Nominations open for INAC Integrity Award (5th Edition) – Brazil

For the fifth consecutive year, the Instituto Não Aceito Corrupção (INAC) – a non-profit, non-partisan civil association – will hold the 5th INAC Integrity Award, which seeks to recognize and reward academic research, journalism and the actions of public and private managers, professionals from various areas and entrepreneurs to connect purposes, ideas and awareness related to practices to combat corruption and build a more honest society. This is a call for a collective commitment: students, researchers, entrepreneurs, journalists, public and private managers, universities, legal and technology professionals are invited to present their innovative ideas and effective practices to help the country promote integrity, prevent and combat corruption.

This edition will also feature an honorable mention called “IN PRACTICE”. The purpose of this honorable mention is to recognize projects that have already won awards in the last two editions of this Award and that have been put into practice in the public or private sectors.

Categories

• There will be 7 categories in the 5th Edition of the Inac Integrity Award:
  • Academy: academic projects, case studies, research and papers produced by undergraduate and graduate students, on concepts and practical solutions related to combating corruption and promoting integrity.
  • Technology and Innovation: prototypes of technological solutions and/or solutions developed through artificial intelligence, also produced by undergraduate and graduate students – including finalized executable versions, demos, prototypes of mobile applications or web platforms that contribute to raising awareness, mobilizing and disseminating concepts related to combating corruption and promoting integrity.
  • Good Practices in Governance: good practices in the public and private sectors, with an emphasis on social inclusion to generate sustainable value in institutions, organizations and society in general.
  • Investigative Journalism: reports produced and published in Brazilian media outlets (printed or online media, audio, video or photography), which reveal cases of corruption in the country at the national/federal level.
  • Local Communicators: content produced by communicators and smaller media outlets with local and regional circulation, which reveal cases of corruption at the local/regional level.
  • Professional Experience: category dedicated to professionals in Law, universities, public and private managers and entrepreneurs, with innovative ideas for preventing and combating corruption based on professional experience in various fields of the job market.
  • Integrity in sports: rewarding athletes’ attitudes, progress in programs or documents (policies or procedures) or even compliance initiatives and projects that encourage or promote integrity in any sport or club of a sporting nature.

Eligibility Criteria

• Academy:
  • Students over the age of 18, regularly enrolled during the 2024 academic year or graduated in 2023 in undergraduate or graduate courses at Brazilian higher education institutions, may participate, individually or in teams.
  • In the case of team registrations, members may be from different courses, educational institutions or course level (undergraduate or graduate). In addition, all members must meet the requirements of these Regulations.
  • Teachers may participate by supervising enrolled students. There is no limit to the number of teams that can be supervised. In any case, project supervision is not mandatory and teams may participate even if they do not indicate supervising teachers.
  • Academic articles, case studies, research, papers, or other academic productions, as well as isolated chapters, excerpts or excerpts, as long as they make sense in isolation, presented exclusively in Portuguese, on concepts and practical solutions related to the promotion of integrity, corruption and its fight against corruption, may compete.
• Technology and Innovation:
  • Finalized executable versions, demos or prototypes of technological solutions, including mobile applications or web platforms, that contribute to raising awareness, mobilizing and disseminating concepts and practices related to promoting integrity, corruption and combating corruption, are eligible for competition. Only works presented in Portuguese and produced by undergraduate and graduate students from Brazilian higher education institutions will be considered.
• Good Practices in Governance:
  • This category is intended to reward good practices in the public and private sectors, with special emphasis on corporate governance that promotes social inclusion for the generation of sustainable value in institutions, organizations and society in general. Legal entities under public or private law, headquartered in Brazil for at least 2 years (considering the final registration deadline), that present descriptive case studies of good corporate governance practices may compete.
  • To participate, the legal entity must be represented by an individual, over 18 years of age, who is demonstrably an employee or partner of the company. The representative cannot be a third party or intern.
  • Corporate governance is the system by which companies and other organizations are managed, monitored and encouraged, involving relationships between partners, board of directors, management, supervisory bodies and controls.
• Investigative Journalism:
  • This category is intended to reward professional journalists who produce investigative content related to corruption and who contribute to the construction of a more honest society. Professional journalists may participate in this category, individually or in teams, as long as they are linked – as employees (CLT) or with a legal entity contract (PJ) to communication companies headquartered in Brazil, formally constituted (CNPJ) for at least 2 years, considering the final deadline for applications.
  • In the case of applications in teams, the members must be co-authors of the report, having clearly signed it. In addition, all members must meet the requirements of these Regulations.
  • Applications submitted by communication companies whose outlets are publicly known as generators of “Fake News” – with a high incidence of disputes over their reports, when verified by “Fact Check” companies – may be disregarded in the evaluation and selection process.
  • Single investigative reports or series of reports are expected, broadcast between July 2023 and October 31, 2024, that address the promotion of integrity, and complaints, concepts and practical solutions related to corruption and its fight against corruption at the national/federal level, always in Portuguese.
• Local Communicators:
  • This category is intended to reward journalists, communicators in general and local and regional media outlets that uncover cases of corruption in municipalities and states and that, consequently, contribute to the construction of a more honest society. Professional journalists and communicators may participate in this category, individually or in teams, as long as they are linked – as employees (CLT) or with a legal entity contract (PJ) – to communications companies headquartered in Brazil, formally constituted (CNPJ) for at least 2 years, considering the final registration deadline.
  • In the case of registrations in teams, the members must be co-authors of the report, having clearly signed it. In addition, all members must meet the requirements of these Regulations.
  • Applications submitted by media companies whose outlets are publicly known as “Fake News” generators – with a high incidence of their reports being challenged when verified by “Fact Check” companies – may be disregarded in the evaluation and selection process.
  • Single reports or series of reports are expected, broadcast between May 10, 2023 and October 31, 2024, that address concepts and practical solutions related to corruption and its fight at the local and regional level, always in Portuguese.
• Professional Experience:
  • This category is intended to reward innovative ideas that contribute to preventing and combating corruption and also to building a more honest society, developed by professionals in Law or other areas (administration, accounting, marketing, among others), from public and private universities, by public and private managers, and entrepreneurs, with work developed based on their professional experience in various fields of the job market.
  • Individual or team entries will be accepted. Professionals graduated from public and private higher education institutions in Brazil may compete. Ideas or projects developed by undergraduate students or by professionals with incomplete degrees – even if they are linked to public or private companies – will not be considered for this category.
• Integrity in sports:
  • The Organizing Committee of the 5th Inac Integrity Award may request at any time, regardless of the category, documents that attest to the veracity of the information indicated in the registration. Failure to submit these documents may result in the disqualification of the registration.
  • There is no limit to participation, regardless of the category.
  • Members of the judging panels, members of the Award organizing committee, INAC employees and interns, Award technical advisors and sponsoring or supporting companies, as well as their respective family members up to the second degree, are not eligible to participate.

For more information, visit Instituto Não Aceito Corrupção.