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December 2020
Radicalisation prevention works best as an integrated approach
The INTEGRA project shares its results, at the international level, to inform an integrated approach to preventing radicalisation.
The INTEGRA project, whose research and training have spanned three years, is reaching its end. At this point, the project’s outputs can help build a more integrated and effective approach to preventing radicalisation towards violent extremism in the prison, probation and community contexts. Those project outputs inform a more evidence-based approach by identifying and tackling the issues linked with the process of radicalisation.
In the final stretch of the project, the project’s consortium gathered all the knowledge, experience and products achieved and shared them with around 80 practitioners from around the world in an international online final conference on the 16th and 17th of December of 2020.
Among the products that have been disseminated at this event are:
a) State of the Art – an overview of the existing theory and practise on preventing radicalisation, leading to violent extremism, deradicalisation and disengagement practices in the criminal justice context across Europe;
b) Risk and Needs Assessment tool – to identify and assess the needs of the stakeholders involved in the process of tackling radicalisation leading to violent extremism inside and outside prisons;
c) Mentoring Model and Programme for community mentors – to provide social support, disengagement opportunities, and help build trust-based relationships, for example, with prison and probation staff, community members, and NGO professionals;
d) Integrated Training Programme – implemented across prison and probation services as well as the community;
e) Multiagency Cooperation Guide – for the effective implementation and follow-up of deradicalisation/disengagement/rehabilitation programmes.
The project consortium invited two renowned expert speakers to this conference: Dr Bilel Ainine, Researcher at the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and Member of the Observatory of Political Radicalities (France) and Professor Elyamine Settoul, from the Emerging Security and Defence Research Team, CNAM – Conservatoire National des Arts et des Métiers (France).
These experts shared some of their vast knowledge and experience and focused their talks on radicalisation, radicalisation ideologies, deradicalisation and disengagement in prison settings.
The University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès, in collaboration with IPS_Innovative Prison Systems, was the organising partner for the final international conference of the INTEGRA project.
The INTEGRA project, whose research and training have spanned three years, is reaching its end. At this point, the project’s outputs can help build a more integrated and effective approach to preventing radicalisation towards violent extremism in the prison, probation and community contexts. Those project outputs inform a more evidence-based approach by identifying and tackling the issues linked with the process of radicalisation.
In the final stretch of the project, the project’s consortium gathered all the knowledge, experience and products achieved and shared them with around 80 practitioners from around the world in an international online final conference on the 16th and 17th of December of 2020.
Among the products that have been disseminated at this event are:
a) State of the Art – an overview of the existing theory and practise on preventing radicalisation, leading to violent extremism, deradicalisation and disengagement practices in the criminal justice context across Europe;
b) Risk and Needs Assessment tool – to identify and assess the needs of the stakeholders involved in the process of tackling radicalisation leading to violent extremism inside and outside prisons;
c) Mentoring Model and Programme for community mentors – to provide social support, disengagement opportunities, and help build trust-based relationships, for example, with prison and probation staff, community members, and NGO professionals;
d) Integrated Training Programme – implemented across prison and probation services as well as the community;
e) Multiagency Cooperation Guide – for the effective implementation and follow-up of deradicalisation/disengagement/rehabilitation programmes.
The project consortium invited two renowned expert speakers to this conference: Dr Bilel Ainine, Researcher at the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and Member of the Observatory of Political Radicalities (France) and Professor Elyamine Settoul, from the Emerging Security and Defence Research Team, CNAM – Conservatoire National des Arts et des Métiers (France).
These experts shared some of their vast knowledge and experience and focused their talks on radicalisation, radicalisation ideologies, deradicalisation and disengagement in prison settings.
The University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès, in collaboration with IPS_Innovative Prison Systems, was the organising partner for the final international conference of the INTEGRA project.
Some of the participants in the final Conference of the INTEGRA project (above); Professor Elyamine Settoul (bottom left); Dr Bilel Ainine (below right)
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December 2020
Training community mentors is essential to prevent radicalisation
Recognising the key value of mentors in preventing radicalisation, the INTEGRA project developed and evaluated its mentoring model and programme.
