The Symposium is organised every two years in the run up to the Conference of the States Parties to the United Nations Convention against Corruption (CoSP) with the aim to exchange knowledge and good practices in the academic field.

The event sees the participation of anti-corruption researchers and experts, in particular, of members of the UNODC Anti-Corruption Academic Network.

The employment of technological innovations and artificial intelligence in the fight against corruption that is becoming ever more acute in the current realities is one of the main topics of the Symposium.

Additionally, the two-day Symposium will address such topics as:

• The role of non-state actors in promoting the United Nations Convention against Corruption the 20th anniversary of which is celebrated this year;
• Corruption and organised crime;
• Corruption measurement – approaches to gathering data and statistics on corruption;
• Corruption in the healthcare system;
• Corruption and education – how to assess and measure the impact of anti-corruption training.