The main goal of the conference is to present the results of the project „Transparency and Integrity in Higher Education – A Program to Develop a Coalition of Non-governmental Organisations to Prevent Corruption”. The project approaches the issue of corruption in the academic institutions, at the level of the four state-funded public universities from Timiºoara University Center: West University, Politehnica University, University of Agricultural Sciences of Banat and University of Medical Sciences and Pharmacy „Victor Babeº”.

The event is part of a series of actions that aim at building a coalition to fight corruption and promote institutional transparency in the universities of Timiºoara. One of the main objectives of the „Transparency and Integrity in Higher Education” conference is to ratify the plans to promote transparency and fight corruption by the four state-funded public universities. The plans were elaborated by student organisations and informal groups of innitiative from the universities.

This innitiative is part of the project „Transparency and Integrity in Higher Education – A Program to Develop a Coalition of Non-governmental Organisations to Prevent Corruption”, implemented with the financial support of the European Union through Phare 2003 Program Strengthening Civil Society in Romania.

For more information please contact us at: Euroregional Center for Democracy, Semenic St. no 10, Phone: 0256 221471, 0356 401139, E-mail: vlingurar@regionalnet.org (Valeriu Lingurar, project coordinator).