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Annalisa Creta, is currently a research fellow at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna of Pisa where she focuses on issues related to civilian crisis management, with a particular emphasis on training related matters.

PhD in Public International Law from the Scuola Sant’Anna, she also holds a European Master’s degree in Human Rights and Democratization from the EIUC, Venice - Italy and graduated in Political Sciences at the University of Pisa.

Before joining the International Training Programme for Conflict Management (ITPCM) in 2008, Annalisa worked for several years as a human rights officer in the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) where she dealt with human rights policy issues, anti-discrimination issues, HRBA, result-based programming and programme monitoring and evaluation. She also worked as a consultant for various UN agencies and the Italian MFA on human rights related issues.

Annalisa is author of various publications in the field of human rights and peace and security.

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Personal webpage: http://www.cdg-lab.dirpolis.sssup.it/en/staff/academic/annalisa-creta/

Publications:

• CRETA A., A (human) right to humanitarian assistance in disaster situations? Surveying Public International Law – in A. de Guttry et al. (eds.), International Disaster Response Law, T.M.C. Asser Press / Springer, 2012, pp. 353-379.
• CRETA A., PIROZZI N., L’Italia nelle missioni civili dell’UE: criticità e prospettive. La formazione ed il reclutamento del personale civile, in Quaderni IAI n. 35 p.37 ss.
• CRETA A., Hostages in their own land: which protection for Afghan IDPs during Operation Enduring Freedom?, in de Guttry A. (Ed.), Oltre la reazione, Complessità e limiti nella guerra al terrorismo internazionale dopo l’11 settembre, pp. 293-321, ETS Ed., Pisa, 2003.
• CRETA A., The Special Court for Sierra Leone: ‘a treaty-based sui generis court’ , in de Guttry A. (Ed), Le Nuove Sfide nella Protezione Internazionale dei Diritti dell’Uomo. Tutela e promozione dei diritti umani alla luce dei recenti sviluppi del diritto internazionale,pp.185 – 223, ETS Ed., Pisa, 2002.
• CRETA A., Recent Trends in the International Protection of Internally Displaced Persons in Creta A., Houriname M., Jansen R., Sandlund A., Zidar A., European Master’s Degree in Human Rights and Democratization – Awarded Theses of the Academic Year 1998/1999, pp.11-90, Marsilio Ed., Venezia, 2001

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Brigadier-General Prof Peter Ruzsonyi is a University Professor and Dean of the the Faculty of Law Enforcement, National University of Public Service and Head of Department of Corrections Leadership. His main role at the National University of Public Service, Budapest, is the teaching of prospective Correctional Officers and research in the general area of Corrections in Prison, include education in prisons. Prof Ruzsonyi has been active in the EPEA and currently is representing his European Region on the EPEA Steering Committee. He has published extensiveness in the field of Corrections and Juvenile Delinquency

Personal page: http://rtk.uni-nke.hu/karunkrol/a-kar-vezetese/dekan 

BSAFE LAB project/project proposal: CIS GAME Critical Incidents Simulation Games for correctional services | Horizon 2020/2014 

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Bob Goble is Executive Vice President and founding Principal of CGL Companies.

A substantial amount of his experience has been in both local and state adult and juvenile criminal justice facilities planning. He has served as an expert witness in USA federal and state courts on behalf of both local and state governments. In addition to preparing facilities and systems plans and studies, Mr. Goble has also conducted a variety of operational and management systems evaluations and provided technical assistance and training programs for local officials, state agencies, governors and legislatures.

Prior to establishing CGL, Mr. Goble was Assistant Director of the planning division of an international consulting firm. He was responsible for managing numerous projects and coordinating the division's staff assignments. Prior to that he was a senior planner for the City of Dallas, Texas, where he directed several public facilities and services studies, public safety facilities location and concept planning, served as a Policy Review Committee member for the City's Community Renewal Program Team and worked on the Department's Special Projects Team. While in graduate school he worked as a research assistant and a graduate teaching assistant. He earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Space Planning and Design from Ohio University and a Master of Urban Planning from the University of Illinois.

