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Training for rehabilitation officers of Bjelovar Prison on VR use in offender rehabilitationOn 11 May 2026, a training was held for two rehabilitation officers in the premises of the Bjelovar Prison on VR use in offender rehabilitation
Further presentations of VR training content for probation and prison officers Presentations of VR-based training content for probation and prison officers were held on 29 April 2026 in Zagreb and on 4 May 2026 in Lepoglava
Training for officiers on VR use in offender rehabilitation and presentation of VR scenarios Two-day training and presentation of VR content for officers of the probation system was held in Opatija
Presentations of VR training content for probation and prison officersOn 21 and 23 April 2026, presentations of VR-based training content were held for probation and prison officers
Training of officers on VR useAs part of the Erasmus+ project ‘Virtual Reality - a tool in the treatment of criminal offenders and training of probation officers’, a training of probation officers was held in Bucharest with the participation of representatives of the Croatian and Romanian prison and probation system
Training for prison and probation officers on VR use in offender rehabilitationOn 4 February 2026, the last in the series of trainings for probation and prison officers who will use VR digital materials in offender rehabilitation was held in Zagreb
Training for officers on the use of VR headset in offender treatment On 5 and 6 November 2025, two training sessions for officers on the use of the VR headset in offender treatment were held at the Zagreb II Probation Office.
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Erasmus Days – Probation in a new dimensionOn 17 October 2025, a presentation of Erasmus+ projects with a focus on virtual reality (VR) was held at the Congress Centre of the National and University Library
Training for prison and probation officers on VR use in offender rehabilitation The training was held in Zagreb on 16 October 2025 for prison and probation officers who will use the VR materials in offender rehabilitation
Meeting of project team members in Zagreb, 13-15 October 2025Meetings of project partners from Croatia and German company Becure were held at the Ministry of Justice, Public Administration and Digital Transformation in Zagreb under the project ‘Virtual Reality - a tool in the treatment of criminal offenders and training of probation officers.
Participation in Co-designing the Roadmap for future European Virtual Worlds and the Web 4.0 WorkshopOn 16 October 2025, representatives of the Directorate for the Prison System and Probation participated in the Horizon Europe OPENVERSE workshop "Co-designing the Roadmap for the future European Virtual Worlds and the Web 4.0"
VR scenarios for probationers completedA meeting of project partners was held in Mannheim from 11 to 13 June 2025 under the project ‘Virtual Reality - a tool in the treatment of criminal offenders and training of probation officers’.
Probation Sector presents at 48th ICT and Electronics Convention On June 5, 2025, representatives of the Probation Sector Vesna Zelić Ferenčić and Goran Brkić participated at the MIPRO 2025 convention and presented a paper entitled "Virtual Reality in Probation: Training and Rehabilitation”
7th ICT in Prisons Workshop in SplitThe international workshop ‘7th ICT in Prisons Workshop - Offender Management Systems: The Heart of the Digital Prison’, organised by EuroPris and the Ministry of Justice, Public Administration and Digital Transformation was held in Split on 3-4 April
