About me...

Pedro das Neves holds a sociology degree and a MA in European Studies (HRD) from the College of Europe in Bruges and is currently undertaking a PhD research on Public Policy (comparative analysis of justice and prison privatisation) at the Sociology and Public Policies School of ISCTE - IUL Lisbon University Institute. He is a guest lecturer of "Knowledge management and innovation in public services" at the masters degree on local governance at ISEC and has been a member of the scientific coordinating team of DEIA - Specialization degree in Organizational Learning and Innovation at INA - National Institute of Public Administration.

He has been working on public administration reform (central and local government) for more than 15 years, and on Prison Innovation Systems (from 2002) in different European countries. He has been coordinating major implementations in Portugal and Romania, also supporting specific projects in Catalonia and Germany.  Together with the Qualify Just/IPS team, Pedro has been involved in the design and implementation of innovative pilot projects lately awarded and recognized as best practices.  Under this type of intervention had the opportunity to learn about the operation of 27 prison systems in 32 European countries and visit more than 140 prisons. The main topics of interest relate to management models, prison work and industries, systems and quality standards, performance management, public vs. private management. Pedro is an ICPA member. 

Pedro has extensive experience as policy and programme advisor (EU policy, including prison systems modernization, prison work, re-settlement and ICT, international cooperation) for several prison administrations, including Romania and Portugal.

He has been invited as a keynote speaker for the forthcoming 18th Conference of Directors of Prisons and Probation (Brussels, 27-29 November 2013) organised by the Council of Europe and by the Belgian Prison Service under the subject “HOW TO MANAGE THE EXECUTION OF PENAL SANCTIONS?"/18^th CDAP Conference”, in which will participate general directors of prison administrations and probation services from 47 member countries represented at the Council of Europe.

Pedro is an invited lecturer at the “In-Prison Education for Rehabilitation and Resettlement” course organized by EPEA – the European Prison Education Association (Malta: 23^th September to 27^th September 2013).

Currently he is involved in the following projects in the areas of education and prison work and industries that involve the governments of Romania, Portugal, Belgium and Bremen State:

• R2W Intoarcerea-la-munca: Dezvoltarea ocuparii in sistemul penitenciar;
• RESPECT - Realizarea Egalitatii de Sanse prin Programe cu Elemente de Comunicare si Training;
• PERFECT - Promovarea Egalitatii si Recunoasterii Femeilor prin Elemente de Comunicare si Training;
• DORI - Deschide orizontul pentru realizarea invatara;
• Risk recidiva: „Oportunitati egale la incluziune pentru toti”;
• „ACCES pentru toți - Accesul persoanelor cu dizabilități la ocupare și servicii”;
• MyCompass – My Community Passport
• European Induction Support for Adult Learning Professionals to the Correctional Criminal Justice System
• Itinerariul Dialogue

On behalf of IPS he has been invited as guest observer to European Commission and Council of Europe meetings and as a speaker in several international events organized by ICPA, EIPA, the European Commission and governments from different Member States.

Pedro is also a board member of QUALIFY JUST IT Solutions and Consulting, LTD (IPS_Innovative Prison Systems), board member of GLOBAL CHANGE Fluxphera Consulting and of I.Zone Knowledge Systems Romania.  

His professional CV on linkedin can be accessed here. 

 

_main interventions in international congresses, conferences and seminars:

