On December 11th 2015, RAS hosted a study visit for several students from the University of Applied Sciences bfi Vienna specializing in the Black Sea Region. The aim of their trip was to get deeper insight into the economic, political and business life of Romania as well as discuss its future outlook.
RAS researchers, Valentina Dimulescu and Andrei Macsut presented the overall organization as well as several ongoing research and activist oriented projects.
Valentina Dimulescu presented the main results of the research report “Romanian public procurement in the construction sector. Corruption risks and particularistic links”. The analysis was written within the EU FP 7 ANTICORRP project, Work Package 8 entitled “Corruption, assistance and development”. Particular focus was placed on the difference between national and international construction firms when it comes to their activity on the Romanian national and local market and their involvement in corrupt public procurement practices.
Andrei Macsut presented the interactive online Map of County Corruption which is a graphic representation of all final penal convictions from 2010 to 2014 handed down by courts of law for individuals involved in corruption cases handled by the DNA, and contains specific case-level data extracted manually from official DNA press releases. In addition, the Clean Romania website was described and a particular focus was placed on its watchdog activity by presenting the Schweighofer case.
