Safe school in the Schengen area

Project facts

Project promoter:
Lublin Commune
Project Number:
PL15-0022
Target groups
Teachers, trainers, managers, leaders and other staff within higher education institutions
Status:
Completed
Initial project cost:
€430,509
Final project cost:
€416,891
From Norway Grants:
€ 348,599
The project is carried out in:
Poland

Description

The project partners will organise a conference, seminar on procedures describing proper actions to be taken in a situation that poses a direct threat to the safety on the premises of educational institutions and also school evacuation drills, trainings in English, Ukrainian and the Schengen provisions for services responsible for the security policy. Planned educational and information actions will increase the capacity of services to prevent and combat cross-border and organised crime, including trafficking in human beings and fight against itinerant criminal groups. The society will more effectively cooperate with the services in the area of crime prevention. Project results and outputs will be popularised throughout Poland - key project outputs will be made available i.e. authorities running schools and educational establishments, and institutions responsible for carrying out the security policy.

Summary of project results

The objective of the project was to increase the capacity od services to prevent and combat cross-border and organised crime, including human trafficking and itinerant criminal groups, by improving knowledge and dissemination of project deliverables. Within the framework of the project a series of training sessions were organised regarding e.g.: - Schengen acquis (for 25 individuals), - procedures in the case of a direct threat to the safety of individuals in schools (for 9 486 individuals - 10 evacuation simulations were also organised). English and Ukrainian language courses were also organised (for 30 and 15 individuals, respectively). Seven instructional videos for children and teenagers were also produced within the auspices of the project, focusing on terrorism, human trafficking, drugs and designer drugs, border safety, fire, cyberbullying, and threats to young children. Three regular two-day seminars were organised with regard to safety in schools, with 25 participants. The project covered the development of safety procedures and organisation of a conference for 200 individuals from 16 voivodeships. The project deliverables were disseminated among, for example, 16 authorities responsible for schools and education in Poland, 16 school superintendents, 16 institutions responsible for security policy at the municipal district level, and 20 authorities managing schools or education facilities in the Lubelskie Voivodeship.

Summary of bilateral results