News – European Forum for Urban Security

Mental health: a silent crisis that affects urban security across Europe

July 2025 – Reflecting our member local and regional authorities’ growing concerns, we have recently included mental health as a new area of work for the European Forum…

Post date 17/07/2025
Post categories In European cooperation, Exchanges among peers, Mental Health, News
Tags news, Respect to Protect

How to better involve citizens in preventing and combating gender-based violence

Marseille, France, June 2025 – How can citizens be better involved in preventing and combating gender-based violence? Representatives from some 25 European local and regional authorities worked on…

Post date 16/07/2025
Post categories In European cooperation, Exchanges among peers, Gender equality & Gender-based violence , Innovation & Technology, News
Tags news, transcend

Partnership with the LUCI network on urban lighting: new opportunities for our members

July 2025 – The European Forum for Urban Security (Efus) recently signed a partnership agreement with the LUCI network, which brings together 70 cities from around the world…

Post date 07/07/2025
Post categories In Exchanges among peers, News, Public Spaces, The city at night
Tags news

Creating close bonds with peers across Europe to better protect public spaces

June 2025 – The management and protection of public spaces is a major issue for European cities, which remain vulnerable despite technological advances and their efforts to improve…

Post date 24/06/2025
Post categories In Activities, European cooperation, Exchanges among peers, News, Public Spaces
Tags news, PACTESUR, PACTESUR2

How to strengthen local safety at a time of increasing polarisation and disinformation

April 2025 – As we have seen across Europe over the past few years, and now quite dramatically in the United States, polarisation, extremism and disinformation are weighing…

Post date 22/04/2025
Post categories In Manifesto & Positions, News, Polarisation & Radicalisation, Security, Democracy & Cities Conference
Tags BRIDGE, news

Rotterdam’s outgoing mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb: a trailblazer and an old friend

Rotterdam, Netherlands, 11 September 2024 – Representing the European Forum for Urban Security (Efus), Elizabeth Johnston, Executive Director, joined Rotterdam’s outgoing mayor, Ahmed Aboutaleb, who is stepping down after…

Post date 12/09/2024
Post categories In About Us, News, Security, Democracy & Cities Conference, Uncategorized
Tags Rotterdam

Preventing insecurity in and through sport

Paris, July 2024 – As Paris welcomes the 2024 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games, cities have a unique opportunity to showcase the actions they are taking to prevent…

Post date 24/07/2024
Post categories In Discriminatory Violence, European cooperation, News, Publications, Uncategorized
Tags MATCH SPORT, SENTRY

Efus launches its podcast channel on urban security: Join the conversation!

Paris, May 2024 – After a fruitful Security, Democracy and Cities conference in March in Brussels, the European Forum for Urban Security is launching a podcast channel to…

Post date 28/05/2024
Post categories In News
Tags ICARUS

Throwback to the 2024 Security, Democracy and Cities conference!

Brussels, Belgium, March 2024 – After three days of intense debate on more than twenty urban security issues, the eighth Security, Democracy and Cities conference, organised in Brussels…

Post date 12/04/2024
Post categories In News