New Era of Urban Safety & Security? SURE!

SURE Seminar In Brussels

Over the course of more than three years, the SURE - Smart Urban Security and Event Resilience project team has gathered a wealth of knowledge and experience on urban and event security, and urban resilience.

SURE seminar in Brussels is an opportunity for EU policymakers and international stakeholders to hear key learnings from UIA urban security projects from Finland, Greece and Italy on how to enhance urban resilience and integrate it into urban development.

This seminar aims to achieve closer cooperation between the Member States, the Commission, cities and other actors to develop urban regions reinforcing urban policy through the Urban Agenda for the EU.

Sharing Key Learnings From Three UIA Projects

We will be covering the following topics:

• Good practices to increase urban resilience
• Practical examples of how to seamlessly blend technology and trust between security stakeholders and the public
• How to enhance the scalability of UIA projects

The three UIA projects sharing their learning are:

• SURE Tampere from Tampere, Finland
• Be Secure, Feel Secure from Piraeus, Greece and
• ToNite from Turin, Italy

Agenda

9:00-9:30 Morning coffee

9:30 Opening & welcome: Mrs. Konstantina Karydi, UIA expert, Member of the UNDRR MCR2030 regional committee

9:40 Setting the stage: Key findings in the field of urban safety and security by SURE and UIA projects: Dr. Anniina Autero, Head of Project, City of Tampere

10:00 New membership announcements of SURE and the City of Tampere:

• Making Cities Resilient 2030/UNDRR - Mr. David Baker and Mrs. Anniina Autero
• European Forum for Urban Security EFUS - Mrs. Anniina Autero
• World Smart City Awards 2022 - Mrs. Anniina Autero

10:10 “Protection of Public Spaces" - Greetings from the EU Commission: Mr. Valerio Liberatori, Policy Officer, Directorate-General Migration & Home Affairs, D2: Counter Terrorism

10:30 "Capitalising on UIA projects and bringing results to the EU level" - Greetings from Eurocities: Pietro Reviglio , Policy Advisor, Eurocities

10:50 Panel discussion

Moderator will be Konstantina Karydi, Advisor, Urban Innovative Action UIA.

• Elizabeth Johnston, Executive Director, European Forum for Urban Security EFUS
• Helena Monteiro, Coordinator and Project Support Specialist, UNDRR and Making Cities Resilient 2030
• Dr. Ilari Karppi, University Lecturer, Tampere University
• Petri Nykänen, Director, Safety and Security, Business Tampere
• Dr. Nikolaos Nikoloudakis, BSFS Project Manager, SingularLogic S.A.

+ discussion and questions

12:15-12:30 Sum-up & Closing of the event

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Please note there will be limited spots available for on-site participation and tickets will be given out on a first-come, first-served basis. The event will be streamed and the link will be openly available prior to the event ta SURE Tampere website and LinkedIn.

Warmly welcome!

SURE Tampere team

The SURE Project is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund through the Urban Innovative Actions Initiative.