The project Recognising and Responding to Radicalisation set out to explore the question: what would assist front line professionals, and community activists, develop an enhanced understanding of the process of radicalisation? The project was specifically concerned with the process of radicalisation leading to support for or engagement in acts of terror inspired by a violent Islamist ideology. Over a ten month period, across six European Cities, clusters of workers who directly interface with local Muslim communities were engaged in a range of learning and assessment processes. These activities were designed to reflect on the training and development needs of these key influencers, and to develop a tool for matching adequate training programmes which could enhance their ability to both recognise and respond to the radicalisation of individuals. Relevant training programmes were therefore tested and assessed as part of these processes., The project posed the question of how front line professionals were being supported to both recognise and respond to this form of radicalisation within the context of national and local policy that sought to prevent violent Islamist inspired extremism.