In Chapter 1 the main characteristic on the system for corruption prevention of Albania and the results of the survey have been presented. Chapter 2 explores the situation in North Macedonia through the review of the legislation and the presentation of survey results. Situation in Serbia and survey results are presented in Chapter 3 of the publication.

Through the survey conducted across all the countries, students were asked various questions on their awareness and perception regarding the forms of corruption and what institutional tools of prevention were available to them, as well as whether or not they felt like they had the ability to use those tools to report cases of corruption.

From this, we were able to highlight the various reasons as to why university students refrain from reporting corruption, such as the existence of unclear procedures, which was identified as one of the main reasons why corruption is under reported in their faculty.

The Joint Report recommends steps to further improve the anti-corruption system at universities, with a focus on three important areas:

• Raising institutional capacities and improving anti-corruption mechanisms at faculties
• Adoption, amendment or improvement of legal acts in the field of internal alerting and the fight against corruption
• Informative and educational campaigns for students aimed at combating corruption in universities.

Dive into the analysis and findings of the report (link to the report) to gain a deeper understanding into the research methodology, survey results, similarities and differences across the three countries as well as recommendations and suggestions that ai to improve the situation across the region.

This collaborative effort is made possible in the framework of the regional grant of the “SMART Balkans – Civil Society for Shared Society in the Western Balkans” regional project implemented by Centar za promociju civilnog društva (CPCD), Center for Research and Policy Making (CRPM) and Institute for Democracy and Mediation (IDM) and financially supported by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (NMFA).

See report here

See Policy Breef here