October 2021
Final Conference on prison IT skills training as a tool for labour reintegration

The Coding-OUT Final Conference, held on 29th of October 2021, in Bilbao (at the BBF Auditorium), marked the completion of the project.
The Consortium intended to present an overview of the experience of training in penitentiary centres in each country and the educational support mechanisms that can be provided to inmates (and other disadvantaged groups) to facilitate their insertion into society and the labour market.

Agenda

10:00-10:15         Welcome, agenda and project overview                               D. Jokin Garatea, GAIA International Manager​

10:15-10:45         Prison labour and training for employment                               D. José Suárez Tascón. Director gerente. TPFE (Ministerio del interior)

10:45-11:15        Training experience in prisons in Catalonia                              D. Gerard Estalella Erill. Coordinador área de formació                              CIRE - Centre d’Iniciatives per a la Reiserció                              D. Ramiro Tomé. Profesor de informática del centro penitenciario Quatre Comins.

11:20-11:50        Training experience in prisons in Portugal                              Dña. Ángela Fernandes. IPS Rehabilitation and Reintegration

11:50-12:20         Training experience in prisons in Rumania                               D. Mircea Pop/ Dña. Mihaela Pintea. Baia Mare Penitenciary

12:20-12:50         Labour insertion of disadvantaged groups                               Dña. Susana González Rómulo. Dirección general de empleo. Dip. Foral de Bizkaia

​12:50-13:00         Questions

The Conference had the participation of different organisations and stakeholders, as it was aimed at staff working in prisons, educators, psychologists, social workers, reintegration technicians. The total number of participants were 28, 19 national participants and 9 international participants.
The project, coordinated by GAIA, had the participation of Centre d'Iniciatives per a la Reinserció (CIRE); EOLAS (Spain); IPS_Innovative Prison Systems (Portugal); BSAFE LAB  (Portugal); the Baia Mare Penitentiary Centre  (Romania); and the ASP Association of Romania.  

October 2021
Coding-OUT - Final Project Meeting 

​On October 28th, 2021, the project consortium met in Bilbao (Paseo de Uribitarte) for the final project meeting.
All partners discussed important final issues such as the pilots' reports and different ideas and approaches to promote the project's scalability, enhancing the most suitable strategies per country.
GAIA, CIRE, EOLAS, IPS, the Baia Mare Penitentiary Centre, and and the ASP Association of Romania were represented this final project meeting.

Time	Topics	Who
​15:30-15:40	Arrival & Welcome	​GAIA
​15:40-16:00	Project status. Pending issues from last meeting.​	​GAIA +ALL
​​16:00- 17:00	Final reporting. Financial information. Reporting documents. Update of the website Evaluation forms Piloting reports Events report Final report QRs and QAs​	​GAIA +ALL
​17:00-17:30	Next steps. Continuity of the project. Scalability. Expectations and possibilities per country. ​	​​ALL
​17:30-18:00	​Final questions. Comments.	ALL

July 2019
Coding-OUT - 2nd Project Meeting in Lisbon, Portugal

On July 3rd and 4th 2019, the second project meeting of Coding-OUT project was held in Lisbon, Portugal. The event was organised and led by the IPS_Innovative Prison Systems. Representatives from all three countries (Spain, Portugal and Romania) participated in the project meeting. During this second meeting a review of the project’s implementation plan was discussed by all partners, including the tasks and goals for the upcoming months. Furthermore, the partners' feedback on the materials under development was collected.