Transnational awareness-raising symposia

Event Programme

The   awareness-raising   symposia will   look   to   achieve   strengthened   cooperative relationships between participants, leading to fruitful exchanges of ideas and practices, improved knowledge regarding one another’s judicial system and competent authorities. Each symposium will set aside one-half day for a study visit to the national training institute, which will host the events. Moreover, the topics for discussion will consider gendered experiences of probationers and specificities linked to gender when considering transfers, count with the dissemination of materials countering gender stereotypes, and outline the relationship between gender and probation measures and transfers. By summarising the most relevant aspects of the national discussions (which will provide the groundwork for the upcoming WP4), as well as the results from a pre-vs post-feedback form for participants, the partnership will produce an International Symposium Communiqué.
Two practical sessions are envisaged, promoting networking, while offering concrete opportunities for the involved practitioners to learn more about the use of the instrument, inter alias on:

Transnational awareness-raising symposium 1 in Belgium  – June 2023

• Filling out the necessary certificates/orders;
• Procedural differences between the EU Member States;
• Identifying the appropriate contact point, namely through the use of the Judicial Atlas on criminal matters.

Transnational awareness-raising symposia 2 in France – September 2023

•  Recognising and comparing different probation measures and sanctions available in the partner countries (by working with the previously produced glossary developed within T2.3);
• Discussing and validating the Common Outline for the EU Member States regarding the assessment of rehabilitation (developed within T3.2).