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Migration and Home Affairs
4 June 2024

Training staff members of reception centres on prevention and reporting of radicalisation

Country
  • Belgium
Target Audience
  • First responders or practitioners
  • General public
  • Local community organisations/NGOs
key themes association
  • Alternative and counter narratives
  • Training
Year
  • 2023

Organisation

Federal Agency for reception of asylum seekers (Fedasil). Governmental agency responsible for the reception of asylum seekers

Type of Organisation: Governmental institution

Project description

Belgium’s Federal agency for the reception of asylum seekers (Fedasil) provides training for reception centres and support services staff. 

The training aims to: 

  • address staff questions on radicalisation, e.g. What is radicalisation? What does the process of radicalisation entail? 
  • train staff to prevent, identify and deal with radicalisation in reception centres; 
  • ensure the reporting of radicalisation to competent authorities. 

After the training, staff members are able to: 

  • identify signs of radicalisation and prevent radicalisation; 
  • react appropriately to radicalisation in reception centres; 
  • know when and how to report radicalisation in reception centres. 

In order to improve the prevention of radicalization, information sessions are regularly organized on the historical and cultural aspects of certain countries of origin of asylum seekers (Afghanistan since 2021, Palestina since 2022). 

Face-to-face training until the beginning of 2020 and since then (due to the COVID-19 pandemic) e-training via webinars.

Deliverables

Training modules (four PowerPoint presentations) sent to each participant ahead of the training.

Contact details

Address

Fedasil
21 Kartuizersstraat,
1000 Brussels,
Belgium

Contact person: Fanny François
Telephone: (+32) 495 581 661
fanny [dot] francoisatfedasil [dot] be (Email) | Website

Contact person: Johan Bourlard
Telephone: (+32) 477 441 079
johan [dot] bourlardatfedasil [dot] be (Email) | Website

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4 JUNE 2024
Training staff members of reception centres on prevention and reporting of radicalisation