EXIT EUROPE

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EXIT Europe intends to develop local exit programs where they are most lacking, along an European east to south axis, going through Vienna (AT), connecting partners in Italy, France and Spain with neighbour Slovakia, liaising with Czech Republic and Hungary. Existing expertise on deradicalisation practice from RAN, Efus, EENeT, the Austrian exit pilot and the German “Live Democracy!” program will be mustered. The local programs will be civil-society based, multi-agency, have a cross-extremisms perspective (e.g. Islamism, neo-Nazism, regional hate groups, i.a.), are embedded in local community PVE networks and secondary prevention – but also connected to security agencies. Recent innovations, as Austria’s ‘triangular exit facilitation’, elements from restorative justice and gender-focused approaches will come together with existing indigenous methods – thus also addressing local radicalisation challenges. Main outcomes/impacts are: - an adaptable core training manual for exit practitioners, which is locally customized - a consultancy mechanism for on-the-job coaching of practitioners - an operational European exit trainer pool - local teams of exit practitioners in SK, AT, DE, IT, ES, FR - min. 4 exemplary case studies of local exit work each - local community PVE networks in each EU locations: NGO practitioners, security/LEAs, and secondary prevention community actors (youth welfare, prison/ probation, employment i.a.) - data protection protocols - legal expertise on protocols of information exchange and data protection in inter-agency exit work Among the beneficiaries are: exit practitioners EU wide, EU and national working groups, exit candidates, policy makers in the field, practice research on prevent and exit. An innovative QM procedure combines ‘formative evaluation’/consultancy by an independent local expert with external scientific evaluation.