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João Manuel R. S. Tavares is graduated in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Porto, Portugal (1992). He also earned his M.Sc. degree and Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Porto in 1995 and 2001, respectively. He is a senior researcher and project coordinator at the Institute of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Management (INEGI) and an Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP). João Tavares is co-editor of more than 20 books, co-author of more than 20 book chapters, 450 articles in international and national journals and conferences, and 3 international and 2 national patents. He has been a committee member of several international and national journals and conferences, is co-founder and co-editor of the book series “Lecture Notes in Computational Vision and Biomechanics” published by Springer, founder and Editor-in-Chief of the journal “Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization” published by Taylor & Francis, and co-founder and co-chair of the international conference series: CompIMAGE, ECCOMAS VipIMAGE, ICCEBS and BioDental. Also, he has been (co-)supervisor of several MSc and PhD thesis and supervisor of several post-doc projects, and has participated in many scientific projects both as researcher and as scientific coordinator. His main research areas include computational vision, medical imaging, computational mechanics, scientific visualization, human-computer interaction and new product development.
Personal page: www.fe.up.pt/~tavares
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Steven Van De Steene is IT Director of the Directorate General of Penal Institutions in Belgium. He manages an IT service with a strong focus on finding flexible solutions as an answer to the wide variety of business needs within the complex penitentiary context. Prior to his current position, he established a shared services direction at the central ICT department. Steven studied Pedagogical Sciences at the University of Ghent. After his graduation he started working as a probation Officer. With the growth of the organization came the need for a better national IT support. As a project manager, Steven took the opportunity to establish good working IT solutions by trying to understand real business needs and enlarging his knowledge in Information Technology. In 2009 he became a certified Enterprise IT Architect at the University of Antwerp Management School. Now he’s concentrating on implementing the principles of IT Governance and Enterprise Architecture within his organization. Steven is member of the International Corrections and Prisons Association and leads an Expert Group on ICT within EuroPris.
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Hugo Meinedo received the Bsc, Msc and Doutor (PhD) degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal, in 1996, 2000 and 2008 respectively. In June 2014 he joint MLDC. His expertise is in spoken language processing with a very strong background in signal processing and machine learning methods. He participated in many European and national funded projects such as TECNOVOZ, VidiVideo, I-DASH, LIREC, euTV, Metanet, U-STAR, DIRHA and SpeDial. His research focuses on speech recognition, audio analysis, multimodal audio-visual applications, speaker characterization, paralinguistic information extraction from speech such as the detection of emotional states.
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Annika Hämäläinen (MSFT) holds a BSc degree in Electrical Engineering (2000) from the Rovaniemi University of Applied Sciences in Finland, an MSc degree in Speech and Language Processing (2002) from the University of Edinburgh in the UK, and a PhD degree in Automatic Speech Recognition (2009) from Radboud University Nijmegen in The Netherlands. Her PhD research focused on the use of syllable-length acoustic models in Automatic Speech Recognition, and she published the results of her work in several international journals and conferences. In addition to her academic experience, Annika has several years of industrial experience in the field of speech technology, having worked both on Automatic Speech Recognition and on Speech Synthesis with several well-known companies in the area, including British Telecommunications, Nuance Communications, and Loquendo. Since January 2012, Annika has worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Microsoft Language Development Center in Lisbon, Portugal, working on providing Automatic Speech Recognition for various Portuguese and European academia-industry collaborations and actively publishing the results of her work. Sara Candeias (MSFT) holds two Degrees in Portuguese and Classical Languages, Scientific area (1994) and Educational Training area (1995) from the University of Coimbra, Portugal, a Master in Portuguese and Classical Languages (1999), also from the University