akustikum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Veles-Macedonica-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/digitalvscorrupt.akustikum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Veles-Macedonica-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/digitalvscorrupt.akustikum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Veles-Macedonica-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/digitalvscorrupt.akustikum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Veles-Macedonica-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/digitalvscorrupt.akustikum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Veles-Macedonica-272x182.jpg 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1968px) 100vw, 1968px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From May 1st to 6th, 2025, Lake Mladost in Veles, North Macedonia, hosted an international training course titled \u201cCorruption in Business\u201d, gathering 25 youth workers from 12 countries: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalvscorrupt.akustikum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalvscorrupt.akustikum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalvscorrupt.akustikum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalvscorrupt.akustikum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalvscorrupt.akustikum.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/digitalvscorrupt.akustikum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314,"href":"https:\/\/digitalvscorrupt.akustikum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions\/314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalvscorrupt.akustikum.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalvscorrupt.akustikum.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalvscorrupt.akustikum.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}