This project is a practice application of established EU and international standards, evidence-based interventions (EBI) and policies for substance use prevention. Key condition for EBI uptake is to have a trained prevention workforce for proper application. FRONTLINE POLITEIA designs and tests training using the European Prevention Curriculum (EUPC) for frontline staff: teachers, police, streetworkers. It follows-up on previous EU-financed work (EDPQS, UPC-Adapt, ASAP) that focused on training DOPs (decision-, opinion- and policymakers). FRONTLINE POLITEIA is their logical complement: the frontline staff coordinated by DOPs need to be trained as well: in prioritising EBIs and phasing out obsolete practices. This proposal applies high-level training expertise in translating scientific facts into practice by hands-on tools and practicing in a blended learning delivery: e-learning intertwined with practical application in communities.The project team includes 9 of 15 partners from previous EDPQS, UPC-Adapt and ASAP projects. The academic and civil society organisations involved cover 14 member states from all EU regions in 14 languages, adding countries with recent interest in the EUPC, like France, Sweden and Finland. The game-changing feature is the active and dedicated inclusion of law enforcement staff as important actors for integrated and improved prevention responses, with the European Crime Prevention Network (EUCPN) as expert contributor.Focus is the design and testing of elearning tools with interactive methods, and real-life application by local teams including police. Trained competencies are applied in local analysis of interventions or needs with EMCDDA and CTC tools. The name “Frontline Politeia” embodies sustainability by referring a) to Plato’s dialogue about critical thinking and the importance of educated leadership, and b) to the EMCDDA PLATO platform, to which the project outputs (course, tools, manuals) will be compatible, for expected adoption

  New Psychoactive Substances: transnational project on different user groups, user characteristics, extent and patterns of use, market dynamics, and best practices in prevention. This transnational project directly addresses priority area ‘New psychoactive substances’, i.e. ‘to support the implementation of EU legislation on new psychoactive substances by monitoring the extent and patterns of use of such substances, and by sharing best practices on prevention’. The proposed project is directly linked to the European Drugs Strategy 2013-2020. The main objectives are: 1. To determine the extent and patterns of NPS use within three different groups 2. Assess characteristics in three different groups of NPS users 3. Collect information about supply 4. Identify market dynamics for NPS 5. Assess perceptions of legal status of NPS 6. Make an inventory of prevention strategies used in the different countries 7. Identify best practices 8. Disseminate and share project results Europe-wide. The research took place in six EU Member States: Germany, Hungary, Ireland, the Netherlands, Poland and Portugal.    

The research to carry out with intends to make a contribution to an understanding and explanation of the complex reality of the social reintegration of people addicted to psychoactive substances, after attendance at a treatment process in a therapeutic community. In articulating different theoretical viewpoints, it is hoped to identify trends and factors that lead to effective social reintegration, and rejection of the use of psychoactive substances. We intend to develop an analysis model that considers different analytical dimensions and accounts for the strength versus vulnerability factors that may influence these individuals' social reintegration trajectories. A central objective of the research is to capture social regularities and singularities that are present in the individuals' reintegration strategies and associated with social, family, and individual patterns and with skills acquired during the therapeutic process, or resulting from the appropriation of institutional measures.

The project wish to contribute to the achievement of full equality between men and women in Europe, promoting changes in gender roles also by way of a better conciliation betwen family and profissional life. The stable presence of women in the labour market is an irreversible fact; therefore, in Europe men and woman have to face the problem of a conciliation of responsabilities in family and work, as well as the necessity to involve men in family life in a wider way.

The objective of this project is to establish a research programme focused on two interrelated aspects:an analysis of the relationship between family and work, on the one hand, and the dynamics of transition in this relationship, on the other.