Mr. Goble’s analytic, planning and technical assistance experience includes approximately 200 justice and government projects since CGL’s founding in 1975 throughout the USA and other countries:

• 11 Criminal Justice Systems Assessments, Master Plans and Studies
• 69 Jail System and Facilities Needs Assessments, Master Plans, Architectural Programs, Design Reviews and Assistance, Transition/Activation Technical Assistance
• 17 Courts Needs Assessments, Master Plans, Architectural Programs
• 16 Juvenile Courts, Detention and Corrections Needs Assessments, Facility Master Plans, Architectural Programs, Design Review and Technical Assistance
• 11 Law Enforcement Studies, Facility Master Plans and Architectural Programs
• 46 USA State Corrections/Prison System Master Plans, Facility Master Plans, Architectural Programs, Design Reviews and Assistance and Systems Technical Studies and Assessments
• 7 General Government and Institutional Facilities Planning, Master Planning, Space Planning and Programming
• 18 National Government Projects for Corrections, Courts, Security, and Mental Health Agencies in USA, Mexico, Singapore, Saudi Arabia and United Kingdom

Present and Past Appointments, Boards and Committees

Board Member, International Corrections and Prisons Association North America, a 501c(3) corporation

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João Pedro Baltasar Correia is a project manager at IPS_Innovative Prison Systems. He holds a degree in Human Resources Management and Work Organization by ISLA.  
João is the author of several "performance improvement" manuals and simulation games. He is the author of "Be First - how to expand the results you desire in life", a book on competence development to be published by Chiado publishing in 2013.  

João was executive director of EGOR Management and co-founder of GLOBAL CHANGE International Consultants.
Since 2004 he has worked in different European countries, coordinating projects in the area of reform of Public Administration, namely the reform of justice systems.

Along with the IPS team has been involved in the design and implementation of innovative pilot projects recently awarded and recognized as good practice.

 Personal page: http://prisonsystems.eu/index.php/features/our-team

BSAFE LAB project/project proposal:

• BSafeR - European Research Network on Law Enforcement and Public Safety | COST 2014
• IDECOM Innovation, Development and Communication for a better education in Prison System | Erasmus+
• ECOPRIS - Ecological Economics in Prison Administration Work | Erasmus+
• PREDUC GBL - Prison Education Game Based Learning | Erasmus+
• Training is performance - Improving leadership skills of top management of Romanian Prison Service | Erasmus+
• PhW4All - Prison healthy workplace for all | EEA Grants
• CIS GAME Critical Incidents Simulation Games | Horizon 2020 

Publications:

Baltasar, João (2013) Be First - how to expand the results you desire in life. Chiado editora. Lisboa.

Research topics:

• Leadership development
• Performance improvement
• Quality systems implementation
• Human resources management
• Gamification 

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Elaine is Reader in Criminology at the University of Salford. She is particularly interested in the working lives of prison staff, and her best-known book - Doing Prison Work: the public and private lives of prison officers – was published in 2004.

Over the past ten years she has conducted research in prisons in the USA, Romania, Germany, Sweden, Hong Kong and the Russian Federation. Between 2008 and 2009, Elaine was Visiting Professor at City University, Hong Kong and at the University of Orebro, Sweden.

She is a member of the Segregation Management Monitoring and Review Group at HMP Manchester, England, and Programme Evaluator at New Jersey’s Correctional Staff Training Academy, Sea Girt USA. She is currently engaged in the development of collaborative research on the topic of staff training with the National Administration of Penitentiaries, Romania.

Personal page:  http://www.salford.ac.uk/nmsw/nursing-academics/elaine-crawley

Publications:

• Crawley, E. (2004) Doing Prison Work: the public and private lives of prison officers Cullompton, Devon: Willan Publishing
• Crawley, E. and Sparks, R. (2006) ‘Is There Life after Imprisonment? How Elderly Men Talk about Imprisonment and Release’ Journal of Criminal Justice London: Sage, Special Issue ‘What Lies Beyond? Problems, Prospects and Possibilities for Life after Imprisonment’ February, Vol. 6, Number 1
• Crawley, E.M. (2004) ‘Emotion and Performance: Prison Officers and the Presentation of Self in Prisons’ Punishment and Society , London: Sage, Vol. 6, Issue 4, pp.411 - 427
• Crawley, E. and Sparks, R. (2005) ‘Hidden Injuries? Researching the experiences of older men in English prisons’ Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, December 2005
• Crawley, E.M. (2002) ‘Bringing it all Back Home? The Impact of Prison Officers’ Work on their Families’ Probation Journal Volume 49, No. 4

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• Uniformed Prison Staff issues (training, well-being, relationships and the impacts of work spill-over).
• Elderly People in Prison
• The Emotional and Psychological Challenges of Working with Death Row Prisoners (currently seeking permission for access in Florida USA)
•  Prison Innovations

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Florin Lobont, Senior Lecturer at Faculty of Politics, Philosophy and Communication, West University of Timisoara (UVT) and Fellow with Royal Holloway, University of London for the 6th year and a member of Society for Philosophy in Practice, UK. He has taught communication –related disciplines including Conflict management, Psychology, Intercultural communication, Counseling skills, Psycho-sociology of religion, at a range of European universities. He is Director of Institute for Social and Political Research (ICSP) of UVT, and founding member of the Romanian Center for Penitentiary Studies (CRSP). He managed the international project Modernization and anti-Semitism in Romania (Hebrew University, Jerusalem), and participated as expert in HE curricular reform and communication of science projects (POSDRU), and in the FP7 research project Low Carbon at Work (LOCAW) led by University of Coruna (Spain). Manager of CRSP/UVT team in the present project.

