MOBilizing Society Towards (ex) Offenders Reintegration Erasmus Project

Project Title

MOBilizing Society Towards (ex) Offenders Reintegration

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 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Inclusion – equity; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Access for disadvantaged

Project Summary

The MOBi project is a partnership of eight organizations present in five different EU countries. The project is led by CENTRUL PENTRU PROMOVAREA INVATARII PERMANENTE-CPIP and aimed to:
• Understand the European contemporary punishment and reintegration picture in terms of society’s perception, participation, offenders labelling, return to work or to community, building an assessment tool to measure society ‘culture’ towards punishment and reintegration
• To create new, innovative and multidisciplinary approaches to respond to (ex)offenders’ reintegration process
• To develop a community engagement methodology to support Criminal Justice System (CJS) organisations, practitioners, and closest stakeholders’ efforts on reinforcing existent community (society) based approaches
• To design one transnational training programme, to be executed by key-organisations, aimed at civil society, to ensure that all citizens have access to knowledge of the rehabilitation model at work in their own criminal justice system, and are therefore able to review their own, individual role in the reintegration process
• To deliver a Handbook, to support different organisations from Public, Private and Third Sector developing their social responsibility and participation on CJS and offender’s reintegration.
The eight organizations partners are Genepi (France), Bremen Senate of Justice and Constitution and Hoppenbank e.V. (Germany), Associazione Antigone (Italy), Direção-Geral de Reinserção e Serviços Prisionais and Aproximar, Cooperativa de Solidariedade Social (Portugal), Center for Promoting Lifelong Learning – CPIP and The Baia Mare Penitentiary (Romania).

During the project partners have been developing a set of Intellectual Outputs (IO), namely:
IO1: Assessment Tool to screen society’s perceptions on (ex) offenders needs and CJS function
IO2: Assessment Tool to screen offender’s perceptions on society acceptance regarding reintegration process
IO3: Methodology on Community engagement in CJS
IO4: Training course on community awareness on CJS, (ex)offenders’ rehabilitation & reintegration processes
O5: Handbook on community awareness of (ex)offenders’ rehabilitation & reintegration processes.

The MOBI process and way of work was to ensure that this package of assessment, methodology and training can and will be replicated in any European Union country with the intended purpose of up-scaling to public policy recommendation and raising awareness of (ex)offenders’ rehabilitation and reintegration processes. It’s destined to civil society organizations in general in order to put their values on action to enhance (ex)offenders’ reintegration process.

One of the expected results MOBI has attained is a civil society more informed about prison services operation, different offender populations and strategies to actively participate on offenders’ social reintegration, with special focus on employment issues. Thus, our MOBI results were used by workers and trainers linked to Prison Services who intend to developed key-competences to transmit how the services work, who are the clients, what are their needs, etc. as well as by organizations from Public, Private and Third Sector developing their social responsibility and participation on Criminal Justice System and offender’s reintegration.

In this sense, MOBi project was conceived to respond to an evolving need, namely the social inclusion of (ex) offenders and the creation of a collaborative context whereas both prison and community engage into a “co-working” mindset focus on making reintegration a lifelong learning process for both offenders and civil society. The project proposes an innovative integrated approach in order to diminish the distance existing between society, in general, and the Criminal Justice System by using the tools of adult education.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 356080,27 Eur

Project Coordinator

CENTRUL PENTRU PROMOVAREA INVATARII PERMANENTE TIMISOARA ASOCIATIA & Country: RO

Project Partners

• hoppenbank e.V.
• DIRECAO-GERAL DE REINSERCAO E SERVICOS PRISIONAIS
• Genepi
• ANTIGONE ONLUS
• PENITENCIARUL BAIA MARE
• APROXIMAR- COOPERATIVA DE SOLIDARIEDADE SOCIAL, CRL
• BREMEN SENATE OF JUSTICE AND CONSTITUTION