EPTA II Project - Innovating Together: Connecting European Penitentiary Training Academies
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The Netherlands Helsinki Committee (NHC) together with the EPTA Steering Committee have officially launched their second EU-funded project to further develop the EPTA network. The project ‘Innovating Together: Connecting European Penitentiary Training Academies’ will stimulate further professionalization and engagement within the network, support the organization of the upcoming three Annual Conferences and invite EPTA members to a number of international trainings. For more information, please visit the project page on the EPTA website and stay informed about future events and opportunities for EPTA members.
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Call for papers: EPTA Annual Conference |
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This year's EPTA conference will be taking place on 20-22 September 2021, hosted by the EPTA Presidency, Academy of Justice (Poland). For this conference, the presidency is inviting all EPTA members to send papers that will be published in a book and presented during the conference. All EPTA participants are invited to send full papers to epta2021@swws.edu.pl by 30 June.
Click here to follow the Annual Conference event's page for further updates.
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Videos and recordings available from the SIG Online events |
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Three EPTA online events on Leadership & Management, Dynamic Security and Managing Difficult Inmate were organised by the EPTA Special Interest Group members, EPTA secretariat and the Netherlands Helsinki Committee. Presentation and recordings are available on the EPTA website. Note: at the moment the only recording available is from the Dynamic Security event and it is restricted to EPTA members only. Next week all the recordings will be uploaded. In order to access these recording, you need to be logged in to the website.
Click here to view the presentations and video recordings.
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Report on the 'Modernising EU justice systems by boosting training of justice professionals' Conference |
On May 6 & 7 2021, the European Commission organized a conference on “Modernising EU justice systems by boosting training of justice professionals”, jointly with the Portuguese Council Presidency ( programme). This online conference was an important milestone event for the dissemination and implementation of the new ambitious European judicial training strategy for 2021-2024. The two-day conference included working groups gathered by professions and keynote presentations on the new challenges and training needs, the e-learning strategies to develop as well as the future of judicial training. The EPTA network was represented by Cédric Le Bossé, who intervened on the EU Law training for prison staff and drafted a report on the event. The European Commission will also issue an official report on the event which will be posted as soon as it is made available. |
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The interdisciplinary center of applied research in the correctional field of the ÉNAP is organising a webinar on Monday 21 June 2021 from 10:00 am to 11:30 am CET, online via Zoom both in English and French (Switchable language). Their guest is Dr. Dominique Moran, Professor in Carceral Geography at the University of Birmingham, UK. Through her research and teaching, Dominique Moran offers an analysis of incarceration and its issues at the intersection of geography and criminology. Her research focuses on the architecture of prisons, the spatiality of visiting rooms, the experience of ex-military staff in the prison service and ‘green prisons’. Dr. Dominique Moran will present the latter research, addressing the impact of green spaces in prisons on prison staff, on their well-being at work and on the reduction of interpersonal violence.
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Giving Back Project – creating a child-friendly justice system |
The Netherlands Helsinki Committee (NHC), in cooperation with Young in Prison (YiP), the Dutch Custodial Institutions Agency and Educational Institute of the Dutch Custodial Institutions Agency, have recently started the EU funded Giving Back project, which aims to increase child-friendly treatment of young people in closed institutions by working towards a fixed, compulsory and relevant position of young people with lived experience in the training of professionals working in closed youth institutions.
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Unique International English Webinars Continue |
A series of international English Webinars was launched in March 2021. Webinars replaced traditional seminars of penitentiary English organized at the Czech Prison Service Academy in reaction to the pandemic restrictions. On 2 June, twelve prison professionals from seven countries participated in a webinar focused on leadership in crisis. Six participants represented the Czech Prison Service; the other ones were from Estonia, France, Latvia, Lithuania, Lower Saxony, and Slovakia. The facilitator was a former prison governor from Lower Saxony, Rüdiger Wohlgemuth.
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B-COMPETENT – New online course for prison staff on foreign nationals in prison |
The European project B-COMPETENT, co-funded by the Justice Programme, designed an online course (10 modules) and a face-to-face workshop for prison managers, prison staff trainers, civilian penitentiary staff (forensic psychologists, social assistants, educators, social workers, cultural mediators, interpreters, etc.) and all those responsible for working with Foreign Nationals in prison. The online course will be available at www.bcompetent.eu in July 2021. For more information about the training program Check the B-COMPETENT training program with more details on the modules’ structure and contents (abstracts, references, name of the lecturers) here or visit:
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EPTA Network | www.epta.info
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This project was funded by the European Union’s Justice Programme (2014-2020).
The content of this Newsflash represents only the views of the EPTA Network and is his/her sole responsibility.
The European Commission does not accept any responsibility for use that may be made of the information it contains.
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