Presidency

In 2021, the Polish Academy of Justice is holding the presidency of the EPTA Network. The EPTA Presidency is elected annually from one of the member institutions and is responsible for organizing the Annual EPTA Conference.

Academy of Justice is a vocational university of state services. Its main objective is to educate prison officers and other uniformed service or civilians. The school’s activity is to innovate education with the use of new methods and educational tools, in line with the ideas of “the education of the future”, which enables the school to create a group of experts, conduct scientific research and build international cooperation.

The task of the Academy of Justice is to provide students with the knowledge and theoretical knowledge in a wide range, oriented to prepare graduates to perform specifically profiled professional roles and academic knowledge corresponding to the issues, understanding and reflecting on the issues constituting the subject of penitentiary science.

The large organization and evaluation process regarding the institutional modernization and development priorities includes, as a strategic objective, promoting the collaboration with other national and foreign institutions and organizations.  In order to fulfil this objective, the international relations team was set up in the HSCPS, to manage the collaboration and cooperation relations with other institutions or partners, as well as to organize specific activities meant to promote the image of the institution.

The international relations team has the task to fulfil operational objectives that concern setting up and developing collaborative projects with:

• similar national and foreign schools/institutions;
• national higher educational institutions;
• public institutions.