When: 27-29 June 2022

Where: Centre of Legal Studies and Specialised Training, Barcelona, Spain

Agenda: Click here to view the programme.

Introduction

During the last two years, the needs coming from the COVID-19 pandemic put our academies in the centre of many glances by the Prison Services. There was the need for recruiting and training, in a very short period of time, new staff for attending the extra demands provoked by the pandemic, we all changed our routines of working, introducing “online” tools as the main way to provide training, etc.

We all learned a lot from what this crisis meant for our network. The last Annual Conference held in Warsaw on September 2021 was a milestone for sharing these lessons and adopting common conclusions.

After this big effort and after putting in practice many of the lessons learned, we are convinced that the time has arrived for sharing a deep approach into our strategies and practices for assessing the work we do, as training academies, and its impact on the quality of the prison services.

This year EPTA Annual Conference 2022, Barcelona comes up with the title: ‘The need to evaluate training: a work in progress…’

Participation

The Annual Conference is for EPTA members, the institution delegates a maximum of 2 representatives, one of them being authorized to vote.

Registration

The deadline to register for the EPTA Annual Conference is on Monday 30 May.

Click here to register.

Accommodation

Hotel will be announced soon.

Reimbursement of travel and subsistence costs

The EPTA Annual Conference is supported by the project ‘Innovating Together’, coordinated by the Netherlands Helsinki Committee (NHC) and funded by the European Commission.

Representatives from EPTA member organizations are eligible for funding if they are based in one of the following countries:

• The Member States of the European Union (including their overseas departments), except for Denmark;
• Albania and Montenegro.

At least two persons per country will be accepted and funded (if eligible) as participants to the conference (on a first-come-first-serve basis). Additional participants will be put on a waiting list and will be accepted if there is sufficient capacity remaining. In total, a maximum of 70 participants will be accepted to participate in the conference.

The following costs will be covered for eligible participants (depending on a maximum amount per participant and the EC guidelines and regulations):

• Flights or train tickets, travel to/from the airport and travel insurance: Participants are responsible for arranging their own travel. A maximum of €400, – per eligible participant will be reimbursed by the project to cover travel costs. For flights, only economy class tickets will be reimbursed. Boarding passes, invoices and tickets must be kept as supporting documentation;
• Hotel accommodation: NHC will book hotel rooms for all participants and cover the costs of accommodation;
• Meals: Shared meals will be arranged by the NHC and the CEJFE. There will be additional budget available for meals, based on a set amount per eligible person.

More information about the reimbursement procedure and detailed provisions will be shared after registration.