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ToNite – Journal n.4 – A final update on the project and its legacy in Turin

The UIA Expert Simone d’Antonio provides an update on what has happened with the project since its end date, with a focus on the impact produced in th...

Journal 3: 2022 The Key Year for the Delivery of the Activities

2022 was a crucial year in which some of the most important activities developed: The urban data platform has been finalised; The projects ended in D...

Involving local youth in urban regeneration projects

Journal 2: Preparing to fly - Tonite project in 2021

2021 was a passing year. Some delays due to covid-19 hampers 2021 from being the crucial year of the success or unsuccess of the project. However impo...

The urban intervention in Viale Ottavio Mai

The Tonite project includes two important urban renewal interventions. Today we talk with Valter Cavallaro and Samantha Ghirotto of the Municipality o...

Community activation in urban regeneration at night time

In the framework of the Tonite project, a tender was launched with the goal of collecting proposals from local communities. The aims of the project ar...

Tonite Journal 1: the first year of the project

Tonite project aims at improving urban security perception at night-time by providing new services with the citizens' engagement and more pro-active a...

Sharing knowledge across projects on urban security

Last April, the teams leading the Call 4 UIA Projects for urban security got together for an online meet-up: different cities, different contexts, one...

Not all evils come to harm: Insights on how the ToNite project is dealing with the Pandemic.

The resurgence of Coronavirus cases in recent days, making it clear that this second wave is upon us in Europe, is a good opportunity to focus our att...

Journal 4 - Looking back and looking ahead

The implementation phase of the BeSecure FeelSecure project concluded in March 2023. The project steadily achieved its milestones, overcoming hurdles ...

Is a smart city a safe city?

In recent times, we as a general audience have become keenly aware of the alleged potential of tech such as machine learning, AI and big data to make ...

What can cities do to prevent gender-based violence?

Cities play a crucial role in preventing gender-based violence (GBV) through comprehensive measures, as highlighted in the context of the BSFS project...

Online security and youths: an European issue and a local approach

BSFS organized several information seminars, consulting workshops, as well as special session that informed and raised awareness to high-school studen...

The Local Council for Crime Prevention: an experiment in good governance to prevent crime

One of the project's milestones was the establishment of the Local Council of Crime Prevention - an exercise in good governance. Let's explore this co...

Be Secure Feel Secure – Journal 3: get an update about the project for holistic security in Piraeus

Be Secure Feel Secure – Journal 2: get an update about the project for holistic security in Piraeus

Governance, renovations, cooperation, support, communication... These are some of the concepts that have been constantly present throughout the activi...

Zoom in 1 - Crime Victims Information Unit

One of the most important milestones of the Be Secure-Feel Secure (BSFS) is the establishment of the Crime Victims Information Unit (METHE) in the Mun...

Citizen participation: empowering city dwellers to make cities safer

There is no question that the built environment has an important effect on perception of security. Urban interventions to foster security are appealin...

Be Secure Feel Secure Journal 1: get an update about Piraeus' project for safe cities

JOURNAL 01 - BSFS Year 1 BSFS project has completed its first year of implementation, while a global pandemic has changed how we approach urban proje...

Insecurity and city level: why does it matter?

Cities are hubs for the exchange of goods, services, knowledge, and ideas, and nowadays, they are growing at unprecedented rates. With an increasing ...

Understanding the dimensions of SURE

This article visits the key dimensions that SURE addressed reaching its goal to increase urban security through the lense of large-scale urban events....

ZOOM IN SURE – SCALING UP and SCALING OUT

This Zoom-in captures the key actions that the Tampere leading team of SURE took to ensure that this innovation project would successfully scale-up an...

Smart Urban Security & Events Resilience (SURE) Journal 2: Increasing safety of public events and building the city’s capacity for long-term resilience planning

Smart Urban Security and Event Resilience (SURE) Journal 1: How Tampere is intervening in the area of urban security and daily city resilience through the lens of event management

SURE is about urban security and public space management through the lens of event management. SURE is improving the security and accessibility of pu...

Tampere hosted the ‘Keeping Cities Vital: Public Space and Resilience’ event

Is city vitality a lost case under COVID-19? How do urban authorities respond when managing a ‘slow-burning’ crisis, such as the current pandemic, a c...

Zoom In #2 - Crime prevention and spatial transformations

On this publication, we zoom-in on the spatial transformations that have taken place in Piraeus as part of the BSFS project. ...