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EN Shield News

First work sessions of the Shield project

On January 25 and 26, 2022, the Kick-Off meeting of the European project SHIELD, is held with representatives of the 19 European organizations, including the Euro-Arab Foundation, which form the consortium. This first meeting, held in virtual format, marks the beginning of this new project funded by the European Commission under the Internal Security Fund.

The SHIELD project aims to protect Christian, Jewish and Muslim places of worship from terrorist attacks in 11 countries of the European Union. To this end, SHIELD aims to enhance cooperation between public and private actors, raise awareness of the danger of terrorism, and develop new or upgrade methodologies and solutions to protect places of worship and mitigate the effects of attacks. To this end, the SHIELD consortium includes EU public and private actors – Christian, Jewish and Muslim organisations, security practitioners, LEAs, municipalities, experts in risk detection and technological partners. In this way, both the capacity of the Member States and the European Union itself will be improved in the management of risks related to terrorism, the protection of people and buildings.c

SHIELD will identify the critical points in places of worship of each of the three religions, the circumstances and rituals (Sunday Mass, Shabbat, Jumuʿa) that are most subject to the risk of terrorist attacks, the religious buildings that are potentially most vulnerable, as well as the types terrorist attack that would be more likely to survive. SHIELD will outline tailored recommendations and guidelines focused on prevention and the implementation of common protocols to mitigate the impact of attacks. SHIELD will produce and distribute factsheets and leaflets to religious leaders who will actively spread them and raise awareness on terrorist threat among respective communities.

On first day, partners will introduce the project overview and background, as well as the 5 work packages: WP1: Management and Coordination of the Action; WP2: Analysis of critical points, activities and risks; WP3: Identification of security measures; WP4: Simulation of security measures; WP5: Dissemination and communication. On second day, work sessions will be held in which the partners will discuss the organization of their work packages and plan the upcoming tasks and next steps as well as establish needed inputs from other WPs and expected outputs for other WPs.

SHIELD has a consortium made up of 19 institutions and organizations from 11 European countries:

Project Coordinator:

SYNYO GmbH – Austria

Partners:

Zanasi Alessandro SRL – Italy
Fundacja Obserwatorium Spoleczne – Poland
Fundación Euroárabe de Altos Estudios – Spain
Institul intercultural Timisoara – Romania
TECOMS SRL – Italy
Spin System ASBL – Belgium
Hochschule fur den offentlichen dienst in Bayern – Germany
Municipio do Barreiro – Portugal
Europe Islamic Association – Italy
ISGAP Europe – Italy
European Organisation for Security – Belgium
Polskie Towarzystwo Oceny Technologii – Poland
Italpol Vigilanza SRL – Italy
Centro Internazionale di Ricerca Sistemica – Italy
Fondazione Amici della Cattedrale – Italy
ASSOCIATION O.R.T. – France
Glavna Direktsia Natsionalna Politsia – Bulgaria
Orszagos Rabbikepzo Zsido Egyetem – Hungary
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Miict News

MIICT final conference: Co-creating ICT solutions to aid migrant integration: challenges, solutions and sustainability

26th January 2022 (online event) 09.30-16.45 (CET)

Join us on the 26th of January 2022, when we present our final project outputs!

The conference unites consortium members and external experts working in the field of migration, integration and digitalisation to present the challenges and solutions in relation to the co-creation of ICT solutions which aid the integration of migrants, asylum seekers and refugees. Key note speakers include Miguel Almario (International Organisation for Migration), Prof. Babak Akhgar (CENTRIC) and Hinano Spreafico (European Commission). The panels will focus on co-creation, evidencebased research and field work in Spain, Cyprus and Italy, technological solutions and their sustainability. For more information consult our project website. Register here!

Patricia Bueso (Fundea), will be presenting “Supporting migrants through ICTs in Spain. The main findings from the MIICT project” at Panel 2 Migration Research and New Technologies in Spain, together with José María González Riera (Fundea), Antonio Javier Jimenez Paiz (International Protection Programme, Spanish Red Cross) and Rut Bermejo Casado (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos).

