New approaches for combatting corruption and other undue influences on political decision-making
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Programme Description
Horizon Europe is the European Union (EU) funding programme for the period 2021 – 2027, which targets the sectors of research and innovation. The programme’s budget is around € 95.5 billion, of which € 5.4 billion is from NextGenerationEU to stimulate recovery and strengthen the EU’s resilience in the future, and € 4.5 billion is additional aid.
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Summary
Corruption and anticorruption are about human behaviour and require therefore multifaceted and multidisciplinary research. Proposals should aim at bringing together the contributions from behavioural and political economists, psychologists and anthropologists, historians, lawyers, political scientists, communication scholars, etc. Their research findings should contribute to a deeper understanding of corruption and further the evaluation of the quality of democracy and good governance.
Detailed Call Description
Research under this topic should build a solid and encompassing understanding of:
- the cross-border character of new expressions of political corruption involving a constellation of actors cutting across the political, administrative, financial and commercial spheres;
- integrity and its relationship to corruption and the requirements of effective models of integrity management, both in the public and private sectors;
- the role played by the data analytics sector in political communication to malignly influence and disrupt politics in foreign jurisdictions
- the role played by investigative journalism in strengthening accountability by revealing transnational corruption and illicit financial flows.
The role of education and media, in particular social media, and their impact on how corruption is socially constructed, perceived and dealt with in the public sphere, deserves special attention.
Proposals should look at tools to strengthen public-private partnerships for fighting corruption, including inter-institutional and inter-sectorial collaborations among different stakeholders (such as small/large enterprises mentorship), or transparent guidelines for the inclusion of interest groups in political processes. Understanding the potential use of technologies (e.g. artificial intelligence, encrypted data analysis, blockchain, building information modelling…) to detect, prevent and combat corruption and other undue influences should receive particular attention, without overlooking their potential misuse. The analysis of open government experiences and dissemination of practices of civic tracking systems, as opportunities of transparency and prevention of corruption, may also contribute to the assessment of the hopes and challenges of digital anti-corruption efforts. Overall overviews of corruption within the EU are difficult and proposals should aim to overcome this shortfall.
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
100%
EU Contribution per project: between €5,00 and €6,00 million
Thematic Categories
- Audiovisual sector and Media
- Justice - Security
- Public Administration
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
Eligibility for Participation
- Central Government
- Educational Institutions
- Legal Entities
- Local Authorities
- Other Beneficiaries
- Parliamentary Bodies
- Private Bodies
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
- Semi-governmental organisations
- State-owned Enterprises
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Call Closing Date
National Contact Point(s)
Research and Innovation Foundation
29a Andrea Michalakopoulou, 1075 Nicosia
P.O.Box 23422, 1683 Nicosia
Phone Number: +357 22205000
Email Address: support@research.org.cy
Website: https://www.research.org.cy/en/
Contact Persons:
Constantina Makri, Scientific Officer
Contact Phone: +357 22 205 054
Contact Email: cmakri@research.org.cy
Katerina Karakasidou, Scientific Officer
Contact Phone: +357 22 205 036
Contact Email: kkarakasidou@research.org.cy
(Publish Date: 19/12/2022-for internal use only)
EU Contact Point
Contact the Research Enquiry Service (RES) for any general question on Horizon Europe:
https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/contact-us/research-enquiry-service_en