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BSAFE LAB Law Enforcement, Justice, and Public Safety Lab comes online
The BSAFE LAB website is now available at www.bsafe-lab.org. Founded as a result of the collaboration between QUALIFY JUST IPS_Innovative Prison Systems and UBI – Beira Interior University (Portugal), the BSAFE LAB is an open interdisciplinary research and technology transfer laboratory aiming to foster and develop new research and technology
“Unlock your potential” – MyComPass project final conference
Over the last two years, partners from the MyCompass project have experienced the powerful potential of putting to good use the key competencies. Five learning communities from Portugal, Romania, Cyprus, Lithuania, and Malta have been involved in testing and piloting a number of straightforward tools that help a teacher embed
Prison services from Romania and Bulgaria sign cooperation agreement
General Directors of the National Administration of Prisons from Romania and of the General Directorate of Execution of Sentences from Bulgaria signed a cooperation agreement on the 26th of September 2014. In the ceremony that took place at the Grand Hotel Dimyat in Varna (Bulgaria) Mr. Catalin Bejan and Mr.
IPS at the founding of the Central American Council of Prison Administration Directors
This initiative of general directors of Prison Administration – supported by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) office in the region and by SICA (Central American Integration System) – has the ambition to promote the sharing of information and best practices and support penitentiary reform in the
High-risk offenders: Justice Cooperation Network final conference
The objective of the JCN project is to develop a European network on transition management of prisoners leaving custody, with a focus on high-risk offenders. IPS was represented at the final conference of the Justice Cooperation Network project held in Rostock-Warnemünde, in Germany, on the 3-5 September 2014. The project
BSAFE LAB Law enforcement, justice and public safety lab launched by Beira Interior university
UBI, the University of Beira Interior in cooperation of IPS_Innovative Prison Systems has launched the BSAFE LAB (Law enforcement, Justice and Public Safety Research and Technology Transfer Laboratory). The BSAFE LAB is an interdisciplinary competence centre/laboratory aiming to foster and develop new research and technology transfer in the fields of
Itinerariul Dialog: Romanian prison staff union visits Portuguese prisons
In the framework of the Itinerariul Dialog ID project, a delegation from SNLP, the National Union of Prison Workers from Romania together with IPS_Innovative Prison Systems team visited the Sindicato Nacional do Corpo da Guarda Prisional from Portugal. The delegation was received at DGRSP (portuguese prison administration) and had the chance
IPS at the signing of the cooperation agreement between Portugal and Turkey
Portuguese Deputy Prime Minister Paulo Portas and the Turkish Economy Minister Nihat Zeybekci signed a Joint Economic and Trade Committee (JETCO) agreement in Lisbon (Laranjeiras Palace, 27 June 2014) with the aim of raising bilateral trade. Minister Zeybekci stated that the signed JETCO agreement would be a new beginning for Turkish-Portuguese relations
IDECOM funded: New educational methods for training prison staff transversal skills
With an overall budget of approximately 300.000,00 euro, the IDECOM project aims at the development and implementation of new educational methods in the training of prison staff focusing in transversal skills. The project “IDECOM Innovation, Development and Communication for better staff training in Prison Systems” promoted by the National Prison