Work Packages
WP2. IN2PREV’s Frontline Practitioners Network
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Description
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Efforts will be directed towards broadly identifying frontline practitioners working with refugees (or those working on the topic of refugee inclusion in its broader sense) towards building a database. Moreover, critical experts will be invited to set-up IN2PREV’s Advisory Expert Committee. A dynamic and engaging network will be created for the stakeholders, enabling them to access relevant materials/resources on the topic, exchange knowledge/expertise and attend pertinent events, thus creating a prosperous environment for building central collaboration links to ensure refugees/asylum seekers successful integration.
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Activities
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T1.1. Frontline practitioners’ EU-wide mapping and database set-up
Identification of frontline practitioners (e.g., LEAs, NGOs) working with refugees (e.g., policymakers, researchers). This database will include the (soon-to-be) network member name, occupation, organisation, country, and contact. Data will be collected and shared upon agreement in accordance with EU Regulation 2016/689 on GDPR. Practitioners from countries beyond IN2PREV’s partnership will be included. T.1.2. Establish IN2PREV’s Advisory Expert Committee Understanding IN2PREV’s complexity, overall quality control will be carried out with the support of an Advisory Expert Committee (AEC). Critical experts (mapped in A2.1) will be invited to become AEC Members. The AEC will be twofold according to experts’ field of knowledge (radicalisation; mentoring). AEC will advise IN2PREV concerning the FEVR-SES tool (WP3), M4Rinc’s Mentoring Approach (WP4), and trainings (WP5). AEC will assess the sensitivity and potential of misuse of the products prior to publication, guaranteeing an outer, nonbiased vision. T.1.3. Creation of a digital platform to host IN2PREV’s Frontline Practitioners Network Drawing from the data collected on A2.1, this activity aims to build an online platform to host IN2PREV’s Frontline Practitioners Network working with refugees and asylum seekers. In addition, professionals who work in the topic of refugees and asylum seekers’ inclusion and integration in its broader sense (such as policymakers or researchers) and those who, due to the nature of their professional activity, might be working with this target group in the near future, will also be invited to the network. The same also applies to refugees and asylum seekers’ representatives. Hence, the main goal will be to facilitate the exchange of knowledge and know-how amongst these stakeholders (e.g., through the periodical organisation of debates, roundtables), identification of common issues/needs, and finding of joint solutions. |
Leader
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Polish Platform for Homeland Security
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Time-table
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01/11/2022 - 30/04/2023
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WP3. Frontline Extremism Vulnerability Risk – Structured Evaluation Screening (FEVR-SES)
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Description
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The main objective is to concretely conceptualise (and create) an innovative instrument to enable frontline practitioners to trace potential vulnerabilities (at the cognitive, behavioural, and social levels) to the radicalisation process on refugees and asylum seekers. The tool will be based on common indicators that “actually work” in (similar) instruments and procedures previously implemented.
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Activities
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T3.1. Online mapping of current procedures to assess refugees’ vulnerability to radicalisation
Survey to collect key quantitative/qualitative data to map out screening procedures utilised by frontline practitioners. Complemented by desk research. T3.2. Develop a framework to evaluate current interventions Develop a framework to evaluate current interventions: Considering literature on evaluation methods, appropriateness, relevance, and suitability, it will comprise evaluation attributes (dimensions and indicators) and the reasoning for their inclusion, taking into consideration the role played by gender in each of them. In the practices mapped in A3.1, semi-structured interviews will be carried out with frontline practitioners that implemented A3.1 mapped procedures to assess which challenges they have faced, as well as lessons learned, therefore understanding ‘what works’ vs ‘what does not work’. T3.3. Develop the Frontline Extremism Vulnerability Risk - Structured Evaluation Screening (FEVR-SES) tool Develop the Frontline Extremism Vulnerability Risk – Structured Evaluation Screening (FEVRSES) tool: A3.3.1 FEVR-SES Methodological Framework & tool creation: Develop a vulnerability risk screening tool based on common evidence-based indicators that “actually work”, found in A3.2. A3.3.2 Ethical review and guidelines’ production: Ethical review and develop implementation guidelines to ensure that the partnership delivers a human-rights compliant screening analysis. A3.3.3 Organise online joint transnational, cross-sectoral FEVR-SES review panel: Validation review to ensure that FEVR-SES final version is aligned with its initial objective and effectively screens what it intended to. A3.3.4 Organise FEVR-SES national calibration workshops: Align FEVR-SES’ to each country’s social and contextual needs/challenges (creation of tool subsets). A3.3.5. FEVR-SES piloting, validation and final tuning: Once practitioners are duly trained and aware on how to use FEVR-SES and utilise/understand the information it gathers (after A5.2), it will be piloted in each partner country and ultimately finetuned. |
Leader
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BSAFE Lab / University of Beira Interior
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Time-table
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01/01/2023 - 31/03/2024
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WP4. Mentoring Approach for Refugees and Asylum Seekers Successful Inclusion
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Description
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This Work Package aims at developing the “Preventive Mechanisms for LEAs’ working with Refugees and Asylum Seekers: A Practical Handbook of Collaborative and Cooperative Practices” and creating an innovative mentoring scheme that allows frontline practitioners to assist refugees and asylum seekers’ (and their families) integration through the provision of social support and opportunities to improve community connectedness and consequently foster the development of trust-based relationships with the receiving host society.
