30 THE GREEK OMBUDSMAN the Prevention of Torture (APT) and the Seimas Ombudsmen’s Office of the Republic of Lithuania, in Vilnius (21-23 June 2016). The workshop’s objectives were: • To examine issues relating to the effective monitoring of psychiatric institutions. • To deepen the understanding of the main risk situations connected with psychiatric institutions and ways to address them. • To develop skills for handling specific challenges relating to the monitoring of psychiatric institutions. • To explore strategies for organising follow-up visits to psychiatric institutions and overcoming challenges, such as gaps in legislation. 4. – Authority representatives participated in two SEE NPM Network workshops, “Homes for the elderly: Care institutions and dementia” and “Standards in health care and medication-based deprivation of liberty”, organised by the Austrian Ombudsman, as the current chair of the network, in Salzburg (21-22 April 2016) and Vienna (11-12 October 2016), respectively. The workshops focused on the NPMs’ positions with regard to monitoring homes for the elderly, the conditions of deprivation of liberty peculiar to these institutions, the standards and the legislation applied to the monitoring of these institutions, as well as a visit to a comparable institution. 5. – Participation of Greek Ombudsman representatives in the South East Europe NPM Network Meeting in Zagreb (29-30 November 2016). The purpose of the workshop was to discuss: a) the possibility of implementing the UN Revised Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (Mandela Rules) in the work of the Prevention Mechanisms, b) the extent of State monitoring of the implementation of the recommendations made by the Mechanisms, and c) the role of prevention mechanisms in the refugee crisis. ●