PACTESUR2

The management and protection of public spaces remains one of the major issues for European cities as they are vulnerable to many types of threats. Despite significant technological innovations and extensive efforts to raise stakeholders’ awareness, local police forces and law enforcement agencies remain among the most important actors in cities’ urban security landscape. Their presence on the ground, their tools, their training, their level of cooperation with the private sector and their relationship with citizens highly contribute to the efficiency of urban security policies.

The PACTESUR 2 project aims at:

1. Improving the protection of public spaces by enhancing the development and implementation of promising practices at the local level; 

2. Enhancing public-private cooperation in the safety field; 

3. Raising awareness among European authorities, private actors and citizens on the need to improve collaboration in the protection of public spaces.

Consortium: European Forum for Urban Security (Efus), the Italian Association of Piemont Municipalities (Italy), City of Liège (Belgium), City of Madrid (Spain), City of Nice (France), City of Turin (Italy).

Associated cities: City of Bologna (Italy), City of Bratislava (Slovakia), City of Budapest (Hungary), City of Gdansk (Poland), City of Kordelió-Évosmos (Greece), City of Lisbon (Portugal), City of Riga (Latvia), safe.brussels (Belgium), City of Tallinn (Estonia), City of Vilnius (Lithuania), City of Xàbia (Spain).

The consortium will implement the following activities:

1. The organisation of three Police Academies and additional police exchanges during international events and summertime. 
2. The organisation of two public-private security cooperation workshops to discuss public-private security cooperation, the specific national strategies for cooperation of public and private actors of security of public places and, finally, with citizens. The work conducted will result in a set of recommendations to enhance public-private cooperation regarding the protection of public places.

• 14 November 2023 – Kick off meeting, Paris (France)
• 15-19 February 2024, Carnival of Nice (France)
• 13-16 May 2024 – Local Police Academy, Nice (France)
• 24-25 June 2024 – 2-day Public/Private security workshop and Annual meeting, Liège (Belgium)
• 11-14 July 2024 – Les Ardentes Festival, Liège (Belgium)
• July 2024 or July 2025 – Giro d’italia, Turin (Italy)
• November 2024 – Local Police Academy, Madrid (Spain)
• February 2025 – 2-day Public/Private security workshop and Annual meeting in Nice (France) or in one of the associated cities 
• 3-5 June 2025 – Local Police Academy, Turin (Italy)
• Summer 2025 – Madrid Pride Festival (Spain)
• 2025 – ANCI workshops (Italy)
• Summer 2025 – Final event in Brussels (Belgium)

Efus oversees all the communication and dissemination activities of the project. It is also responsible for managing the 11 European cities that will be associated to PACTESUR 2 through a public call for expression of interest.