The panels will focus on co-creation, evidence-based research, technological solutions and sustainability:

Panel 1 Co-Creation – experts will explore how ICT solutions can provide efficient and effective integration when they are co-created by the end users. Cocreative methods are enlightening and have a transformative effect on participating migrants, but they also pose challenges. The presentations will highlight some of these as well as the knowledge gap that often exists between project and policy designers and field-based practitioners and share some insights on the credibility (or not) of co-creation methodology. Experts will also address the legal and ethical considerations surrounding the development of ICT solutions for migrants’ integration in this panel.

Panel 2-4 Evidence based research – experts from the MIICT project will present evidence-based research from the pilot countries along with external experts in order to address the importance of the customisation of ICT solutions. They will explore what these ICT solutions mean for migrants, asylum seekers and refugees and key social service providers in Italy, Cyprus and Spain reporting on activities carried out during different phases of the research using hybrid approaches due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Panel 5 Technological solutions – experts in this panel will present one possible technological solution—the one created in the MIICT project which is an interactive platform called IMMERSE. The panel will also include presentations from other experts who will explore the importance of other technological developments such as artificial intelligence.

Panel 6 Impact and sustainability – experts in this panel will report on the findings from high-level policy roundtables and address how the deployed solutions can be made sustainable though monitoring and validation techniques to ensure migrants are not put at risk or misinformed.

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EN Mirad News

The MIRAD project begins: Multi-Ideological Radicalisation Assessment towards Disengagement

Between today and tomorrow, representatives of the 7 European organizations that make up the MIRAD European consortium will meet to start this new project funded by the European Union’s Internal Security Fund–Police. The meeting will be held in a hybrid format in Paris, France, and online through the Zoom platform.

In the different sessions, there will be an introduction of the project partners and their respective organizations; a contextualization of MIRAD, objectives, results, events and a brief summary of its work packages; a detailed presentation of the MIRAD Work Packages by their respective leaders, of the MIRAD internal communication channel as well as a co-joint debate and decision-making on additional relevant issues related to the project.

The MIRAD-Assessment of Multi-Ideological Radicalisation Assessment towards Disengagement project recognizes the importance of rehabilitating people convicted of terrorism and ensuring their reintegration, seeking with its work to be able to sustainably influence the intellectual debate and the practical application of radicalization detection and risk assessment tools in the prison context with the support of NGOs related to criminal justice systems.

The actions contemplated in the MIRAD project are aimed at expanding collaboration in the field of disengagement and reintegration programs amongst governmental bodies and non-institutional organisations; enhance proficiency in the application and management of specific and tailor-made radicalisation screening and risk assessment tools; promoting training and learning to maximize the results of deradicalization and reintegration programs as well as paying greater attention to programs for violent extremist offenders, through cooperative relationships between prison and liberty administrations probation, legal professionals and NGOs.

The Euro-Arab Foundation will collaborate in work package 3 ‘Individual Radicalization Screening (IRS) adaptation and ideological-focused component’, to the development of an assessment tool focused on the ideological component of Islamic extremism.

Project coordinator:

Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers – ,France

Socios:

– IPS_Innovative Prison Systems (IPS), Portugal
– Polish Platform for Homeland Security (PPHS), Poland
– Euro-Arab Foundation of Higher-Studies (FUNDEA), Spain
– Center for the Study of Democracy (CSD), Bulgaria
– Social Action and Innovation Centre (KMOP), Greece
– Association Militants des Savoirs (MDS), France
– International Association for Correctional and Forensic Psychology (IACFP), Belgium
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EN Perceptions News

PERCEPTIONS in the Congress “Migration in Focus”

The Euro-Arab Foundation participated this Thursday in the congress “Migration in focus: addressing informational challenges in humanitarian actions” organized by the project H2020 MIRROR (Migration-Related Risks Caused by Misconceptions of Opportunities and Requirement) that takes place on December 15 and 16 in Malta. The congress focuses on information gaps in the formulation and implementation of public policies aimed at migrants.

