1. Multidimensional Restorative Justice for Everyone (MRJ4all)
Ref.no.: 2006/AGIS/171
A collaboration between Hungary, Romania, Germany and the Netherlands, untill december 2008. Read our contibution for the reader at the final meeting in December 2008 (pdf in Dutch)
The aim of the programme is to help successfully adopt mediation, gather and disseminate European best practices in this field. Our focus is on juvenile delinquency, domestic violence, and bullying taking into account, that these fields are not worked out by legal frame and/or by practice.
General problems:
– The mediation for criminal cases is not widely known and accepted.
– There is no well-spreaded codes of good practices, of special restorative technics, and the everyday practice of professionals in law enforcement is problematical.
– There is a gap in cooperation of actors of jurisdictional system in our focus-themes.
– Ongoing network between researchers, trainers, professionals and practioners on mediation issues is a hiatus.
– There is a lack of such a restorative training program for lawyers or other professionals involved in criminal cases, which respects the specialities of each member-state and at the same time is basically harmonized, furthermore could have a multimedial background.
The represents of political decisionmaking, the leaders of jurisdiction and the law-makers are not committed to restorative justice.

2. Republic of Serbia
FGC in Serbia: Creating of favorable conditions for the independent living of children who have grown up in foster families and have not basic conditions to e able to return to their families of origin.
In collaboration with FICE-Serbia en Vereniging Kinderhulp in Zwolle. 2007-2008
Supported by Matra program, Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken, the Hague

The transition from family foster care to independent living is an important step for children/youngsters. Key in this is that all involved in their life are connected in making a good plan for the future of this child. For children/youngsters it is important to experience the understanding and support from as much as possible members of their social network including family members, foster parents, and professionals. For that it is important to implement an activation, planning and decision making tool into this project. For this Family Group Conference(FGC) could be made available. FGC provides children and their family, social and professional network with a possibility to formulate the care need and the solving strategy. At the same time it is an approach that will make all involved around the child active in making the transition to independent living. The FGC is the outward sign of a commitment to inclusive, empowering, partnership. It has a central role in a child focussed, family centred practice paradigm, where it is the partnership mechanism that enables the formal state and professional systems to interact in an equal and respectful way with the informal family and community systems that exist. It recognises that informal systems have knowledge and strengths that many times are unavailable to the professional systems.
TOT of conference facilitators, follow-up, support, supervision and evaluation.
TOT for professionals: their changing role, consultation and evaluation.
Providing materials. 

3. (FGC) Seminar Moscow, Russia 2007- 2008
A collaboration of BICE, Paris, France and Eigen Kracht Centrale, NL
FGC-Seminar is to become aware of Family Group conference.
Activities consist of:
TOT of conference facilitators, follow-up, support, supervision and evaluation.
TOT for professionals: their changing role, consultation and evaluation.
Providing materials