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• 26 - 30.06.2022
World Urban Forum, Katowice (Poland) | | • 14.09.2022
web conference:
Organised crime and urban violence: European and United States’ perspectives | | • 29.09.2022
web conference:
Social interventions to prevent crime and support its victims | | | |
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Efus renews a third of its Executive Committee during its 2022 General Assembly meeting
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In accordance with Efus’ statutes, four cities have been elected new members of the Executive Committee during the 2022 General Assembly meeting held in Riga, on 12 May. These are Bologna (Italy), Bordeaux (France), Meyrin (Switzerland), and Toulouse Métropole (France). The Cities of Düsseldorf (Germany), Gdansk (Poland), Lisbon (Portugal), Nice (France), Riga (Latvia) and Zaragoza (Spain) were re-elected. | | | |
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“We’re interested in Efus’ collaborative and preventive approach” - Interview with the Mayor of Miskolc (Hungary)
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The fourth largest city in Hungary with about 150,000 residents, Miskolc has had to deal with the urban security challenges posed by deindustrialisation. We met with the Mayor of Efus’ newest member city, Pál Veres. | Read the article
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IcARUS: harnessing 35 years of local policies to design innovative solutions
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How can European local and regional authorities, practitioners and academics better work together to harness the wealth of knowledge acquired over three decades of local urban security policies and make our cities safer for all? This was the theme of the Efus-led IcARUS project's mid-term conference in Riga (Latvia) on 12-13 May. | Read the article | | | |
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Drugs: Brussels opens a supervised consumption room
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As part of an approach to drugs based on harm reduction, and resulting from years of preparatory work by the City of Brussels with the support of the Brussels Capital Region, the Gate Supervised Drug Consumption Facility (SDCF) opened on 5 May in Brussels. The Brussels authorities were inspired in part by the Efus-led SOLIDIFY project, in which they were partners. Belgium now has two SDCFs, after the opening, in 2018, of the Liège facility. Liège was also a partner in the SOLIDIFY project. | Read the article | | | |
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Local security stakeholders and experts from all over Europe gather for the European Week of Security in Liège
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In the framework of the PACTESUR project, the City of Liège (Belgium) hosted the project’s third and final European Week of Security to discuss how to develop, manage and protect public spaces through an integrated approach, on 2-6 May. | Read the article
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LOUD one year on – Leuven: more awareness on racism and discrimination among local youths
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One year after the conclusion of the LOUD project, which saw nine European municipalities mobilise local youngsters to produce online campaigns promoting alternative discourses to intolerance and extremism, we’ve asked the partners what has changed (or not) since then. We start our series of interviews with Jan Willems, from the Crime Prevention Department of the City of Leuven (Belgium). | | | |
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Evaluating the prevention and countering of violent extremism
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Efus at the 2022 European Crime Prevention Conference on partnership approaches in crime prevention Read the article | | | |
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Local Crime Prevention Councils as a tool to involve citizens in urban security: the experience of Piraeus (GR) and Montreuil (FR)
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Safety Advisory Group (SAG), City of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England
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Established after the Tour de France passed through Yorkshire, in 2015, the Safety Advisory Group gathers all the relevant stakeholders involved in the security of large events. | Read the practice sheet | | | |
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A podcast series on the security of public spaces | |
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This podcast series explores the current risks and threats affecting European cities' public spaces and how to address and mitigate them. Following a short introduction, the podcast discusses: vulnerability assessment – urban planning, design and management for urban security – communication in crisis management – technologies for security in public spaces.
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Fourth episode : In the fourth podcast, Francisco Javier Castro, Assistant Professor and Researcher at the Crimina Research Center for the Study and Prevention of Crime, Maguelone Laval and Giacomo Bianchi, Project Officers at the European Organisation for Security (EOS), will cover questions such as: Can technology help to make public spaces safer? Which threats can be prevented or detected by technology? What are the main challenges for local authorities when adopting technology to protect their public spaces? How can we deal with the ethical problems that the use of technology can entail? Does technology for more security and safety outweigh privacy rights? - Listen to the fourth episode | |
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