Secu4All Panel: Improving anticipation of and preparedness to security threats in public spaces
Francisco Javier Castro
CRIMINA
CRIMINA
Willy Demeyer
Mayor of Liège & President of Efus
Mayor of Liège & President of Efus
Vivian Gravenberch
Dutch Institute for Safe and Secure Space (DISSS)
Dutch Institute for Safe and Secure Space (DISSS)
Elizabeth Johnston
European Forum for Urban Security (Efus)
European Forum for Urban Security (Efus)
Elodie Reuge
European Organisation for Security-EOS
European Organisation for Security-EOS
Apostolos Skrekas
The Center for Security Studies-KEMEA
The Center for Security Studies-KEMEA
Christian Specht
Vice-Mayor of Mannheim & Vice-President of Efus
Vice-Mayor of Mannheim & Vice-President of Efus
Paul van Soomeren
Dsp-groep
Dsp-groep
Moderation: Pilar De La Torre
European Forum for Urban Security (Efus)
Abstract:
Actors involved in the management of public spaces are as diverse as their competences and the risks and threats likely to impact public spaces. Local authorities often struggle to train and coordinate them when it comes to anticipating, preventing and mitigating risks and threats. These different stakeholders must be efficiently involved in managing public spaces and in promoting a shared culture on security issues. This implies increasing their competences and strengthening co-production mechanisms.
The Secu4All project promotes a comprehensive approach to this challenge, by taking into account physical protection and prevention measures, but also citizens’ feelings of security and social cohesion. This contributes to addressing threats ranging from minor and major crimes to nuisances and incivilities. This session presents the results of the Secu4All project, with partners and local elected officials sharing their views about how the project contributed to respond to their training needs.
9h00-9h30: Welcoming remarks & Adoption of the Efus Resolution on Public Spaces
9h30-10h30: Secu4All project results and lessons learned
PhD, Degree and Master in Philosophy. He is currently CEO and co-founder of an ethics consulting firm for European projects, Plus Ethics, and lecturer of Criminal Law and Criminology at Miguel Hernández University of Elche. His research interests are focused on ethics analysis applied to security and cybersecurity research, research designs and epistemology in social sciences.
Mayor of Liège (Belgium), Willy Demeyer, was elected President of Efus at the General Assembly on May 18, 2017. Graduating with a law degree in 1982, Willy Demeyer started his career as a lawyer at the Liege Bar.
In 1988 he became a councillor at the City of Liege and the head of the Socialist Group. Between 1991 and 1999 he was appointed as the alderman for Public Works before becoming the burgomaster. He went on to be elected to this position in 2000, 2006 and 2012.
In addition, he was a member of the Walloon Region Parliament from 2004 to 2005, Vice President of the Senate from 2009 to 2017 and a member of the Chamber of Representatives from 2014 to March 2017. Willy Demeyer is a member of the Commission investigating the attacks of March 2016 in Belgium. He is also Vice President of the International Association of Francophone Mayors since 1999.
Vivian holds a Master of Science degree in Investigative Criminology with specialization in (geographical) profiling and environmental criminology. During her studies at the Free University of Amsterdam she was active as a student assistant at the master course “Spatial Criminology” for three years. In this course, students are taught various principles and theories on geographically profiling areas and/or individuals. She also did research assignments on the balance between citizens’ security needs and their privacy rights. Vivian has also worked in multimedia development, E-learning development and web design. Vivian’s co-workers mostly describe her as being very enthusiastic, eager to learn, associative and very creative.
Vivian has worked on several H2020 and ISFP projects during her time as (junior) project coordinator, assistant and researcher at DITSS.
As of April 2022 Vivian is Board Member of DISSS.
She is responsible for the strategy and development of Efus, in liaison with the Executive Committee, as well as overall management. She has also been Executive Director of the French Forum for Urban Security since February 2016. In addition, she is a member of the Advisory Board of the Global Parliament of Mayors and an official associate of the University of Liège (Belgium). Prior to this, and after beginning her career at a French local authority, Elizabeth Johnston served as Programme Director at the French-Am erican Foundation, and as Violence Prevention Expert at the World Bank in Washington. She holds degrees in Law from Assas University (France), in Political Science from Yale University (United-States) and in Public Policy from Marne-La-Vallée University (France).
Elodie Reuge holds a Bachelor Degree in International Law and was awarded with two Master's, in Comparative Law in 2008 from Paul Cézanne University in Aix-en-Provence and in European Law in 2012 from Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne University. Elodie worked as a an International Volunteer (VIA) for the French Embassy in Romania during two years, where she was part of the Cooperation Unit. In 2013, she spent a year in Lao PDR practicing as a lawyer in the aviation sector. Based in Brussels since 2014, Elodie had the opportunity to work as a Project Manager, specialized in the sectors of Justice, security, good governance and transport, position involving frequent field missions in Africa and in the Middle East. She has worked on several projects, EDF and ENPI funds, technical assistances and grants. Elodie joined EOS in August 2017 and is currently employed as senior project manager. Elodie has already worked on multiple projects since she was employed by EOS, both H2020 and Horizon Europe.
