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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 milestone event brought together a diverse array of stakeholders, including security experts, policymakers, religious leaders, and representatives from sister projects, to… Continue reading SHIELD Final Conference Report

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 European initiative that aims to protect places of worship from the risks of terrorism and violent attacks, by developing effective strategies… Continue reading SHIELD: final Conference

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.

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.

The SHIELD project was represented at the ProSPeReS Final Conference, which took place in Łódź, Poland, on November 22, 2023.

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 presence of religions in the modern urban spaces – carried out a research entitled Smart City as a Place to Pray,… Continue reading Smart City as a Place to Pray

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 project was present at the RISE SD 2023 event, held in Rhodes, Greece, between May 29th and 31st, 2023.

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.

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.