12th December 2018 – 1st December 2020

The OPEN DOORS, Albania is part of the European project titled “Fighting Corruption – Expanding the Union, in the framework of Erasmus Plus program. This is a two-years-long program, taking place between 1st December 2018 and 1st December 2020. 

This consortium includes 11 organizations from 10 countries (Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia Montenegro, Belgium, Spain, Albania, Kosovo, Bosnia & Herzegovina). The project aim is to increase the level of cooperation between the member countries of the consortium to create an anti-corruption platform in Europe. 

The last months were marked by a renewed European focus on the Western Balkan (WB) region accompanied by a new EU strategy and the visit of the Jean-Claude Juncker to the region in early March 2018. Among many obstacles on the path of WB countries joining the Union is also corruption. The latest Special Euro barometer 470 shows that more than 60% of EU citizens think that corruption is present in their country; the corruption perception index shows a far bleaker picture for WB. Not only is corruption an impediment to joining the EU, it also has considerable impact on the economic sector, society and individuals.

Thus the consortium designed “Fighting Corruption — Expanding the Union” — a project that uses a bottom-up approach to tackling corruption through educating youth workers (from the EU and WB), designing a toolkit and developing non-formal education methods, through which youth workers from partner countries will empower youth to address cases of corruption.