of Coimbra, Portugal and a PhD in Linguistics (2007) from the University of Aveiro, Portugal. She was invited assistant professor in the University of Beira Interior-Portugal, University of Coimbra-Portugal and in the Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra-Portugal, where she taught and conducted research in computational linguistics. Since January 2008 she is a researcher in speech technology in the Instituto de Telecomunicações, Department of Electrical and Computers Engineering, University of Coimbra (Portugal) and since September 2012 she is also a visiting researcher in L2F: Spoken Language Systems Lab - INESC-ID Lisboa (Portugal), assuming responsibilities for defining strategies to increase collaborative research in the human language technologies area. In May 2014 shejoined MLDC has a Computational Linguist for all the topics related with the European and Brazilian Portuguese Language (such as upcoming Speech Recognition support for Cortana and XBoxOne and Text-To-Speech improvements), as well as a Science and Technology Project Manager. She has also been participating in projects and consortia since 2008, some of them as principal researcher (e.g., He[eee]sit[u]ação: Portuguese Hesitation Models; TICE.Healthy: Systems of Health and Quality of Life; PARSEME: PARSing and Multi-word Expressions; Kids2Read: Linguistic Characterization of Children’s Reading; Id_Est: Automatic Simplification of Legal Texts). She is author and co-author of 3 scientific books, 8 book chapters and over 50 papers on the fields of Portuguese language, Phonetics, Text-to-Speech Conversion and Speech Recognition. She developed an automatic system for converter phonemes into phonemes for European Portuguese as well as 17 dictionaries for pronunciation in European Portuguese. She is a member of the scientific and program committees of several international conferences in Computational Processing of Portuguese Language. She has been invited for talks in various academic sessions and has received a number of awards during her academic career. Born on May 28th 1972, she is a proud mother of three beautiful children, two boys and one little girl.
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Cristiano Chesi (1975, Pisa, Italy) holds a research position at IUSS, Pavia (Center for NEurolinguistics and Theoretical Syntax) since December 2011 and a research grant at ISCTE-IUL (University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal) since June 2011. He got a Ph.D. in Cognitive Sciences at University of Siena (2005) where he worked at CISCL (Interdepartmental Center for Cognitive Studies of Language) as Computational Linguist since 2004. His research areas are Computational Linguistics (grammatical formalisms, complexity theory, Parsing and Machine Translation), Language Acquisition and Linguistic Disabilities (deafness, aphasia and SLI). He collaborates with the Microsoft Language Development Center (Lisbon) since 2008 on various projects related to Text Normalization and Grammar Authoring for improving the speech recognition experience of Windows Mobile users; he got a Marie Curie Fellowship at City University of London, Erasmus professor at University of Geneva, Visiting Scholar at MediaLab and Dep. of Linguistics at MIT (Cambridge, MA), Visiting student at IRST (Institute for Scientific and Technological Research of Trento), Erasmus student at University of Rennes II (France). Among the research projects, he developed (with Valentina Bianchi, University of Siena) a (minimalist, in the sense of Chomsky 1995) grammatical framework dubbed "Top-Down syntax" (formalized as Phase-based Minimalist Syntax, PMG, Chesi 2007).
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Michael Tjalve holds an MA in Linguistics from University of Copenhagen and University of Paris (1999) and a PhD in Speech Technology from University College London (2007). He has been working in the speech technology community since 1999 and his work has focused on innovation and enhancement of speech technology and speech applications with an emphasis on bringing research to market and into the hands of end-users. Michael Tjalve has been working for speech technology companies and universities in Europe and the US and is currently managing speech technology innovation in the speech group at Microsoft. He has participated in commercial and academic research, both as a hands-on contributor and as a manager. He is an expert in accent variation modeling and cross-language speech recognition. He holds 6 patents in speech technology and has made several internationally, peer-reviewed publications and presentations. Michael Tjalve has since 2009 been Affiliate Assistant Professor at the University of Washington where he’s teaching speech technology in the Computational Linguistics MS program. He is member of the Industry Advisory Board at the University of Washington, member of IEEE and ISCA and on the board of directors of AVIOS Seattle.
