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This project is being funded by the European Refugee Fund (ERF). It is a follow-up to the first European Project (Good Practice in Torture Care)which was completed in February 2010. It's principal aim was to develop a common approach within EU to the task of addressing the specific needs of vulnerable groups, especially those who have undergone torture or other severe human rights violations. | This project is being funded by the European Refugee Fund (ERF). It is a follow-up to the first European Project (Good Practice in Torture Care)which was completed in February 2010. It's principal aim was to develop a common approach within EU to the task of addressing the specific needs of vulnerable groups, especially those who have undergone torture or other severe human rights violations. | ||
==Principal | The project is based on the existing practical experience in the field. It combines this expertise with a participatory evaluation and research model that allows for the practitioners to share their expertise in a discourse with professional research, while addressing the specific needs of vulnerable groups among asylum seekers using the synergy effects of diversity. The project focuses on the development and dissemination of good practice by a)Introducing an inventory on care and treatment methods as well as staff care, b)setting an agenda for research based on the experience of practitioners in the field. | ||
==Objectives and Positive outcomes== | |||
===<small>Principal aim</small>=== | |||
The project is aiming at developing an inventory of working methods in the field of care for or other serious forms of psychological, physical or sexual violence. The project partners will link their expertise with current research and the ongoing discourse in the academic field by participating in training and teaching at various universities and professional training institutions. | |||
The project partners intend to publish recommendations for those dealing with vulnerable refugees, which will include an inventory of good practice for care and treatment , as well as of good practice in staff care. The recommendations will be published. They will also be disseminated by staff of the partner organisations teaching at academic institutions. | |||
===<small>Positive outcomes</small>=== | |||
There are some additional outcomes from the project which are expected to be of value. | |||
* Better cooperation between the different centers across Europe | |||
* Exchange of experience | |||
* Training of practitioners in possible new methods on vulnerable groups' needs | |||
* Harmonisation in a European level of treatment methods | |||
* Creation of the inventory of care and treatment methods and using it as guideline to new or already functioning centers | |||
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