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BSAFE LAB project/project proposal: 

• IDECOM Innovation, Development and Communication for a better education in Prison System | ERASMUS+ 2014
• ECOPRIS - Ecological Economics in Prison Administration Work | ERASMUS+ 2014 

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Ioan Bala has an extensive experience in prison system field and management, holding both training and proficiency. He started to work in prison system in 1986. As manager in prison system he started to work in 1989. About his studies: “Al. I. Cuza” Police Academy, Bucharest BA, Faculty of Law, “Babeș-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca, BA in Sociology, Psychology, Faculty of Sociology and Psychology, West University of Timișoara, MA in Sociology, Faculty of Sociology and Psychology, West University of Timișoara, PhD in Penitentiary Studies, scientific title certified by Order of the Ministry of Education, Research and Innovation, no. 4698/2009. Specialization course in “Emergency Preparedness and Response” realized by the National Institute of Corrections Aurora, Colorado, USA.

Ioan Bala was general director of the Romanian Prison System from 2008 till 2012.

Dr. Ioan Bala has also experience in management of European projects. We can mention the last project Program interregional integrat de calificare/recalificare profesionala a persoanelor private de libertate-POSDRU/96/6.2/S/61909 (2011-2014).

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BSAFE LAB project/project proposal: 

• IDECOM Innovation, Development and Communication for a better education in Prison System | ERASMUS+ 2014
• ECOPRIS - Ecological Economics in Prison Administration Work | ERASMUS+ 2014 

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Dorin Muresan is currently Head of Security and Regime Service at Dej Prison Hospital in Romania. In 2011 and 2012 he was Deputy Director General of the Romanian Prison Service. He coordinated projects such as the evolution of e-learning project for prison staff; the development of telemedicine project in Romanian Prison Service; provision of expertise to post conflict prison services (Libya, Iraq). He was Rule of Law expert in the in the project Enhancing human rights based reforms in Libyan detention system of the EC (EIDHR/2012/295-382) being involved in numerous training activities and security assessments at Benghazi Prison. He is a Board Member of International Correction and Prison Association (ICPA) and co-chair of the Staff Training and Development Committee within this organization. He is a Board Member of Salford University Centre for Prison Studies (UK) and member of numerous professional organizations such as American Correctional Association, the International Association for correctional Forensic Psychology and the OSCE expert group on Radicalization.

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BSAFE LAB project/project proposal: CIS GAME Critical Incidents Simulation Games for correctional services | Horizon 2020/2014

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Gary Hill is the staff training and development director of the International Corrections and Prisons Association (ICPA) and facilitates its staff training website.

With ICPA, Gary organized and conducted specialized training for Saudi corrections staff on emergency response planning and working with high risk offenders. He developed, with the government of Afghanistan, UNODC and one of the UN Institutes a training program for correctional officers on how to implement the new Afghan constitution and corrections procedures. Part of this project involved showing how international human rights standards and Sharia were compatible and complemented each other in establishing humane treatment of prisoners.

Personal page: http://www.icpa.ca/pages/executiveboard

BSAFE LAB project/project proposal: CIS GAME Critical Incidents Simulation Games for correctional services | Horizon 2020/2014 

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Pamela M. Kato, Ed.M., Ph.D. joined Coventry University in the UK as Professor of Serious Games to provide strategic leadership to the Serious Games Institute to increase their research impact and create ground-breaking technologies. Prof Kato is an internationally recognized expert on serious games for health. She received her Masters degree in Counselling and Consulting Psychology from Harvard University and her Ph.D. in Psychology from Stanford University where she also completed her postdoctoral fellowship at the Stanford University School of Medicine. As the founding President and CEO at HopeLab in Silicon Valley, she led the efforts to develop and conduct research on Re-Mission, a ground-breaking serious game shown to improve adherence to cancer treatment among young people with cancer in the most scientifically rigorously designed randomized trial on a video game to date. As the owner of P. M. Kato Consulting, she helped companies make award-winning and effective serious games for health. Her clients included Healthy Solutions, Grendel Games (Netherlands), Sanofi-Aventis (France), Janssen Pharmaceuticals (Belgium), the Ministry of Health Holdings (Singapore) and Halmstad University (Sweden). Her research appears in peer-reviewed journals and she writes about her work in an award-winning blog. She was a guest professor at the University of Applied Sciences Salzburg in 2012 and adjunct faculty at University College Utrecht. She also held a positon as Adjunct Clinical Instructor at Stanford Hospital in Paediatrics from 2001 to 2008 and was a Visiting Scholar at MIT in their Comparative Media Studies from 2002 to 2003.