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João Freitas holds a Degree in Computer Engineering (2007) from the Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon, Portugal. He has been working at the Microsoft Language Development Center (Lisbon, Portugal, http://www.microsoft.com/pt-pt/mldc/) as a Software Engineer since 2006 where he has participated in several R&D projects in the areas of Speech Recognition and Synthesis, Crowd-Sourcing Data Collections and Ambient Assisted Living. He is also a PhD student since 2010 in MAPi, a joint Doctoral Program in Computer Science from the Universities of Minho, Aveiro and Porto. His main research activity is in the area of Silent Speech Interfaces. He also has interests in other areas of research such as Human-Computer Interaction and Computer Vision.
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José Miguel Sales Dias holds a bachelor (1985) and a master (1988) in Electrical and Computer Engineering (IST-UTL, Portugal) and a PhD in Computer Graphics and Multimedia (1998) from ISCTE-IUL where he was an Associated Professor until 2005, holding currently an Invited Associated Professor, teaching and conducting research in Computer Graphics, Virtual and Augmented reality and Multimodal Human-Computer Interfaces. Since November 2005, he is the Director of the first European R&D Centre in Speech and Natural User Interaction Technologies of Microsoft Corporation in Portugal (Microsoft Language Development Center, MLDC, http://www.microsoft.com/pt-pt/mldc/), which acts in the field of natural human-computer interaction. He is regularly commissioned by the European Commission for R&D project evaluations and reviews. Author of 1 patent, author, co-author or editor of 11 scientific books or journal editions, 12 indexed papers in international journals, 26 chapters in indexed international books, 144 other publications, workshops or keynotes in international conferences. Since 1992 he has participated or participates in 31 International R&D projects (ESPRIT, RACE, ACTS, TELEMATICS, TEN-IBC, EUREKA, INTERREG, FP5 IST-IPS, FP6 IST, ESA, Marie Curie, AAL, ACP), and 15 National (FCT, QREN, NITEC, POSC, POCTI, POSI, ICPME, TIT). He obtained 5 scientific prizes. He is a member of ACM SIGGRAPH, Eurographics, ISCA and IEEE; editorial boards of several journal; several Program Committees of National and International conferences in Computer Graphics, Virtual and Augmented Reality, Speech technologies, Accessibility and Ambient Assisted Living. He was President of ADETTI, an ISCTE-IUL associated R&D research center. He was Vice-president and Secretary of the Portuguese Group of Computer Graphics, Eurographics Portuguese Chapter. Born at December 1st 1961, happy father of three children, two girls and one boy.
Personal page: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Miguel_Dias2/
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Petros Lameras is a researcher at the SGI. His research interests span the areas of technology-enhanced learning in general and within the research strand of mapping pedagogical models and principles to game design, with a strong focus on integrating the learning design methodology as way of guiding and supporting academics to create pedagogically-driven game designs and game ideas. He has worked as a researcher in European and national projects exploring the use of technology in learning as well as in the integration of games and digital content for developing authentic and meaningful teaching and learning experiences. He has been engaged in supporting and guiding teachers in designing, describing, capturing and representing their teaching ideas by developing case studies and learning activity design templates. Dr Lameras has coordinated, managed and implemented a number of EU educational research projects, exploring the use of technology and serious games in formal (schools and universities) and informal (museums, science centres) learning settings. He has collaborated with colleagues and practitioners alike to build and instantiate research ideas for funding and managing grants (e.g. FP7, LLP, eContentPlus etc.). He has worked autonomously and collaboratively in different instances for developing e-learning content in accordance to structured processes and standards (e.g. IEEE LOM, IMS-LD, SCORM etc.) involving quality assurance processes and strategies for ensuring the content and/or activity produced matches the level of students (i.e. it is aligned with students’ prior experiences and knowledge of subject matter and e-learning).
