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BrainLog is a nonprofit organization focused on lifelong learning and adult education, with an emphasis on career development. With extensive experience, BrainLog has implemented numerous projects within the correctional system, supporting the career growth of prison staff. By providing tailored educational programs and resources, BrainLog empowers correctional employees to enhance their skills and advance their careers, contributing effectively to inmate rehabilitation and management.

BrainLog will play an essential role across all Work Packages. In WP1, BrainLog will contribute to project management, coordination, quality assurance, and evaluation. WP2 involves developing a European ecosystem of correctional skills for staff aiding offender reintegration. BrainLog will lead WP3 in Denmark, establishing vocational centers of excellence. BrainLog will assist in delivering learning pathways and career guidance (WP4) and handle dissemination activities (WP5).

The Danish Prison Officers Union works to improve working conditions for the prison officers in the Danish Prison and Probation Service. The union represents prison officers, transport officers, institutional employees, foremen and uniformed leaders at approximately 70 facilities in Denmark, The Faroe Islands and Greenland. In addition, the union represents fisheries inspectors in the fisheries board. Our main office is located in Copenhagen.

We contribute knowledge about the challenges in the job as a prison officer in Denmark, which can hopefully help strengthen the project's goals.

The BMOJ is responsible for the area of justice as the highest state authority. Department 4 is accountably for the official and technical supervision of the Bremen Prison Service and the Social Services of the Judiciary, legislation and sub-legal regulations on the prison system, cooperation with the independent providers of offender support, submissions and petitions from prisoners, offender training, criminological service and, finally, the training of prison staff.

The BMOJ can support PROMOTE's interaction with prison staff in the broader sense (such as the social services of the justice system) and provide an interface for correspondence with experts in the areas in which PROMOTE is active. At the same time, it can acquire the persons to be trained. It also provides an internal administrative interface for correspondence with other German authorities that may be important for the work of the PROMOTE project.

Interchange Non-Profit gUG is an organisation working in the areas of education and research, based in Bremen, Germany. Our teams actively build and sustain communities of practice and learning in justice and desistance related fields, providing opportunities to bring key stakeholders together to learn from and with local and European colleagues.

In PROMOTE, Interchange works closely with the Bremen Ministry of Justice and Constitution to provide more opportunities for local actors in the Federal State of Bremen prison and probation landscape together. Each of the 16 Federal German States has their own ministry of justice, so Interchange will also play a role in supporting exchange with justice professionals from outside of Bremen.

Progress Consult Ltd, a top Hungarian consultancy, specializes in social development and innovation. Founded in 1998 by Danish and Hungarian experts, it focuses on reforming public services in areas like labor markets, social welfare, and education. The company provides tailored solutions by integrating EU best practices and has a strong track record in EU and USAID programs, promoting social inclusion, equal opportunities, and regional development through its services.

As the lead for WP5 on Dissemination and Exploitation, we ensure the project's results are communicated and leveraged across Europe. We coordinate a comprehensive dissemination strategy, create and distribute promotional materials, and organize key events. We also develop a Transferability Kit for replicating best practices and establish a central platform for sharing knowledge in vocational excellence. Our work ensures the long-term sustainability and impact of the project's outcomes.

CEIPES ETS – Centro Internazionale per la Promozione dell'Educazione e lo Sviluppo is a non-profit association founded in Palermo in 2007. CEIPES ETS is active in promoting personal and professional development of individuals through lifelong learning opportunities, including learning mobilities also fostering capacity building of local and international communities by partnering with entities in different fields.By its projects CEIPES ETS promotes equality, inclusion and respect for diversity.

Whilst contributing to all the activities and tasks, CEIPES ETS will be coordinating the implementation of the WP4 - Delivering learning pathways and career guidance. This WP foresees the delivery of the contents and materials created in the previous WPs in the CoVE which will be set in each of the participating countries.

CSODC was founded in 1994 as an emanation of Congregation of Poor Servants of Divine Providence.
-It has its registered office in Verona and has a national coordination office in Ferrara as a National Professional Training Body (Law 40/87) and peripheral seats through which it carries out many local, national and international projects, with a wide network of partners both from the Public and Private sector.

