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  • News announcement
  • 15 January 2025
  • Directorate-General for Migration and Home Affairs
  • 3 min read

Thematic Panel members for the EU Knowledge Hub on Prevention of Radicalisation

About the EU Knowledge Hub

The EU Knowledge Hub on the Prevention of Radicalisation supports Member States in strengthening their efforts on preventing radicalisation through a comprehensive, whole-of-society approach. The activities organised and carried out  by the EU Knowledge Hub will bridge the gaps between policymakers, practitioners, and researchers at EU level, fostering the exchange of knowledge and best practices. 

Thematic Panels

The Thematic Panels are a key component of the Knowledge Hub. We are seeking applications for Thematic Panel members to contribute to the work in various P-CVE areas identified as EU priorities. The panels will provide a platform for practitioners and policy makers as well as researchers, where relevant, to network, discuss, brainstorm and consolidate knowledge on preventing radicalisation on these priority topics. 

The Knowledge Hub will comprise seven thematic panels focusing on the following areas in line with the main priorities set out in the Strategic Orientations for 2024-2025. You can read here for more details.

  1. Ideologies and Conspiracy Narratives
  2. Prisons Rehabilitation and Reintegration
  3. New Technologies and the Online Dimension
  4. Local Dimension, Polarisation, and Resilience Building
  5. Lone Actors and Mental Health Issues
  6. Management of Foreign Terrorist Fighters, Volunteers, and Their Families
  7. Global and Geopolitical Factors and Undesirable Foreign Influences

Role of the Thematic Panel members

We are excited to announce the recruitment of the members for each thematic panel. The selected candidates will have the following opportunities:

  • Participating in all meetings (online and offline) of the panel.
  • Contributing to the discussions on the topics to be covered in the respective panel and to formulating the expected deliverables taking into account work already done and deliverables produced on the topics in question.
  • Contributing to the creation of impactful outputs, such as roadmaps, recommendations, best practices, toolkits, and reports.

Profile and Requirements

We seek candidates with the following qualifications:

  • Proven expertise in Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism (P-CVE), in particular, on one of the seven topics for thematic panels that the candidate is applying for.
  • General Knowledge and experience in strategic communications and evaluation will be considered an advantage. 
  • Fluency in English (C1 level) as per the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. 
  • Be a national of an EU Member State and be based in Europe. In addition, depending on the thematic panel and the topic of the meeting, a small proportion of the places may be reserved for nationals from priority third countries (Norway, Switzerland, UK, Western Balkans, other EU candidate countries, as well as Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Morocco, Tunisia.)
  • Applicants to the call need to create a profile in the Expert Database
  • if they haven’t yet done so.

Time Commitment 

  • Members will participate in up to four meetings (3 in person and 1 online) annually, each lasting 1-2 days.
  • Travel, accommodation and catering will be provided by the Knowledge Hub consortium; no daily allowance and no financial compensation will be provided.

Application Procedure

Interested candidates are invited to apply by completing the application form and submitting their Curriculum Vitae in the Europass format. Applications must be submitted by 5 February 2025. The selection process will take into account geographical and gender balance, and will ensure a mix of policymakers, practitioners with a strong field expertise, and researchers. Selected candidates will be notified in the first half of February.

N.B.: Applicants to the earlier call

 for thematic panel leaders are not required to submit a new application under this call. They will be contacted individually to confirm their interest in contributing as members of the relevant thematic panel. Their inclusion in the pool of applicants will not guarantee selection. All applications, including those from the call for panel leaders, will be evaluated based on their merits, while ensuring diversity in terms of nationality, gender, and professional background (practitioners, researchers, policymakers). The number of available positions within each thematic panel remains limited.

For questions or additional information, please contact eukhatntu [dot] eu (eukh[at]ntu[dot]eu)

We look forward to receiving your applications and working together to make a significant impact on the prevention of radicalisation in the EU.

Record keeping 

Records and other supporting documentation to prove compliance with the experts obligations (original supporting documents, in particular on travel and other expenses) must be kept for at least three years after the final payment under a contract (5 years for contracts above 60 000 EUR).

In case of on-going checks, audits, investigations, litigation or other pursuits of claims, the records and other supporting documentation must be kept until the end of these procedures.

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Details

Publication date
15 January 2025
Author
Directorate-General for Migration and Home Affairs