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ENCHASE – Enhancing Albanian System of Quality Assurance in Higher Education: Application of the Process and Outcome-based Methodology

ENCHASE – Enhancing Albanian System of Quality Assurance in Higher Education: Application of the Process and Outcome-based Methodology

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Objectives To develop a national framework for quality assuranceTo build on the capacity of relevant actors in HEIs, PAAHE and MoES to manage a process- and outcome-based approach to quality assurance and self-assessment processesTo enhance the external and internal...

GOVERN – Fostering autonomy and accountability: Development of State-of-the-Art HE Management System for efficient changes in line with Bologna principles

GOVERN – Fostering autonomy and accountability: Development of State-of-the-Art HE Management System for efficient changes in line with Bologna principles

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Objectives To build on the capacity of administrative staff for managing system changes efficientlyTo revise the legal (system level) and regulatory (HEI level) frameworks in line with Bologna action linesTo establish the state-of-the-art university management system...

VIGILA ET PROTEGE – To search and protect unaccompanied minors through the S.I.S. II ‘fight against invisibility’

VIGILA ET PROTEGE – To search and protect unaccompanied minors through the S.I.S. II ‘fight against invisibility’

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VIGILA ET PROTEGE – To search and protect unaccompanied minors through the S.I.S. II ‘fight against invisibility’

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  • To fight against the phenomenon of “invisible minors”, which are unaccompanied minors who escape from custodial/educational centres without repatriation requests, by improving SIS (Schengen Information System)
  • To identify international good practices to contrast with the phenomenon of missing minors

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  • 13 International study visits among police advisors from Schengen countries and staff of custodial centres
  • 10 National workshops for police advisors to discuss about the phenomenon of missing unaccompanied minors
  • International workshop to analyze the results of the study visits
  • International workshop to share International good practices for fighting against the phenomenon of unaccompanied missing minors
  • 2 International conferences to share the results of the workshops and to present the Italian approach to the phenomenon of missing minors

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  • Handbook: To search and protect unaccompanied minors – fight against invisibility: common procedures to enhance unaccompanied missing minors searches through the use of SIS II; Good Practices and lists of recommendations to carry out appropriate measures to strengthen international cooperation on sensitive issues, such as protection and repatriation of missing unaccompanied minors [en|it]
  • Realization of IT solutions to improve the unaccompanied missing minors alert system

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  • Coordinator: Central Criminal Police Directorate (Italy)
  • International Police Cooperation DEPT Latvia (Latvia)
  • International Relation Unit of Malta (Malta)
  • International operational cooperation directorate of Bulgaria (Bulgaria)
  • Secretary general of the international security system (Portugal)
  • OSCE organization for security and cooperation in Europe (Austria)

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Follow the project IN ACTION

Date of project: 16/09/2013 – 15/09/2014

DG of reference: DG Home Affairs, Pilot Project on unaccompanied minors

Contacts:

CESIE: silvia.ciaperoni@cesie.org

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SECUTE – Security Training & Education

SECUTE – Security Training & Education

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SECUTE – Security Training & Education

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  • To educate a nucleus of future leaders, managers, security officers, politicians and experts in the security area, which speak a common security language, are well trained in security and emergency management and are fit for international security oriented policy and business management
  • Offer education, training and vocational specialization in the field of the Protection of Critical Facilities
  • Promote a shared sensibility at international level, create a basis for the knowledge related to the risks and the threats and diffuse the information about the behaviour for the security

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  • Italian and English online course about Security of the Critical Facilities
  • A series of training workshops realized in Palermo and in Malta for professionals working in this field

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  • Coordinator: Euro-Mediterranean Initiative for Technology and Innovation (Malta)
  • Fraunhofer-Institut Sichere Informationstechnologie (Germany)
  • World Centre for New Thinking (Malta)

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Date of project: 01/12/2007 – 30/11/2009

DG of reference: DG EAC, Education and Training, Lifelong Learning Programme – Leonardo da Vinci, Transfer Of Innovation

Contact:

CESIE: vito.lafata@cesie.org

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