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Ian Dunwell is a Senior Researcher at Coventry University's Serious Games Institute. He has recently completed the evaluation of the Department for Transport's £2.5m Code of Everand serious game for road safety. As a multiplayer online roleplaying environment, this game sought to create communities amongst its players as a basis for social learning. As lead author of the project's final evaluation report, Dr. Dunwell co-ordinated in-depth qualitative and quantitative research to gain insight into the game's 100,000 user base. His key research interests lie in the assessment and evaluation of game-based learning solutions, and how best to feed this research into a pragmatic and participatory design process. Technical research interests include the application of semantic web technologies to populate games with validated and context-sensitive educational content: as a co-investigator on the ALICE (Adaptive Learning via Interactive, Collaborative, and Emotional Approaches) FP7 STREP, his work has explored the integration of serious games with learning content management systems, exploring the pedagogic as well as technical advantages of such approaches. As of January 2012, he has begun directing a PhD studentship fully funded by Jaguar Land Rover, examining the use of avatars as vehicle interfaces, and is principal investigator of an I-CASE studentship in liaison with industrial partner PlayGen, exploring the use of the semantic web as a resource for serious game development.
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Panagiotis Petridis is a Senior Researcher at the Serious Game Institute. Panagiotis is the technical advisor for the Serious Game Institute and he is the MSc Director of Serious Games and Digital Content. Panagiotis is currently involved in three EU funded projects the METPEX, Inspiring Science and MASSELTOV and in the SHASPA Initiative and he is leading the ROMA NOVA project. He is the co-investigator of two EPSRC projects in the areas of build environment and manufacturing. Previously Panagiotis was involved in two EU proposals as co-investigator the ALICE and SIMAULA. Panagiotis has extensive experience in managing, coordinating and implementing research projects. Previously, Panagiotis has worked as a Research Fellow in the university of Salford and was involved in a EU Funded project titled MANUBUILD. Panagiotis has had 10 years of experience in working in Virtual Environments, Human Computer Interaction, 3D Interfaces and Haptic Devices, Pervasive and ubiquitous computing. He holds a PhD in Computer Graphics from Sussex University titled “Interactions in Digital Heritage Systems. For the duration of his PhD, Panagiotis was involved in two European Union [EU] Projects, firstly the Augmented Representation of Cultural Object (ARCO) from 2001 until 2004, and secondly the European Network of Excellence in Open Cultural Heritage (EPOCH) project from 2004 until 2007. Panagiotis currently holds the post of visiting Research Fellow in Sussex University.
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Nuno Pombo is the CTO of IPS. Nuno holds a PhD in computer science and is a member of IT Telecommunications Institute (group: Network Architectures and Protocols – Cv. Member of COST Actions: TD1307 "European Model Reduction Network (EU-MORNET)", TC1307 "The European Network on Integrating Vision and Language (iV&L Net): Combining Computer Vision and Language Processing For Advanced Search, Retrieval, Annotation and Description of Visual Data". Nuno's R&D interests include big data, data fusion, machine learning, ubiquitous computing, eHealth and correctional and clinical decision support systems. Nuno was a project leader, analyst and software developer (ERP, CRM, Business Intelligence) at Assec Sistemas de Informação e Multimédia (2000-2010). He has extensive experience as manager of large scale projects (PT Sistemas de Informação and Anacom) at Logica (former Integer, 1999-2000) and international projects (Assec Sistemas de Informação e Multimédia, 2008-2010).
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- BSafeR - European Research Network on Law Enforcement and Public Safety | COST 2014
- RISKIMAB - Evaluation of possible medical-social-behavioral risk factors, generating changes in the brain imaging | Horizon 2020
- IDECOM Innovation, Development and Communication for a better education in Prison System | Erasmus+
- ECOPRIS - Ecological Economics in Prison Administration Work | Erasmus+
- PhW4All - Prison healthy workplace for all | EEA Grants
- CIS GAME Critical Incidents Simulation Games | Horizon 2020
- Mental Illness and Prevention of Suicide in Portuguese Prisons (MIPS) | EEA Grants 2014
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- Pombo, N.; K. B. Bousson; Araújo, P.A.; "From Data to Knowledge: Towards Clinical Machine Learning Automation" - Chapter in Ambient Assisted Living, Nuno M. Garcia, Joel José P.C. Rodrigues, Dirk Christian Elias, Miguel Sales Dias, CRC Press, , 2013.
