31/05-01/06/2017 Strasbourg Consultation on the development of European guidelines governing custody awaiting deportation and custody to secure departure, Council of Europe 01-02/06/2017 Trier ERA seminar on “The improvement of conditions relating to detention at an EU level” 20/07/2017 Munich Workshop: Legal bases for handling challenging behaviour 21/07/2017 Munich 5th symposium on the “Werdenfelser” approach 15/08/2017 Münster CEPOL (Collège Européen de Police) seminar 30/08/2017 Wiesbaden Expert discussion – Police complaints bodies 07/09/2017 Munich Conference of desk officers dealing with the law on social care homes 07-08/09/2017 Paris Meeting of European NPMs on measuring the effectiveness of NPMs 13/09/2017 Berlin Group of prison system experts (Vollzugsstammtisch) 20/09/2017 Wiesbaden Expert discussion – Monitoring deportation procedures 27/09/2017 Berlin International workshop “Challenges facing National Preventive Mechanisms (NPMs) in community-based psychiatric care” 17/10/2017 Münster Human Rights Day, Federal University of Public Administration in North Rhine-Westphalia 23-25/10/2017 Berlin Exchange of experiences between German-speaking NPMs 06-07/11/2017 Andernach 14th Forensics Conference, Nette-Gut Clinic 14-15/11/2017 Prague Meeting of European NPMs to discuss the setting of standards by NPMs 22/11/2017 Potsdam Annual Meeting of the Visiting Commissions for Psychiatric Establishments in Brandenburg 15/12/2017 Berlin Expert discussion to prepare for the 9th meeting of the UN Open Ended Working Group on Ageing 66