The Erasmus + TRACE project on ‘Traditional children’s stories for a common future’ developed by the Euro-Arab Foundation together with European partners from Croatia, Greece and Latvia, concludes its three-year work in Granada. This third transnational meeting of the project has taken place on July 15 and 16, 2021 at the headquarters of the Euro-Arab Foundation.
The executive secretary of the Euro-Arab, Inmaculada Marrero Rocha, congratulated the different partners who arrived from Croatia, Greece and Latvia, who together with the Euro-Arab Foundation as a Spanish partner, make up the consortium of this project financed by the Erasmus + program.
During these two days, TRACE partners have analysed and evaluated the programs and activities that they have been developing over the past two years, applying innovative educational methods. The results achieved have been evaluated and the future exploitation plan for the resources available on the digital platform designed. In it, the selected and translated stories are available in several languages, to the worksheets to carry out the workshops, as well as guidelines and orientations for teachers and librarians.
From 22 to 24 of February, a working meeting of the European project PAVE is celebrated in Paris. This project, in which the Euro-Arab Foundation participates, focuses its works in guide the policies of violent extremism prevention in the European Union.
At the second working meeting of the PAVE project –“Understanding the causes of radicalization and violent extremism”, will gather the different members of the consortium from different countries of the MENA region (North Africa and Middle East), Western Europe and Southeast Europe, to present the conclusions of the field investigations that have been carried out in the past year, about risk factors and resilience to violent extremism.
In the PAVE project, funded by the European Horizon 2020 programme, in which it is involved the Euro-Arab Foundation with another 13 partners, special attention is given to evaluation in the initiatives and preventive measures that exist to improve the community resilience into four thematic areas that are: the interrelation between religious, political and ethnic extremism; the interaction between religious and state institutions; (de)radicalisation narratives and transnational interactions, including the impact on and from Europe.
Alongside the planned working meeting, a symposium has been scheduled to exchange ideas and experiences among researchers of the PAVE project and another two consortia with which this project has been collaborating in similar initiatives, CONNEKT or PREVEX. The symposium, to be held throughout Wednesday 23 February, will discuss at its first session the possible harmonization of the different terminological approaches and the delineation of the scope of available policy instruments to address the phenomenon of radicalization, violent extremism and terrorism.
The second session will be a sharing of the strategies and the data with those that work the different participant consortia, with the goal of promoting among all an vision more holistic and reinforced, when it comes to understanding the interventions of the community actors and developing the formulation of specific policies and initiatives directed by the community.
A session will also be devoted to analyzing the characteristics that exist in the relationship between gender, religion, ethnicity and political context with violent extremism. The results obtained in the field studies carried out in the regional Balkan and in the MENA region area will be analyzed at the following sessions, debate in which the researcher Josep García Coll of the Euro-Arab Foundation will be involved.
In these sessions is intended to identify the regional tendencies and its implications for the development of prevention policies and strategies of violent extremism. The methodological challenges encountered in conducting the research and the strategies used to mitigate them will also be discussed.
The Euro-Arab Foundation is committed to fighting against hate, intolerance and discrimination by integrating the European consortium of the STAND-UP project, co-funded by the European Commission Directorate General for Justice and Consumers. These practices and feelings often lead to committing serious and violent crimes and are largely causes of broader social tensions and have long-lasting repercussions on victims, their families and on our societies. However, there are deficiencies at the European level in the management of hate crimes and discrimination against people or communities based on gender, race, sexuality or other aspects, as well as in the response given by the public authorities of European countries.
The partners of the STAND-UP project meet today from Italy, Spain, Greece and France for the first time, starting the project that will be developed over the next two years.
The STAND-UP Project’s main objective is to improve cooperation between different organizations in the fight against hate crimes through the design, development and implementation of a new inter-institutional model led by public authorities. To achieve this objective, STAND-UP proposes:
1. Establish common definitions of hate crime, integrated into a framework for cooperation;
2. Standardize reporting procedures;
3. Deepening understanding of the phenomena of hate speech and crimes, including the feelings behind them;
4. Strengthen support for victims;
5. Design and implement training for CSOs, LEAs, prosecutors and judges on how to report, investigate, prosecute and prevent hate crimes and discrimination.
The model developed by STAND-UP will include technological tools that make it possible to improve the monitoring of hate crimes and speeches, as well as the exchange of data between the different organizations; an established definition of hate crimes; two models for reporting hate crimes (for law enforcement agencies and CSOs) and an inter-agency manual for victim support. STAND-UP will make use of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) techniques and tools in such a way that public authorities and Civil Society organizations can identify areas of intervention, groups at risk and the weight of the feelings of hatred expressed. via Internet.
Within the framework of the project, training will be carried out for relevant actors, CSOs, LEAs, prosecutors and judges, so that they can implement the tools and mechanisms developed within the framework of the project with the support of Virtual Reality.
The Foundation will be in charge of the dissemination and communication of STAND-UP in order to publicize the project and its results, seek the sustainability, exploitation and transferability of the products, contributing to raising awareness of hate crimes.
On Thursday, January 27, is the first meeting of the new BIGOSINT European project “Countering THB through big data and OSINT analysis” Funded by the European Commission under the Internal Security Fund – Police.
This project brings together four organizations including the Euro-Arab Foundation, the Prosecutor of the Ordinary Court of Trento (Italy) who will coordinate the project, Agenfor International (Italy) and the Faculty of Public Administration of Bremen (Germany) to face the new challenges and new forms of exploitation of Human Trafficking. As emphasised in the UNODC 2020 GLOTIP Report, the web facilitates highly targeted victim recruitment, access to an infinite number of victims, anonymity for offenders and profiteers, covering the traces of financial transactions, and new, devastating forms of exploitation.
As an extension of the EU-funded project UNCHAINED, BIGOSINT will develop and pilot advanced, intelligence-led tools to enhance investigations into internet-abetted trafficking in human beings (THB), directly targeting the diverse roles that the cyber-environment plays in the THB chain.
BIGOSINT matches Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) and cryptocurrency analysis with the FAST Platform, a solid investigative software within an intelligence-led policing approach aimed at bringing perpetrators to justice and differentiating victims from traffickers in a proportionate, legal, accountable and necessary manner.
Through specialized software gathering and untumbling blockchain data and cryptowallets, and profiling-oriented OSINT solutions, anti-trafficking multiagency teams with judicial oversight are able to proactively detect existing online markets and networks, collect human-rights compliant digital forensic evidence, share information and develop enforcement countermeasures by leveraging on public-private partnership.
The BIGOSINT investigative techniques will be piloted for a period of 20 weeks, supported by innovative LEA training on implementation of the tools, the dynamics of internet-facilitated THB, and models for cross-border and inter-agency cooperation. Training will reach 100 LEAs from three pilot countries using the training of the trainer methodology, incorporating innovative virtual reality training, immersing participants in simulated scenarios based on real-life cases.
National inter-agency teams will be established in 3 Member States and a Communication Toolkit will be deployed to support the protection of potential victims, and vulnerable groups in particular.
In that project, FUNDEA will be in charge of the Work Package 2 ‘Understanging the THB investigative cycle’ which aims to deepen relevant practitioners understanding of investigations on the THB cycle in the cyber environment.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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