The main objective of the project is to improve the situation of prisoners/released people who suffer disadvantages socially, in the labor market, socio-economically and in connection with other life skills and mental health areas, who are facing barriers, are in total confinement, or who have been released from prison; to improve their competences in general, transversally, and by combining soft-green skills, by expanding the methodology of adult education. In addition to the direct target group, the focus was on developing the professional/individual competences of the professionals dealing with them, implementing strategic partnerships, expanding and developing the professional areas of the organizations in partnership, maturing the development of long-term international relations, and implementing partnerships and networking close to the border (different cultures and countries, but still close symbolically and physically). All these factors have certainly increased the management capacity of the organizations (international project management), which can have a positive impact on the organizational culture. We also aimed to create innovative content.
The main topic of the project is supporting the social and labor market integration of prisoners and released people, exploring, identifying and developing professional and methodological opportunities by developing green and soft skills and other universal and transversal competences. New opportunities and innovations were explored in the educational and supportive work with the target group, which meant service extension, professional/personal development and creating basis for the development of further projects in cooperation between two NGOs, which are different in their fields of expertise but which are definitely mutually stimulating in a coordinated strategic partnership. The focus is on environmental awareness and attitudes and their positive change (which affects everyone’s future) for a specific, closed, neglected target group facing many obstacles. The main need is to create a link (real and symbolic) between the possibility of "recycling" (social/employment) and the reduction of environmental pressure (also through recycling). The keyword of the project is therefore sustainability in both the social and environmental segments.