13th EPTA Annual Conference 2020 (Presentations and video recordings)

This year, the EPTA Annual Conference was hosted online on 28-29 September by the Slovak General Directorate of the Corps of Prison and Court Guard. The two-half day focused on exchanging experiences in managing training activities during the lockdown due to COVID-19. Additional topics were presented on innovative methods and approaches in prison staff training and remote education and organization of examinations carried out in a remote form. Outputs from the Special Interest Groups were presented on the following topics:

• Training Leadership and Management
• Dynamic Security
• Managing Difficult Inmates

View the agendas for both days: Day 1 and Day 2.

Click below to view the presentations in PDF format and link to video recordings on EPTA YouTube channel:

Day 1

• Welcome speech from the presidency – (Click here to view video from the conference part 1 and part 2)
• EPTA Website (Julia Ilyina) – View video
• European Judicial Training (Emmanuelle Cretin-Magand, EC) – View video
• New Project  ‘Innovating together: Connecting European Penitentiary Training Academies’ (Emma Oosten, NHC) – View video
• Introduction to Special Interest Groups (Lisanne Veldt, NHC) – View video
• SIG1 Training Leadership and Management (John Flavin, Irish Prison Service College) – View video
• SIG2 Dynamic Security (Ole Stageberg, KRUS Norway) – (View video)
• SIG 3 Managing Difficult Inmates (Irish Prison Service, Clare Kambamettu) – View video

Day 2

• Dagmar Krošláková, Training Centre of Prison Service (Slovakia) – View video
• Innovative methods and approaches in prison staff training (František Vlach, Director of Prison Service Academy, Czech Republic) – View video
• The Platform usage, remote education and organization of examinations carried out in a remote form (Marcin Strzelec, Higher School of Criminology and Penitentiary Science in
  Warsaw, Poland) – View video
• EPTA Statutory Rules Update – View video
• Bila Tserkva Staff Training Center Ukraine – View video
• Netherlands – View video
• State Penitentiary Service Ukraine (Click here to view a video about their Academy)