He was assigned to his corps in 2008.
He works as an officer to the Operational Planning, Partnerships and Exercises Department of the Joint Operations & Crisis Management Coordination Center. Also he is a member of the National Exercise Planning Team and a Hostage and Crisis Negotiator.
He is a national expert in the fields of security and crisis management, representing the country in relevant European networks and EU working groups, as well as a European Protective Security Advisor (EU PSA) to the European Commission.
During the period 2021-2022, he was the Press Spokesman of the Hellenic Police. He is an instructor to the Hellenic Police Academy, while he belongs to the committee for planning and evaluating research activities of the Hellenic Police.
He holds a Master's Degree in "Media Communication and Rhetoric" from Panteion University (2018) and is a graduate of the Department of Administrative Science and Technology of the Athens University of Economics and Business.
Christian Specht has been Deputy Mayor of the City of Mannheim since 2005 and First Deputy Mayor since 2007. He is responsible for Finance, Investment Asset Management, IT, Public Safety and Order. He is a member of the supervisory board of the energy company MVV Energie AG and chairman of the supervisory board of the public transport alliance Rhein-Neckar-Verkehr GmbH. A qualified lawyer, he is chairman of the finance committee of the Baden-Württemberg Association of Cities and Deputy Chairman of the finance committee of the German Association of Cities. Specht is Vice-President of the European Forum for Urban Security (EFUS) and of the German European Forum for Urban Security (DEFUS) as well as Chair of the SiMA Association for Security in Mannheim.
Paul van Soomeren is the founder of DSP-groep a research and consultancy bureau based in Amsterdam The Netherlands (https://www.dsp-groep.eu/). Paul participates in several European projects like https://www.cuttingcrimeimpact.eu/ and https://efus.eu/secu4all-en/. Paul is the Chair of the CEN working group on standardisation of Crime Prevention through Environmental Design that made the recent European standards on crime prevention CEN TS 14383-2:2022 and CEN EN 14383-1 (in progress).
The Secu4All project promotes a comprehensive approach to this challenge, by taking into account physical protection and prevention measures, but also citizens’ feelings of security and social cohesion. This contributes to addressing threats ranging from minor and major crimes to nuisances and incivilities. This session presents the results of the Secu4All project, with partners and local elected officials sharing their views about how the project contributed to respond to their training needs.
9h00-9h30: Welcoming remarks & Adoption of the Efus Resolution on Public Spaces
9h30-10h30: Secu4All project results and lessons learned
Francisco Javier Castro
Willy Demeyer, Mayor of Liège & President of Efus
In 1988 he became a councillor at the City of Liege and the head of the Socialist Group. Between 1991 and 1999 he was appointed as the alderman for Public Works before becoming the burgomaster. He went on to be elected to this position in 2000, 2006 and 2012.
In addition, he was a member of the Walloon Region Parliament from 2004 to 2005, Vice President of the Senate from 2009 to 2017 and a member of the Chamber of Representatives from 2014 to March 2017. Willy Demeyer is a member of the Commission investigating the attacks of March 2016 in Belgium. He is also Vice President of the International Association of Francophone Mayors since 1999.
Vivian Gravenberch, Dutch Institute for Safe and Secure Space (DISSS)
Vivian has worked on several H2020 and ISFP projects during her time as (junior) project coordinator, assistant and researcher at DITSS.
As of April 2022 Vivian is Board Member of DISSS.
Elizabeth Johnston
Elodie Reuge, European Organisation for Security-EOS
Apostolos Skrekas
He works as an officer to the Operational Planning, Partnerships and Exercises Department of the Joint Operations & Crisis Management Coordination Center. Also he is a member of the National Exercise Planning Team and a Hostage and Crisis Negotiator.
He is a national expert in the fields of security and crisis management, representing the country in relevant European networks and EU working groups, as well as a European Protective Security Advisor (EU PSA) to the European Commission.
During the period 2021-2022, he was the Press Spokesman of the Hellenic Police. He is an instructor to the Hellenic Police Academy, while he belongs to the committee for planning and evaluating research activities of the Hellenic Police.
He holds a Master's Degree in "Media Communication and Rhetoric" from Panteion University (2018) and is a graduate of the Department of Administrative Science and Technology of the Athens University of Economics and Business.
Christian Specht, Vice-Mayor of Mannheim & Vice-President of Efus
Paul van Soomeren
Tuesday 13th of June 2023
9:00 - 10:30 am
Room: Mahler-Saal III
