RECHANCE

Prison is by right and definition a place of reparation for crimes committed, but also and above all a space for re-education, rehabilitation and humanization. In fact, prisoners and ex-prisoners constitute a population at risk of marginalization and with specific personal, psychological and social needs: in most cases they lack the socio-cultural background essential to [...] Continue Reading

The reintegration of former prisoners into today's society should be based on training opportunities taking into account social and relational skills that reduce the risk of reoffending - already within prison contexts. Based on this premise and over the past two years, the RECHANCE project set out to combat, through non formal skills, social obstacles [...] Continue Reading

The second part of the development meeting was held on the 4th of May 2022. Some of the staff members were in Athens, Greece, while other where online. These topics are expected to be discussed during the meeting, related to Quality Assurance, Dissemination, the learning platform for former prisoners and the guidelines for educators’ development, [...] Continue Reading

The RECHANCE project “Rehabilitation approaches for providing former prisoners with personal development and society entry CHANCEs”has started in the middle of the pandemic and after one year of implementation is reaching great results, that soon will be widely available and piloted in some learning nd training opportunities. Learn more about the first year of activity [...] Continue Reading

The RECHANCE project "Rehabilitation Approaches for Providing Former Prisoners with Personal Development and Society Entry CHANCEs" was launched in November 2020 with the primary objective of helping to improve participation, at the educational level, of former prisoners in society. The project involves six EU Member States: Czech Republic, Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Ireland and Bulgaria, where [...] Continue Reading