• 5th Conference of the European Prison Regime Forum. Joint presentation with Jurgen Hillmer on "European cooperative production networks". Hosted by the Correctional Service of Norway Staff Academy and the Ministry of Justice and Public Security. Oslo, Norway 12th–14th September 2012.  
• Exocop Policy Forum (Berlin Declaration). Chairman of the "Berlin Declaration" panel on cooperation, exchange of best practices, development of EU funding lines between the Member States, ESF managing authorities and the European Commission. Berlin, 16th-18th of June 2012.
• ICPA/CEP/Europris conference: Joint Challenges, Joint Solutions: Developments in Prison and Probation in Europe. Moderator of the panel on "professionalism of staff" in correctional services. Event hosted by the Romanian National Administration of Penitentiaries and the Romanian Probation Department. Bucharest, 13th-15th June 2012.
• Outsourcing Justice Services: Public Private Partnerships Workshop. Organized by Europris - the European Organisation of Prison and Correctional Services. Prague, 15th-16th April 2012.
• European Prison Industries Forum. National Offender Management Service. Newbold Revel, 23rd and 24th May 2011
• Transnational cooperation between Prison Systems in Europe.  Building Bridges: Correctional Best Practices, Worldwide Perspectives". 12th ICPA Conference (International Corrections and Prisons Association). "Het Pand", in collaboration with Ghent University Institute for International Research on Criminal Policy. 24-29th October 2010.
• Knowledge Management in Prison Systems in Europe. PreConference on E-Learning and Knowledge Management.  Building Bridges: Correctional Best Practices, Worldwide Perspectives". 12th ICPA Conference (International Corrections and Prisons Association). "Het Pand", in collaboration with Ghent University Institute for International Research on Criminal Policy. 24-29th October 2010.
• Pathways to inclusion: strenghtening European Cooperation in Prison Education and Training. European Commission. Budapest, 22-24 February 2010
• The Europeanistion of Prison Management - Best Practices Dissemination: "Organising and managing penitentiary services: quality standards". Organised by the European Institute of Public Administration and the Justice Department of Catalonia in Bratislava, 21-22 May 2008
• Equal Policy Forum on Prevention or Re-imprisonment. European Commission. Polish Ministry of Regional Development. Warsaw, 21-22 June 2007
• Passport to Freedom. EQUAL Initiative. Lisbon, 23-24 October 2006
• Knowledge Management in European Prison Systems. Innovative Wege zur nachhaltigen Reintegration straffälliger Menschen – Reformmodelle in den EU-Staaten - Berlin, 20–22. October 2005
• "Poder Caminhar" project. Associação Humanidades;
• Innovating Prison Strategies. National Administration of Prisons. European Social Fund, Bucareste. 2008-2011
• EXOCOP: reintegration of ex-offenders Community of Practice.  Justiz Bremen. Progress. 
• PGISP – Prison Services Organisational Innovation Project. EQUAL Community Initiative. 2005-2009.
• PRIMA – Policies and strategies for PRIson Management. EQUAL transnational Partnership. 2005-2008.
• Gerir para Inovar os Serviços Prisionais. POEFDS, European Social Fund.  2004-2006.       

Other information

. Modernisation of public structures, innovation management, entrepreneurship, knowledge management and organisational learning

• InnTegra: Uma Visão Integrada da Inovação Regional: uma fórmula de sucesso". 2009-2011
• Inovar em Rede. Parkurbis - Parque de Ciência e Tecnologia da Covilhã. QREN/COMPETE.
• INOCOP – Innovation through cross-sector communities of practice in the automotive cluster in Portugal. EQUAL Community Initiative. Project coordinator.  2005-2009
• Knowledge Management Plus – Leonardo Da Vinci. 2004-2006
• CAIE – Innovation and Entrepreneurship Centre. EQUAL Community Initiative. 2004-2009
• CEAA – Agricultural and Environmental Entrepreneurial Centre. EQUAL Community Initiative. 2004-2007
• Knowledge Management Plus – Leonardo Da Vinci. 2004-2006
• B-Europe: Best EUROPE an Pathways to Entrepreneurship. Transnational partnership. (PT, ES, CZ). 2005-2009
• WIMPS - Working for Innovation Management, Production and Sharing. Transnational partnership (PT, DE, IT, PL). 2005-2009
• Watch IT – Promoção de Pólos de Inovação e Transferência Tecnológica em Regiões do SUDOE. Interreg IIIB. 2004-2006

_main interventions in international congresses, conferences and seminars:

