“Be without prejudice” – a training project for prison staff for identifying and responding to discrimination in prisons. Erasmus Project

Project Title

“Be without prejudice” – a training project for prison staff for identifying and responding to discrimination in prisons.

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: Home and justice affairs (human rights & rule of law); Inclusion – equity; Access for disadvantaged

Project Summary

The realization of the project “Be without prejudices” accomplishes a number of goals; in the first place, participants in the training program acquire basic knowledge and skills for recognizing and responding to discrimination; they are acquainted with their own rights, but also commitments; they are able to implement in practice the Law on the Prohibition of Discrimination; and Law on the Protection of Equality in Institutions for the Execution of Criminal Sanctions. By fulfilling the objectives of the project indirectly, it contributes to the social inclusion of vulnerable and marginalized categories of persons deprived of liberty, through qualitatively improved communication and creation of an atmosphere that achieves the reintegration and re-socialization of convicted persons. Particularly important in the realization of the project are partnerships for institutions from the Republic of Romania, the prison in Timisoara (Penitenciarul Timisoara) and the Center for Promoting Lifelong Learning, as well as other partners, where the exchange of experiences, good EU practices in protection against discrimination and applied innovative learning programs in line with the concept of lifelong education. It is the project that seeks to provide institutional national and supranational support to the acquisition of knowledge and skills to upgrade the basic knowledge of officials in prisons in the Republic of Serbia, who are not trained enough for such a sensitive area of ​​treatment, such as discrimination. The aim of the project is to, through theoretical and practical aspects of the project realization trainees (prison staff) in the biennial adult education cycle are mastered by mechanisms: 1) recognizing and responding to discrimination in their workplaces and social environments from which they come; 2) acquire knowledge to identify and respond to discrimination in prisons, and 3) master the mechanisms and techniques for overcoming discriminatory and conflict situations.
The project is expected to:
Maintaining the first international scientific-professional conference on “Recognition and Response to Discrimination in Prison Institutions;
Publication of the collection of papers on discrimination in prisons with the working title: “Second Chance – recognize and react to discrimination”.
Publication of a manual for the sensible treatment of prison staff with the working title: “Sensitive Oriented Operational Work” for prison officers and other members of the security system, both in the Republic of Serbia and in the countries of the European Union.
Creation of an English-language film on recognizing and responding to discrimination with the working title: “Second Chance”.
Implementation of the system of how to report CALL discrimination through and the introduction of an institute of advocates for protection against discrimination in prison institutions.
Certification and introduction of training programs for identifying and responding to discrimination in the Center for training prison employees as a teaching subject with the working title: “Human Rights and Discrimination” for all newly employed in prison institutions.
The global importance is in the availability of the film “Second Chance” in English, which will be featured on the Internet, as well as a krog international scientific-expert conference whose English language collection will be available in pdf form on the Internet google scholar and platforms.
The general social and regional significance lies in the expansion of European culture, the system of values, tolerance, multiculturalism, the spread of awareness of discrimination and inequalities.
The national importance is that the knowledge base in the field of protection against discrimination is being eradicated, that the institutions for the implementation of criminal sanctions will be provided with a manual of innovative content and the first handbook of this type in the Western Balkans, as well as with the introduction of the Human Rights and Protection from Discrimination Center training and improvement of personnel of the Administration for the Execution of Criminal Sanctions of the Republic of Serbia provides ongoing education in this field.
The local importance is that every trainee from almost 30 different cities of the Republic of Serbia will share the knowledge and perception that will be achieved with the completion of the training program in their micro environments, which will be able to paint pictures of other shoes, understand other problems and understand that Different are the wealth of one society. Finally, they will receive applicable knowledge that will enable them to respond better and deal with the vulnerable and marginalized categories of convicted and convicted persons from the ranks of persons with disabilities.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 62280 Eur

Project Coordinator

Kazneno popravni zavod Pozarevac Zabela & Country: RS

Project Partners

• Zdruzhenie na gragjani IURIDICA PRIMA Skopje
• Penal Correctional Institue Pancevo
• PENITENCIARUL TIMISOARA
• CENTRUL PENTRU PROMOVAREA INVATARII PERMANENTE TIMISOARA ASOCIATIA