Since anti-corruption and integrity strategies are more likely
to succeed when they receive strong grass-roots backing from civil
society and other relevant actors in the fight against corruption,
the Assembly calls on the Committee of Ministers to:
4.1 strengthen dialogue between
civil society and local, national and European institutions by launching
a campaign on integrity and anti-corruption aimed at mobilising
a network of policy makers, experts, scholars, intellectuals, journalists,
non-governmental organisations and students;
4.2 give a prominent role to integrity and anti-corruption
education in the Council of Europe Reference Framework of Competences
for Democratic Culture, targeting primary and secondary schools
and higher education and vocational training institutions throughout
Europe;
4.3 consider including integrity and anti-corruption aspects
in a revised version of the Council of Europe Charter on Education
for Democratic Citizenship and Human Rights Education;
4.4 develop anti-corruption education projects in the framework
of the Council of Europe–European Union joint programme Human Rights
and Democracy in Action;
4.5 pay specific attention to corruption in education, in
particular regarding access to higher education and higher education
qualifications, and study the possibility of a convention on education fraud;
4.6 ask Council of Europe member States that have established
separate specialist anti-corruption bodies to ensure their independence
and provide them with specialist skills, a clear mandate and sufficient
powers, subject to proper checks and balances, in line with Committee
of Ministers
Resolution 97
(24) on the twenty guiding principles for the fight against
corruption and the guidelines of the United Nations Convention against
Corruption;
4.7 invite the Group of States against Corruption (GRECO)
to provide a platform for anti-corruption authorities in its member
States in order to gather and discuss good practice and current
challenges in the fight against corruption and the promotion of
integrity in public life, and consider setting up a network at European
level.