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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. 
Erasmus Days – Probation in a new dimension
On 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 2025
Meetings 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 Workshop
On 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 completed
A 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 Split
The 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