The role of the community is crucial to an effective and integrated approach to preventing radicalisation. Community mentors are particularly useful in the context of prison and probation, given the importance of the community in the inmates’ transition from prison to society.
Mentoring refers to an interpersonal relationship of support, help and learning in which an experienced mentor offers their wisdom and experience to help the mentee achieve their goals. In the criminal justice system, this relationship aims to support offenders in the vulnerable period around their release and motivate them to live a crime-free life.
In this context, mentors can help individuals who are radicalised or vulnerable to the radicalisation process. A research study conducted by Orban, Norway, in 2019, showed that offenders’ feedback is very positive, as they report that mentors helped them with practical things, and also with religion, stress, anger and loneliness.
For this reason, the INTEGRA project highlights the importance of training mentors and is carrying out initiatives to accomplish this goal, namely with a pilot online training event, that took place on 15 and 16 December 2020.
This training included information, case studies and discussion on the fundamentals, concepts and processes of mentoring and radicalisation, particularly in prison settings, and examples of mentoring programmes.
The mentoring model was evaluated through this pilot training to ensure its adequacy and sustainability. Finetuning was the pilot’s primary goal, but it also allowed participants to explore and discuss the topics and provided them with skills and tools to be used in their professional activity.
The national (Portugal) pilot training was promoted by IPS_Innovative Prison Systems and was attended by more than a dozen community practitioners working with criminal justice, law enforcement officers and university students.
Participants in this pilot training now have a better understanding of what mentoring is and the role a mentor can play in preventing radicalisation. In addition, they received knowledge and practical advice on how to be a good mentor, develop a mentoring programme and properly develop a mentor-mentee relationship.
This pilot training event was also held by all the project’s partner organisations, in their respective countries, in order to fine-tune the model and better adapt it to each country’s specific context and needs.
The role of the community is crucial to an effective and integrated approach to preventing radicalisation. Community mentors are particularly useful in the context of prison and probation, given the importance of the community in the inmates’ transition from prison to society.
Mentoring refers to an interpersonal relationship of support, help and learning in which an experienced mentor offers their wisdom and experience to help the mentee achieve their goals. In the criminal justice system, this relationship aims to support offenders in the vulnerable period around their release and motivate them to live a crime-free life.
In this context, mentors can help individuals who are radicalised or vulnerable to the radicalisation process. A research study conducted by Orban, Norway, in 2019, showed that offenders’ feedback is very positive, as they report that mentors helped them with practical things, and also with religion, stress, anger and loneliness.
For this reason, the INTEGRA project highlights the importance of training mentors and is carrying out initiatives to accomplish this goal, namely with a pilot online training event, that took place on 15 and 16 December 2020.
This training included information, case studies and discussion on the fundamentals, concepts and processes of mentoring and radicalisation, particularly in prison settings, and examples of mentoring programmes.
The mentoring model was evaluated through this pilot training to ensure its adequacy and sustainability. Finetuning was the pilot’s primary goal, but it also allowed participants to explore and discuss the topics and provided them with skills and tools to be used in their professional activity.
The national (Portugal) pilot training was promoted by IPS_Innovative Prison Systems and was attended by more than a dozen community practitioners working with criminal justice, law enforcement officers and university students.
Participants in this pilot training now have a better understanding of what mentoring is and the role a mentor can play in preventing radicalisation. In addition, they received knowledge and practical advice on how to be a good mentor, develop a mentoring programme and properly develop a mentor-mentee relationship.
This pilot training event was also held by all the project’s partner organisations, in their respective countries, in order to fine-tune the model and better adapt it to each country’s specific context and needs.
Some of the participants in the community mentors’ training event, carried out by IPS Innovative Prison Systems, within the scope of the INTEGRA project
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December 2020
Towards an integrated approach to radicalisation prevention
After years of research and training, IPS shared the INTEGRA project’s achievements in radicalisation prevention with practitioners working in the Portuguese justice system.
