Introduction of the Participants

• Common rules for all funds: CF, EMFF, ERDF, ESF, AMIF, BMVI, ISF;
• New requirements related to the management verifications and audit;
• Proportionate management verifications based on risk assessment and single audit principle;
• What are the conditions to reduce the verifications and audits?;
• Risk management strategy of the Managing Authority;
• New challenges and expectations from the proportional anti-fraud measures of the Managing Authority. How to achieve the right balance between the effectiveness and cost of the control?;
• Lead fund principle in the verifications;
• Specific challenges related to the verifications and audit of territorial cooperation programmes;
• New approach in the audits of the European Commission

Radoslav Nedyalkov, CGAP, audit expert

Networking

• Gaps and weaknesses in the selection of project proposals;
• System errors and omissions in the management verifications;
• Preventive and detective controls;
• Analysis of the effectiveness of the controls based on the experience from the programing period 2014-2020;
• Guidelines and best practices from EC and OLAF;
• Preparation of adequate and effective action plans in case of systems errors detected. Experience from member states;
• Irregularities and fraud. How to detect fraud indicators?;
• Audit findings;
• Financial corrections. How to determine fair and proportional financial corrections? Comparison of the practices of different member states. Approach and practices of the EC in determination of the financial corrections.
• What to expect from the new programming period?

Radoslav Nedyalkov, CGAP, audit expert

• Exercise: Case studies
• Questions and Discussions

Radoslav Nedyalkov, CGAP, audit expert

After the completion of the first day of the Winter Academy we are inviting the participants to a get-together dinner.

• New High Tech Tools, software and Instruments for efficient and effective
  Management and Control Systems, Management Verifications and Audits
  Introduction
• Use and existence of expensive materials and consumables in New Control Tools
• Demonstrations and lifelike cases and practices

Jo Kremers, Expert on combating Irregularities

Networking

The Risk management of the changing characters of subsidised projects:

• Innovation
• new Intellectual Property
• Digitisation
• special attention for reputation and image.

1. What are the lessons learned in risk management the last decades, all over the world.
2. How to make use of these lessons learned in setting up and using professional risk management in the new period.

Jo Kremers, Expert on combating Irregularities

Use of social media and aggregation sites, as instruments and sources for
Management and control systems and audits for:

• collecting technical information
• getting information about realization and implementation of Projects
• Checking the realization of Projects in accordance with the project objectives
• fitting Audits in the proposals of the Commission for lighter controls and the
  extension of the “single audit” principle, to avoid duplication of checks

+ Demonstrations and cases

Jo Kremers, Expert on combating Irregularities

• Introduction and use of Sophisticated audit software for MCS, MVs and Audits; in
  order to innovate these
• Focused on efficiency and effectiveness of MCS , MVs and audits; ingredients for lighter controls and the extension of the “single audit” principle, to avoid duplication of checks.

+ Demonstrations and cases

Jo Kremers, Expert on combating Irregularities

Networking Coffee

• Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence as new approaches and instruments for efficient and effective MCS, verifications and audits.
• Practical cases; improve your risk analysis, and be creative in its follow up , by use of
  data analytics

+ lifelike cases

Jo Kremers, Expert on combating Irregularities

Netowrking

• Introduction and use of Central Databases
  For more efficient and effective MCS, verifications and audits. So lighter controls and audits.

+ Demonstrations and cases

Jo Kremers, Expert on combating Irregularities

• An introduction and the main outlines in a period in which attention to abuse (fraud
  and corruption) of subsidy funds will again be required.

+ valuable case from the past

Jo Kremers, Expert on combating Irregularities

Innovate your way and skills for the presentation of the results of your control and audit activities; catch the attention of the stakeholders by a more professional and attractive way. Present the results of the case under agenda item 6 mentioned, in a professional and attractive presentation

Jo Kremers, Expert on combating Irregularities

Innovate your way of THINKING; get loose of that traditional way of thinking;
Improve your skills and be more successful in risk analysis, verifications and audits

An individual game; with 30 cases

Jo Kremers, Expert on combating Irregularities

Handing out of the Certificates and a Good bye coffee