The Bridge Project
Project description
Title of Project: Bridge: For a Successful Future. A bi-level Tutorial System for Prison Inmates
Year: 2010
Action: Multilateral Projects (Grundtvig)
Project No. and Code: 509956-LLP-1-2010-1-SI-GRUNDTVIG-GMP
Coordinator: The Trebnje Centre for Education and Culture (CIK Trebnje)
Partners:
Center za izobraževanje in kulturo Trebnje (Slovenia)
European Prison Education Association – Malta Branch
BRIK Institute (Germany)
Pro-Eco (Slovenia)
FMHO (Norway)
Description
The Bridge project will, with the help of a web application, develop a comprehensive alternative mode of teaching – a bilevel tutorial system BRIDGE, which will interconnect activities taking place during imprisonment and will continue their implementation after prisoners' release. The combination of the tutorial system and the use of the web application will allow the individual to design and realize a personal educational and vocational path. The tutorial system will on the first level enable the acquirement of education content (communication skills, social skills, job-finding skills, ICT, learning techniques), and on the second level it will provide the persons during and after serving the sentence of imprisonment a link to competent educational guidance institutions. The web application will enable tutors and convicts to plan and monitor the education path of each individual in prison and outside it. It will also provide an overview of project progress in partner states. Monitoring and assisting individuals after release is of key importance to a successful reintegration into society. The project will strive towards unification, but also bearing in mind the data acquired through the analysis, thus adapting the system to each country's legal and educational system. The alternative aspect of the teaching approach refers to specific features of the target group, for it includes the same group in different social environments (in prison and after serving the sentence).
The main aim of the project is to develop an alternative teaching approach – an expert bilevel tutorial system BRIDGE that will, with the help of a web application, connect the existing educational and vocational guidance practices and monitor individuals during incarceration and primarily upon completion of sentence, thus facilitating their reintegration into society. The combination of the tutorial system and the use of the web application will allow the individual to design and realize a personal educational and vocational path. The tutorial system will on the first level enable the acquirement of general education content (communication skills, social skills, job-finding skills, ICT, learning techniques), and on the second level it will provide persons both during imprisonment and especially after serving the sentence with a link to competent educational guidance institutions. The web application will enable tutors and convicts to plan and monitor the education path of each individual both inside and outside of prison, as well as provide the overview of project progress in partner states. One leader tutor will be trained in each participating country to manage and coordinate the tutorial system, and in addition, a manual for tutors and a web application user manual will be developed. During the pilot implementation lead tutors will train at least 3 tutors in each country who will come from different education institutions, NGO's, etc.
Website: http://bridge-euproject.eu/
Contact:
Project coordinator:
Center za izobraževanje in kulturo Trebnje
Kidričeva 2
8210 Trebnje
Slovenia
Contact person: Sabina Tori
Phone: +386 7 3481 104
Email: sabina.tori@ciktrebnje.si
Partner 2:
BRIK Institut
Universitätsallee, GW 1 Block B
28359 Bremen
Germany
Contact person: Jürgen Hillmer
Phone: +49 172 45 17 325
Email: jhillmer@uni-bremen.de
Partner 3:
Stiftung Bildung & Handwerk
Waldenburger Straße 19
33098 Paderborn
Germany
Contact person: Senad Hadžić
Phone: +49 5251 700 293
Email: senad.hadzic@s-b-h.de
Partner 4:
Pro-Eco d.o.o.
Cesta Andreja Bitenca 68
1000 Ljubljana
Slovenia
Contact person: Metka Furlani
Phone: +386 40 270 257
Email: metka.furlani@pro-eco.si
Partner 5:
EPEA Malta Branch
Triq L _imsiebah 45
MST 05 Mosta
Malta
Contact person: Joseph Giordmaina
Phone: +356 9945 0128
Email: joseph.giordmaina@um.edu.mt
Partner 6:
County Governor of Hordaland
Statens Hus, Kaigt. 9
5020 Bergen
Norway
Contact person: Torfinn Langelid
Phone: +47 41 66 2616
Email: torfinn.langelid@fmho.no