The INTEGRA project (Integrated Community, Probation and Prison Services Radicalisation Prevention Approach) responds to a pressing need declared by the European Union: to tackle radicalisation in the wake of the terrorist threat on European soil. Due to its importance and relevance, namely in the criminal justice system, and the key value of prevention and information on a societal level, the project conducted efforts to disseminate its work and products.
The products achieved by the consortium during the project’s lifespan gather the most recent, trustworthy and effective information, expertise and empirical knowledge, in order to guide an integrated approach to preventing radicalisation in the prison, probation and community contexts:
Participants thus had the opportunity to understand the project and its results and to discuss and ask questions, not only about the project itself but also about the problem that the project addresses.
The other partners of the INTEGRA project also carried out this dissemination activity in their respective countries to publicize the project, its products and conclusions.
The INTEGRA project (Integrated Community, Probation and Prison Services Radicalisation Prevention Approach) responds to a pressing need declared by the European Union: to tackle radicalisation in the wake of the terrorist threat on European soil. Due to its importance and relevance, namely in the criminal justice system, and the key value of prevention and information on a societal level, the project conducted efforts to disseminate its work and products.
The products achieved by the consortium during the project’s lifespan gather the most recent, trustworthy and effective information, expertise and empirical knowledge, in order to guide an integrated approach to preventing radicalisation in the prison, probation and community contexts:
- The State of the Art captured a national and European image of existing theory and practise on preventing radicalisation, leading to violent extremism, deradicalisation and disengagement practices in the criminal justice context.
- The Risk and Needs Assessment product aimed to identify and assess the needs of the stakeholders involved in the process of tacking radicalisation leading to violent extremism inside and outside prisons.
- The project has also developed a Mentoring Model and Programme for community mentors to provide social support, disengagement opportunities, and help build trust-based relationships, for example, with staff, community members, and NGO professionals.
- Moreover, the INTEGRA project implemented a radicalisation prevention training programme for prisons, probation and community and created a multiagency cooperation guide for the effective implementation and follow-up of deradicalisation/disengagement/rehabilitation programmes.
Participants thus had the opportunity to understand the project and its results and to discuss and ask questions, not only about the project itself but also about the problem that the project addresses.
The other partners of the INTEGRA project also carried out this dissemination activity in their respective countries to publicize the project, its products and conclusions.
November 2020
A cross-sectoral training approach: Improving practitioners' competencies to deal with radicalisation within prison, probation, and community settings
Responding to an EU security priority, an online training course was carried out targeting prison, probation and community staff for radicalisation prevention.
The INTEGRA project had a primary objective to train professionals to better capacitate them in the prevention of radicalisation in the prison, probation and community contexts. To do so, the partnership organised training courses that resulted from three years of research and collection of knowledge and experience.
Therefore, the 3rd Short-term Joint Staff Training Event took place online from the 18th to the 27th of November of 2020 and was organised by IPS_Innovative Prison Systems, having gathered over 45 participants. The training course was composed of presentations from renowned guest speakers and workshops.
To share their knowledge and expertise, Mr Tiago Leitão, Ms Rita Lourenço, Mr Pedro Liberado and Ms Rasha Nagem were guest speakers on the first day of training. In their presentations, the INTEGRA project was explained, the role of mentoring for the prevention of radicalisation were explored, and the INTEGRA Mentoring Model and Programme was detailed.
On the second day, Mr Torben Adams, Ms Gaby Thijssen and Ms Yola Wanders explored how prison and probation staff can intervene with violent extremists, how crucial it is to have previous (and continuous) training in this field, the importance of information sharing, as well as the Dutch approach regarding the management and assessment of violent extremists.
To explore the rehabilitation of radicalised individuals and the use of mentoring to assist in the deradicalisation and disengagement process, namely the Danish programme ‘Back on Track’, Mr Ioan Durnescu and Mr Kristian Walther were present on the third day of training.
