CPIP, as a signatory and coordinator of the Pact for Skills in Correctional Sector (LiberateSkills Pact) was invited to take part in the webinar on ‘Erasmus+ 2024 calls organized in Janauary 2024: opportunities for Pact for Skills members’. CPIP participated as an expert on skills policy and as a developer of two new projects recently contracted by Alliance for Innovation and Centres of Vocational Excellence (CoVEs):

• Promoting Integrated Professional Development for Prison Practitioners in Vocational Excellence for Offender Reintegration 101144006-EDU-2023-PEX-COVE — PROMOTE submitted together with Timisoara Prison as project coordinator
• Pedagogical Inclusive Education and Training System to UpSkill Cross-Sector Practitioners Working with Emerging Adults in Correctional Systems 101140185-ERASMUS-EDU-2023-PI-ALL-INNO, CPIP as project coordinator

These partnerships unite prison administrations, individual prisons, social partners, research companies, universities, and service providers – all dedicated to upskilling and reskilling the correctional workforce. A big thank you to the ECORYS team for their effort in implementing the Pact for Skills, and to our esteemed colleagues Klara ENGELS-PERENYI and FERNANDEZ DIEZ Miguel from Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion (DG EMPL).