The Forum will seek to raise awareness among youth about the character and impact of corruption, a global problem affecting them in the present and threatening their future. Assembling an international group of committed young people at the IACC will facilitate contacts between them and create the opportunity for establishing a permanent international Youth Network Against Corruption. Such a network would provide a framework for exchange and collaboration among the next generation of corruption fighters and would enrich international work on anti-corruption strategies.

The participants will be recommended by Transparency International’s National Chapters around the world and selected on the basis of their qualifications. While the majority will be college and university students, the Forum will be open to all school students, graduates and young professionals who have a particular interest in transparency and experience in civil society work.

The Youth Forum is being organised by four partners, Transparency International, TI-Korea, the Lebanese Transparency Association and the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy. An Internet portal (to be launched soon) will inform about the project in more detail.

For further information please contact the Youth Forum Project Manager at the TI-Secretariat, Mr. Reinhold Elges, at relges@transparency.org or visit the website www.ynac.org.