On the fourth day, the training course counted with Mr Petri Salakka, Mr Sami Keihäri and Jani Väisänen from the Aggredi program, who discussed the programme in Finland and the rehabilitation and reintegration of ex-offenders. Besides these, Mr Oomar Mulbocus talked about the deradicalisation and disengagement process.
On the last day of training, Mr David Hansen discussed the Norwegian Mentoring Programme, and Mr Konstantinos Tigkas and Ms Andriani Retzepi talked about the importance of multi-agency cooperation in the deradicalisation and disengagement efforts.
The INTEGRA project was co-financed by the Erasmus + programme of the European Union and had the participation of the University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès, IPS_Innovative Prison Systems, the Center for the Study of Democracy (CSD), the Center for Security Studies (KEMEA), the International Corrections and Prisons Association (ICPA), and the University of Brescia.
The INTEGRA project had a primary objective to train professionals to better capacitate them in the prevention of radicalisation in the prison, probation and community contexts. To do so, the partnership organised training courses that resulted from three years of research and collection of knowledge and experience.
Therefore, the 3rd Short-term Joint Staff Training Event took place online from the 18th to the 27th of November of 2020 and was organised by IPS_Innovative Prison Systems, having gathered over 45 participants. The training course was composed of presentations from renowned guest speakers and workshops.
To share their knowledge and expertise, Mr Tiago Leitão, Ms Rita Lourenço, Mr Pedro Liberado and Ms Rasha Nagem were guest speakers on the first day of training. In their presentations, the INTEGRA project was explained, the role of mentoring for the prevention of radicalisation were explored, and the INTEGRA Mentoring Model and Programme was detailed.
On the second day, Mr Torben Adams, Ms Gaby Thijssen and Ms Yola Wanders explored how prison and probation staff can intervene with violent extremists, how crucial it is to have previous (and continuous) training in this field, the importance of information sharing, as well as the Dutch approach regarding the management and assessment of violent extremists.
To explore the rehabilitation of radicalised individuals and the use of mentoring to assist in the deradicalisation and disengagement process, namely the Danish programme ‘Back on Track’, Mr Ioan Durnescu and Mr Kristian Walther were present on the third day of training.
On the fourth day, the training course counted with Mr Petri Salakka, Mr Sami Keihäri and Jani Väisänen from the Aggredi program, who discussed the programme in Finland and the rehabilitation and reintegration of ex-offenders. Besides these, Mr Oomar Mulbocus talked about the deradicalisation and disengagement process.
On the last day of training, Mr David Hansen discussed the Norwegian Mentoring Programme, and Mr Konstantinos Tigkas and Ms Andriani Retzepi talked about the importance of multi-agency cooperation in the deradicalisation and disengagement efforts.
The INTEGRA project was co-financed by the Erasmus + programme of the European Union and had the participation of the University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès, IPS_Innovative Prison Systems, the Center for the Study of Democracy (CSD), the Center for Security Studies (KEMEA), the International Corrections and Prisons Association (ICPA), and the University of Brescia.
January 2020
5th project meeting held in Athens, Greece
Partners got together at INTEGRA's 5th Project Meeting on the 21st and 22nd of January, which was held at KEMEA Center for Security Studies headquarters in Athens, Greece.
Besides the host organisation, representatives from the University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès (France), IPS_Innovative Prison Systems (Portugal) and ICPA International Corrections and Prisons Association (The Netherlands) attended the meeting, while the CSD Center for the Study of Democracy (Bulgaria) joined via-Skype. It was a fruitful occasion for partners to review Output’s implementation progress, revise deadlines and activity leaders, as well to review some administrative and financial issues. This event also comprised a visit to the Korydallos prison (and meeting with the Director explaining INTEGRA's training approach and main goals), the largest correctional complex in Greece.
Various events on this project will take place until August 2020 in Lisbon, Sofia, Athens and Toulouse. Stay tuned!
