"There has been an increasing demand for multi-agency policies in urban governance to resolve issues of public order and social wellbeing. In particular, the regulation of social order in public space has increasingly become a shared responsibility for authorities and welfare institutions, as multi-agency approaches are believed to be more effective and supportive to marginalised people. Stakeholders are urged to work together in a model of security and safety governance, despite their different ideologies. The starting point for this project was seen in social practice, as vulnerable people such as substance users and homeless persons are ""clients"" of both professions – police officers and social workers. Vulnerable people are sometimes considered a problem of social disorder and at the same time they are in need of help in terms of social and medical care. However, the two professions show fundamental differences in responsibilities, organisational structures, professional cultures, and in their work methods. Therefore, they may be sending ambiguous and incoherent signals to vulnerable persons in public spaces with severe consequences for their wellbeing. The project team of practitioners and researchers in social work and policing developed a special training to provide a forum for exchange on various functions and responsibilities for the benefit of vulnerable persons in society. A 5-day training for approximately 15 to 20 participants from both professions – social work and police - has been developed. This training curriculum is structured in three modules: In Module 1 professional cultures, organisational structures, professional concepts and practicalities of partnership programmes between police and social work organisations are discussed. A clear understanding of basic work ethics shall contribute to reduce prejudices and build trust between members of the different professions. Module 2 is dedicated to a more specific field at the interface between social work and policing: the use of psycho-active substances among young people in the nightlife. Here, the SWaPOL training focuses on two ways of interpretation of the same problem: Perceived as a problem of health (addiction) social workers apply methods of harm reduction; conceived as a criminal offence (drug dealing) the police argue they must enforce the law. Without a process of communication and collaboration, this leads to controversial policies and a game of cat-and-mouse. Module 3 is dedicated to the problem of homelessness, which is a multifaceted and complex social problem, and it concerns several fields of social policy beyond housing. As homelessness more often becomes a problem of public (dis-)order, it is not only a matter of lifestyle of the homeless person, but rather a problem between three parties: the homeless people, the general public who raise complaints about social disorder, and the police who have to settle the dispute. And that makes it a case for community policing and calls for joining forces with institutions of social work and welfare.The SWaPOL training schedule has been explicated in a Handbook for Trainers, published in 4 different languages (English, German, Portuguese and Dutch). The handbook presents the modules in more detail and will help future consortia to structure future trainings around keynote themes and learning activities. Practical exercises for educational practice follow recent high school didactics of ""constructive alignment"" and ""student-centred learning"". Exercises have been carefully selected for a classroom situation when social workers and police officers meet. Excursions and field trips to public places and to social service facilities for substance users and homeless people are conceived. Spending quality time together was conceived one of the major factors to a successful collaboration between actors of very different professional cultures. This could and should not be replaced by online teaching and distance learning.Partners in the SWaPOL project have disseminated their findings widely in international conferences and in so-called national multiplier events, which attracted various practitioners from federal and local police, city councils and social work associations. Although these meetings could only be held as online conferences, they had a significant impact on local governance. In all partner countries the SWaPOL model curriculum will be implemented in future training activities on a local level. A permanent integration of SWaPOL trainings will show positive long-term effects on the way social workers and police officers interact and collaborate in joint prevention projects."

Empirically informing a European theory of justice is a complex and challenging endeavour, however the emergence of current social crisis, and the resulting inequalities and unfairness, bring about the need to revise the premises that facilitate translation of the theory into concrete guidance to effective social policies and coherent programs and practices. To respond to this challenge, a trans-disciplinary Consortium has been organized to provide a comprehensive series of empirical data, in different ecological levels, in order to understand differences in perceptions of inequality. Through a case study on an extreme expression of inequality and unfairness - LONG-TERM HOMELESSNESS – organized in a multi-method and convergent design, HOME_EU is focused on understanding: a) How much inequality do EU Citizens accept regarding Homelessness; b) How the people with a lived-experience of Homelessness (both present and past) perceive the opportunities, choices and capability gains with the services and the existing social policies; c) What strategies consider the service providers to be more effective in reversing Homelessness; d) How social policies and policy key stakeholders contribute to effectively reverse Homelessness; and e) Develop a generalizable indicator (correlating the different ecological levels of analysis) based on the data gathered by each partner country on the key elements of policy and program efficacy. We believe that with this journey into an extreme situation, we are able to generate translational knowledge about the ecology of long-term Homelessness and contribute towards the advancement of an empirically based EU theory & practice of justice as fairness.

This project has five higher education institutions as partners (three universities and two polytechnic institutes) and six other entities with which the higher education institutions develop regular activity. Within the scope of this project, the objectives defined included the implementation of a set of mobility flows of student, teacher, and non-teaching staff, which have been exceeded, regarding the student as well as the staff mobility.In fact, the estimated flows for mobility of students for traineeship were 217 and 228 were achieved and regarding staff mobility the initial number was 48 flows and 52 were achieved. Regarding the last typology, the planned flows for teaching was 28 and 26 were executed, and instead of the initial 20 training periods planned, 26 were executed. This is, then, an overall implementation rate of 105,66 % of the project.However, the level of financial implementation was lower because the mobility periods were shorter than foreseen in the allocation of grants, with a particular impact on student’s mobility. In fact, the training periods tend to have a shorter duration than planned, which is due to the organization of the curricula of the courses, namely in the area of Health, where there are several moments of internships, of 2 to 3 months, during the degree. On average, the duration verified in this project was about 143 days, instead of 180 days.Concerning the activities of the Consortium, we should mention those that occur at the level of each institution and those that were jointly plan. At institution level, were held those arising from the day-to-day management, namely the opening of applications for the mobility periods, the award of the grants (after completing the different stages of this process), preparatory meetings for the students and workers who will carry out these periods, the monitoring of the period itself, and finally the formal recognition of the periods of mobility. The OLS licenses to the participating students were awarded by the coordinating institution, and funds were distributed among the partners. Two Staff Training Week, hosted at the University of the Algarve were held, as well as follow-up meetings. The dissemination of the Erasmus AlSud Consortium occur during other initiatives that took place in each of the partner institutions (namely International Weeks and Congresses).

FLOW sees a need for a paradigm shift wherein non-motorised transport (often seen from a transport policy perspective simply as a nice “extra”) is placed on an equal footing with motorised modes with regard to urban congestion. To do this, FLOW will create a link between (currently poorly-connected) walking and cycling and congestion by developing a user-friendly methodology for evaluating the ability of walking and cycling measures to reduce congestion. FLOW will develop assessment tools to allow cities to evaluate effects of walking and cycling measures on congestion. Our aim is for the tools to become the standard for assessing the impact of walking and cycling measures on congestion. The tools include a congestion impact assessment (including socio-economic impact, an assessment of soft measures, congestion evaluation based on KPIs and a cost benefit analysis) and traffic modelling. Current modelling software will be calibrated and customised in FLOW partner cities to analyse the relationship of cyclist and pedestrian movements to congestion. The modelling and impact assessment will identify the congestion reducing effect of walking and cycling measures. FLOW partner cities will develop implementation scenarios and action plans for adding or up-scaling measures that are shown to reduce congestion. FLOW will target three distinct audiences, with appropriate materials and messaging for each. Cities will learn about the value and use of new transport modelling tools, businesses will be made aware of the potential market in congestion busting products and services and decision makers will be provided with facts to argue for walking and cycling to be put on equal footing with other modes of transport. FLOW will meet the challenge of “significantly reducing urban road congestion and improving the financial and environmental sustainability of urban transport” by improving the understanding of walking and cycling measures that have potential to reduce urban congestion.