Guidance lab organised crime 1: Understanding local realities and needs (community-based approaches)

Registration for this guidance lab is closed.

The EUCPN–ENAA Secretariat is organising weekly Guidance Labs aimed at bringing together practitioners to discuss key topics and challenges related to youth recruitment. Each session will focus on a specific theme—such as youth diversion, focused deterrence, or online takedowns—providing practitioners with an opportunity to share feedback, exchange experiences, and help refine practical guidelines. The insights gathered during these Labs will support the Secretariat in further developing the EUCPN–ENAA toolkit on youth recruitment into organised crime, ensuring the toolkit remains relevant and useful for the prevention workforce.

Each Lab will last up to 1.5 hours and will include no more than 12 participants. To ensure focused and meaningful discussions, we seek practitioners and decision makers with hands-on experience at the national, regional, or local level.

Guidance lab organised crime: Community-based approaches

Lab 1: Understanding local realities and needs (21 January; 10:00 - 11:30 CET; online)

In this lab, we aim to explore the specific risk factors for youth recruitment in your community and discuss which local actors play a key role, or are often missing. We will share experiences on cooperation with schools, youth services, NGOs, and other stakeholders, and identify early signals of recruitment that frontline workers notice first.