Personal page: http://www.seriousgamesinstitute.co.uk/applied-research/Kato.aspx

BSAFE LAB project/project proposal: CIS GAME Critical Incidents Simulation Games for correctional services | Horizon 2020/2014

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Andrea de Guttry is a full Professor of Public International Law and Jean Monnet professor of EU Law and Institutions at the SSSA. He has coordinated several international projects (Multi-stakeholder partnership in post-conflict reconstruction: the Role of the EU - financed in the frame of the FP VII- , International Disaster Response Law, Strengthening CBRN-response in Europe by enhancing on-site cooperation between safety and security organisations: an Italian pilot Prevention of and Fight against Crime  financed under the European Commission – Directorate General Home Affairs)  and is the Director of the ITCPM and CDG Lab. His main areas of interest are: legal issues of conflict prevention and management and of post-war reconstruction; international field operations in complex emergencies; promoting and protecting human rights. 

Personal page: http://www.cdg-lab.dirpolis.sssup.it/en/staff/academic/andrea-de-guttry/

BSAFE LAB project/project proposal: CIS GAME Critical Incidents Simulation Games for correctional services | Horizon 2020/2014 

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Tiago Leitão has been connected to project management since 1998. Started in the non-profit sector involved in youth and student academic movements where assumed management positions. Tiago is a board member of QUALIFY JUST - IT Solutions and Consulting, LTS (IPS_Innovative Prison Systems). Holding a social work degree (Portuguese Catholic University) and an MBA from the Lisbon MBA, He is a board member and Country Manager of Knowledge Systems Romania, SRL., a company formerly belonging to the I.Zone group and now and independent under Romanian law. Tiago has been working since 2004 on Prison Innovation Systems, starting from the "Rumos de Futuro" project aiming to innovate on multi-agency work towards inmate’s reintegration after release as project manager in the Equal program. He was a member of the Caravel transnational Steering Committee who was responsible for the development of integrated approaches in different areas of imprisonment and rehabilitation policies and programs.  He was involved as project manager in the "Credem in Schimbare" project run in Romania with Romanian Prison Administration, which was considered a "good-practice" by the Romanian ESF Management Authority. Tiago was responsible to design and manage innovative projects focusing on knowledge transfer in several areas of social economy and entrepreneurship, namely social business plans, minimum income beneficiaries autonomy, inmates business plan development and on MOMIE – Models on Mentoring for Inclusion and Employment.

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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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• Innovative management practices
• Social dialogue
• Mentoring for inclusion
• Volunteering

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Susana Reis is a consultant at IPS Innovative Prison Systems. Susana holds a bachelor’s degree in Criminology from Porto University, and an honour’s MA in Global Criminology from Utrecht University. At Innovative Prison Systems, Susana is currently involved in the design and implementation of innovative projects related to imprisonment and prison management. 

Susana was a teaching assistant at the University of Porto teaching "Systems of Social Control" and "Juvenile Delinquency and Juvenile Justice”. She was supporting the development of various research projects, and participation in the research programme "Juvenile Delinquency Observatory". As a research assistant at the same university Susana was conducting street and school surveys in the metropolitan areas of Porto and Lisbon regarding different research projects.

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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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• Restorative justice
• Crime prevention
• Green criminology

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Pedro das Neves is a board member of QUALIFY JUST - IT Solutions and Consulting, LTS (IPS_Innovative Prison Systems). He holds a sociology degree and a MA from the College of Europe in Bruges and is currently undertaking (part-time) a PhD research on Public Policy (comparative analysis of justice and prison privatisation) at the Sociology and Public Policies School of ISCTE - IUL Lisbon University Institute. He is a guest lecturer of "Knowledge management and innovation in public services" at the master’s degree on local governance at ISEC and has been a member of the scientific coordinating team of DEIA - Specialization degree in Organizational Learning and Innovation at INA - National Institute of Public Administration. He has been working on public administration reform (central and local government) for more than 15 years, and on Prison Innovation Systems (from 2002) in different European countries. He has been coordinating major implementations in Portugal, Romania, Argentina and Guatemala also supporting specific projects in Catalonia and Germany. Together with the IPS team, Pedro has been involved in the design and implementation of innovative pilot projects lately awarded and recognized as best practices. Under this type of intervention had the opportunity to learn about the operation of 28 prison systems in 32 European countries and visit more than 160 prisons. The main topics of interest relate to management models, systems and quality standards, performance management, public vs. private. Pedro has extensive experience as policy and programme advisor (EU policy, including prison systems modernization, prison work, re-settlement and ICT, international cooperation) for several prison administrations. On behalf of IPS he has been invited as guest observer to European Commission and Council of Europe meetings and as a speaker in several international events organized by the Council of Europe, ICPA, EIPA, the European Commission and governments from different Member States. Pedro is an ICPA member.

