NESTOR

NESTOR is an ERASMUS+ Project on the topic of parenting training for parents in prison, especially father prisoners. The aim is to create and pilot test a national network of 30 parent schools in 20 Greek prisons with the participation of 300 father prisoners, which will serve to support the Greek Ministry of Citizen’s Protection Strategic Plan for the creation of an Academy of schools of parents in prison. The close cooperation with UNESCO’s Global Network of “Learning Cities“ will ensure sustainable exploitation. By doing so, the NESTOR Consortium hopes to strengthen family ties of affected families; as well as contribute to the re-integration of incarcerated fathers in Greece and beyond.

Activities

NESTOR employs a three step approach:

1. The development of a of tailor-made methodology for enhancing parenting skills of prisoners, with a focus on the father’s role.

2. Building a critical mass of key professionals and providing them with the skills and tools required to develop schools of parents in prison.

3. Establish and pilot a national network of schools of parents in prisons across Greece and assess its impact.

NESTOR will involve key professional; ranging from prison administrators, social services, educators and psychologists; throughout the process. NESTOR activities will focus on the national needs and requirement, to deliver a taylored toolkit and guidelines for greek prisons, while also ensuring general usability via participation in the Global Network of “Learning Cities“.

Partners

• Center of Security Studies (Greece)

• Hellenic Agency for Local Development and Local
  Government (Greece)

• Law and Internet Foundation (Bulgaria)

• Center for Education and Treatment of Addicted Persons (Cyprus)

Runtime

12/2020 - 11/2023

Funding

NESTOR has received funding by the European Union’s ERASMUS+ programme under grant agreement no. 621410-EPP-1-2020-1-EL-EPPKA3-IPI-SOC-IN