Besides the host organisation, representatives from the University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès (France), IPS_Innovative Prison Systems (Portugal) and ICPA International Corrections and Prisons Association (The Netherlands) attended the meeting, while the CSD Center for the Study of Democracy (Bulgaria) joined via-Skype. It was a fruitful occasion for partners to review Output’s implementation progress, revise deadlines and activity leaders, as well to review some administrative and financial issues. This event also comprised a visit to the Korydallos prison (and meeting with the Director explaining INTEGRA's training approach and main goals), the largest correctional complex in Greece.
Various events on this project will take place until August 2020 in Lisbon, Sofia, Athens and Toulouse. Stay tuned!
December 2019
A holistic training approach towards radicalisation prevention
From the 2nd to the 6th of December, over 60 professionals from prison and probation administrations, research centres and NGOs from Portugal, France, Bulgaria and Greece gathered in Sofia, Bulgaria. This event, hosted by the Center for the Study of Democracy, marked the 2nd Short-term Joint Staff Training Event of the INTEGRA project, focusing on the prevention of radicalisation within probation settings and its indissociable relationship with the prison and community organisations’ contexts.
IPS_Innovative Prison Systems was represented by Mr Pedro Liberado and Ms Catarina Abrunhosa, who conducted a total of five presentations/working group sessions along this week-long event. Other speakers/trainers included Ms Nadya Radkovska (Head of International Cooperation and Staff Training of the General Directorate “Execution of Sentences”), Ms Ivelina Gesheva and Mr Andrei Momchilov (Crime Prevention Fund – IGA), Mr Gary Hill (ICPA – International Corrections and Prisons Association), as well as Ms Rositsa Dzhekova and Mr Mariyan Sabev (Center for the Study of Democracy). In addition, other presentations by renowned experts were made via-videoconference, namely Ms Ariane Wolf (Head of International Affairs and Transnational Cooperation of the Violence Prevention Network) and Mr Sergio Bianchi (Founder and Senior Researcher at Agenfor International). This training event also comprised field visits to Sofia’s Central Prison and to the Kremikovci Prison Dormitory.
Besides IPS_Innovative Prison Systems (Portugal) and the host organisation, the consortium of the INTEGRA project is also composed by the University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès (France), KEMEA Centre for Security Studies (Greece) and ICPA International Corrections and Prisons Association (The Netherlands). INTEGRA stands for “Integrated community, probation and prison services radicalisation prevention approach” and it strives to improve the transition process between prison and/or probation systems and the community for those at risk of radicalisation or who have been radicalised. It attempts to achieve this outcome by promoting a holistic radicalisation prevention initiative focusing on skills development of frontline staff, and community organisations’ representatives.
IPS_Innovative Prison Systems was represented by Mr Pedro Liberado and Ms Catarina Abrunhosa, who conducted a total of five presentations/working group sessions along this week-long event. Other speakers/trainers included Ms Nadya Radkovska (Head of International Cooperation and Staff Training of the General Directorate “Execution of Sentences”), Ms Ivelina Gesheva and Mr Andrei Momchilov (Crime Prevention Fund – IGA), Mr Gary Hill (ICPA – International Corrections and Prisons Association), as well as Ms Rositsa Dzhekova and Mr Mariyan Sabev (Center for the Study of Democracy). In addition, other presentations by renowned experts were made via-videoconference, namely Ms Ariane Wolf (Head of International Affairs and Transnational Cooperation of the Violence Prevention Network) and Mr Sergio Bianchi (Founder and Senior Researcher at Agenfor International). This training event also comprised field visits to Sofia’s Central Prison and to the Kremikovci Prison Dormitory.
Besides IPS_Innovative Prison Systems (Portugal) and the host organisation, the consortium of the INTEGRA project is also composed by the University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès (France), KEMEA Centre for Security Studies (Greece) and ICPA International Corrections and Prisons Association (The Netherlands). INTEGRA stands for “Integrated community, probation and prison services radicalisation prevention approach” and it strives to improve the transition process between prison and/or probation systems and the community for those at risk of radicalisation or who have been radicalised. It attempts to achieve this outcome by promoting a holistic radicalisation prevention initiative focusing on skills development of frontline staff, and community organisations’ representatives.