- Pombo, N.; Araújo, P.A.; J.C. Viana; "Web Services for Chronic Pain Monitoring" - Chapter in IAENG Transactions on Electrical Engineering, Sio-Iong Ao, Alan Hoi-Shou Chan,Hideki Katagiri,Li Xu, World Scientific Publishing, , 2012.
- Pombo, N.; Araújo, P.A.; "Evaluation of a Ubiquitous and Interoperable Computerised System for Remote Monitoring of Ambulatory Post-Operative Pain: A Randomised Controlled Trial", Technology and Health Care, Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 63 - 75, January, 2014.
- Pombo, N.; Araújo, P.A.; "Medical Decision-making Inspired from Aerospace Multisensor Data Fusion Concepts", Informatics for Health and Social Care, Vol. 0, No. 0, pp. 1 - 13, January, 2014.
- Pombo, N.; Araújo, P.A.; J.C. Viana; "Knowledge Discovery in Clinical Decision Support Systems for Pain Management: A Systematic Review", Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Vol. -, No. -, pp. - - -, December, 2013.
- Pombo, N.; Araújo, P.A.; J.C. Viana; "Applied Computer Technologies in Clinical Decision Support Systems for Pain Management: A Systematic Review", Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems, Vol. , No. 26, pp. 2411 - 2425, July, 2013.
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Frutuoso Silva received the B.Sc. degree in mathematics, specialization in computer graphics, from the University of Coimbra, Portugal, in 1992, and the M.Sc. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Technical University of Lisbon - IST, Portugal, in 1997. He received the Ph.D. degree in computer science and engineering from the University of Beira Interior, Portugal, in 2006 and his background is in computer graphics. But in last years, he has oriented it’s research to computer games. He is currently Assistant Professor of the Department of Informatics at the University of Beira Interior where he teaches courses as computer graphics, animation and virtual reality and some programming courses. He is also the creator and leader of the Regain Lab (Reality, Games and Graphics Group) since 2009.
Frutuoso Silva was one of the creators of the master degree in Digital Game Design and Development at University of Beira Interior that will start, for the first time, in September 2014.
Personal page: http://www.di.ubi.pt/~fsilva/
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Nuno M. Garcia is the head of BSafe LAB the Beira Interior University laboratory for law enforcement, justice and public safety laboratory (the interdisciplinary research centre aiming to foster and develop new research in the fields of law enforcement, justice and public safety in scientific areas ranging from arts & humanities (including law, history and philosophy), biological & medical sciences, physical sciences & engineering, social & behavioral sciences & education). Nuno holds a PhD in Computer Science Engineering from the University of Beira Interior (UBI) (2008) and he is a 5-year BSc in Mathematics / Informatics also from UBI (1999-2004). He is Assistant Professor and Director of the Computer Science Engineering degree course at the University of Beira Interior (Covilhã, Portugal) and Invited Associate Professor at the School of Communication, Architecture, Arts and Information Technologies of the Lusophone University of Humanities and Technologies (Lisbon, Portugal). He was founder and is coordinator of the Assisted Living Computing and Telecommunications Laboratory (ALLab), a research group within the Instituto de Telecomunicações at UBI. He is the coordinator of the Cisco Academy at UBI and Head of EyeSeeLab in EyeSee Lda. (Lisbon, Portugal). He is the main author of several international, European and Portuguese patents. He member of the Non-Commercial Users Constituency, a group within GNSO / ICANN. He is also member of ACM SIGBio, ISOC and IEEE. His main interests include Next-Generation Networks, algorithms for bio-signal processing, distributed and cooperative protocols. He is Chair of the COST Action IC1303 AAPELE on Algorithms, Architectures and Platforms for Enhanced Living Environments.