• "Innovation: stretching the mind, fostering open innovation in public management".  ERT (European reciprocal training) Webminars: connecting Europe from a distance. INA - Instituto Nacional de Administração. Lisboa. (PT, DE, AT, RO, S, DN, ES, UK, NDL). Novembro de 2010
• "Administração em Rede". MAP 2010 - Jornadas da Modernização Administrativa. Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, 11 e 12 de Novembro de 2011
• Innovation though communities of practice in the portuguese automotive sector. DFKI/German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence. Saarbrucken, Germany, 2007
• Innovation though communities of practice in the portuguese automotive sector. Gdanzk Design Centre, Gdanzk, Poland, 2007
• WIMPS - Working for Innovation Management, Production and Sharing. Transnational partnership (PT, DE, IT, PL). 2005-2009
• ECLO at Knowledge Management Europe 2004. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 2004
• Learning from Crisis, Learning for Crisis - How Can an Organisation Prepare itself and its Members. ECLO - European Consortium for the Learning Organisation. Dortmund, Germany. 2003
• The Discovery of the Learning Organisation: The New Management Frontier. ECLO - European Consortium for the Learning Organisation. Lisbon, Portugal. 2001
• Knowledge Management Europe 2001. Brussels. 2001
• The Future for Learning Organisations. ECLO - European Consortium for the Learning Organisation. Munich, Germany. 2001
• Building Learning Organisations: Tools and Techniques. ECLO - European Consortium for the Learning Organisation. Glasgow, Scotland. 1999
• Learning Organisations In A Learning Society. 1998. ECLO - European Consortium for the Learning Organisation. Turin, Italy
• Leading Learning Organisations Into the 21st Century. ECLO - European Consortium for the Learning Organisation.  Sophia Antipolis, France. 1997

_publications and working papers:

• Barrulas, Joaquina; das Neves, Pedro (2009): INOCOP - Dinamização de Comunidades de Prática em contexto Interorganizacional - o caso da indústria automóvel. GLOBAL CHANGE Consultores Internacionais. IB Books. Lisboa.
• das Neves, Pedro (2003): L&W - Learn and Work Tool package for identifying training needs and implementing new learning methods at the work place. Module I: Process-based training needs analysis in SME’s. IEFP. Lisboa 
• das Neves, Pedro (2003): "Reflection on IT infrastructures and Communities of Practice". ECLO - The European Consortium for the Learning Organization. Le Havre. Belgium.  
• Stahl, T.; Nyhan, B; Neves, P.(2003): New Learning Cultures for Competence Development – European Perspectives. QUEM and Cedefop, Berlim.
• Neves, Pedro; Dalluegue, C.A. (2003): Software Supported Approach for Analysing Learning Organisation Practices. The Learner, ECLO, Belgium. 
• das Neves, Pedro (2003) “New Generation Knowledge Management: A Knowledge-based approach to Business Process Improvement”. Working papers, University of Bath, Uk.
• das Neves, Pedro (1996) “Construção de Ambientes de Aprendizagem Organizacional em PMEs - Em busca de Formas Inovadoras de Desenvolvimento de Recursos Humanos”. Tese de Mestrado. College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium 
• das Neves, Pedro (1996) “The Management of Ideas: Innovation and Creativity in European Enterprises”. College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium
• das Neves, Pedro (1996) “Paradigm Shifts in Society and Management and Their Opportunities for Organisations”. College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium
• das Neves, Pedro (1996) “The Learning Organisation and The White Paper on Education and Training”. College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium

. Management and training consulting: process reengineering, change management, performance management, balanced scorecard implementation, , EQUASS/CAF/EFQM, corporate social responsibility

_main interventions in international congresses, conferences and seminars:

• Corporate Universities Bluprint. ECUANET - the European Corporate Universities and Academies Network, Brussels, 2007
• Medir para Gerir. Fórum do Capital Humano: Encontro das Lideranças. Organizado pela AIP no Centro de Congressos de Lisboa, 19 e 20 de Abril de 2006
• Corporate Social Responsibility in Portuguese SME's.CSR Forum. Agefos PME, Ille de France, Paris, 2005
• Corporate Social Responsibility in Portuguese SME's. COSORE Seminar. SIEMENS AG headquarters, Munich, 2003
• Emergência de Práticas de Responsabilidade Social em Portugal. Encontro Nacional da  APSIOT, Lisboa, 2003
• Total Quality Management in Small and Medium-sized businesses. GAIA, San Sebastian, 2002
• Total Quality Management in Small and Medium-sized businesses. Wifi Österreich, Linz, Austria, 2002

