For the past four weeks, the Academic Programmes Department of the International Anti-Corruption Academy (IACA) hosted online live sessions for the International Master in Anti-Corruption Compliance and Collective Action (IMACC) Programme.

Since 1 April 2024, the master's students participated in live sessions ran through Microsoft Teams to complete their final module, named the ‘Future of Anti-Corruption Compliance and Collective Action’, while beginning their research journey in preparation for their Master Theses.

Lectures for Module 7 were delivered by renowned anti-corruption experts and faculty members, including Ms. Ina Kubbe (Germany), Mr. Sanjeev Narrainen (Mauritius), Mr. Yanamandra Srinivas (India), Mr. Martim Della Valle (Brazil), and Mark Worth (U.S.A.). Additionally, IACA’s in-house faculty, including Mr. Pawan Kumar Sinha, Director of the Academic Programmes Department and Mr. Martin Zapata, Senior Academic Programmes Officer, held a Compliance Lab, where students had the opportunity to design their own collective action models.

The IMACC students participated in lectures on a range of topics, including - The Role of Technology, Data Analytics and Emerging Technology in Anti-Corruption; the Future of Anti-Corruption, Whistleblowing and Whistleblower Protection; a Compliance Lab on Establishing a Whistleblowing System as Part of a Compliance Programme; Climate Change and Corruption; Research Ethics, Data-Analysis, and Conducting Reporting Research.

The IMACC Programme offers a series of interdisciplinary modules that concentrate on concepts and applied perspectives for preventing and countering corruption, while establishing solid components of compliance and collective action. This Programme is also run in an online format to facilitate flexibility and reach a global audience. For more information about IACA’s Master's Programmes and to apply, please visit the following links for MACS and IMACC.