DEMOCRATIZATION  : :  Warsaw, 12 July 2018. Participants of the 1st ECPR/ODIHR Summer School on Political Parties and Democracy, organized by ODIHR, in partnership with the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw and the Centre for the Study of Parties and Democracy. (OSCE/Maria Kuchma) Promoting the integrity of democratic processes and institutions, as well as the accountability of parliaments and political parties Over the year, ODIHR continued to support national parliaments in OSCE participating States in the development, adoption and implementation of ethics standards for members of parliament. ODIHR’s technical assistance was instrumental in the adoption of codes of conduct for the Parliament of Georgia and the Assembly of Albania. In the area of parliamentary assistance, in March ODIHR contributed to the creation of the Open Parliament e-Network (OPeN), a joint platform to improve parliamentary openness. The Office also intensified collaboration with the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, by organizing side-events on the margins of the Assembly’s annual meeting, in Berlin in July, and its autumn meeting, in Bishkek in October. In promoting accountable democratic processes and political party assistance, ODIHR co-organized the first Summer School on Political Parties and Democracy to train 20 researchers, practitioners and civil society leaders (14 women, 6 men) from Central and Eastern Europe and from Central Asia. In June in Warsaw, ODIHR and partner organizations jointly organized the international conference “Representation in the Age of Populism? Ideas for Global Action”, bringing together 140 participants (65 women, 75 men) from more than 40 countries, including former heads of state, high-level state officials, civil society representatives, international experts and academics, to discuss the state of liberal democracy, political party systems and legislatures, and their ability to adequately represent people in todays’ democratic societies. In 2018, the Office also offered technical assistance to the Central Election Commission of Lithuania and the Italian National Anti-Corruption Agency on international good practices in political finance regulation and public integrity. “ This course is an opportunity for the younger generation to learn skills relevant to democracy, human rights and fundamental freedoms, and we can take that knowledge home with us to the Western Balkans. I learned from a highly-skilled team of mentors whose expertise and teaching methods helped make the link between policy advising theory and practical application.” Eneida Marku, Public Private Partnership Unit at the Albanian Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure, Tirana at ODIHR’s Young Policy Advisors Course 21