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• 10.03.2022
From neighbourhoods to policymakers: how do audits contribute to evidence-based security policy? | register
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Combatting organised crime and promoting social cohesion: confiscation of assets in Italy | register
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Organised crime in ports of European cities: how do public private partnerships work? | register
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• 05.05.2022
Local Crime Prevention Councils: a pillar of urban security governance
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Combatting modern slavery and trafficking in human beings: an ongoing struggle | register
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Efus General Assembly and Conference, Riga
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• 09.06.2022
Empowering city dwellers to make cities safer: how to use digital tools?
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Organised crime and urban violence: European and American perspectives
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Social interventions to prevent crime and support its victims | register
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Standing in solidarity with the people of Ukraine
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We, members of the European Forum for Urban Security, stand in solidarity with the people of Ukraine. There is nothing as meaningful as cities helping cities and citizens helping citizens in the face of human suffering. There is nothing as senseless as war. | |
“We are keen to learn from other European cities’ experience in crime prevention” - Interview with the Mayor of Lithuania's capital
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The capital of Lithuania, Vilnius (584,000 inhabitants) is Efus’ newest member. We met with Mayor Remigijus Šimašius. | Read the article
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Tribute to Freddy Thielemans, former Mayor of Brussels and President of Efus
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Efus joined in the many tributes paid to Freddy Thielemans, former Mayor of Brussels and as such President of Efus from 2003 to 2007, who died on 29 January at the age of 77. | Read the article
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Efus and International Women’s Day on 8 March: the effort continues
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Efus, which has been working for 35 years on the prevention of and fight against violence against women, welcomes the International Women's Day on 8 March, and expresses solidarity with all women and victims of gender and domestic violence.
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How to locally tackle organised crime? A series of web conferences by Efus’ working group
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Efus’ working group on the local roots and impact of organised crime, which is led by the Cities of Amsterdam and Rotterdam, started in February a series of web conferences to be held throughout the first semester. The first one, on 9 February, focused on the European Union’s ‘administrative approach’ and on the experience of the City of Amsterdam.
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The Mayor of Efus-member Cologne receives the first Pawel Adamowicz Award for her work in favour of solidarity and diversity
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Henriette Reker, Mayor of Cologne (Germany) and member of Efus’ Executive Committee, has received the first ever Pawel Adamowicz Award in recognition for “the excellence and courage of her work in promoting freedom, solidarity, equality and diversity”, during a ceremony at the European Committee of the Regions (CoR) in Brussels, on 27 January. | Read the article
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How to improve the integrated management of risks and cooperation for the protection of public spaces?
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How to improve the integrated management of risks and cooperation for the protection of public spaces? We’ve asked Yves Van de Vloet, research associate in PACTESUR and manager at Efus of the ALARM project on French-Belgian cooperation in civil protection.| Read the article
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Restorative Justice, an approach that contributes to the prevention and mitigation of polarisation at the local and regional level - Read the article | | | |
Multilevel governance for the co-production of urban security: a joint web conference by Efus and the URBAN intergroup of the European Parliament - Read the article | | | |
>>> “Education and raising citizens’ awareness are the most suitable, agile and relevant tools to prevent and diffuse conflicts.” – Interview with the Ambassador of Hungary in France, George Habsburg-Lorraine - Read the article | |
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The Design Thinking Methodology in the context of the IcARUS Project | |
This factsheet presents the Design Thinking methodology used by the IcARUS project to find innovative and user-oriented solutions to urban security issues. | 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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First episode: We discuss the connection between vulnerability and public spaces from an urban security perspective with Vivian Gravenberch from the Dutch Institute for Technology, Safety & Security (DITSS). How do we define vulnerability, and how can we identify and assess it? Who should take the decisions based on the assessment? How do we increase the resilience of public spaces? What about the feeling of insecurity? | Listen to the first episode | |
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