How institutional abuse not only challenges but adds depth and increases the scope of restorative justice?
In June 2025 the EFRJ organises the 10th edition of its Summer School in San Sebastián/Donostia (Basque Country Spain). The Summer School will explore the topic of organisational/institutional harm and the potential of restorative justice in responding to it. The event invites practitioners (restorative justice facilitators), service providers, organisational leaders and coordinators, policy makers, researchers and students to learn more about the specificities of harms that occur within organisations and the innovative restorative justice approach to them.
The content of the event informed by the outcomes of the long-term collaboration between senior experts of the subject within the EFRJ's Working Group on Institutions and Organisations and Restorative Justice.
The Summer School will have an English speaking and Spanish speaking group working in parallel and together as well (with translation during the shared activities). It will be facilitated by Tim Chapman and Raul Calvo.
The local co-organiser of the event is the Basque Institute of Criminology (University of the Basque Country) and the Restorative Justice & Practice Lab (within the Institute of Criminolgy) led by Gema Varona.
If you want to join the English speaking group register here below. If you prefer the attend the course in Spanish please sign up on this link.
| 16 June (Monday) | 17 June (Tuesday) | 18 June (Wednesday) | 19 June (Thursday) | 20 June (Friday) | |
| 7:00 - 9:00 am | breakfast | breakfast | breakfast | breakfast | |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | workshop | workshop | workshop | closing workshop | |
| 12:30 - 1:30 pm | Registration | lunch | lunch | lunch | |
| 1:30 - 5:00 pm | opening workshop | workshop | Study visits | workshop | |
| 8 pm - 10 pm | social dinner |
EFRJ members get a discount of the fee. The discount is automatically applied to members (only after logging in to our website). If you haven't paid your membership due for the current year yet, you will not get the discount automatically. If you don't get the discount for any other reason, please contact Bálint Juhász to get your discount code before you fill in your application.
Is the participation fee a barrier for you to participate? We can offer a limited number of partial waivers of the fee. If you would like apply for these please fill in this application form by 20th April 2025. The applications will be reviewed after that, and responses will be sent by 24th April evening.
| Early bird | Full price | |
|---|---|---|
| (until 1st of May 2025) | ||
| EFRJ members | 810 € | 970 € |
| Non members | 990 € | 1150 € |
The Summer School is a residential event. We encourage participants to get the full experience by staying at the same accommodation. However, you may organise your own accommodation and register for the Summer School by contacting us for a special registration code. For this option the following prices apply:
| Early bird (without accommodation) | Full price (without accommodation) | |
|---|---|---|
| (until 10 May 2025) | ||
| EFRJ members | 510 € | 770 € |
| Non members | 690 € | 950 € |
If you cancel your participation before 20th April 2025 you get 70% refund of your subscription fee. If you need to cancel after 1st May 2025 your participation for a 'vis major' reason (including Covid-19 infection), and you can provide a proof of this, you may get a voucher for another EFRJ event in the future in the value of maximum 50% of your registration price. In other cases we cannot refund your registration fee.
You may transfer your registration to another participant without any costs until 9th June 2025 (in case there are available spots).
The Basque Institute of Criminology is an academic institution within the University of the Basque Country, a public University. Prof. Antonio Beristain was the founder of this Institute in 1978 and the first Basque and Spanish academician promoting restorative justice. Some years ago, within the Basque Institute of Criminology, the Restorative Justice & Practice Lab was founded by Gema Varona, Alberto Olalde and Idoia Igartua.
The study visist will be hosted by the Restorative Justice Services (for adults and juveniles) and Ombudsman's Office of the Basque Government.
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