For TRANSFO-07: Promote a Use Case on Green practices and competencies within prisons or juvenile detention centres

IPS Innovative Prison Systems is strongly positioned to contribute to HORIZON‑CL2‑2026‑01‑TRANSFO‑07 through its applied research expertise, its large‑scale capacity‑building experience, and its worldwide network of prison and probation services, which together offer a distinctive and underexplored field for analysing and fostering competences for the green transition. IPS brings to the consortium the conceptual and operational foundations developed through GreenPP – Green Transition in Prison and Probation Systems, an IPS‑designed initiative that promotes environmental sustainability, green skills development, and climate‑responsible institutional transformation within justice systems. GreenPP provides a concrete, scalable use case that can be examined within the scope of TRANSFO‑07, offering real‑world insights into how green competences can be fostered among workers, young people, and disadvantaged groups in highly structured environments.

Building on its extensive portfolio in institutional reform, vocational training, and social reintegration, IPS can support the project in generating a robust understanding of the competences required for the green transition across different sectors, while also analysing how these competences can be meaningfully developed in contexts marked by social vulnerability, low qualification levels, or limited labour‑market access. IPS’s experience in designing training pathways for justice‑involved individuals and staff, combined with its human‑rights‑based approach, enables the organisation to explore how green skills contribute to employability, social inclusion, and upward mobility—directly addressing the call’s emphasis on lifelong learning, gender and disability inclusion, and the need to understand attitudes and behaviours related to climate action and sustainable development.

Through GreenPP and its broader training and research activities, IPS can contribute to the identification of effective assessment methods, competence frameworks, and pedagogical models that support upskilling and reskilling for the green transition. IPS’s work also provides a valuable lens for examining the interplay between green and digital competences, as justice systems increasingly integrate digital tools for training, monitoring, and institutional management. The organisation’s capacity to design and pilot innovative digital and blended learning environments positions it as a strong partner for exploring how education and training systems can exploit synergies between green and digital transitions.

A major added value IPS brings is its global network of prison and probation administrations, which offers unparalleled access to diverse institutional settings across Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia. This network enables large‑scale data collection, comparative analysis, and the piloting of green‑transition competence frameworks in real operational environments. It also facilitates collaboration with policymakers, training institutions, and social partners, supporting the call’s objective of generating actionable advice for education and labour‑market systems. IPS’s strong communication and stakeholder‑engagement capabilities ensure that project results are translated into practical guidance for policymakers and practitioners, while its experience in multi‑country coordination guarantees high‑quality implementation and impact.

Through its interdisciplinary team and its proven ability to bridge research, policy, and practice, IPS can help ensure that the project delivers rigorous, inclusive, and context‑sensitive insights into how green competences can be fostered across sectors and populations. By leveraging the GreenPP model and its global institutional partnerships, IPS contributes a distinctive and scalable perspective to the European effort to build a skilled, resilient, and climate‑responsible workforce.