Italy

Title: Psicologia giuridica e pratiche di giustizia riparativa - Juridical psychology and restorative justice practices

Main topics: The course critically examines juridical psychology, its legal and interdisciplinary interactions, and applications, emphasizing governance that fosters responsibility, social inclusion, and cohesion. Key topics include juridical psychology's development, justice models (retributive, rehabilitative, restorative), juridical evaluation and intervention, and community prevention models. Restorative justice, aligned with recent European directives, will be explored in depth, focusing on its principles, practices, and applications in penal systems and social contexts.

The course uses active, student-centered methods aligned with restorative justice values.

Practicalities: taught in English, physical presence required, paying course

• Target audience: Bachelor students with an academic background in Psychology or Social Work
• Study Level: Starts as an introduction
• Duration: Three months / 75 hours on the first semester

Title: Psicologia di comunità - Community Psychology

Main topics: The course provides a critical analysis of the main approaches in community psychology: paradigms, research methodologies and application fields. The following will be explored as areas of interest: restorative justice and restorative practices for the peaceful management of conflicts; the theory of empowerment; the evaluation and promotion of the sense of community; social networks; research methodologies in community psychology.

Practicalities: taught in English, physical presence required, free course

• Target audience: Bachelor students with an academical background in Social Work and Psychological Sciences and Techniques of Cognitive Processes.
• Study Level: Starts an an introduction
• Duration: From March until April / 6 hours per week for 5 weeks

Title: Giustizia riparativa

Main topics: Restorative justice: origins, programs, tools

Practicalities: taught in Italian, physical presence required, paying course

• Target audience: Master students with an academic background in Law or Psychology or Sociologt or Criminology or Social Work
• Study Level: Starts as an intermediary / advanced course
• Duration: Intermediary: In the second semester with a duration of 30 hours

Title: Giustizia riparativa e mediazione penale - Restorative Justice and Criminal Mediation

Main topics: Regulatory part / Philosophical part / Human sciences / Simulations

Practicalities: taught in Italian, physical presence required, paying course

• Target audience: Bachelor students with an academic background in Law or Modern Languages For Communication and International Cooperation 
• Study Level: Five-year university degree course in law 
• Duration: In the second semester with a duration of 50 hours 

Title: Giustizia penale riparativa - Restorative justice in criminal matters

Main topics: Historical overview / The modern restorative justice and it's recent roots / The supranational legal documents / The definitions of restorative justice / The person involved / The basic principles / The restorative programs / The guarantees / The outcomes / Relationship between Restorative Justice and criminal justice system / Experiences of Restorative Justice

Practicalities: Taught in Italian, physical presence required, free course

• Target audience: Bachelor Students with an academic background in Law
• Study Level: Starts as an intermediary course 
• Duration: In the second semester with a douration of 48 hours of traditional lesson, in addition to at least three workshops 

Title: Risoluzione alternativa dei conflitti in materia civile e giustizia riparativa/ADR in civil matters and RJ

Main topics: Introduction to ADR and to RJ / Italian law on RJ

Practicalities: taught in Italia, physical presence required, paying course

• Target audience: Master Students with an academic background in Law
• Study Level: Starts as an introduction to ADR and to Restorative Justice. Moreover introduction to italian law on Restorative Justice
• Duration: 20 hours

Title: Mediatore esperto in programmi di giustizia riparativa in ambito penale - Mediator with expertise in restorative justice programmes in criminal matters

Main topics: The Master intends to train the professional figure of the mediator with expertise in restorative justice programmes, specialised in the planning, management and implementation of restorative justice interventions in the penal field. For the expert mediator, Legislative Decree no. 150/2022 (Cartabia Reform) and the relevant implementing ministerial decrees provide for compulsory theoretical and practical training as well as the enrolment in a special ministerial list. The expert mediator manages the restorative justice programme, accessible in every state and degree of the criminal proceedings, or during the execution of the sentence, as well as before or after the criminal proceedings, at the initiative of the judicial authority and/or of the parties involved. In delivering the training programme, the Master's course involves collaboration with the Centro per la Giustizia Riparativa del Comune di Padova (Centre for Restorative Justice of the Municipality of Padua), managed by the La Ginestra Cooperativa Sociale. The Centre, which is responsible for managing practical training and internships, will also make use of the expert mediators-trainers of the Cooperativa Dike of Milan.

Practicalities: taught in Italian, physical presence required, paying course.

• Target audience:  The Master course is aimed at both recent graduates and professionals, in particular those working in the criminal justice sector (e.g. lawyers, technical consultants, social workers, sociologists, educators, psychologists, etc.).
• Study Level: First level University Master (Master universitario di primo livello)
• Duration: Two years / Two days a week (Friday and Saturday) for about two weekends a month are foreseen for the theoretical and practical in-presence training. Pre-registration is currently available; the deadline is October 7, 2025 - 12.30