Lena Nazaryan, Project Assistant of Transparency international Anti-corruption Center attended Transparency International Summer School on Integrity in Vilnius from July 5 to 9, 2010. The school brought together over 65 young professionals from Armenia, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Russia, Ukraine and United States of America to address the subject of corruption and fighting it.

The course covered political corruption and party financing, corruption in public sector, public procurement and public-private partnerships, corruption in private sector, media transparency and accountability, whistleblowing and civic engagement, the work of TI as anticorruption advocacy NGO. Global concerns, such as corruption and organized crime, as well as issues such as IT civic empowerment tools were also addressed during the course.

The TI Summer School was organized by Transparency International Lithuania in cooperation with Mykolas Romeris University. The School is sponsored by the Embassies of Finland and United States in Vilnius, Transparency International Secretariat and The Black Sea Trust for Regional Cooperation.

TI's mission is to create change towards a world free of corruption.

For full information see Transparency International Summer School 2010