On 31 May, the IMPACT Europe project consortium held a public conference under the title ‘Preventing and tackling violent extremism – what works best?’ The conference gathered around 80 policy makers, practitioners, academics and other participants, who examined the current security context, addressed existing and emerging measures and approaches in dealing with violent radicalisation, and […]
Read More ›On 24 May, IMPACT Europe consortium partner Theo Muskee from Politie Nederland went to Bucharest, Romania, to collaborate with Romanian police officers who specialise in investigating and countering violent extremism. The Romanian Police were eager to learn from the Dutch National Police’s experience of preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE), and to better understand how […]
Read More ›On 26 April 2017, IMPACT Europe and the Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) re-convened practitioners from European prison and probation services (P&P) who had taken part in a previous capacity building event in November 2016. The purpose of this follow-up workshop, held in Utrecht, was that of taking stock of progress made by participants in the […]
Read More ›On 25 April 2017, a team of experts from IMPACT Europe and the Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) brought together national representatives from across 13 European Union member states for a one-day intensive workshop on the evaluation of programmes and initiatives focusing on preventing and countering violent radicalisation and extremism (P/CVE). Delegates attending represented a wide […]
Read More ›On 2 May, the IMPACT Europe project was presented at a European Parliament conference on ‘Antidotes to Islamist Extremism’. The conference was organised by Geoffrey Van Orden MEP, in partnership with the International Organisation to Preserve Human Rights (IOPHR), and with the support of the EEP, S&D, and ALDE groups. The IMPACT Europe project was […]
Read More ›Between 6 and 8 March, Joanna Hofman of RAND Europe contributed to an expert workshop on Monitoring, Measurement and Evaluation for Countering Violent Extremism (CVE). The workshop took place in Ottowa, Canada, and was organised by Hedayah and the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI). Participants attending the workshop represented a broad range of professional backgrounds […]
Read More ›On 9 December 2016 IMPACT Europe consortium partners from Politie Nederland presented the IMPACT Europe project at the Dutch Police Academy’s Innovation Day in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands. This event is an annual meeting for experts in policing, security and law enforcement that brings together participants from a wide range of actors and stakeholders. Attendees at […]
Read More ›On 30 November, IMPACT Europe consortium partners met in Rome for a project meeting to review recent project developments, and to discuss upcoming work and external engagement opportunities. Following previous conversations among partners, the meeting was initially focussed on strategies to ensure the sustainability of the IMPACT Europe project beyond the end of its original […]
Read More ›On 10 and 11 November, the IMPACT Europe team, in partnership with the Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) Centre of Excellence (CoE), welcomed a group of counter-radicalisation and counter-violent extremism practitioners from prison and probation services to a two-day capacity-building workshop in Cambridge, UK. The workshop provided a unique opportunity to empower practitioners to evaluate their […]
Read More ›The bi-annual European Evaluation Society Conference attracts a wide variety of evaluation practitioners, commissioners and policy makers from Europe and further afield, providing the opportunity to share and learn current practices and trends in evaluation, as well as exploring future directions of travel. This year, IMPACT Europe featured prominently in an agenda which emphasised the […]
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