Personal page: http://www.di.ubi.pt/~ngarcia/
BSAFE LAB project/project proposal:
- BSafeR - European Research Network on Law Enforcement and Public Safety | COST 2014
- RISKIMAB - Evaluation of possible medical-social-behavioral risk factors, generating changes in the brain imaging | Horizon 2020
- IDECOM Innovation, Development and Communication for a better education in Prison System | Erasmus+
- ECOPRIS - Ecological Economics in Prison Administration Work | Erasmus+
- Systemic family therapy supporting reintegration of inmates in Their family and in the society | Erasmus+
- PROTEJUST Professionalization of Teaching in Correctional Criminal Justice | Erasmus +
- PREDUC GBL - Prison Education Game Based Learning | Erasmus+
- Training is performance - Improving leadership skills of top management of Romanian Prison Service | Erasmus+
- Improving expertise in the field of industrial relations | EC VP/2014/004 2014
- PhW4All - Prison healthy workplace for all | EEA Grants
- CIS GAME Critical Incidents Simulation Games | Horizon 2020
- Mental Illness and Prevention of Suicide in Portuguese Prisons (MIPS) | EEA Grants 2014
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The deadly attacks in Madrid (2004), London (2005), Glasgow (2007) and Stockholm (2010), followed by the foiled attempts and arrests in Copenhagen (2010) and Berlin (2011) and the recent attack in France (2015) have all contributed to move back the issue of violent extremism and “radicalisation” up on the European political agenda. Furthermore, political concerns about youth radicalization especially in Western Europe and North America gained momentum with the publication of alarmist intelligence reports and the news reports about European citizens flocking to Syria to fight, mostly alongside the Syrian opposition (Bigo, Bonelli Guittet & Ragazzi, 2014, Study for the LIBE Committee).
The need for an assessment of the threat posed by these groups is particularly clear in the recent EU Commission Declaration of January 2014 calling EUMS to increase their efforts to prevent radicalization and extremism. In the debate about radicalization and violent extremism, prisons are often described as “breeding grounds” for radicalisation. The criminologist Harvey Kushner argues that Western prisons are one of the main recruitment grounds for Al Qaeda (Kushner & Davis 2004). This should come as no surprise since prisons are ‘places of vulnerability’ that provide near-perfect conditions in which radical, religiously framed ideologies can flourish.
As many studies demonstrate, prison systems have always played an important role in the development of a militant organization’s ideology, in the recruitment of new members and in the reinforcement of the narratives of every radical movement of the modern period. However, these cases are far too often considered as evidence of prison radicalization. More cautions approaches to radicalization show a less dramatic reality: since prisons are over-crowded closed environments, radicalization may be seen as a strategy of resistance to the prison system (Khosrokhavar, 2004 ) or as a way to escape from the difficulties of prison life (Spalek and El-Hassan, 2007; Clear and Sumter, 2002, Dammer, 2002 cit. by Bigo et al., 2014), rather than as an inexorable step in a process of extremism.
The project R2PRIS - Radicalization Prevention in Prisons (2015-1-PT01-KA204-013062) has been approved for funding by the ERASMUS+ funding agency. Aligned with the current problematics of radicalization of inmates in European prisons, the R2PRIS project aims to:
1. Create awareness on the broad picture of terrorism, the mind set and narratives used by understanding a) why prisons are a breeding ground for radicalization; b) the difference between conversion, radicalization and moving to extremist views (terminology); c) the pathways and levels of radicalization, role in the network; d) recruitment tactics employed within the prison environment; e) indicators on how to identify vulnerable people at risk of radicalization;
2. Develop the tools and instruments for prison administration and line-level staff to recognize signs of radicalization at an early stage within their specific facility;
3. Provide common, consistent and effective instruments to help staff report their observations to the appropriate intelligence staff;
4. Provide model procedures for intelligence staff to vet the data they receive from prison staff and to appropriately interpret it;
5. Establish a series of training programmes and tools for all staff within a prison to respond appropriately to potential vulnerable individuals at risk of radicalization.
