LEADCOR: Leadership development for occupational stress reduction in correctional settings Erasmus Project

Project Title

LEADCOR: Leadership development for occupational stress reduction in correctional settings

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Health and wellbeing; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Research and innovation

Project Summary

LEADCOR project aims to develop training curriculum and programme for occupational stress reduction through leadership development in the prison context. These professionals, which will be engaged in various piloting and training activities throughout LEADCOR’s timeframe, will be involved by the comprehensive consortium found within this partnership, which comprises four prisons/prison administrations and two trade union representatives of prison officers. Therefore, stress levels will be assessed (IO2) and leadership competences will be upscaled (IO3 & IO4) in an integrated and innovative approach.
Its main activities comprise management and coordination of the project (A1), literature review & methodological conceptualisation (A2), innovative approaches development, piloting & fine-tuning (A3), sustainability (A4), overall mainstreaming & dissemination (A5), and assessment & evaluation (A6).
There are six Intellectual Outputs (IOs) resulting from the aforementioned activities, namely: LEADCOR conceptualisation & methodological support (IO1), innovative occupational stress diagnosis assessment tool (IO2), leadership training curriculum and programme (IO3), e-learning training course (IO4), train the trainer course (IO5), and promising practices repository (IO6).
LEADCOR’s expected impacts are: i) increased awareness on the importance of leadership and the negative impacts of occupational stress in the daily life of prisons; ii) transversal skills development for prison staff, especially leadership and management competences that can positively impact the reduction of stress; iii) mitigation of tensions among management and staff, between staff, among staff and their families, and between staff and inmates (through stress reduction); and iv) positively enhanced health of prison staff members, benefiting society (i.e., enabling considerable savings in personnel budgets by reducing early retirements and absenteeism, while improving the quality of work with inmates and, ultimately, enhancing opportunities for rehabilitation).
Regarding its beneficiaries, besides the project partners and their inherent vast network, LEADCOR will be an advantage for prison staff (frontline & technical staff), prison governors/directors, and academics in the short-medium term, as well as inmates/ex-inmates and policy/decision-makers in the long term – 619 participants, at least.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 351235 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERSIDADE DA BEIRA INTERIOR & Country: PT

Project Partners

• BREMEN SENATE OF JUSTICE AND CONSTITUTION
• SINDICATUL NATIONAL AL POLITISTILOR DE PENITENCIARE
• SINDICATO NACIONAL DO CORPO DA GUARDA PRISIONAL
• DIRECAO-GERAL DE REINSERCAO E SERVICOS PRISIONAIS
• DE FEDERALE OVERHEIDSDIENST JUSTITIE – LE SERVICE PUBLIC FEDERAL JUSTICE
• PENITENCIARUL BAIA MARE
• QUALIFY JUST – IT SOLUTIONS AND CONSULTING LDA