July 2019
4th project meeting held in Sofia, Bulgaria
On the 19th of July 2019, INTEGRA’s 4th Project Meeting was held at the Center for the Study of Democracy headquarters in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Besides the host organisation and IPS_Innovative Prison Systems, representatives from the University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès (France), KEMEA Centre for Security Studies (Greece) and ICPA International Corrections and Prisons Association (the Netherlands) attended the meeting.
The purpose of this project meeting was to discuss the progress of the project outputs implementation, namely outputs 2 - Needs and Radicalisation Risk Assessment -, 3 - Mentoring Model and Programme- and 4 -Radicalisation prevention training programme for prisons, probation and community- (see the the project outputs page), revise deadlines and activity leaders, and review administrative and financial topics.
Moreover, this project meeting also served the purpose of making the initial preparations concerning the upcoming Short-term Joint Staff Training Event that is scheduled to take place in November/December 2019 in Bulgaria.
Besides the host organisation and IPS_Innovative Prison Systems, representatives from the University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès (France), KEMEA Centre for Security Studies (Greece) and ICPA International Corrections and Prisons Association (the Netherlands) attended the meeting.
The purpose of this project meeting was to discuss the progress of the project outputs implementation, namely outputs 2 - Needs and Radicalisation Risk Assessment -, 3 - Mentoring Model and Programme- and 4 -Radicalisation prevention training programme for prisons, probation and community- (see the the project outputs page), revise deadlines and activity leaders, and review administrative and financial topics.
Moreover, this project meeting also served the purpose of making the initial preparations concerning the upcoming Short-term Joint Staff Training Event that is scheduled to take place in November/December 2019 in Bulgaria.
June 2019
INTEGRA project short-term staff training held in Toulouse, France
Over five days, between the 17th and the 21st of June, 2019, around 40 prison and probation staff members, as well as NGO representatives, from Portugal, France, Bulgaria, and Greece met at the University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès, in France, for a short-term staff training course under the INTEGRA project.
This set of training sessions aimed at staff focused on the prevention of radicalisation in prisons and probation contexts, as well as in the community. During three days of this short training event, Pedro das Neves, from IPS, guided the group of participants through a comprehensive training content alignment. The last two days of the training programme were focused on presentations by the ICPA International Corrections and Prisons Association (also a formal partner of this project), inputs from external professionals (such as Samantha Enderlin from RIVE Research and Intervention on Violent Extremism – an exit programme that was in place until April 2019), besides the display of the INTEGRA e-learning training programme, content and features.
This set of training sessions aimed at staff focused on the prevention of radicalisation in prisons and probation contexts, as well as in the community. During three days of this short training event, Pedro das Neves, from IPS, guided the group of participants through a comprehensive training content alignment. The last two days of the training programme were focused on presentations by the ICPA International Corrections and Prisons Association (also a formal partner of this project), inputs from external professionals (such as Samantha Enderlin from RIVE Research and Intervention on Violent Extremism – an exit programme that was in place until April 2019), besides the display of the INTEGRA e-learning training programme, content and features.
December 2018
INTEGRA 3rd project meeting held at the University of Brescia, Italy
The Steering Committee of the INTEGRA project, representing partners from France, Portugal, Bulgaria, Italy, The Netherlands, and Greece, met at the University of Brescia in Italy, on the 6th and 7th of December 2018, to discuss the Outputs’ implementation progress, budget issues, and activities planning.
September 2018
Radicalisation and Prison - Berlin Conference
“Radicalisation Prevention in Prisons in Europe” was a high-level conference that took place between the 13th and 14th September 2018, in Berlin, Germany, hosted by the Bremen Justiz Senate.
