Project updates

On 26 September, the European Commission organised a conference under the title Addressing Radical Ideologies and Violent Extremism: The Role of Research. The event followed the publication of a policy review on this topic by Professor Gilles Kepel (Sciences Po, Paris) and Professor Bernard Rougier (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris). Several panels of speakers intervened on […]

On 6 and 7 September, IMPACT Europe consortium partners met in Brussels to discuss ongoing project work and the future of the project. On this occasion, the IMPACT Europe team also met with representatives from the European Commission to undergo its second project review meeting. On the first day, discussions held among partners focussed on […]

On 28 June, a number of experts on security, radicalisation and terrorism met in Leiden University’s campus in The Hague (Netherlands) to discuss the opportunities, challenges faced and lessons learned in conducting monitoring and evaluations of programmes operating in the field of countering violent extremism (CVE). Participants came from the public, private and academic sectors, […]

On 24 and 25 May 2016, the United Nations  Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) and INTERPOL hosted an international workshop on Responding to the Threat of Returning Foreign Terrorist Fighters (FTFs) in Turin, Italy. The event saw the participation of criminal justice and counter-terrorism experts from government, academia, think tanks, law enforcement agencies, […]

In June 2016, Freek Hermens of VJI and Theo Muskee of DNP were invited to present the IMPACT Europe project and its outputs at the Security, Research & Innovation Event (SRIE), a two-day conference of talks, workshops and expos held in The Hague (Netherlands). The 2016 SRIE was organised by the European Commission, the Dutch […]

On 10 and 11 May 2016, IMPACT Europe consortium partners and advisory board members gathered in Brussels for the 2016 IMPACT Europe consortium meeting, which was hosted at RAND Europe’s premises. The consortium meeting provided participants with an opportunity to engage in a comprehensive stock taking of progress made so far with regard to meeting […]

After the four training sessions held in February, on Friday 11th March, the IMPACT Europe team ran an ad hoc training session in Vienna for over 20 project and policy officers from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and other national and local-level organisations and agencies. The session was designed: to present […]

The month of February saw the IMPACT Europe team run a number of training sessions for practitioners interested in piloting the project-developed evaluation toolkit for counter violent radicalisation activities. IMPACT Europe researchers introduced practitioners taking part in trainings to the toolkit through an ad-hoc training course, inclusive of a specific train-the-trainer component and training manual. The […]

On Thursday 12 November 2015, IMPACT Europe consortium partners gathered in Utrecht, Netherlands, for one of the periodic project meetings. The gathering provided consortium partners with an opportunity to meet new members joining the project from SSP SORØ and RAND Europe, as well as to take stock of progress made across different areas of work. […]

On 27 August 2015, IMPACT Europe consortium partners gathered in Tel Aviv, Israel, for a project meeting that provided consortium partners with an opportunity to discuss last steps toward the finalisation of the IMPACT Europe evaluation toolkit, which will be piloted from March 2016 onwards. Participants took stock of the progress made with regard to […]