_projects

• SIMPEX – Package de Simulação para a Promoção da Excelência de Negócio (EFQM/CAF). Project Coordinator. 2006-2007
• ECUANET - the European Corporate Universities and Academies Network – Leonardo da Vinci. 2005– 2007
• e-Corporate Social Responsibility. European Social Fund. Research Coordinator. 2004-2005
• Benchfor – Stratégies d’améliorations de la qualité des organismes de formation sur base du Benchmarking, au niveau national et international. 2003-2006
• Learnplace – Workplace Development for Superior Performance in European SMEs – Leonardo Da Vinci. 2002-2004
• Learning Bossoule – Leonardo Da Vinci. 2004-2006
• HRW – Human Resources Management Workbench, Innovation Programme. 2003-2005
• COSORE – Corporate Social Responsibility for SMEs. SIEMENS AG, Munich. ESF Article 6th. 2001-2003
• TQM-Net – Total Quality Management Suport and Implementation Network.Innovation Programme. 2000-2003
• POWERTEAM – Learning Empowerment of Project Team Workers. Leonardo da Vinci programme. 2000-2002
• Qfor-Plus -  Quality Certification of Training and Development Institutions -  Leonardo da Vinci programme. 2000-2002
• Consulting “On-Line” - On-Line Platform for Small Business Consulting.  Leonardo da Vinci programme. 2000-2002

_publications and working papers

• Correia, João; das Neves, Pedro (2009): Guia Metodológico para a Melhoria da Performance Organizacional em Sistemas Prisionais. GLOBAL CHANGE Consultores Internacionais. ID Books. Lisboa.
• Neves, Pedro; Rodrigues, Cláudia (2003): A Emergência de Práticas de Responsabilidade Social em Portugal. Actas do Encontro Nacional da  APSIOT, Lisboa.
• Neves, Pedro (2002): A Emergência de Práticas de Responsabilidade Social em Portugal, Plataforma de Desenvolvimento Integrado do Município da Amadora. Amadora.
• Neves, Pedro; Stahl, Thomas (Fev.2000): Marketing da Formação Profissional para PME. ISOB, DGEFP,IEFP, Lisboa.

 

. Regional development, training and learning

• EVALVET - Evaluation of VET in the new economic framework. Lifelong Learning Programme.  2011-2013
• Plano de Desenvolvimento Territorial da Comunidade Urbana das Beiras (Cova da Beira e Beira Interior Norte). Coordenação do estudo e processo de negociação de fundos com CCDR Centro. 2008
• Plano Estratégico de Desenvolvimento da Cova da Beira e Beira Interior Norte. Coordenador do plano estratégico. 2006-2007
• MASTRA - More adequate strategies to re-insert adults in labour market. 2005-2009
• MARTE – Textile workers reconversion model. EQUAL Community Initiative. 2004-2007
• Estudo Prospectivo de Sectores de Actividade Emergentes na Cova da Beira. Coordenador de projecto. 2003-2005
• Estudo Prospectivo de Perfis Profissionais na Cova da Beira. Coordenador de projecto. 2003-2005
• ReADAPT – Economic and Social Development Network for the Covilhã Region – ESF EQUAL project. 2002-2004
• PIDA – Integrated Development Platform for the Amadora Region – ESF EQUAL project. 2002-2004
• Avaliação da implementação e do impacto do Programa da Comunidade Europeia Leonardo Da Vinci em Portugal e Espanha no período de 1996-2000. Comissão Europeia, 2001.
• EX-LOCUS, VS/2000/0621. 2000-2001
• Integrated Development Based on Local Partnerships. European Social Fund. Project Manager. 1999-2001
• BENCHMARKING INSERSION - Empresas de Inserção como Potenciadoras da Criação de Emprego. 1998

_main interventions in international congresses, conferences and seminars

• Anticipation of SME's to change. Restructuring Forum. European Commission. Brussels, 26-27 November 2007
• Local Development and Employment Strategies. EMPLOYABILITY: Itinerary for Open Space Dialogue. Business Link Hertfordshire and Enterprise Council. 1998 
• European Partenariat Between African Communities and Health Partners for HIV/Aids Prevention - Coordinator of the external evaluation team. 2002.