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Events

You will find details here about the events that are the most important for us: the conferences, summer schools, trainings we organise, the Restorative Justice Week & many more.  The upcoming events are here at the top, for anything from the past check below! 

Call for Hosting EFRJ Events

After the successful EFRJ Conferences, Seminars/ Symposiums and Summer Schools of the past years, hosted by active EFRJ members across Europe, we are re-opening the call: who is willing to take up this challenge, and host the EFRJ community in the upcoming years?

The deadline for proposals is end September 2024.

“Time to Talk” is a moment of reflection dedicated to start a conversation about specific challenges that the organization is facing. EFRJ members and invited guests can join us on Zoom on 23 September at 16:00 CET.

The webinar "The reforming potential of restorative practice" (Zoom, 7 October) is for any professionals interested in engaging in an interactive discussion on how restorative practice responds to complex and serious harm and facilitates reforms within institutions. 

Launch event of the publication "From Survivors to Survivors: Conversations on restorative justice in cases of sexual violence" (2023), together with editors and authors, on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women (25 November 2024).

Join us in Athens (16-17 May 2025) for the 13th international seminar of the European Forum for Restorative Justice, dedicated to children and migration.

Learn about restorative justice and its special areas through our online events. 

We offer each year a number of online and in-the-room courses; and on request: tailor made training events in various fields restorative justice and related subjects.

Events that are organised in the framework of projects we are engaged in. 

We aim to offer platform to explore and discuss the most recent challenges and developments related to restorative justice through our conferences organised every second year (in May or June, in even years only, for about 350-380 participants). 

Every two years (odd years only), between May or June, the EFRJ organises an international thematic seminar, limited to 120-130 participants, hosted by its members in a different location in Europe.

"Protect and Empower the Person Harmed"- Take part in the #RJWeek 2021! Check what is happening throughout the week full of events all around the world celebrating the power of restorative justice! Do you plan to do your event? Submit it to us, so we can disseminate it! 

To celebrate our 20th anniversary, at the end of the year 2020 (30 November - 5 December), the European Forum for Restorative Justice organised an online festival bringing together arts, research and practice with the aim of offering a forum to discuss justice, solidarity and repair in today’s societies.

Our summer schools concentrate on various areas of restorative justice every second year. 

Since its establishment in 2012, the Criminal Justice Platform Europe (EuroPris, CEP and EFRJ) organised thematic seminars and summer courses bringing together professionals from these different fields, i.e. prison, probation and restorative justice.