Calendar

Berlin, Germany

RAN C&N

The main objective of this meeting is to review effective alternative and counter-narrative campaigns.

Target audience: first-line practitioners, communication specialists, campaign developers

Dublin, Ireland

RAN EDU

Titled ‘Make a change’, this expert session will focus on the dissemination, implementation and evaluation of educational PVE projects and approaches.

Target audience: educators and experts in teaching PVE at schools

Brussels, Belgium

Steering Committee

Lisbon, Portugal

RAN YF&C

This meeting will explore the role that sports, cultural and other leisure activities can play in P/CVE.

Target audience: practitioners and researchers with extensive knowledge and expertise on related issues

Brussels, Belgium

European Remembrance Day for Victims of Terrorism

Vienna, Austria

RAN LOCAL

How are we doing? – Evaluation: the meeting will discuss how to monitor and evaluate local regional CVE and PVE strategies and interventions.

Target audience: experienced local CVE and PVE coordinating authorities, as well as those who are in early stages of setting up their local approaches, and evaluation experts

Turin, Italy

RAN H&SC

Neuropsychiatric disorders: the purpose of this meeting is to provide participants a better understanding of these disorders and how these are linked to the prevention of radicalisation.

Target audience: health practitioners, academics, psychiatrists and psychologists with an expertise on neuropsychiatric disorders and radicalisation

Manchester, UK

RAN Study visit

Responding to crisis — building resilience: this study visit aims to learn about the approach taken to manage tensions and hate incidents in Manchester and the role communities can play in this.

Target audience: local coordinators and national policy makers.

Amsterdam, Netherlands

RAN YOUNG

RAN YOUNG Academy session 1 – Kick-off and setting goals: this first session is an opportunity to introduce participants to the Academy. Their project plan will also be drafted.

Target audience: RAN YOUNG Academy participants

Bucharest, Romania

RAN P&P

Specialised risk assessment tools: this meeting is an opportunity to discuss, on a case-level, experiences of working with specialised risk assessments tools.

Target audience: practitioners who have hands-on experience working with specialised risk assessment tools in contact with the radicalised and terrorist offenders

Stockholm, Sweden

Multi-agency meeting RAN POL – C&N

Current and future most used and most watched narratives and strategies of far right extremists and Islamist extremists: the aim of the event is to combine expertise and experience from police, analysts and counter and alternative narrative experts to be able to draft a useful list of currently used narratives of right wing violent extremist and Islamist organisations.

Target audience: police officers, youth or exit workers and employees of NGOs who encounter violent extremist and terrorist narratives on a daily basis, EUROPOL and academics

Milan, Italy

RAN RVT

Evaluation of the impact of victims of terrorism testimonials: the purpose of this meeting is to map existing evaluation tools to measure the impact of victims’ testimonies, to present inspiring practices, and to give practical guidelines to victims of terrorism on how to evaluate their efforts.

Target audience: representatives of victims’ organisations, victims of terrorism, and researchers holding expertise on evaluation

Rome, Italy

RAN YF&C Academy

Children growing up in an extremist family: the meeting will consider the reasons some children are more vulnerable to radicalisation than others even under the same circumstances.

Target audience: youth workers, health- and social care workers, and educators who are responsible for long-term PVE interventions

Bucharest, Romania

RAN H&SC

Grooming for terror – Manipulation and control: this meeting will aim to disseminate knowledge gained by those working with groomers and their victims.

Target audience: social workers, human traffic experts, police, educators, healthcare practitioners

Paris, France

Kick-off meeting Prosecutors: this meeting aims to discuss legislation, multi-agency cooperation and preventing recidivism.

Target audience: prosecutors, judges specialised in violent extremism and terrorism

Place TBC

RAN P&P

Expert session: What can we learn from experiences with different prison regimes for radicalised/ terrorist offenders so far? This meeting focusses on how specific regimes for terrorist offenders can be organised and managed.

