The work was designed and implement along 4 Workpackages (WPs) dedicated to reaching the project´s research objectives and the MSCA PF training and knowledge transfer (KT) goals.
WP1 monitoring/training/KT at the host:
- At the School of International Studies (SIS) of University of Trento: overall monitoring of the project and of project deliverables, supervisor-fellow KT, KT and training through the SIS Research Cluster on International Security, attendance and delivery of lectures and workshops at SIS and the Law Faculty.
- Attendance of one winter-school and other punctual external training opportunities.
- Within the MSCA mobility framework, two short visits were carried out to LE training stakeholders and a secondment completed at the Zürich University of the Arts, Department of Design, Subject area Knowledge Visualization.
WP2 data collection & WP3 – analysis:
- Data collection: public documents issued on EU level (policy, laws) and bilateral police cooperation agreements; interviews carried out with professionals of relevance operating on EU level as well as central-national, regional and local level.
- Analysis focused on a) developments concerning the EU-PCC initiative with a focus on the Commission Proposal and adopted Council Recommendation on operational LE cooperation 2022/915 of 9 June 2022; b) a targeted analysis of approx. 20 bilateral cooperation agreements between neighboring member states; c) practitioner experiences through selected case studies. Visualization techniques were also employed in analysis.
WP4 communication, dissemination, exploitation:
Research progress and results are shared through:
- website www.lemobab.eu and UniTN-SIS webpage
https://www.sis.unitn.it/3488/lemobab)(opens in new window);
- presentations at scientific conferences of relevant disciplinary fields (Criminology, Anthropology, European Studies, Socio-Legal Studies);
- delivery of thematic guest-lectures and visual methods workshops, including applied invited lectures at Police Academies;
- science communication and knowledge visualization through digital-visual means (e.g. infographics, comic-blog, other visualizations forthcoming on the web);
- scientific publications, including in collaboration (published after duration of the project);
- organization of main LEmobAB conference, bringing together policing scholars from different disciplinary fields (law, criminology, political science, STS, anthropology).
