In order to contribute to the development process worldwide the Public Integrity Education Network (PIEN) was established in 2004. Unlike traditional education projects it is focused on building long term a community of knowledge and practice in mainstream institution in each of our partner countries.

Specifically PIEN offers:

1. A strategic approach - it facilitates the education and research that will make the biggest imprint in the mainstream institutions.

2. Support for the new applied field of integrity education.

3. To build links between politicians, public administrators, academics and civil society since its establishment PIEN has developed an approach that enables the development of networks, new types of knowledge and new means of disseminating it.

Since its inception, PIEN has:

• Successfully facilitated networks of regional universities that now include 200 academics from 170 universities in 60 countries.
• Created new courses, and new curricula that have reached 1000's of students.
• Created research, cases and literature reviews.
• Created online courses.
• Created major short courses, and training contributions at a policy level
• Created major professional and academic opportunities such as the Arab Journal for Public Integrity and Management
• Run 5 yearly Summer Schools on Managing for Integrity, and Central European University, Hungary.
• Translated 100s of pages between Arabic, Chinese, Bahasa and English.
• Enabled members to have policy inpact at local and national government level.
• Creatd a major database of integrity sllabus, cases and research, drawing on output form its partners, worldwide.

PIEN has created new knowledge about the reform process and is actively bringing practitioner experience into a form appropriate to use in an academic setting. This is being done with a number of organisations including the International Budget Project, Revenue Watch, and the Network for Integrity in Reconstruction.