Target audience: Prison governors, researchers and policymakers involved in/ having expertise on the workings of regimes concentrating or dispersing terrorist offenders

Bordeaux, France

RAN YOUNG Academy session 2 – Challenges & progress: this session will focus on personal empowerment, competence empowerment and the challenges to overcome when fine-tuning a project plan.

Target audience: RAN YOUNG Academy participants

Place TBC

RAN POL

Police role in the reintegration and risk management of released violent extremist offenders and returnee fighters coming home: this meeting focusses on police risk assessment tools and local implementation of the lessons learned.

Target audience: police experts with local expertise in the person-based case management of released violent extremist or terrorist offenders and reintegrating returnee fighters

Paris, France

Multi-agency meeting RAN LOCAL-H&SC

Taking mental health issues into account in CVE and PVE: this meeting will combine expertise of mental health and social care experts and local CVE/PVE coordinators to formulate ideas, tips and tricks on how to involve knowledge about mental health issues and increased susceptibility to violent extremism and radicalisation.

Paris, France

Policy & Practice event

Correlation between violent extremism and mental health disorders: this meeting will focus on the psychology of groomers with the aim of dismantling their tactics.

Target audience: psychologists, psychiatrists and other mental health workers, policymakers responsible for the relevant mental health policies currently in place

Budapest, Hungary

Multi-agency meeting RAN Exit-P&P

Connections, roles and quality review of rehabilitation, resocialisation and exit activities: this meeting explores the roles and responsibilities of prison, probation and exit actors involved in all processes.

Target audience: Exit workers, probation workers, prison officers involved in rehabilitation efforts

Budapest, Hungary

Multi-agency meeting RAN YF&C – P&P

Extremists being released from prison - community and family acceptance: the meeting aims to identify available good practices on this topic.

Target audience: experts from prison and probation services and exit programmes, community and family support workers, local P/CVE coordinators

Brussels, Belgium

Steering Committee

Berlin, Germany

RAN EDU

Schools and challenging far right extremism: this meeting aims to discuss the best ways to address the issue of right wing extremism not only inside the classroom, but in the wider school community.

Target audience: teachers, projects leaders and researchers dealing with far right extremism

Bilbao, Spain

RAN RVT

Preparation Remembrance Day 2020: this meeting will focus on evaluating the organisational process and the event itself, as well as drafting the programme of European Remembrance Day for Victims of Terrorism on 11 March 2020.

Target audience: members of the RVT Working Group, European Commission and RAN CoE staff members

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Policy & Practice event

Narratives and strategies of FRE and Islamist extremists: this event is an opportunity to look into the most used narratives and strategies by far right violent extremist and terrorist groups and discuss which elements and grievances should be addressed on what level and how.

Target audience: national policy planners of the Policy Planners Network, RAN POL and RAN C&N participants, representatives of EUROPOL, academics and experts

Barcelona, Spain

RAN YOUNG Academy session 3 - Challenges & progress: this session will focus on issues and difficulties in setting up initiatives. Solutions and possibilities will be identified and potential sources for success will be defined.

Target audience: RAN YOUNG Academy participants

Helsinki, Finland

Policy & Practice event

P/CVE trends in the EU - in collaboration with the Finnish EU Presidency: the meeting aims to achieve a common understanding of the trends in radicalisation to violent extremism within the EU, as well as a common appreciation of the responses needed to prevent and counter these trends.

Target audience: Members of the Steering Board and Network of Prevent Policy Makers, RAN practitioners

Berlin, Germany

Policy & Practice event

Extremists being released from prison: community and family acceptance: this meeting aims to assist policymakers better understand the challenges practitioners face with regards to this topic and to formulate policy recommendations. The purpose of this meeting is also to inform practitioners about the priorities, sensitivities and complexities of this topic on a national level.

