EU-CoE HELP Radicalisation Prevention, Judicial Response to Terrorism and International Cooperation in Criminal Matters (RP-TERR-ICCM)

This project is implemented in partnership with the Confederation of European Probation (CEP).

The main aim is:

• General: To improve justice cooperation in criminal matters and to contribute to the effective and coherent application of related European instruments.
• Specific: To enhance implementation and practical application of European instruments on criminal matters through increasing capacities and mutual trust of justice practitioners. Emphasis on transnational cooperation and the following priorities: mutual recognition of instruments; judicial responses to terrorism, notably on reinforcing the prevention of radicalisation, especially in prisons; issues related to pre-trial detention, in particular raising awareness of case law of the European Court of Human Rights; the functioning of European and other international Treaties/legal instruments on international co-operation in criminal matters.

The following results are expected:

• Reinforced networking, exchanges and mutual trust among EU justice practitioners building-up on the April 2019 DG Justice-Council of Europe High-Level Conference with a focus on European and other international legal instruments, transnational cooperation and conditions of detention.
• Improved awareness, knowledge and skills of EU criminal justice practitioners (mainly judges, prosecutors, prison and probation staff) on priority criminal matters:
  • reinforcing the prevention of radicalisation, especially in prisons;
  • judicial/justice responses to terrorism;
  • issues related to pre-trial detention. the functioning of European and other international Treaties/legal instruments on International co-operation in criminal matters;
  • raising awareness of case law of the European Court of Human Rights.

Target Groups:

• 120 persons in high-level European Union-Council of Europe conference;
• 300 justice practitioners (mainly judges, prosecutors, prison & probation staff) from EU member states.

Project activities:

• 1 High level conference in 2020
• 5 Seminars in 2020-2021
• 3 Seminars hosted by the Council of Europe HELP Programme:
  • Judicial response to terrorism (with a focus on gathering and use of evidence in counter-terrorism cases);
  • Radicalisation prevention in prison and probation;
  • International cooperation in criminal matters (with a focus on pre-trial detention).
• 2 Seminars hosted by the CEP.
  • Exit processes and interventions that work;
  • Working with violent extremist offenders in Probation settings.

This is a continuation of the European Union-Council of Europe funded project "HELP Radicalisation Prevention".