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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.

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.

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 first results on physical security of the worship infrastructures, has reminded the fundamental problem: educating the younger generations to respect human… Continue reading The true guardians of the city

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 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 guest speakers contributed to foster the interfaith efforts and brainstorm the complex phenomenon of violent extremism with aim to design new… Continue reading SHIELD Short Report on the Workshop in Rome

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.   The goal of the SHIELD workshop is to increase the visibility of the project, enhance the dissemination of its activities… Continue reading SHIELD: first workshop