The consortium is composed by:
A. Research & development providers:
- BSAFE LAB / UBI University - project promotor (PT)
- IPS_Innovative Prison Systems (PT)
- CRSP Romanian Centre for Penitentiary Studies (RO)
B. Penitentiary administrations:
- NAP Romanian prison system (RO)
- Belgium prison system (BE)
- Kriminalomsorgen - Directorate of Norwegian Correctional Service, NO
- Turkish prison administration (TR)
- PDGRSP, Portugal (as associated partner)
- … and other prison systems that may want to participate.
C. Dissemination partners
- ICPA International Corrections and Prisons Association EuroPris
- The European Organisation of Prison and Correctional Services
The kick off meeting of the R2PRIS project will take place at the Beira Interior University on the 3rd and 4th November 2015.
An open class involving partners and the academic community is foreseen.
For further information about the R2PRIS project, please contact us.
Bringing innovation in traditional, hierarchical and complex organizations like the prison systems is not an easy process. Here innovation is often induced by the change of perception of society regarding the mission and role of the execution of sentences and rehabilitation services; by changes in regulatory frameworks; the introduction of new technologies and processes; or the integration of external services and cooperation with civil society organizations on a reciprocal relationship.
There are many challenges faced by prison systems in the “intelligent society" and that is why, we’ve invited prison systems representatives, consulting and technology-based companies, NGOs, education and training organizations and other citizens' organizations to discuss how can they can contribute to innovate in prison services.
The event, organized by IPS_Innovative Prison Systems, the BSAFE LAB and B2Citizens Association took place on January 13 at in Lisbon at the Microsoft auditorium.
Programme:
14:00 - Opening Session
- Maria João Benquerença, B2CITIzens Association and ISA group
- Pedro das Neves, Board member of the BSAFE LAB and of IPS_Innovative Prison Systems
14:40h – “Modern prison systems management: challenges and opportunities"
- Licinio Lima, Deputy director general of the General Directorate of Rehabilitation and Prison Services, Portugal
- Hans-Meurisse, President of EUROPRIS and Director General of the General Directorate of Prison Services, Belgium
- Portugal accession ceremony to EUROPRIS (Hans-Meurisse, Licinio Lima)
15:20 - Coffee break
15:40 - Round Table I: "Technology and modernization opportunities of the penitentiary systems"
Moderation: Pedro Pinto Lourenço, National Security and Public Safety, Microsoft Portugal and Nuno Garcia, visiting professor, coordinator of the UBI BSAFE LAB
Technological trends: Steven Van De Steene, ICT Director of the Belgium Penitentiary, coordinator of EUROPRIS the ICT group.
- Miguel Castelo-Branco (telemedicine and telemonitoring), President of CHCB, FCS UBI
- Maria Benquerença (energy and energy efficiency), ISA Energy
- Paulo Janeiro (mobility), Tetratab
- Miguel Sales Dias (AAL, Gamification), Microsoft Portugal
- Tiago Borges (geo-referencing, fleet management and vehicle and persons location), INOSAT Global
16:40 - Round Table II: "Training and Rehabilitation: cooperate to re-enter the twenty-first century"
Moderator: Fr. João Gonçalves, national coordinator of the prison ministry (catholic church).
- Jorge Monteiro, coordinator of the DGRSP programmes competence centre
- Ana Paula Filipe, director of the training department of IEFP (Portuguese employment services)
- Licinio Lima, deputy director general of the General Directorate of Rehabilitation and Prison Services
- Florin Lobont, Director of the Romanian Centre for Prison Studies, West University of Timisoara
17:30 - Summary of the completion of the work and closing session, Pedro das Neves
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The project "ECOPRIS - Ecological Economics in Prison Work Administration" promoted by the BSAFE LAB of the University of Beira Interior has been approved for funding by the ERASMUS + Portuguese National Agency.
ECOPRIS has been ranked as #1 in the ERASMUS + national ranking.