The Migration in Focus conference, organized under the umbrella of the EU-funded project MIRROR, seeks to act as an interactive platform fostering debate on the most challenging and novel issues in the field of migration. The main focus of the conference is identifying novel ways to fill in “informational gaps” in formulating and deploying policies and humanitarian responses targeting migrants. As such the organizers are seeking contributions aimed at identifying good practices and tools that have positively contributed to enhancing knowledge in this field as well as studies on existing gaps and persistent challenges.

In relation to the protection of human rights and migration, Patricia Bueso and Jose María González Riera, FUNDEA researchers, have presented “Recommendations and insights of practitioners’ practice”, focusing on the case of Morocco to point out good practices and recommendations for a better protection of the human rights of migrants. The information comes from the field work that the Euro-Arab Foundation has carried out in Morocco in the framework of the PERCEPTIONS project. In this task, migrants and professionals related to the migration sector were interviewed.

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EN Pave News

Second Euro-Mediterranean days on the Commitment of Youth against Extreme Violence

The Euro-Arab Foundation together with the UNESCO Chair, Les Militants des Savoirs, Youth ID and the REDE Project organizes the second Euro-Mediterranean days on the commitment of youth against extreme violence. A meeting between young people coming from France and Spain, that takes place from December 15 to 17 and which aims to enrich reflection and improve practices on the role of youth in the prevention of violent extremism through a multicultural approach.

Javier Ruipérez Canales, Director of the Department of Research and Projects of the Euro-Arab Foundation, has welcomed this morning the young people who throughout these days will participate in workshops on Radicalization, social discrimination and social exclusion; Peace and conflict resolution; Prevention of Gender or Sexual Violence; Resilience from education for democratic citizenship.

The Rede Project workshop: “Resilience through education for democratic citizenship“, scheduled for Thursday 16, will be broadcast live through Zoom:

Finally, on Friday 17, the young people will draw up a Declaration based on what they have experienced and reflected on in the previous two days and a Round Table will be organized with experts and relevant personalities in which the youth will have the opportunity to present the declaration and exchange with them.

For more information, please contact documentacion@fundea.org

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EN Pave News

First conclusions on the Prevention and Detection of Violent Radicalization in Spain

The conference on Prevention and Detection of Violent Radicalization in Spain, in which the Euro-Arab Foundation participate, will take place today, November 30 from 4:00 p.m. to 8:15 p.m., at the Francisco de Vitoria University (Madrid). This event is organized by the International Security Center of the UFV International Policy Institute. With the participation of the Radicalization Awareness Network – RAN.

The research, funded by the Foundation for the Victims of Terrorism, collected the experiences of 25 professionals on the front line, through interviews, to design indicators that allow detecting early radicalization and, on the other hand, understanding the factors that lead to radicalization in order to propose appropriate prevention strategies. Josep García Coll, researcher at the Euro-Arab Foundation, will talk about the main risk factors for radicalization and prevention measures. He will present some results of the PAVE project identifying factors in the contexts of Tunisia, Iraq and Lebanon, focusing on the factors of vulnerability of the community to the ideological and behavioral patterns of radicalization.

You can register at this link to receive access https://ufv-es.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMrf-mrrjooGdwixRTrjLRAd4yLJweeTWdL

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EN Pave News

PAVE project meeting in Istanbul

The partners from different organizations from the countries of Europe, North Africa and the MENA region (Germany, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Spain, France, Finland, Greece, Iraq, Ireland, Kosovo, Lebanon, Sweden and Tunisia) that are part of the consortium of the European PAVE project met today in Istanbul, Turkey:

The first results of the investigations carried out in countries such as Iraq, Lebanon or Tunisia, which aimed to search for risk factors and resilience in the face of violent extremism, have been presented throughout the day.

In light of an increase in radicalism and violent extremism in Europe and around the world, there is a growing need to create a common political strategy and develop effective prevention measures. It seems especially relevant to analyze the local, regional and national contexts and the transnational dynamics of violent extremism in Europe and neighboring countries, and to draw concrete lessons for the Common Security and Defense Policy of the European Union (EU) and beyond.