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Activities
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T4.1. Cooperative preventive mechanisms for law enforcement agencies
A4.1.1 Online mapping of current mechanisms and procedures: A survey (which will be disseminated to A2.3) will be conducted to collect key quantitative/qualitative data in order to map the collaborative mechanisms currently in place by LEAs in European countries. Complemented by desk research; A4.1.2 Design and develop the “Preventive Mechanisms for LEAs’ working with Refugees and Asylum Seekers: A Practical Handbook of Collaborative and Cooperative Practices”: The handbook will be developed considering the data collected in the previous activity and considering its relevance and suitability for the handbook. The reasoning for the inclusion or exclusion of certain mechanisms will be contained in the handbook, therefore explaining “what works” vs “what does not work” and why. T4.2. Set-up IN2PREV’s M4-Rinc Integration Assurance Programme Set-up IN2PREV’s Mentoring Approach for Refugees and Asylum Seekers Successful Inclusion (M4-Rinc Integration Assurance Programme): A4.2.1 Conceptualise and create M4-Rinc Integration Assurance Programme: M4-Rinc will be developed based on the challenges and needs that hinder refugees and asylum seekers integration process; A4.2.2 Selection of M4-Rinc’s mentors: Mentors will be selected through a country-based existing pool of mentors and through the mobilisation of those who were mapped as mentors in WP2 (A2.1); A4.2.3 Organise M4-Rinc national calibration workshops: Guidelines will be created for all partners to organise national events, aiming at finetuning and aligning M4-Rinc to each country’s contextual needs/challenges; A4.2.4 Piloting, validation and final finetuning: Once practitioners are duly trained on how to use M4-Rinc (after A5.3), the mentoring scheme will be piloted in each partner country and, lastly, finetuned. |
Leader
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European Association for Social Innovation
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Time-table
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01/05/2023 - 28/02/2024
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WP5. IN2PREV’s Cross-sectoral & Multi-goal Training Approach
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Description
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A cross-sectoral and multi-training approach will be implemented. This will encompass the development of a Train the Trainer course and the creation of two innovative b-learning training courses aimed at law enforcement and non-governmental agencies frontline practitioners on preventing and identifying vulnerability risk factors to radicalisation on refugees and asylum seekers, as well as facilitating their integration through mentoring.
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Activities
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T5.1. Adaptation and deployment of an e-learning Training of Trainers’ course for frontline practitioners
IN2PREV’s ToT will be adapted (to its specific target group) from other EU-funded projects’ ToTs in the area of radicalisation prevention (e.g., INTEGRA, R4JUST) which counted with IN2PREV’s Consortium partners. The ToT will then be deployed. T5.2. Develop a b-learning training course on preventing and identifying vulnerability risk factors to radicalisation on refugees and asylum seekers A5.2.1 Outlining the training course’s content and multimedia design: developing the training programme content (storyboards, software slides, narrations, exercises, training manuals, resources, multimedia content). A5.2.2 Piloting the training course in each partner country: LEAs and NGOs will pilot the training course. A5.2.3 Trainees’ feedback & evaluation (periodical collection and analysis): analysis of trainees’ feedback to assess if the course’s objectives were attained, ensuring its utmost potential. A5.2.4 Fine-tuning the training course: finetuning of the training course according to the trainees’ evaluation scores in order to ensure the training’s utmost quality and relevance. T5.3. Develop a b-Learning training course to facilitate refugees and asylum seekers integration through mentoring A5.3.1 Outlining the training course’s content and multimedia design: developing the training programme content (storyboards, software slides, narrations, exercises, training manuals, resources, multimedia content). A5.3.2 Piloting the training course in each partner country: NGOs will pilot the training course. A5.3.3 Trainees’ feedback & evaluation (periodical collection and analysis): analysis of trainees’ evaluation scores to assess if the course’s objectives were attained, ensuring its utmost potential. A5.3.4 Fine-tuning the training course: finetuning of the training course according to the trainees’ feedback in order to ensure the training’s utmost quality and relevance. |
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IPS_Innovative Prison Systems
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Time-table
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01/12/2023 - 30/06/2025
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