Reitox Regional Academy 'Effectiveness and efficiency of drug use prevention programmes'

A Reitox Academy is organised by the EMCDDA jointly with the National Institute of Public Health of Slovenia in the framework of the project ‘Preparation of IPA Beneficiaries for their participation in the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA). In total, 60 experts from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo*, Montenegro, Poland, Serbia, Slovenia and Turkey attended the Academy.

This Academy is designed to facilitate the discussion between the experts and practitioners from the EU Members States and Candidate and Potential Candidate countries about the evidence for the prevention programmes and what steps could be taken at a national level to ensure implementation of high-quality prevention activities.

Objectives:

• Discuss contemporary concepts for drug prevention in Europe and in participating countries, with particular focus on scope, objectives and evidence for universal prevention activities;
• Share best practices in how to improve the quality of prevention programmes through evaluation and certification of programmes;
• Present the European drug prevention quality standards: a quick guide (see http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/publications/adhoc/prevention-standard, available in English, Albanian, Bosnian, Croatian, Macedonian, Serbian, Turkish) and exchange about their further application in participating countries.

^{*This designation is without prejudice to positions on status, and is in line with UNSCR 1244 and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo declaration of independence.}