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On 8 February, the Commission opened a call for proposals under the Internal Security Fund (ISF) with a budget of EUR 30 million. Applications may be submitted as of 8 February 2024. The deadline to apply is 4 April 2024. 

On 6 February, the Commission welcomed the political agreement reached between the European Parliament and the Council of the EU on new rules for the Schengen Borders Code. This will strengthen EU coordination in managing cross-border health and security threats.

Over 4,000 asylum seekers in the EU have been relocated to other European countries under the current Voluntary Solidarity Mechanism. This cooperation allows asylum applicants to be relocated from their EU host country of first entry to another European country.

On 6 February, the Commission proposed a recast of the Directive 2011/93/EU to strengthen criminal law on child sexual abuse and sexual exploitation.

The target audience for this meeting are exit and probation practitioners involved in the rehabilitation of individuals of all genders leaving a violent extremist group and/or abstaining from radical ideology. 

For this RAN meeting of the Families, Communities & Social Care Working Group, we are presently looking for P/CVE practitioners working with children growing up in extremist environments, such as social workers, family support practitioners, teachers, youth, or community workers...

CERIS provides a platform for policy makers, security practitioners, researchers and academia, industry and civil society to identify gaps & needs and solutions for civil security. Set up in October 2022, the CERIS expert group is the backbone of the CERIS community that counts 3100 subscribers.

In a context of increasing polarisation around migration, the BRIDGES project aims at further understanding the production, evolution, and impact of migration narratives. Focusing on six European countries, the H2020 project addresses these narratives on an academic, policy, and societal level.

RAN Practitioners is currently looking for participants with relevant expertise to take part in a thematic meeting on the prison-exit continuum. The meeting will focus on how to prepare for the release of violent extremist or terrorist offenders (VETOs) and how to keep working on...