The National Transparency Authority (NTA) will hold a special event tomorrow, Friday 8 April, at its main building (195 Lenormann & Amfiaraou, Sepolia), to award the winners of the 1st Panhellenic Student Competition entitled "Integrity Leaders of Tomorrow".
The competition was held, during the school year 2020 -2021, by the National Transparency Authority in collaboration with the Ministry of Education & Religious Affairs, the Institute of Educational Policy and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
Within the framework of the competition, students from all over the country had the opportunity to express themselves through creative ways (e.g. painting, collage, poster, video, written text, poem) and to reflect in an original way the values of respect, justice, integrity and solidarity.
In total, 217 students from all educational levels participated with 157 works, while 37 schools from all over the country were represented. The aim was to gradually familiarise the student community with the concepts of ethics, transparency and accountability, as well as with the benefits for society as a whole of strengthening the mechanisms for preventing and deterring phenomena of opacity, corruption and maladministration. This action is part of a series of educational initiatives that the National Transparency Authority is gradually implementing in order to raise awareness and inform students, tomorrow's citizens, on issues of transparency, integrity and accountability.
The event will be moderated by journalist Eleni Lazarou (ALPHA TV).
The programme of the event includes:
- Sensitization of students to concepts - values: transparency, truth, trust, justice, democracy, solidarity, integrity, respect
- Presentation of a video of the students' works
- Awarding of the students
- Those schools that cannot be present in person and which have students who will be awarded prizes during the event will be able to connect remotely.
They have been invited to attend:
- Ms Zeta Makri, Deputy Minister of Education and Religious Affairs
- Ioannis Antoniou, President of the Institute of Educational Policy.
- Nikos Filis, SYRIZA and Ms. Hara Kefalidou, Greek party KINAL
- Representative of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
- Antonis Papatheodoulou, author of children's books
- Students, Parents & Guardians of children
In the context of the event, the well-known basketball athlete Dimitris Diamantidis will award the children and offer them a personalized T-shirt signed by himself (with each child's name printed on it), declaring the first "National Integrity Team", while at the same time he will talk to the children about the values of sports integrity, respect and solidarity.
The winners from primary schools will receive educational material created specifically for this action by the National Transparency Authority in collaboration with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), while the winners from secondary schools will travel to Vienna, Austria (health conditions permitting) to visit the UNODC headquarters, where they will present their projects.
Finally, all of the winners' creations constitute visual exhibition material hosted in the main building of the National Transparency Authority and presented at the 1st Integrity Forum organised by the Authority in December 2021 on the occasion of the World Anti-Corruption Day.
All the prescribed health protocols will be observed at the event.