Target audience: practitioners from RAN P&P, RAN YF&C, RAN LOCAL and RAN POL, national policymakers

Brussels, Belgium

Steering Committee

Madrid, Spain

Policy & Practice event

Evaluating impact of disengagement, deradicalisation and resocialisation efforts: this event aims to provide with methodologies for evaluating exit work and other P/CVE interventions.

Target audience: exit workers

Place TBC

Multi-agency meeting RAN EDU-H&SC

Troubled Refugee children in the classroom: this meeting considers how to sensitise educators about the vulnerabilities and resilience issues faced by refugee children and the valuable role teachers and other school staff play in safeguarding these pupils.

Target audience: educators, social workers working with families and healthcare professionals

Lisbon, Portugal

RAN C&N

Communications after an attack and the role of media: this meeting will focus on how to deliver alternative and counter-narratives in the aftermath of a terrorist attack.

Target audience: youth workers, social or family workers, crisis communications specialists, journalists, social media companies and academics

Copenhagen, Denmark

RAN YOUNG Academy session 4 - How to professionalise your initiative? What is next? After setting up their local P/CVE initiatives, the participants will learn how to professionalise their initiative to ensure a sustainable impact in their communities.

Target audience: RAN YOUNG Academy participants

Paris, France

RAN EXIT

This meeting will deal with gender issues in exit strategies.

Target audience: Exit workers

Helsinki, Finland

RAN H&SC

Alienation vs integration: this meeting will discuss the vulnerability of refugees with regard to radicalisation to violent extremism.

Target audience: social workers, healthcare practitioners working with refugee

Rome, Italy

Follow-up meeting Prosecutors: this meeting aims to determine whether a group of prosecutors and possibly judges should be permanently included in RAN.

Target audience: prosecutors and possibly judges specialised in violent extremism and terrorism

Milan, Italy

RAN LOCAL

When and how to intervene – specific case management: this meeting aims to formulate guidelines for case management and to share valuable insights about when to intervene.

Target audience: Experienced local and regional P/CVE coordinators

London, UK

RAN C&N

How to make an attractive campaign that is reaching the target audience and selling the message: the purpose of this meeting is to hold a training session during which participants can learn from marketing, communication and advertising specialists on how to create better communication campaigns.

Target audience: practitioners involved in alternative and counter- narrative campaigns

Antwerp, Belgium

RAN EDU

Challenges in Islamist extremist ideology in schools: the meeting aims to share experiences, to collect and present different European educational settings in which schools are confronted with religious-inspired extremism.

Target audience: experts in education and PVE at schools

Brussels, Belgium

Steering Committee

Nice, France

RAN RVT

VIII International Congress for the Victims of Terrorism: this meeting aims to use the commemoration of attacks as a way to prevent violent extremism.

Target audience: representatives of victims associations, victims of terrorism of recent and older attacks, and Member State representatives.

Copenhagen, Denmark

RAN YF&C

Academy on ‘Youth(work) online’: this meeting aims to disseminate lessons learned from RAN C&N and the Civil Society Empowerment Programme.

Target audience: experts on one-to-one interventions, communication and narratives experts, experienced youth workers, academics/researchers

Place TBC

RAN POL

Information sharing: this meeting focusses on how police officers can best work with recent legal developments.

Target audience: police experts involved in multi-agency settings on a local level, experts from intelligence agencies

Dublin, Ireland

Multi-agency meeting RAN Exit-RVT

Restorative Justice: this meeting focusses on elements (insights, methodological approaches and tools) of restorative justice that can be implemented in exit work and provide guidelines (including the methodological approach).

Target audience: Exit workers, professionals in the field of restorative justice and victims

Place TBC

Policy & Practice event

Safeguarding refugees from being recruited and radicalised: this meeting aims to achieve a common appreciation of the responses needed to prevent and counter violent extremism within receiving communities targeted against newcomers, such as refugees.

Target audience: practitioners and policymakers engaged in preventing radicalisation in education, health and social care as well as youth, family and community work