Personal page:  http://prisonsystems.eu/index.php/features/our-team

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

Presentations and conferences: 

• Trends in information and communication technologies for prison services: contributions for a Digital Roadmap. "Administraţia Naţională a Penitenciarelor. Romania, September 2014.
• "Reintegration of high risk offenders." Justice Cooperation Network (JCN), European transition treatment and management of high-risk offenders. DG Justice. Rostock-Warnemünde, Germany.
• Information and Communication Technologies in prisons. Europris / NOMS. Dublin, 4 and 5 April 2014.
• European Prison Regime Forum. Prison labour, Lisbon, March 2014.
• Lineamentos de politica penitenciaria de Guatemala – Seminario internacional – correctional systems reform international conference. Guatemala city, 5-6 December 2013.
• 18th Council of Europe Conference of Directors of Prison Administration. Keynote speaker: “”the low cost prison”. Brussels, 27 to 29 of November 2013
• Guest lecturer at the "In-Prison Education for Rehabilitation and Resettlement" course organized by the European Prison Education Association (Malta branch) and the Faculty of Education of the Malta University that occurred in Malta last 26 and 27 September 2013.
• 5th Conference of the European Prison Regime Forum. Joint presentation with Jurgen Hillmer on "European cooperative production networks". Hosted by the Correctional Service of Norway Staff Academy and the Ministry of Justice and Public Security. Oslo, Norway 12th–14th September 2012.
• Exocop Policy Forum (Berlin Declaration). Chairman of the "Berlin Declaration" panel on cooperation, exchange of best practices, development of EU funding lines between the Member States, ESF managing authorities and the European Commission. Berlin, 16th-18th of June 2012.
• ICPA/CEP/Europris conference: Joint Challenges, Joint Solutions: Developments in Prison and Probation in Europe. Moderator of the panel on "professionalism of staff" in correctional services. Event hosted by the Romanian National Administration of Penitentiaries and the Romanian Probation Department. Bucharest, 13th-15th June 2012.
• Outsourcing Justice Services: Public Private Partnerships Workshop. Organized by Europris - the European Organisation of Prison and Correctional Services. Prague, 15th-16th April 2012.
• European Prison Industries Forum. National Offender Management Service. Newbold Revel, 23rd and 24th May 2011 Transnational cooperation between Prison Systems in Europe. Building Bridges: Correctional Best Practices, Worldwide Perspectives".
• 12th ICPA Conference (International Corrections and Prisons Association). "Het Pand", in collaboration with Ghent University Institute for International Research on Criminal Policy. 24-29th October 2010.
• Knowledge Management in Prison Systems in Europe. PreConference on E-Learning and Knowledge Management. Building Bridges: Correctional Best Practices, Worldwide Perspectives". 12th ICPA Conference (International Corrections and Prisons Association). "Het Pand", in collaboration with Ghent University Institute for International Research on Criminal Policy. 24-29th October 2010.
• Pathways to inclusion: strenghtening European Cooperation in Prison Education and Training. European Commission. Budapest, 22-24 February 2010
• The Europeanistion of Prison Management - Best Practices Dissemination: "Organising and managing penitentiary services: quality standards". Organised by the European Institute of Public Administration and the Justice Department of Catalonia in Bratislava, 21-22 May 2008
• Equal Policy Forum on Prevention or Re-imprisonment. European Commission. Polish Ministry of Regional Development. Warsaw, 21-22 June 2007
• Passport to Freedom. EQUAL Initiative. Lisbon, 23-24 October 2006
• Knowledge Management in European Prison Systems. Innovative Wege zur nachhaltigen Reintegration straffälliger Menschen – Reformmodelle in den EU-Staaten - Berlin, 20–22. October 2005

Research topics: 

• Criminal justice policies
• management models, systems and quality standards
• performance management
• public vs. private, PPP
• new technologies in prisons
• Prison systems planning