EPTA Annual Conference 2015 (Report)

Italy held the EPTA presidency in 2015 and organised the VIII EPTA Annual Conference. The EPTA Annual Conference took place on 4th-6th of November 2015 in Rome, Italy at the Higher School of Penal Execution “Piesanti Mattarella”. Organised by Higher Institute for Penitentiary Studies (ISSP), the conference was attended by delegates of Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Catalonia, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Romania, and Switzerland. The conference closed one year of the EPTA Italian presidency. The 2016 presidency has been voted by the EPTA assembly during the VIII Conference and was decided to be held by Poland. During its presidency, the Higher Institute for Penitentiary Studies has promoted training activities and exchanges among the EPTA country members and has started partnership agreements with EuroPris, in the aftermath of the EPTA consultation results. It has also been in contact with the Czech Republic and Turkey for their future involvement in the network.

The topic of the 2015 EPTA Conference has been “The training needs in the evolution of new penal patterns“. The trans-national debate has been of use in detecting the topic, which appears to us as the most consistent and in step with the prison context and societal transformations: it will also support joint discussions between advanced prison models and less change-oriented patterns, or else moving towards the implementation of new training curricula targeting the individual, the person and its relationship and the safeguard of human rights.

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