Mr Pedro das Neves, CEO of IPS Innovative Prison Systems, has been invited to present some of the work that the company has been developing - as well as what it has planned for the next years - in the field of radicalisation prevention.
Furthermore, the presentation has considered the radicalisation risk assessment tools and practices that have been developed by the consortium partners in the scope of the several projects, including INTEGRA (the other projects related to radicalisation prevention are R2PRIS, PRACTICIES, and WayOut).
Mr Pedro das Neves, CEO of IPS Innovative Prison Systems, has been invited to present some of the work that the company has been developing - as well as what it has planned for the next years - in the field of radicalisation prevention.
Furthermore, the presentation has considered the radicalisation risk assessment tools and practices that have been developed by the consortium partners in the scope of the several projects, including INTEGRA (the other projects related to radicalisation prevention are R2PRIS, PRACTICIES, and WayOut).
May 2018
INTEGRA project: third project meeting held in Lisbon
On the 3rd and 4th of May 2018, the INTEGRA’s Project Steering Committee has had its 2nd meeting, which was held in Lisbon, at IPS_Innovative Prisons Systems office.
The meeting group – representing partners from France, Portugal, Bulgaria, Italy, The Netherlands, and Greece – met with the purpose to discuss the projects’ outputs’ implementation progress, budget issues, and activities planning.
The meeting group – representing partners from France, Portugal, Bulgaria, Italy, The Netherlands, and Greece – met with the purpose to discuss the projects’ outputs’ implementation progress, budget issues, and activities planning.
January 2018
INTEGRA team from IPS Innovative Prison Systems attends a radicalisation prevention course in Spain
Members of the IPS_Innovative Prison System’s team were part of a train of trainers course on prevention of radicalisation held between 22th and 26th of January 2018, in the city of Granada, Spain. The course sought to provide competences and skills to prevent and contrast the emergence of radical phenomena within European prisons, through the use of multifaceted, multidimensional and multidisciplinary methods and tools. The participants of this course will become a part of a pan-European practitioners’ community of counter-radicalisation experts.
IPS participants are part of the team that is involved in projects dealing with radicalisation prevention, namely INTEGRA (Integrated Community, Probation and Prison Services Radicalisation Prevention Approach), R2PRIS (Radicalisation Prevention in Prisons) and PRACTICIES (Partnership against Radicalisation in Cities).
This training event was organised by FUNDEA – Fundación Euroárabe de Altos Estudios (Euro-Arab Foundation of High Studies) in the scope of the projects DERAD (“Counter radicalisation through the rule of law”) and TRAINING AID, projects that aim to contribute to the alignment of the European strategies with Member States initiatives in the field of probation and alternative measures as tools to counter radicalisation.
IPS participants are part of the team that is involved in projects dealing with radicalisation prevention, namely INTEGRA (Integrated Community, Probation and Prison Services Radicalisation Prevention Approach), R2PRIS (Radicalisation Prevention in Prisons) and PRACTICIES (Partnership against Radicalisation in Cities).
This training event was organised by FUNDEA – Fundación Euroárabe de Altos Estudios (Euro-Arab Foundation of High Studies) in the scope of the projects DERAD (“Counter radicalisation through the rule of law”) and TRAINING AID, projects that aim to contribute to the alignment of the European strategies with Member States initiatives in the field of probation and alternative measures as tools to counter radicalisation.
November 2017
INTEGRA kick-off meeting at the University of Toulouse - Jean Jaurès, France
November 29th and 30th 2017 marked the official beginning of the INTEGRA project with the kick-off meeting held at the University of Toulouse - Jean Jaurès, in Toulouse, France. This project is promoted by the latter and it is developed together with an international consortia consisting of IPS_Innovative Prison Systems (Portugal), Università Degli Studi di Brescia (Italy), CSD – Center for the Study of Democracy (Bulgaria), KEMEA – Center for Security Studies (Greece), and ICPA – The International Corrections and Prisons Association (The Netherlands).