During the past week, the Academic Programmes Department of the International Anti-Corruption Academy (IACA) welcomed back students from the 2022 Cohort of the Master in Anti-Corruption Studies Programme. From 1 April 2024 until 9 April 2024, IACA master's students

Module 7, titled ‘Corruption Prevention, Collaboration, Systems & Technologies: Now and the Future’ included lectures from several well-renowned anti-corruption experts and faculty, including Ms. Malika Ait-Mohamed Parent (Switzerland), Mr. Michael Johnston (USA), Ms. Ina Kubbe (Germany), Mr. Sanjeev Narrainen (Mauritius) and Mr. Yanamandra Srinivas (India).

The MACS students participated in lectures on a range of topics, including Corruption and Humanitarian Aid, The Role of Technology, Data Analytics and Emerging Technology in Anti-Corruption, Prevention of Corruption and the Future of Anti-Corruption, Whistleblowing and Whistleblower Protection, Climate Change and Corruption, and Research Ethics, Data-Analysis, and Conducting Reporting Research.

Moreover, the students who joined in-person had the opportunity to visit the Federal Bureau of Anti-Corruption (BAK) and Vienna’s University of Economics and Business, as well as experience a traditional Austrian-style dinner in Laxenburg.

The MACS Programme offers a series of interdisciplinary modules that concentrate on concepts and applied perspectives for preventing and countering corruption and establishing solid components of compliance and is run in both hybrid and online format. For more information about IACA’s Master's Programmes and to apply, please visit the following links for MACS and IMACC.