SAFE-CITIES - riSk-based Approach For the protEction of public spaces in European CITIES

在过去几十年中，欧洲经历了几次恐怖袭击，证明这种威胁仍然是真实的和严重的，而肇事者正在寻找新的方法来渗透目前的安全措施。虽然严重的袭击迄今为止相当罕见，但欧盟公民在体育场、购物中心、通勤、参观文化场所或任何其他公共场所时可能突然陷入恐怖事件仍然是一个现实。此外，更多的恐怖袭击与欧盟人口的生活满意度和幸福感水平较低有关。欧盟五分之一的人确实非常担心未来12个月会发生恐怖袭击。恐怖袭击还降低了欧盟公民对同胞、国家政治、法律的和警察机构的信任。SAFE-CITIES旨在通过在5个欧盟国家的4个用例中提供和展示安全和脆弱性评估框架，并通过决策支持平台为其实施提供支持，以支持公共空间的卓越保护。这将允许在一个逼真的虚拟三维环境中模拟任何空间的复杂情景、人群行为和攻击，使最终用户能够对所调查的地点进行全面和动态的风险和脆弱性评估，以确定针对各种威胁的潜在脆弱性，并支持包括公民在内的公共和私人行为体充分参与和合作制定战略，使公共空间安全，同时保持其开放性。该联盟汇集了来自9个国家（意大利、塞浦路斯、荷兰、希腊、波兰、英国、比利时、芬兰、斯洛文尼亚）的18个合作伙伴。为了有效地执行这个为期26个月的项目，项目团队包括地方和地区当局、警察当局、第一反应组织、RTO和学术界、CSO、安全产业集群协会以及专门从事安全的高科技中小企业。

Over the past decades, Europe has experienced several terrorist attacks, proving that this threat is still real and serious, while perpetrators are finding new methods to penetrate current security measures. Although grave attacks have so far been rather infrequent, it is still a reality that EU citizens may be suddenly caught up in a terrorist incident, while at the stadium, shopping in a mall, commuting, visiting a cultural venue, or in any other public space. Besides, more terrorist attacks are associated with lower levels of life satisfaction and happiness among the EU population. One in five people in the EU are indeed very worried about a terrorist attack in the next 12 months. Terrorist attacks also lower EU citizens’ trust in fellow citizens, national political, legal and police institutions. SAFE-CITIES aims to support excellence in the protection of public spaces, by delivering and demonstrating a Security and Vulnerability Assessment framework, empowered by a decision-support platform for its implementation, in 4 use-cases across 5 EU countries. This will allow for simulation of complex scenarios, crowd behaviour and attacks in any space within a realistic virtual 3D environment, enabling end-users to perform comprehensive and dynamic risk and vulnerability assessments of the site investigated, to identify potential vulnerabilities against a wide number of threats and support the full engagement and cooperation of public and private actors, including citizens, into the elaboration of strategies, to make public spaces secure while preserving their open nature. The Consortium brings together 18 partners from 9 countries (Italy, Cyprus, Netherlands, Greece, Poland, UK, Belgium, Finland, Slovenia). To effectively carry out the 26 months project, the project team includes local and regional authorities, Police authorities, First Responders organizations, RTOs and academia, CSO, security industry cluster association, and high-tech SMEs specialised in security.