Co-beneficiary with the role of supporting the Coordinator and partners leading different WPS to achieve project objectives and expected results/outputs.

SkillLab provides technology that helps people understand their skills, and match them with relevant jobs, education and training. It uses skill and occupation taxonomies, such as ESCO, together with AI to connect occupations to their corresponding skills. This provides a clear pathway for exploring career options and personalized guidance to job seekers. SkillLab empowers employment & career services with technology that creates equitable labor markets through the universal language of skills.

SkillLab contributes as a technology-focused expert on skills assessment and skills taxonomies, such as ESCO. SkillLab will especially support the development of new occupational profiles, as well as the establishment of certification concepts and mechanisms for assessing and validating the skills and competencies of learners in the correctional system.

IPS Innovative Prison Systems (IPS) is a boutique research and consulting firm specialised in the field of justice, corrections, community sanctions and measures, juvenile justice and law enforcement, through projects which make a difference in these fields.Our approach is one integrated strategy, in partnership, using creativity and technology, assembling teams of multidisciplinary specialists to address societal and technological challenges.

IPS is the leader of WP2, which is focused on collecting data regarding professional profiles of people who work with inmates inside and outside the prison (through DACUM workshops, survey and interviews), identify best practices, develop and skills ecosystem map, deliver national adaptation workshops, conduct a policy review, develop updated professional profiles, according to ESCO, and devise recommendations and guidelines for improving skills development and career guidance in the sector.

Aproximar is an NGO acting as social innovation hub aiming to enhance people, communities and organisations’ human and social capital as a strategy to strengthen their capacity to deal with emerging challenges and opportunities. The mission is daily accomplished by developing tailor-made social innovation, good practices exchange, and transference driven projects, besides delivering its own pack of empowering and capacity building services: training, consultancy, and social intervention.

Aproximar aims to provide an integrated approach to continuous professional training for professionals working in the Portuguese correctional justice system.
Aproximar contributes to needs assessment and stakeholder engagement, upskill framework in correctional skills development, disseminate PROMOTE methodology, establish Centers of Vocational Excellence (CoVEs) and enhance vocational training within the Portuguese context.

Egas Moniz has since its inception been a community of students, teachers and staff, and its mission is "dedicated to the advancement of knowledge, learning and education of its students, at the service of improving the health conditions of global society in the twenty-first century". Egas Moniz promote innovative and transformative research that addresses global challenges and actively engages society. Egas Moniz strive to bridge the gap between research, science, health, and society.

Conduct DACUM workshop: Identifying the duties and competencies; organize national adaptation workshop: Identify gaps and areas for improvement in the correctional system; curriculum frameworks for vocational training in correctional skills are developed and ready for implementation across all CoVEs; partnership agreements, meeting minutes, collaboration reports.

The University of Valladolid is distinguished by its prestige in teaching and research, as well as in continuing education. The Q-ESE research group and the Observatory for the Validation of Professional Competences (Observal) have as their lines of research the recognition of professional competences acquired through experience and non-formal training, focusing on adult learning and transversal competences.

The University of Valladolid (Uva) hosts the consortium for the first TPM of the project. In WP2, it will conduct a DACUM workshop, interviews, and questionnaires for prison professionals, and contribute to the policy recommendations document. In WP3, Uva will develop the curriculum for student training and establish the certification mechanism, which is its primary role. Additionally, Uva will support the implementation and enhancement of other project activities.

Ege University Institute on Drug Abuse, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science was established in 2007 which is the first institute in its field in Türkiye. It provides postgraduate education, research and applications for the benefit of universal science and society and to serve as a reference institution by increasing qualified manpower in the fields of substance addiction and addiction-related toxicology, following the developing science and technology, developing new methods and techniques.

Ege University Institute on Drug Abuse, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science is the one of the academic partners of the PROMOTE Project that is mainly responsible for implementing a DACUM and a National Adaptation Workshop, Participatory Research, Setting up the Centers of Vocational Excellence-CoVE at Ege University in Izmir/Türkiye for professionals working with convicted persons from different sectors by ensuring a governance structure aligned with industry standards and best practices.