PAN European Network
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The Pan Project is an EU sponsored project under Socrates under the name PAN European Network.

The PRISON ARTS EDUCATION NETWORK is a transnational Network of organisations involved in adult arts education for prison inmates and ex-offenders across Europe.

This initiative arose through discussions between the European Prison Education Association, an NGO of the Council of Europe focused on Prison Education, and the Comenius Big Picture Network, exploring post-16 non-advanced arts education, during which the need was identified for creating a specific European network focusing on prison arts education. Issues of special concern related to the context, support, strategies and practice of delivering arts education for adult offenders and ex-offenders in a European context. City College Manchester, a further education college with a remit to support prison education in the UK, agreed to coordinate the network. The following aims were identified

• To form a European-wide prison arts network;
• To examine official policies and governmental support regarding prison art education, particularly in encouraging social reinsertion;
• To identify current approaches for teaching prison arts education;
• To highlight examples of best teaching practice & support in-service training programmes;
• To develop innovative methods and materials;
• To explore combining art forms in the delivery of prison arts education;
• To identify opportunities for inmates to gain qualifications;
• To identify vocational opportunities for ex-offenders;
• To organise international conferences and workshops;
• To publish & disseminate Network outcomes.

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