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PREVEX

The PREVEX project aims to update the knowledge of universities on these violent, criminal and social dimensions of sexual deviance and to implement a platform of resources and specific courses adapted to the needs of both initial training (teachers, judges, specialized educators, psychologists) and to the needs of continuous training of professionals in youth, security, education.

The project is based on existing cooperation between universities and European networks for the prevention of sexist and sexual violence in Europe. It relies on the established skills of the university partners in training and pedagogical engineering, which will enable them to train university trainers and to participate in the implementation of public policies on education for human sexuality.

The PREVEX aims to develop coherent training plans to train new skills in the prevention of gender-based and sexual violence among adolescents and to propose new multilingual tools to better equip universities in the approach to emotional and sexual education in Europe. More specifically:

• Build a synthesis and a prospective in terms of contents and practices
• Characterise the pedagogical approaches and evaluate the impact of new training courses adapted to popular education situations
• To produce targeted resources on critical cases of gender-based and sexual violence
• O train professionals capable of multiplying the actions and improving the skills of young people It is also a question of building interdisciplinary bridges in the framework of social studies of deviant phenomena in modern sexuality.

CEDAR

The CEDAR (Continuing Education Against Radicalisation) project, funded by the European Commission under the ERASMUS+ programme, aims to train education professionals, senior managers and educational leaders, in order to help policy makers build better training and education plans. To achieve this, the CEDAR project focuses on the production, implementation and development of Europe-wide training for teachers and trainers, so that they can improve their skills on issues of deviance and extremism in educational settings. It also seeks to support university professionals in order to provide them with the keys to identify and prevent risks, as well as to implement appropriate actions depending on situations of deviance and extremism that may lead to violence against other young people and students.

The CEDAR project is expected to improve the knowledge and skills base of education and training professionals on how to identify and prevent different types of radicalisation in the context of education, vocational training and university. It will also involve increasing the competences of professionals from community organisations and associations working directly with young people in neighbourhoods with specific audiences (migrants, unemployed and school drop-outs, etc.).

At the end of the project, the following impacts are expected in the short and medium term:

1. Increased awareness of the phenomenon of radicalisation and extremism in educational settings (national and European level), including personal, structural, ideological, political and social factors;
2. A better understanding of the detection of ‘red flags’ of violent radicalisation of young people (warning signs and possibilities for intervention) and of the prevention and detection mechanisms currently in place in Europe, thanks to real case studies (e.g. the tools needed to assess existing risks of radicalisation);
3. Increased capacity to support young people exposed to the risks of radicalisation by providing them with training that enables them to acquire new knowledge and new tools to face daily challenges;
4. Increased awareness and capacity of the community youth service to engage with young people vulnerable to radicalisation and/or ex-radicals throughout their reintegration process;

A better understanding of mentoring programmes as a social support tool for ex-radicals or young people already identified as vulnerable to radical messages.

COVINFORM

The COVINFORM project analyses responses to COVID-19 at the government, public health, community and information and communication levels. Using an intersectional approach to health and socio-economic vulnerabilities, the European interdisciplinary consortium assesses the impact of the pandemic and its impact on vulnerable societies and groups, and models COVID-19 responses.

The project will carry out research at three levels:

1. EU27 MS + UK level: secondary data analysis and model development;
2. 15 target countries: analysis of documentary sources at the national level;
3. 10 target communities: quantitative and qualitative empirical research.

Key outputs of the project are an online portal and a set of visual tools for stakeholders in government, public health and civil society that integrate data streams, indices and indicators, maps, models, primary research and case study findings, evidence-based policy guidance and creative evaluation tools. The project is funded through the European Commission’s H2020 programme.

PRACTICIES (Partnership against radicalisation in cities)

PRACTICIES mobilises networks of European cities and experts to better understand the human roots of violent radicalisation and to characterise these processes from their origins in order to build concrete tools and practices of prevention. This transnational project relies on cooperation and expertise in the field of urban security in cities and the experience of national counter-terrorism structures (partners from different countries involving government and law enforcement agencies, municipal governments, research institutions and private organisations).

Objetives

• Assess existing registration procedures, identify young people in the process of radicalisation in an urban space;
• Describe and explain the social course of the transition to radical action;
• Provide concrete tools for action.

Expected results

• Comparative analysis of violent radicalisation processes at the European level.
• Create new pedagogical tools aimed at preventing violent radicalisation.
• Evaluation of methods of identification and accompaniment of radicalised persons through a comparative analysis of European experiences.
• Develop a glossary of radical discourse at European level.
• Create digital tools to identify radical discourses.
• Improving local policies aimed at preventing violent radicalisation by identifying, analysing and exchanging good practices at European level.

It is a training aimed at judges, magistrates and other professionals linked to criminal justice with a multidisciplinary approach to prevent radicalisation processes that may culminate in the participation in violent actions.

It applies the priorities contained in the Spanish National Strategic Plan to Combat Violent Radicalisation (PEN-LCRV) 2015 to the training of judges, magistrates and other professionals linked to criminal justice.

It promotes a HUB, a space where all actors in the criminal justice system can cooperate for the effective achievement of common goals.

It promotes collaboration and knowledge exchange with Spanish, European and international networks of specialists specialising in this area of work.