ECPA Development group Working group 6'

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ECPA Development groupWorking group 6.

• Chair Jukka-Pekka Takala
• Secretary Yaira Obstbaum

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The aim Developing the ECPA as a tool for for
sharing and encouraging good practices in crime
prevention

• Also a meeting for the ECPA- Development project
  that is funded by the Commissions AGIS programme
• Project partners
• FI (lead), BE, DK, SK, LT, UK, European Forum for
  Urban Safety

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Discussion

• Results from questionnaire that was sent to
  National Representatives
• The future of the project?
• Why have some states continuously managed to
  submit good entries into the ECPA competition?
• How can we develop the ECPA to be an even better
  tool for sharing good practices?
• Should the ECPA have a theme or not?

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Lessons..

• Discussion and answers from National
  Representatives show that member states consider
  the ECPA to be a valuable tool for sharing and
  promoting good practices.

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• 2. ECPA Theme?
• The working group agreed that it is good for the
  ECPA competition to have a theme (rather than no
  theme)
• However, the theme should be
• broad
• ideally anchored to the EUCPN work programme.
• announced well in advance

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3. Developing jury work, documentation and
communication - two stage process? Selection of
a short-list first? - possibility to ask more
information from the shortlisted projects? -
presentations in presence of the jury? - more
time needed for a thorough evaluation of the
project - 4 weeks not enough Current situation
with time-tables emerged because of
synchronization of ECPA with national
competitions. The jury process cannot get
essentially more time unless either national
competitions are moved earlier or EPCA moved
later. Following ECPA winners after the award
how do the winners for earlier years do now?