South American countries experiences high levels of crime and violence and consequently a sense of public insecurity, where public bodies capacities to prevent and control crime is limited. This is partially explained by a weak tradition in education provision in the areas of criminology & public security, reflected in limited professional capacities among public officers, not enough skilled to address this societal problem. Academic offers in this area are not widespread, and the existing ones generated an approach to the problems through the hardening of penalties (reform penal codes). Further, the necessary multidisciplinary approach (with other social sciences) is reduced or null.In order to strengthen scientific cooperation & knowledge transfer (evidence-based) SuCCESS aims to strengthening South American teachers and researchers capacity and body of knowledge to develop and improve academic offers in the areas of criminology & public safety, including the development of 4 new masters degrees and 2 new post-graduation/specialization courses, improvement of 2 existing master degrees and the update of lessons and curricular approach in specific Bachelors, through the sharing of experience, knowledge and competences from European Universities.Considering the significant progresses in research and training in these fields in Europe, SuCCESS will promote Euro-South American cooperation and knowledge transfer contributing to improve training of the professionals to perform at higher standards in areas such as crime prevention, delinquency control, public security and social reintegration of ex-convicts, etc., is necessary.SuCCESS assumes that education based on multidisciplinary approach is the key to build a better society: teachers and researchers will develop their capacity on citizen security & criminology issues, enabling the creation of new and improved societal responses, and train students to develop their own solutions and apply them in the real world.
The project aimed strengthening the South American professors/researchers capacity and body of knowledge to develop and improve higher educational offers in the areas of criminology and public safety, including the development of courses at post-graduate level (master and specialization), promoting the dissemination of up-to-date criminological knowledge at different levels - both in academia and in the community, as well as promoting the formation of a Euro-South American network in Criminology
The consortium of European and South American universities was based on the history of co- operation already existing between some of them and the previous experience in co-operation projects in the scope of ERASMUS+. The theme of the project was (is) socially relevant for both Europe and Latin America - Violence/crime and Public Policies-Security. The co-operation aiming Criminology development as academic area - with the transfer of knowledge - created conditions for advances for all involved.
<< Background >> The consortium of European and South American universities was based on the history of co- operation already existing between some of them and the previous experience in co-operation projects in the scope of ERASMUS+. The theme of the project was (is) socially relevant for both Europe and Latin America - Violence/crime and Public Policies-Security. The co-operation aiming Criminology development as academic area - with the transfer of knowledge - created conditions for advances for all involved. << Objectives >> The project aimed strengthening the South American professors/researchers capacity and body of knowledge to develop and improve higher educational offers in the areas of criminology and public safety, including the development of courses at post-graduate level (master and specialization), promoting the dissemination of up-to-date criminological knowledge at different levels - both in academia and in the community, as well as promoting the formation of a Euro-South American network in Criminology << Implementation >> The project was divided in phases, each of them defined by concrete activities and results: Identify training needs in Criminology in the South American universities; Improve Criminology Curricula to promote existing offers and develop new ones, through co-operation between European and South American teams; Implementation and Evaluation of the Criminology Curriculum, seeking the sustainability of the Project. In addition, in a cross-cutting way, establish a network in criminology. << Results >> The main results are six new postgraduate courses, in the South American Universities, helping to establish a specific academic area - Criminology - as an autonomous, empirical, and interdisciplinary science. A Guide for identifying training needs in Criminology in the context of South America was elaborated, and reports from training sessions. In addition, a project website and a Facebook page were created, as well as an online platform to support the Euro-South American Network in Criminololgy