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SHIELD Final Conference Report
Brussels – February 28th, 2024 The SHIELD project, an innovative initiative aimed at enhancing the security of places of worship, successfully convened its final conference on February 28th, 2024, in Brussels, Belgium. This
SHIELD: final Conference
Brussels – February 28th, 2024 We are pleased to invite you to the SHIELD Final Conference, which will take place on 28th February 2024 in Brussels. The SHIELD Project is a
Headline: Evaluation and validation workshop featuring SHIELD’s simulation videos
SHIELD consortium held an online workshop on December 7th, 2023 presenting three developed simulation videos of potential attacks on places of worship and obtaining elaborate feedback for their validation.
SHIELD at the ProSPeReS Final Conference – Łódź, November 22, 2023
The SHIELD project was represented at the ProSPeReS Final Conference, which took place in Łódź, Poland, on November 22, 2023.
SHIELD at the 8th Scientific Conference “Rationalization of Processes for Ensuring the Security of Participants of Religious Assemblies”
On September 23, 2023, the 8th Scientific Conference “Rationalization of Processes for Ensuring the Security of Participants of Religious Assemblies” was held at Ostrów Tumski in Wrocław.
Smart City as a Place to Pray
The Authors of this paper, engaged in the EU-funded SHIELD project – within the framework of this project and the exchange of experiences with its participants and participants of other projects oriented on the
Improving Security Measures for Places of Worship in Europe: Jews, Muslims and Catholics together in the fight against terrorism for the protection of believers
In recent years, the number of terrorist attacks on places of worship in Europe have consistently increased. In response to these threats, the European Commission has launched a call for proposals to improve the security of places of worship across European Union.
SHIELD – RISE SD 2023
SHIELD project was present at the RISE SD 2023 event, held in Rhodes, Greece, between May 29th and 31st, 2023.
SHIELD Training Short Report
For the launch of Work Package 4, University of Applied Sciences for Public Service in Bavaria – Department of Policing, together with the SHIELD project partners, held a training session related to prevention and awareness raising for the protection of religious institutions and houses of worship on May 17, 2023.
Short report on the International Conference “Protect and Secure Worship”
SHIELD consortium has been invited, by the sister Eu funded projects PROSECUW and PROTECTOR, to attend their final conference in Nicosia (Cyprus) on Tuesday 25 April 2023.
Cultural and Religious Dialogue as a Primary Prevention Need
The speech given by Archbishop Jean-Marie Gervais, Coadjutor Prefect of the Chapter of the Papal Basilica of St. Peter in the Vatican, on the occasion of the Shield workshop in Rome.
The true guardians of the city
ROME – December 1st, 2022 On the occasion of the first SHIELD Project Workshop, at the Great Mosque of Rome on December 1st 2022, Rav Scialom Bahbout in his speech, highlighting the Shield’s
SHIELD Short Report on the Workshop in Rome
The Shield project first workshop that was allocated to Italy timely took place on the 1st of December 2022 in Aula Magna of the Grande Moschea of Rome. On the occasion, prominent institutional, social, religious
SHIELD: first workshop
ROME – December 1st, 2022 The 1st workshop of the SHIELD project will take place on December 1st 2022 in the Conference Room – Aula Magna of the Great Mosque of Rome, Italy.
Praying in safety: Security means more than alarms and locks
Over the past few years, Europe was exposed to an asymmetrical progression of international terrorism threat comprising the carrying out of attacks inside or around religious buildings located in the densely populated urban public spaces. In
Praying in safety: the Shield project to protect the sacred places of the three monotheistic faiths
The widespread prevalence of terrorist attacks carried out by individuals as well as by armed groups all over Europe but also in several extra European countries has created significant unsafety insecurity affecting also places
SHIELD: preliminary achievements of the project
SHIELD (solutions to enhance interfaith protection of places of worship from terrorist danger) is a project funded by the European Commission and, in particular, by the European Union’s Internal Security Fund – Police. The
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Giacomo Zarfati, National Security Coordinator of the Union of Italian Jewish communities. Testimony on the occasion of the Shield project first workshop.