Executive Training in 2012
This year's Pompidou Group’s Executive Training on Drug Policy will focus on "Joint ‘anti-drug’ campaigns" and take place in two modules: a needs assessment seminar (10-12 May 2012) and the qualifying seminar (17-21 September 2012) which will both be held at the European Youth Centre in Budapest. The objectives are two-fold: one is about improving cooperation between law enforcement, public health, social services and other stakeholders in organising campaigns aimed at preventing substance abuse and addiction and the other about exploring the role and contributions of stakeholders in developing and running campaigns together. It consists also of identifying potential benefits for cooperating partners and the added value of cooperating in devising successful campaigns.
The training course is targeting managers from governmental institutions who are responsible for developing and/or implementing drug policies and/or coordinating related programme implementation, service delivery and cooperation with stakeholders.
Should you be interested in participating in this training, please contact the Permanent Correspondent of the Pompidou Group in your country. Nominations for participation are made by the Permanent Correspondents.
List of national
contacts
Course outline
Further information can be obtained by
writing an e-mail to:
dgi.training-pompidou@coe.int |
Recent news
|
Etienne Apaire, President of the Pompidou Group, sends his best wishes for a Happy New Year 2012
In 2011, four new countries joined the group. The accession of Morocco, Serbia, “The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia” and Montenegro shows that the year just past was rich and successful. In 2012, the Presidency wishes to consolidate these achievements, encouraging new memberships and increasing participation in the debates. The priority will be to develop closer cooperation with Eastern Europe and the Balkans as agreed during the discussion at the high-level conference in Ljubljana. Moreover, the objective is to continue, through the Mediterranean Network (MedNET), the links with the countries of the Southern rim of the Mediterranean. The Presidency also attaches particular importance to a better visibility of the results obtained in different areas of expertise of the group. In addition, it considers as essential to organise events on specific topics in order to develop exchanges on issues of drugs and drug addiction among the different countries. Thus, conferences will be organised on the prevention of addiction in the workplace on 14 and 15 May 2012 and on the prevention of chemical precursors diversion in November 2012. Finally, an important event will close up the year, the mid-term conference during which the Pompidou Group’s work programme 2011-2014 will be evaluated and, as a highlight, the 5th European Drug Prevention Prize will be awarded to the three winning projects.
Video - publication of a French study on drug
use in the workplace |
Focus
|
5th European Drug Prevention Prize
- Call for applications
The European Drug Prevention Prize 2012
was launched by two jurors on Tuesday 13 December 2011 in Ljubljana. The launch goes together with a call for application intended for projects led by young people for young people in the 47 member States of the Council of Europe, Morocco, which has become a member of the Pompidou Group on 1st July 2011, and Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Tunisia, countries of the Mediterranean Network for Co-operation on drugs and addiction (MedNet).
During the mid-term conference of the Pompidou Group
which will take place in November 2012 in
Strasbourg, three youth projects will be rewarded by a jury of seven young people for their effectiveness, the active youth involvement and the innovative way to deliver drug prevention.
Call for application
Website of the Prize |
Other news
High-level meeting in Ljubljana on how to tackle drug abuse and trafficking along the "Balkan route"
On Tuesday 13 December 2011, the high-level meeting
brought together ministers, government representatives as well as drug policy makers and experts from across Europe to discuss the challenges posed by the so-called
"Balkan route" – a major transit zone for illicit drugs in Europe - and to reinforce the international co-operation in the region. Co-organised by the Slovenian Health Ministry and the Pompidou Group, the meeting agreed on balanced and multidisciplinary approaches to the imposing drug-related challenges in the region. Mr Blaž Kavčič, President of the National Council, Slovenia, Mr Etienne Apaire, President of the Pompidou Group, chaired the sessions. The daylong meeting
was a great opportunity also to celebrate the accession for
two new Pompidou Group member States: the
Kingdom of Morocco and Montenegro. The launch of the European Drug Prevention Prize 2012
took place on this occasion in presence of two jurors of the Prize. The Permanent Correspondents held their
plenary meeting in Ljubljana immediately following this high-level segment.
Programme of the High-level meeting
Interview of Patrick Penninckx, Executive Secretary of the Pompidou Group
Declaration
Photo Gallery |
|
|
New project of the Pompidou Group “Counselling and Motivational Interviewing in Moldovan Prisons”
How do you provide psycho-social support to drug dependent inmates whose environment is characterised by interpersonal conflicts, loneliness and deviant behaviour? Which method do you use if you want to sustain training results in a penitentiary system which is characterised by high staff turnover? The Pompidou Group project “Counselling and Motivational Interviewing in Moldovan Prisons” has been designed together with the Moldovan Department of Penitentiary Institutions as a response to these questions. It aims at developing practical counselling skills among 30 Moldovan psychologists working in prison, while sustaining training results through Training of Trainers (ToT) methodology.
The first workshop entitled “Step by step to Motivational Interviewing” took place near Chisinau in the Training Centre of the Moldovan Department of Penitentiary Institutions, 5-7 December 2011. Two Dutch and one Romanian expert trained seven senior psychologists. Each training session included methodological knowledge as well as practical assignments. Another goal was to initiate the process through which the psychologists will become trainers themselves. The participants showed great interest in the lessons and role plays and said that they are looking forward to implementing the methods at their workplace. |
| |
|
All news
|
February
8-10, Goian
Training for prison psychologists on drug addiction treatment - Workshop II
9-10, Paris
Working group on prevention of drug use in the workplace
28 February - 01 March, Dubrovnik
EXASS Net - Drug policy co-operation in South-Eastern Europe and the Balkans
Agenda 2012
|
All activities
Print 
Send 
Français 