A particular focus is paid on the assessment of existing preventive initiatives and measures to enhance community resilience in the following four thematic areas:

  • The interface between religious, political and ethnic/sectarian extremisms
  • The interaction between religious and state institutions
  • On- and offline narratives and (de-)radicalisation
  • Transnational interactions, including impact on and from Europe
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EN Armour News

International conference ‘Resilience Through Democratic Competence’

The conference organized by the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences today and tomorrow in Salzburg, is presented as part of the project “Resilience through education for democratic citizenship” funded by the Council of Europe and the European Commission and coordinated by the University of Salzburg (Austria).

In this conference, methods of citizen education and prevention of anti-democratic phenomena in social and youth work will be discussed and exchanged. The Euro-Arab Foundation has been invited to participate and Patricia Bueso and Jose Mª Riera, from Research and Projects department, will present the European project ARMOUR – Resilience Model for Young Minds, a project funded by the Internal Security Fund – European Union Police, led by the Euro-Arab Foundation in a consortium made up of nine entities from eight countries: Austria, Bulgaria, Spain, Greece, Italy, Malta, the Netherlands and Romania.

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Miict News

2nd Joint Migration Policy Workshop Towards sustainability and adoption

The 2nd joint workshop of the EU’s Horizon 2020 MIICT project and the EASYRIGHTS, WELCOME, MICADO, NADINE and REBUILD projects is taking place on the 21st and 22nd of October from 9.00 to 12.00 CET on both days.


The goal of the event is to raise awareness on the tools and solutions developed under the scope of these projects and how they could be adopted by all the involved stakeholders, let them be migrants, city officials, or policymakers.

You can register for the event here.

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EN Medea News

MEDEA Open Call for Ideas and Solutions to emerging security challenges in the Mediterranean and Black Sea

The MEDEA project, funded by the EU H2020 program, launches an Open Call aimed at academia and industries, that aims to champion the best innovative solutions that fulfil the Thematic Communities of Practitioners (TCP) capability gaps of the Mediterranean and Black Sea Region.

Medea’s aims to establish and develop a regional network of professionals and other security-related actors in the Mediterranean and Black Sea Region. It seeks to involve practitioners and other security-related actors including public security organizations, NGOs, Research, industry and academia representatives and security policy makers.

In this sense, MEDEA opens a call for those ideas and solutions that respond to some of the capability gaps that the project establishes in its four Thematic Communities of Professionals (TCP for its acronym in English) and which are:

  • Management of Migration Flows and Asylum seekers (TCP1)
  • Border management and Surveillance (TCP2)
  • Cross border organized crime and terrorism (TCP3)
  • Natural hazards and technological accidents (TCP4)

A number of security solutions addressing the aforementioned capability gaps will be selected by practitioners to be demonstrated in Proof-of-concept demonstration events. The MEDEA consortium with the MEDEA Open Call for Ideas and Solutions wishes to communicate identified needs to potential solution providers and security innovation pioneers, in order to provide their ideas on how to address such gaps, after having evaluated the submitted proposal. A number of security proposals addressing the aforementioned capability gaps will be selected by practitioners to receive an inducement prize for

– identify new approached or ideas and attract investments in specific security areas

– demonstrate the feasibility of potential of some technologies or promote their development and diffusion

Why participate

This open call process will offer a unique opportunity to solution providers and innovators to engage in a constructive dialogue with first-line practitioners and to understand their operational needs with the scope of limiting, or altogether eliminating, identified and frequently occurring capability gaps, and anticipating adversities in a better equipped manner. 

Additionally, the responders to this call will be offered incentives. Selected security solution providers will be offered the opportunity to engage with potential end-users and demonstrate their solutions in a series of proof-of-concept demonstrations. Likewise, selected security innovators will be offered cash prizes, recognition, and advertisement of their submission. 

More information on how to submit your application is available on our website , where you shall find all the details specified in the Terms of Reference, the practitioners’ identified capability gaps documented in Annex 2, who can participate and how, as well as what the benefits are.

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