Associação Portuguesa de Educação nas Prisões (Portuguese Prison Education Association)

The Portuguese Prison Education Association (APEnP) is a non-profit organisation dedicated to promoting education, lifelong learning and social inclusion within prison settings in Portugal.
APEnP believes that education plays a fundamental role in rehabilitation, personal development and successful social reintegration. The association works to promote access to educational opportunities for people in prison and to strengthen the recognition of prison education as an essential component of rehabilitation and inclusion policies.
Our areas of interest include adult and lifelong learning, prison education, rehabilitation and reintegration, social inclusion, citizenship education, digital and media literacy, employability and skills development, and the professional development of those working in prison and correctional environments. We are particularly interested in educational approaches that can help reduce inequalities and support people facing social, educational and digital exclusion.
APEnP also promotes European and international cooperation, exchange of good practices and collaboration between educational institutions, prison services, universities, research centres, public authorities and civil society organisations. We are interested in participating in Erasmus+ and other European cooperation projects involving prison education, adult learning, inclusion, rehabilitation, reintegration and innovative educational practices.
As a project partner, APEnP can contribute a prison-education and civil-society perspective, support the development and adaptation of educational activities to prison contexts, participate in exchanges of practices and training activities, contribute to dissemination and awareness-raising, and help strengthen links between education, rehabilitation and post-release reintegration.
APEnP is open to establishing new European partnerships with organisations that share the objective of using education as a tool for inclusion, empowerment and successful reintegration.