The mission of the Border Guard School (hereafter – BGS) under the State Border Guard Service (hereafter – SBGS) at the Ministry of Interior of the Republic of Lithuania – ensure quality of trainings meeting the requirements for borders protection and armed state defence. BGS pays significant attention and importance to satisfaction of its customer needs, requirements and exceeded expectations about BGS activities and results, as it is one of main targets of Quality Management System (compatible with the requirements of LST EN ISO 9001:2008 standard) implemented in BGS.Each year BGS carries out research assessing the state of play of training quality and distinguishes the range of activity improvements. Recent researches indicates the need of development of trainees practical skills.The aim of the project – to develop BGS students competencies of border checks.Project participants – basic level vocational training BGS students, who are trained according to the 3rd educational level Border Guard training curriculum, and pretending to become basic level officers (border guards) at the SBGS. The part of internship carried out in the host organization under the frames of this project will be considered as a part of BGS 2nd course final internship. The rest part of the internship is going to be carried out in the SBGS structural units. It is planned to implement 4 groups BGS students mobility visits in 5 European Union (hereafter – EU) member states (Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Poland and Romania), each visit 3 participants in each country in 2 year period. In total 60 participants. Activities will be carried out according to the agenda agreed between BGS and project partners.In order to ensure successful implementation, the project management group was formed by the head of BGS order. Participants monitoring will be carried out by the appointed persons in host partners organizations, in addition, monitoring visits will be carried out by BGS representatives. The progress and achievements of participants will be assessed by the appointed persons in host partners organizations, after the internship there will be an examination of participants participants skills, moreover, comparative paper essay will be additional measure to evaluate participants. Gained experience will be used in a future work at SBGS, and it will ensure higher external EU border protection level meeting the requirements of Schengen Aquis, national and common EU safety. In addition, participation in the project will allow to improve participants English language skills and knowledge, will provide a better chance to get a position in one of SBGS border crossing points, also a possibility to participate in EU borders protecting missions, organized by FRONTEX.BGS is expecting that this project will increase participants and their employers satisfaction about preparation for future work at SBGS structural units.By implementing this project BGS is going to contribute to the attitude of FRONTEX regulation, i. e. ability of EU member states border guards to work together, to understand, implement and carry out border check procedures in the same manner. Qualitatively trained personnel will ensure internal and external EU borders safety.BGS is hoping that the dissemination of project will popularize border guard profession in Lithuania, especially will motivate members of Young Border Guard to become BGS students.

Safety and well-being at work is one of the most important and developed aspects of the EU employment and social affairs policy. This field is an integral part of the conception, organization and development of work processes and has the role, by means of specific measures and means, to prevent possible dysfunctions in the labor system, so that the labor process takes place in the most efficient way. The ultimate goal alt EU level is to protect the lives, integrity and health of workers against the risks of injury and occupational illness that may occur at work and to create working conditions designed to provide them with physical, mental and social comfort. Our responsibility as member states is to align to the EU policy in the field and thus requires a transnational approach and exchange of good practices. The authorities responsible for national public order and safety, are responsible for the organization, coordination and supervision of the activity in the area of occupational health and safety within their units due to the particular categories of personnel employed by these institutions (policeman and military personnel). In this context, we needs to take immediate action and design its policy in the area considering the particularities of the work environment within its units. The support measures requested will help to correlate the institutional actions in the area of occupational safety and health with the strategic lines set at national and European level. I. Improvement of the institutional capacity to reduce the risks and work-related accidents through measures based on scientific analysis and a valid mechanism of data collection.II. Upgrading of policy in the field of safety and well-being in workplace in law enforcement systems through integration of HR, Health and Occupational Psychology activities into a system of multidisciplinary services.III. Improvement of the institutional capacity to increase safety and well-being in workplace through restructuring the periodical evaluations and interventions so they become more accessible at local level.The increased capacity to gather data in an integrated manner will allow for the integration of local data in performing comprehensive analysis. Also, tools, materials, procedures, resources adapted to the European context and addressed to professionals will become available, assuming new cooperation commitments in multi-disciplinary and pluri-disciplinary teams at local and regional level. The direct beneficiaries of improved occupational safety and health standards are most of them working in highly exposed functions (police, gendarmerie, emergency services, border guard), who will benefit from improved working conditions. Indirectly, these actions will result in improved performance of law enforcement authorities and departments, improving thus the overall functioning of society. The implementation of the proposed measures will produce a structural change in the area of human resources management central units and its subordinated structures, and will impact upon the central public administration as a whole. The expected impact consists in improved working conditions and increased efficiency of human resources management in law enforcement through the development of the institutional mechanisms and necessary competences to ensure the proper administration of the human capital – a strategic resource of the organization, highly important for the consolidation of the knowledge based economy, a goal which has been set at European level through the Europe 2020 Strategy. The strategic documents and instruments developed through this action will ensure an appropriate work environment and protection of employees against professional accidents and diseases and the provision of proper care when these occur. Through this action, the awareness level is raised among decision makers regarding the importance and benefits of ensuring a healthy and safe environment for the employees. In addition, by involving staff in joint teams with external experts throughout the various stages of project implementation, there will be ensured the transfer of the skills necessary for the modernization of the institution. The desired increase of synergies, complementarities and avoidance of duplicities in taking all the actions necessary for validating tools and instruments reviewed by experts, which otherwise they wouldn't have met to work together, to commonly use and share their resources and their experience in order to develop innovative techniques, methods, tools and instruments tailored to meet the needs of each partner. Impact of the project will take the form of networking with other relevant institutions, and through the dissemination within regular conferences/seminars/forums we expect to increase the interest of other stakeholders to adopt the integrated system and multidisciplinary approach developed in the project SAFEWELL.

