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Project Activities

The ‘Connections’ project will facilitate dialogue between civil society organisations, academics and criminal justice agencies with a view to improving cooperation among these sectors at regional, country and European level, thus facilitating the identification of good practices in policies and services in the area of HIV/AIDS and other drug related infection prevention within the criminal justice system. The project is organised in 8 work packages, each of which are the responsibility of one project partner, with activities focusing on the following strategies:

Networking, Communication and Information sharing (EISS)
  • Two European Conferences[ PDF ]
  • The CONNECTIONS Newsletters [PDF]
  • The Digest of Research [PDF]

Capacity Building
  • Two European Training Academies (EISS) [ PDF1 ]  [ PDF2 ]
  • Two local Trainings (HCLU, Probacja)

Exchange of experiences
  • Study Visits [PDF] and Work Placements (Rugby House/Foundation66) [PDF]

Policy Development at national and EU level
  • Compilation of EU good practices and recommendations (EISS) []
  • Policy development at national level through pilot projects on harm reduction and the criminal justice system in Hungary, Poland and Romania (HCLU, Probacja, ARAS)

Research
  • Research study ‘Towards a continuum of care in the EU criminal justice system – a survey of prisoners needs’ (The Bremen Institute of Drug Research - BISDRO)
  • Research study ‘Race, drugs, HIV and the criminal justice systems in Europe – an evaluation across 9 EU countries’ (T3E)