The IN2PREV project ‘Law enforcement and community cooperation and training approach to prevent radicalisation by ensuring refugees’ successful inclusion’ is a recent european project that started at september 2022 in which the Euro-Arab Foundation for Higher Studies collaborates as a partner, along with partners from Poland, Portugal, Romania, Republic of Moldova, Slovakia and Bosnia And Herzegovina.

The project aims to facilitate refugees and asylum seekers’ integration and prevent their radicalisation through the early identification of vulnerability risk factors. IN2PREV pretends on ensuring refugees’ successful inclusion as a means to prevent radicalisation, an issue that, despite its recognised importance and growing concern, has not received adequate attention or action and that is usually dealt with very securitising approaches. For achieving that purpose, the project focuses on:

• Improving LEAs’ and NGO’s response, promoting the cooperation between these frontline practitioners creating a network,
• Producing a tool to assess these individuals’ vulnerability to radicalisation,
• Developing a mentoring programme for their inclusion
• Capacitating frontline professionals in its use

This project is motivated by the refugee crises since 2015 (yet historically) have been pressingly affecting Europe and asylum seekers from war-town countries have been reaching the continent. Despite difficulties caused by COVID-19, almost 100.000 individuals headed towards European borders in early 2021. In the same year, Mediterranean countries verified an even higher number of sea arrivals. Moreover, 2022 presented new challenges due to the Russian war in Ukraine, when millions fled to neighbouring countries.