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Preventing polarisation to safeguard social cohesion |
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local and regional authorities do to prevent it? We've been exploring these questions for more than a decade, notably (but not exclusively) through several EU-funded projects. Photo ©iStock justhavealook |
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Protecting public-facing professionals from online abuse: a new project in which Efus is a partner |
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As part of our on-going work on preventing polarisation and its far-reaching impacts, we've joined as partners a new EU-funded project, Osprey (Online Safety and Security for Protection of
Public-Facing Professionals and Democratic Resilience). The objective is to better protect public-facing professionals who are increasingly targeted by online abuse, intimidation, threats and coordinated disinformation campaigns. Led by the Centre of Excellence in Terrorism, Resilience, Intelligence and Organised Crime Research (CENTRIC) of the Sheffield Hallam University (UK), the project started in December for a duration of three years.
Photo: the project's kick-off meeting in Sheffield, December 2025 |
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Interview with Commander Gianni Serra of the local police of Sassari, Italy |
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The second largest city of Sardinia (Italy), Sassari is one of our newest members. We met with Commander Gianni Serra of the local police to exchange about the city's priorities and challenges in terms of crime prevention. We wish a warm welcome to Sassari and look forward to furthering our exchanges. |
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Updates on the Coalition of the willing against drug-related violence and trafficking |
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Amsterdam, Berlin, Bordeaux, Brussels... Many of our member cities are implementing policies and programmes to prevent and counter drug- and traffic-related violence. We have listed some |
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of them in the Coalition section of our website, showing that a lot is being done in Europe at the local level. Let us know if you want to share your practice(s) with other Efus members. |
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Factsheet: preventing radicalisation leading to violent extremism |
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During four years (2020-2024), Efus led the EU-funded IcARUS project whose objective was to rethink and adapt tools and methods to better anticipate and respond to security challenges. One of the project's areas of work was radicalisation leading to violence.
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>> Do you have a practice you would like to share with other Efus members? Contact us |
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Check out our podcast channel: 18 episodes available! |
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🎙️ In case you're bored over the festive period and are looking for enlightening conversations, check out our podcasts! We have no less than 18 episodes available on a wide range of urban security topics, featuring an array of experts and practitioners from across Europe. |
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Save the dates 15 January to 12 February 2026, Germany, AI for Cities training programme for German cities 20 January, Paris (France), kick-off meeting of the Efus-led and EU-funded CAPABLE project on drug use in public spaces 18-19 February, Gelsenkirchen (Germany), workshop of the DARE project on cross-border crisis management March (dates tbc), Italy, AI for Cities training programme for Italian cities March (date tbc), Brussels (Belgium), mid-term review, SPARROW project on crisis management
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Join our Safer Together group on LinkedIn! |
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A space for practitioners, experts, academics, students, or anyone interested in urban security and crime prevention. |
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