2013
Founded
We connect prevention research with the everyday practice of schools, municipalities, and youth care.
Evidence-based programmes, international quality standards, and local field experience often develop in separate spaces. Our contribution is to bring them into a systematic, multi-year practice, together with partners in Germany and across the EU.
FINDER e.V. · German non-profit · prevention provider under § 20a SGB V in Germany; internationally working with UNODC international standards, EUDA (EUPC), Blueprints, EDPQS · since 2013, active today in over 240 settings · we gather local data, the setting decides as a whole
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Settings under companionship
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Countries in our network
Three settings
Where we work.
Setting-based prevention under § 20a SGB V recognises life-worlds, not target groups. Three settings, three anchor programmes, comparable side by side.
| Criterion | Schools Setting under § 20a SGB V Where children and young people learn. | Municipalities Setting under § 20a SGB V Where children and young people grow up. | Youth care Setting under SGB VIII Where children and young people find stability. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anchor programme | Weitblick | Communities That Care | PULSAR |
| Entry | Schools work | Municipal work | Youth-care work |
- Cross-cutting
- Specialist qualifications for professionals in all three settings: EUPC, the European Prevention Curriculum aligned with the UNODC international standards, and PROXI, a qualification for developmentally oriented radicalisation prevention.
Consortium partner, adapter, evaluator.
Alongside our work in Germany, FINDER acts as a consortium partner in EU-funded prevention projects, as a scientific partner in randomised trials, and as an adaptation partner for curricula and training that travel across borders.
Selected international engagements
Concrete consortia and adaptations.
A non-exhaustive selection of consortia, cultural adaptations, and scientific cooperations.
- EU consortium · 2022–2023
Frontline Politeia
EU-funded consortium of 15 partners across 14 member states. Built an EUPC-based qualification for frontline prevention staff: teachers, police, social workers. FINDER acted as consortium partner and led Work Package 2 Training Design and Test. Scientific partner: European Crime Prevention Network (EUCPN).
- Research consortium · 2024–2027
RBYC-Adapt
FINDER-led consortium with the Moore Center for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health), Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, and Kinderschutzstiftung Hänsel+Gretel. Cultural adaptation and randomised controlled trial of the US-origin RBYC programme in 24 German schools.
- Implementation partner · since 2017
EUDA Lisbon, EUPC
Implementing partner in Germany for the European Prevention Curriculum, developed by an EU consortium of nine member states from the UNODC international standards. Since July 2024 the European Union Drugs Agency (EUDA) is legally mandated to promote EUPC across the EU. More than 3,300 professionals have been EUPC-certified to date.
- Programme adaptation · 2023–2026
REBOUND Mauritius
Cultural adaptation of the REBOUND life-skills and substance-prevention curriculum for Mauritian secondary schools, in cooperation with the Mauritian Ministry of Education. On-site teacher trainings 2023 and 2024; continued curriculum work and teacher-guide development through 2026.
- Programme adaptation · since 2025
REBOUND Romania
Memorandum of Understanding signed in January 2025 with partners in Bistrița-Năsăud County. First teacher training and public event delivered in Bistrița in May 2025; curriculum materials now available in Romanian.
- Scientific community
EUSPR and partner institutes
Member of the European Society for Prevention Research; contributor to the 16th EUSPR Conference (Charité Campus Mitte, Berlin, September 2025). Ongoing exchange with the EU-DAP consortium (Unplugged), the University of Greifswald (REBOUND 2.0 evaluation), and Hannover Medical School (Weitblick evaluation).
Reach
Countries where we work.
Countries in which FINDER takes part as a consortium partner, in programme adaptations, or in scientific cooperation. Tooltips describe the role per country.
- EU consortium partner
- Programme adaptation
- Scientific cooperation
- Evaluation partnership
- Home or agency seat
The prevention continuum, a FINDER contribution at the 16th EUSPR Conference.
Work with us
Consortium, adaptation, or research partnership?
If you represent a ministry, a university, or an EU-funded consortium considering a cooperation with FINDER on programme adaptation, evaluation, or a proposal, please reach out. Detailed programme and project pages, the magazine and media library remain on the German site; for English-language enquiries please use the contact page.