Final International
​Conference

​Closing up the project’s rounds of mutual-learning activities and workshops, with a view on dissemination of outputs, the Consortium will hold the project’s Final International Conference that will maximise the number of professionals reached. This will be an ideal moment to present the main Project outputs and activities. More concretely, the conference will address the 2 survey results, discussions and conclusions derived from the focus groups, the cross-ambience working group seminars and the e-learning course's results. 
This international conference will, consequently, contribute to the broader goals of REUNION, namely improving the judicial authorities, lawyers, courts, prosecution offices and prison staff's various needs and obstacles when working with Framework Decision 2008/909 in reference with Framework Decision 2008/947 and Framework Decision 2009/829; broadening awareness of the Framework Decision 2008/909 in reference with Framework Decision 2008/947 and Framework Decision 2009/829, and its main goal: rehabilitation; secure a more in-depth knowledge of Framework Decision 2008/909 in reference with Framework Decision 2008/947 and Framework Decision 2009/829 a more frequent use of it. 
It will count with 70 participants in total, and it will be held in Lisbon.
FINAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

Presentations
Alexandra Marques Pereira
​The rehabilitation prospects of offenders in the EU’s judicial cooperation instruments
Federico Cappelletti 
Implementing FD 2008 909 JHA in Italy
Joanna Zaremba
Problems with the application of FD 2008909 illustrated by the Vladislavs case
Monica Marcos & Miguel Arias
The implementation of FD909 in Spain
Natalia Sabou
The rehabilitation prospects of offenders in the EU’s judicial cooperation instruments
Stefano Opilio
The rehabilitation prospects of offenders in the EU’s judicial cooperation instruments

Future Events

6 Focus Groups

Italy, Germany, Portugal, Poland, Romania, Spain - 2023 (TBA)

4 Cross-ambience
working group seminars 

Italy, Germany Portugal, Romania - 2024 (TBA)

Final International Conference

2024 (TBA)

Project Meetings

May. 2023 ― Nov. 2024
Project meetings are central activities for partners to discuss the project's evolution, victories and challenges. They permit the organisation of the partnership work regarding the designed tasks and offer the possibility for consortium partners to communicate successfully and to exchange information on the foreseen activities of the project. The 1st of these meetings, the Kick-off Meeting, will take place in Venice, Italy, February 2023, and will be organised by the Venice Surveillance Court.

The subsequent meetings
will be held as follows                    ❯

​2nd PM: Virtual (Month 6 - May 2023) 
hosted by Loyola Univesity Andalusia
​3rd PM: Bucharest, Romania (Month 9 - August 2023) 
hosted by European Strategies Consulting
4th PM: Bremen, Germany (Month 15 - February 2024) hosted by University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration Rhineland-Palatinate
5th PM: Virtual (Month 20 - July 2024)
​hosted by National School of Judiciary and Public Prosecution
6th PM: Lisbon, Portugal (Month 24 - November 2024)
​hosted by IPS_Innovative Prison Systems

Focus groups for solutions mapping
​towards offender rehabilitation

Six-focus group will take the form of co-creative laboratories for the exchange of ideas and practices. These will be national focus groups carried out with the aim of identifying solutions towards a more coherent implementation of Framework Decision 2008/909. Judges, prosecutors, lawyers but also court and prosecution offices' and prison staff will participate in the focus groups. A total 6 participants per event is expected. The focus groups are to cover, inter alia, the following dimensions: 
☞ Detention conditions as an obstacle to mutual trust

​☞ Notions of social rehabilitation in the different partner countries

​☞ Concrete experiences with Framework Decision 2008/909 operationalisation,
    namely in matters of continuation of enforcement of sentences 

​☞ Promotion of procedural rights in cross-border cases, specifically
​     within the usage of Framework Decision 2008/909  

Cross-ambience
working group
​seminars
​Launching the project’s training initiatives, a set of four 2-day working group seminars will be implemented to promote knowledge acquirement and mutual learning on the usage of Framework Decision 2008/909, in reference with Framework Decision 2008/947 and Framework Decision 2009/829. They will count with the presence of judges and prosecutors, lawyers and prison staff, totalling 15 participants per event (plus 2 staff representatives from each partner country). Among other topics, the working group seminars will cover: 
☟
Procedural rights of inmates and the Stockholm Roadmap 
Rehabilitation in sensitive cases (specific groups such as radicalised inmates, those suffering from mental health or addictions, or generally groups with special needs) 
Considering and measuring rehabilitation prospects
The concept of “crimmigration” and associated issues 
Recommendations and transferable working methods in partner countries 

The working group
seminars will take                               ❯
place as follows                         

​1st WGS: Baira Mara, Romania (Month 9 - August 2023) 
hosted by Baia Mare Penitentiary
​2nd WGS: Venice, Italy (Month 11 - October 2023) 
hosted by Venice Surveillance Court
3rd WGS: Warsaw, Poland (Month 13 - December 2023) hosted by National School of Judiciary and Public Prosecution
4th WGS: Bremen, Germany (Month 15 - February 2024)
​hosted by University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration Rhineland-Palatinate
This project is funded by the Justice Programme. This website has been accomplished in the scope of the project “Rehabilitation of foreign inmate within the scope of FD 2008/909/JHA " (REUNION), Grant Agreement no. 101090118, implemented with the financial support of the European Commission by the Justice Programme. 
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