EMPATHY FOR CHILDREN

Relevant Skills and Experience

UTRIP is among key partners of the UPC-Adapt project (http://upc-adapt.eu) and one of the main goals of the project was the realisation of a condensed and adapted Universal Prevention Curriculum (UPC). The so-called European Universal Prevention Curriculum (EUPC) is based on the reviews of recognized international experts and project partners. Focus groups have been organized during the first six months of the project, to ensure that the input of local experts could be taken into account during the adaptation process. The result is an edited and layout version available in English and all partner languages. Parallel to the adaptation of UPC, three different training designs were realised, an e-learning, short (5-days) and academic version. To improve knowledge and skills of prevention workforce and policy- and decision-makers in the field of prevention policy and practice.

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Additionally, UTRIP is among key partners in Erasmus Plus developmental project on social- emotional learning in schools called Learn2Be, which gathers partners from Lithuania, Latvia, Finland, Spain, Portugal, Italy and Slovenia. The result of the project will be a toolkit for teachers on methods of teaching and assessment of social-emotional and health skills and competencies of pupils. Partners of the project are also three ministries, responsible for education, including the Ministry of Education, Science and Sports of the Republic of Slovenia. The project is co-funded by the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Slovenia.

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Sanela Talić is the Secretary-General of UTRIP. She is also the Head of Prevention Programmes at UTRIP. She is a pedagogue and a project manager for prevention, education and training programmes. She is involved in several EC-funded projects in the field of addiction prevention, health promotion and healthy lifestyles, lifelong learning, violence and injury prevention etc. She is also a researcher and is skilled in organisation and communication. She is a member of the European Society for Prevention Research (EUSPR) and the Science for Prevention Academic Network (SPAN). She was/is involved in many European projects, co-funded by the European Commission under the Health Programme, the 7th Framework Programme (FP7), the Daphne III Programme, the Lifelong Learning Programme, the Drug Prevention and Information Programme, Justice Programme and the European Social Fund. She is a Master Trainer for Unplugged and EFFEKT school-based prevention programme and national coordinator and Master Trainer for the Strengthening Families Program (SFP). She is a member and elected secretary of the European Society for Prevention Research (EUSPR). She is a PhD on Prevention Science candidate at the University of Zagreb (Croatia).

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Matej Košir is the Director of UTRIP. He has been working in the field of addiction prevention and licit and illicit drug-related policy for the last 20 years. He is a member of the European Society for Prevention Research (EUSPR), the Science for Prevention Academic Network (SPAN), the International Confederation of ATOD Research Associations (ICARA) (Vice-President / President- Elect), and the Civil Society Forum on Drugs (CSF) (Core Group member and Chair of the Working Group on minimum quality standards) etc. He is an author, co-author and reviewer of scientific articles and papers, and external evaluator of EC-funded projects in the field of health and research. He is a lecturer and facilitator of trainings and workshops in the field of prevention and advocacy. He has been a Postgraduate Research Assistant at Oxford Brookes University (UK) in the period of 2015-2016. He is a coordinator of the Prevention Platform for NGOs network, which includes more than 40 supporting NGOs in Slovenia (www.preventivna-platforma.si). He has been awarded by the European Society for Prevention Research (EUSPR) with “Leading European Prevention Science Practitioner Honour” at EUSPR Conference in Vienna in 2017. He is a consultant of the World Bank