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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! 

The fourth edition of the EFRJ's Winter Academy takes place between 2nd - 6th February 2026 in Leuven (Belgium) offering 2 practice-oriented courses on A) Advanced Restorative Justice Skills & B) Restorative Schools. 

The 13th International Conference of the European Forum for Restorative Justice, entitleed "Echoes of Restorative Encounters: Voices, Evidence, and the Ripple Effects of Restorative Justice in Action" will take place between 11–13 June 2026 in Poznań, Poland, hosted by the Faculty of Psychology and Law at SWPS University, and organised in collaboration with the university and the European Mediation Institute.

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.

Check out the previous years' Restorative Justice Week campaigns. 

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.