Monitoring work-related stress revealed high heterogeneity between European states and recent surveys show that one in every five European workers endures work-related stress. This project had the aim of describing key research and activities useful for stress and anger reduction in the five participating countries: Romania, Spain, Cyprus, Italy and Norway, based on previous projects aiming at improving HR policies and therefore the psychosocial environment in organizations. The specific goal was to compare strengths and weaknesses of practices for stress reduction with a transnational view, in order to improve the employee’s capacity to manage the work related stress and negative emotions; the employee’s skills to work with persons with personality disorders with consequences in criminal behavior as wel as the employees’ capacity to perform needs assessment and interventions for offenders with personality disorders in order to reduce the risk to reoffend.The strategic partnership targeted the achievement of: 01. Scientific research, Protocols, and needs analysis for anger, violence and stress reduction, Output 02. Manual for work related stress and anger management applied in law enforcement and correctional field, Output 03. Upgrading the online platform with specific resources and producing Output 04. The Miniguide for employees in dealing with aggressive personalities.The collection of scientific evidences gives strength to practices supported in this project, designed at the end to give practical suggestions to professionals and provided valid data for the development of documents that support measures and decisions regarding stress in the workplace. The main results derived from the intellectual outputs were delivered to the employees during project implementation, through professional training sessions, and will continue to be disseminated with the support of the VET departments: the protocols for work related stress and anger management applied, which is a detailed collection of techniques for the reduction of stress and anger and the miniguide for employees involved in activities with higher rate of psychosocial risks, a brief ready-to-use guide with simple and fast techniques for managing aggressive personalities.We involved 846 participants and 18 researchers in studies regarding stress and anger in the workplace, 234 trainers and coordinators in dissemination at national and European level, 12 officials and 30 professionals from other European states in multiplying the results. The benefits of this project were multiplied during events in each partner country, webpages and press releases informing about the project results, to the relevant stakeholders and policy makers in the field of VET. The outputs, the protocols, miniguide, tools and instruments for scientific research become available and free on the project webpage. The impact was measured at the end of the project, during the multiplying events, by an independent company and 85% of beneficiaries reported the the events had risen to expectations regarding the deliverables, techniques and lecturers.We consider that the project results stand as a solid base for training on improving management of negative emotions, stress, anger, the usefulness of such a program being presented by the respondents, with reference to the following aspects: personal development and optimization; improving interpersonal and organizational communication; increased frustration tolerance and self-control; increased confidence in one's own forces and in the work group; optimizing the working climate; reducing the risk of conflict occurrence and manifestation; efficiency of professional activities; prevention of possible professional behaviors at risk. Forming and training professionals in law enforcement and penitentiary staff is difficult and with this project we took a solid step in trying to create a correlation between what a worker actually does and what he needs to know and do. Excessive work-related stress has a strong impact on the lives of all employees, regardless of the position they occupy. To conclude, the project provided the opportunity to develop continuous training for staff working in activities with higher rate of psychosocial risks and for development of programs focused on stress reduction strategies for physical and mental health of staff. The strategic partnership provided the context for a wide range of professionals and organizations across Europe to exchange expertise, to work together for common goal and to create added value to their work and also, at European level. The project partners established long lasting networks of cooperation, improvements, sustainability and beyond, looking forward for new project opportunities.