All over Europe we have an increase in the importance of private security services in the public space. Hence, security and protection of people is more and more placed in private sector. If security forces have ethnic or religious resentments of certain target groups, we might have the result to have an unequal distribution of protection and security, discrimination, harassment or even violence.A sad highlight of possible riots was the torture of asylum-seekers by private security forces in German asylum homes.The study “Die Abwertung des Anderen. Eine europäische Zustandsbeschreibung zu Toleranz, Vorurteilen und Diskriminierung.“ written by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung headed by Andreas Zick makes clear that there will probably further incidents without a fundamental action strategy.The study also shows that prejudices, intolerance and nondemocratic settings are widespread all over European societies.This applies to the lot said 'middle of the population" as well as the even more concerned educationally deprived milieus from which the operational staff of private security services is mainly recruited. Concerned, the study describes in particular the proliferation of Islam enemy settings. This outcome is particularly political charged because of the increasing labour mobility and conflicts in Near and Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa and in this way the increase of the number of Muslims in European countries.An open-minded attitude and an affirmation to pluralism of the staff is needed by advancement and trainings. Public safety - in particular the German armed forces, but also the police - respond to these needs with civic and intercultural training. There are no comparable binding offers in the field of private security services so far.In conclusion, there is an urgent need for actions with the aim of preventing radicalization or even actions to make an intervention possible.The prevention of radicalization is to ensure by the development of training concepts for the education and training of private security staff. On top the project has to develop a seal of quality that empowers customers to assess the suitability of security staff in dealing with people with a migration background. Further customers of security services must have the possibility to assess the quality of institutions and the suitability of security staff in dealing with people with migration background.Training courses on the prevention of radicalization are intended for the operative working staff. The focus is on the work of and reflection on prejudice, as well as the strengthening of intercultural competence and ambiguity tolerance. To guarantee a precisely fitting conception of education modules the development of the curricula precedes a survey of about 300 employees from about eight companies in private security sector from five partner countries.The results of the surveys will be evaluated and processed. They form the basis of the development of the training modules and will be tested with the workforce of the companies. The innovative essence of this project is the base-oriented approach, which ensures a broad remedy of actual deficits and resentment of the staff through the consistent view of operational realities, the various education and training standards in European countries. For each partner country, there will be two trial trainings. About 60 people will be internationally trained. Of course, the respective senior executives and management as far as teachers for training and further and vocational education are involved in the development of the training modules.The combination of regional workshops and the experience and results of evaluation and training the companies and the employees made on the one hand and the transnational workshops include scientific monitoring on the other hand allows us to design precisely fitting trainings and standards not matter what difference the countries have in their education and training.A project Advisory Board, accompanying the development of the product and consisting of representatives of the employer Confederation of this industry and the corresponding associations/unions guarantees a maximum dispersion of project results in the industry to eventually develop the introduction of a quality seal for the new education modules in education and training throughout the EU and prepare a binding decision on it by with the European roof organizations, CoESS and UNI-Europe.
Context and project background: Whether in the guarding of refugee shelters, city strips, event protection or the protection of public buildings such as schools and hospitals – all mentioned areas are highly conflicted, sensitive to discrimination and violence. Under the impression of current developments in Europe, including in the field of right-wing populism and Islamism, the project provided answers for companies in the security industry to prevent – or, if necessary, intervent – in the event of radicalisation and also social discrimination against their staff and their clientele to be guarded. Objectives and achieved results: The introduction of radicalisation prevention measures in the private security sector has been ensured by the development of educational modules for the education and training of private security staff. In addition, customers of security services should in future be given the opportunity to assess the suitability of security personnel in dealing with people with a migrant background through a seal of quality for institutions. In the cooperated companies of the partner institutions, training on radicalisation prevention for operational staff was carried out in accordance with the application training courses. The focus here was on the work and reflection on prejudices as well as the strengthening of intercultural competence and ambiguity tolerance. Two publications have emerged, one of which goes beyond the application: A comprehensive information brochure on radicalisation risks and processes, as well as on protective factors for companies. The contents of this brochure provide a basis for threat management as well as for the implementation of prevention structures. The second publication is the curriculum for trainers, who should finally be able to work with operational security personnel. A comprehensive social and organisational psychological theoretical background on the topics of radicalisation and social discrimination prepare the readers for the training, which consists of a general and special part of the training. In addition, both publications provide information on the identification of radicalisation – after all, a company cannot choose at what level of prevention it has to operate at. On the basis of the evaluations of the regional test workshops for the curriculum in the partner countries as well as on the basis of the experience and exchange of knowledge at the transnational meetings, the design for a European seal of quality was also developed, which was awarded to the umbrella organisation. CoESS has been submitted to its members for a vote. The seal will be further processed at the level of the CoESS umbrella organisation in the project. Number and profile of participating institutions: Partners from seven European countries were involved. -Germany with the Nell-Breuning Haus – an organisation of vocational and political adult education – as the head of the project and the BDSW (Federal Association of the Security Industry) as a Employers ' organisation, -Ireland with the Security Institute – a training provider for the private security industry with an operational and scientific branch, -Poland with the trade union organisation NSZZ Solidarnosc, among others the largest Trade union association for workers of private security services in Poland, -Romania with PROIS-NV, a non-governmental organisation in the fields of education, the labour market and social inclusion, and with wide-ranging contacts to certified training providers, major universities and public institutions, -Estonia with the educational institution ETÖK with a focus on workers’ education and qualification, -Slovenia with the Institute for Corporate Security Studies with close cooperation to national and international security and also a member of RAN (Radicalization Awareness Network) -Spain with the trade union organisation FeS-UGT, which has a training and project centre for vocational training for the private security sector. Main activities and long-term benefits: For each partner country, there were two trial rounds of the curriculum in which about 60 people have been trained across countries. The respective managers, teachers of the training and further education institutions were also involved. At the transnational workshops of all partners with the corresponding evaluations, the appropriate training measures were finally developed. The described project results form the basis for future standardisation as part of the training of the operational staff of private security services.