The project was aimed at creating an European network of social organisations committed to promoting the social inclusion of prisoners and contributing to the continuous training of operators in the sector. The general objective was to improve the quality of life of people in detention and/or marginalised, by promoting their social and professional reintegration. The specific objectives were to increase the development capacity of each partner organisation and the competences of their staff members (educators, social operators, etc) who work on a daily basis with detainees or ex-detainees. Through the exchange of good practices around social inclusion of marginalised subjects, PLAN B aimed at testing, systematising and enriching the methodologies and tools used by each partner organisation in order to share them among the partners, provide training to social operators on their usage and, eventually, implement them with the users. Furthermore, PLAN B wanted to contribute to raise participant and stakeholder awareness on inclusive and non-discriminatory communication and make the results available in an open and free way for all interested European organisations.
The main motivation for the Plan B project laid in the will of shedding light on the carceral reality at European level and orient it towards social inclusion and change, through practices of social and professional reintegration and valuable learning opportunities. In so doing, the project intended to prevent and reduce recidivism rate and inequalities. Another reason for project application was the belief that through cooperation at European level, and thus through the exchange of good practices among organisations working with detainees, each partner would have strengthened and improved its own activities and abilities of social inclusion. The main needs addressed were therefore the following: 1) improving the skills possessed by social operators in order to enhance social inclusion of people in detention; 2) creating more opportunities for detainees to start ahed after detention through valuable formative and orientation paths; 3) constitute a solid European partnership to provide further opportunities to detainees and improve their self-awareness and ability to face new situations through the acquisition of key competences and professional skills.