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Call for Abstracts – SISP Conference 2026 (Trento, 3–5 September 2026)
The Italian Political Science Association (SISP) has opened the call for abstracts for its 2026 Annual Conference, which will take place in Trento from 3 to 5 September 2026. Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit their paper proposals by 29 May 2026 via the official conference website: https://www.sisp.it/ Within Section 6 – Public Policies…
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Second Online Seminar on “Measuring Corruption Risks in Public Procurement” – Report
RESPOND seminar explores new tools for detecting corruption in public procurement The second RESPOND Online Seminar, hosted by Central European University, brought together researchers and practitioners to examine how corruption in public procurement can be detected more effectively through new data-driven methods. In his presentation, Mihály Fazekas of Central European University outlined recent research that…
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Call for Papers!
Apply for the 10th Forum of the Interdisciplinary Corruption Research Network in Germany The 10th Forum of the Interdisciplinary Corruption Research Network (ICRN) will be hosted in 2026 by one of the RESPOND partners, the Research Center Trustworthy Data Science and Security at the University of Duisburg-Essen. The event will take place June 25 (Thursday)…
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Webinar on LEGDAT
A Global Infrastructure for the Study of Legislative Processes and Lawmaking On 21 November, a webinar was held to present LEGDAT, a pioneering dataset designed to systematically capture how legislative processes unfold across countries. Legislatures play a central role in policymaking, yet comparative research has long lacked comprehensive and harmonized information on the advancement of…
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RESPOND Participates in the iMonitor Final Conference
On 27 March 2025, S-Com had the opportunity to participate in the Final Conference of the iMonitor project, held at Hotel Indigo in Brussels. Organised by the Government Transparency Institute (GTI) and project partners, the conference marked the closing of a two-year EU-funded initiative that sought to enhance integrity in public procurement by combining data-driven…
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Report on RESPOND Co-Creation Workshops
The RESPOND Co-Creation Workshops played a pivotal role in deepening the understanding of political corruption by bringing together experts from various fields. Through their active contributions, they helped refine the data, indicators, and analyses gathered by the RESPOND partners CEU, UGOT, UCSC – TRANSCRIM and KLC. These four workshops, held throughout February and March 2025,…