The project seeks to raise awareness among municipal authorities on security concepts and the need to adapt technology for the protection of public spaces, and to share best practices and lessons learned to efficiently apply technology concepts to protect public spaces.
The project will provide the partner local authorities with tools, technology, training and field demonstrations that will improve situational awareness, i.e. the capacity to assess the level of safety in a given place or situation, as well as the measures taken to strengthen the safety of public places, prevent a terrorist attack and mitigate its consequences, should it occur.

Request for Information
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• Factsheet No. 1: Introduction to the PRoTECT Manual for Vulnerability Assessment
• Factsheet No. 2: Preparing a Vulnerability Assesment
• Factsheet No. 3 How to use/fill in the Record template
• Factsheet No. 4 Conducting a Vulnerability Assessment

> Annex No. 1: Record Template
> Annex No. 2: A scenario for the use of Vulnerability Assessment Manual by local authorities
> Annex No. 3: Example of possible scenario per threat type

• Webconference report
• Presentation
• EU VAC Content 2021 DG Home
• Presentation Stepwise project

Efus contributes to PRoTECT by designing training materials for local authorities and law enforcement agencies that are based on the European Commission’s Soft Target Site Assessment tool, which is a set of operational guidelines on assessments on-site concerning the vulnerability of public spaces.
It also helps the project’s five partner cities to conduct a local vulnerability assessment so they can adopt tailor-made technological solutions and best practices to enhance the protection of their local public spaces.

Led by the Dutch Institute for Technology, Safety and Security (DITSS), PRoTECT gathers, apart from Efus, the Lithuanian Centre for Cybersecurity (Lietuvos Kibernetiniu Nusikaltimu Kompetenciju Ir Tyrimu Centras) (LT), the Meleton Asfaleias Centre (GR), the Romanian police Inspectorate (RO), the Spanish Ministry of the Interior (ES), the cities of Brasov (RO), Eindhoven (NL), Lariseon (GR), Málaga (ES), and Vilnius (LT), the Dutch Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO, NL) and the Catholic University of Brabant (NL).

• D 5.6 – 2nd PRoTECT Workshop

This project is in line with the European Commission’s 2017 Action Plan to “provide guidance and support to Member States at national, regional and local level in protecting public spaces,” which states that the EU “can foster the exchange of best practice across borders through targeted funding as well as networks of practitioners and guidance material,” and that it can “involve a wide range of stakeholders both from the local level and the private sector in this work.”