With an overall budget of approximately 342.000,00 euro, the ECOPRIS Project aims to:
1. Create 1 joint curricula (work-based VET training courses) to promote inmates reintegration - through prison work initiatives - by developing staff management skills, namely: prison work and industries awareness, marketing, management, innovation, entrepreneurship, communication, ICT , ecological economics and teamwork among prison staff;
2. Train 36 prison staff, in 3 countries, in multidisciplinary teams of 6 members (2 per country), in 3 short-term transnational training events, to develop and implement innovative „prison work” actions (engaging at least 20 inmates per country);
3. Improve community and businesses participation in staff training and inmates labour reintegration actions through the engagement of key stakeholders and experts in national seminars, validation workshops, transnational events and trainings' pilot actions.
Project partners include:
- BSAFE LAB Law enforcement, justice and public safety research and technology transfer laboratory of Beira Interior University, Portugal
- IPS_Innovative Prison Services (Qualify Just, Ltd), Portugal
- DGRSP Direcção Geral da Reinserção e dos Serviços Prisionais (Portuguese probation and prison administration), Portugal
- ANP National Prison Administration of Romania, prison of Timisoara, Romania
- CPIP Centrul Pentru Promovarea Invatarii Permanente, Romania
- Centrul de studii penitenciare - West University of Timisoara, Romania
- Ceza ve Tevkifevleri Genel Müdürlüğü (Turkish prison administration), Turkey
- EUROPRIS The European Organisation of Prison and Correctional Services, The Netherlands
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BSAFE LAB Concept
Founded as a result of the collaboration between QUALIFY JUST IPS_Innovative Prison Systems and UBI – Universidade da Beira Interior, the BSAFE LAB is an open interdisciplinary research and technology transfer laboratory aiming to foster and develop new research and technology transfer in the fields of law enforcement, justice and public safety in scientific areas ranging from arts & humanities, including law, history and philosophy, biological & medical sciences, physical sciences & engineering, social & behavioral sciences & education.
Its main objectives consist of fostering the advancement of scientific knowledge, the effectiveness of public and civil society agencies and the reinforcement of SME competitiveness in the fields of law enforcement, justice and public safety through:
- the development of new research projects (involving public organizations, private sector and government agencies);
- the technical supervision of master’s and PhD thesis;
- the implementation of innovation demonstration actions (technology transfer pilots and experimentation playgrounds) involving SME’s and public sector agencies;
- the establishment of partnerships with research and government institutions worldwide;
- providing technical assistance to third parties (companies and government agencies).
Research and technology transfer
BSAFE LAB coordinates fundamental and applied research projects in the fields of law enforcement, justice and public safety.
Our research teams are composed by renowned researchers belonging to different international research organizations, private sector and public agency representatives.
Organization
BSAFE LAB is a research and technology transfer laboratory within the University of Beira Interior (UBI).
While being financially accountable within the University and being fully aligned with UBI’s strategic plans, BSAFE LAB has scientific independence and functions according to its specific rules and triennial strategic plan, approved by its members.
According to its internal regulations, governance bodies consist of:
- Executive board and Strategic advisory board
- Scientific Commission
- Scientific board
BSAFE LAB research domains
- Penitentiary, prisons and probation
- prison planning, architecture and engineering
- prison management
- education and reinsertion of minors and juveniles
- risk assessment of offenders and ex-offenders
- reinsertion of inmates
- community sentences
- relation between inmates, family and community
- impact of prison in offenders family and children
- prison work/prison industries
- relation with employers
- mental illness in prisons
- health in prison
- suicide prevention
- ICT for prisons and probation (digital communication, sensors, robotics, drones, internet of things, cloud computing, learning technologies, e-health, wearable and mobile devices, gamification, non-cooperative biometric recognition…)
- Electronic monitoring
- e-health in prisons
- learning technologies for inmates and staff training
- public-private partnerships in justice
- other relevant areas.
To be extended to other areas of law enforcement, justice and public safety.
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