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CEP Awards 2025
The fourth edition CEP Awards is coming – CEP is planning to present the Awards ceremony during the 2025 General Assembly in Vienna!
With the Awards, CEP would like to celebrate outstanding contributions to Probation. Very soon you will be able to start with submitting your nominations in the following categories:
- Rehabilitation and social inclusion (The Sue Hall Award) – An award for effective rehabilitation and work which promotes social inclusion of probation clients.
- Enhancing the profile of probation and promoting professionalization – An award for work raising the profile and public awareness of probation and for promoting the development of probation practice through the development of skills and training.
- Probation Research – An award for research which has had a demonstrable impact on probation practice and/or policy within the last five years.
The CEP Awards winners will be invited to a presentation ceremony in Vienna, Austria in 2025. The Awards ceremony will be a unique opportunity to celebrate the winners and show case good practices.
The call for projects will open by the end of November 2024 – Check our website and social media channels regularly for the latest updates about the fourth edition of the CEP Awards!
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