The SAFE project is a European project, coordinated by PRODISS, aimed at developing the skills of adults in charge of the safety of events and musical venues. The project is part of a very serious context of multiplication of attacks for musical places and events. The threats are diversifying, becoming more and more complexes and responses are just conjonctural (increase in the number of law enforcement agencies, emergency funds to mitigate ticket sales, communication campaigns reassuring audiences). Partners (training and adult education institutions, advisory bodies, trade unions, security companies, technology incubators, international networks) advocate for the development of structural responses to overcome the under-qualification of these personnel facing of this new threats. The SAFE project will therefore work to develop the skills of safety officers acting in music companies or security companies (as subcontractors) on the following topics: - Crowds management - Implementation of concerted safety strategies (co-construction of specifications) - Technological innovations existing or to be created according to the needs on the ground on the safety of the publics and the artists - Economic impact of security costs on the music industry in Europe - Analysis of existing good practices The SAFE project will develop several types of activities for the development of adult skills and qualifications: - 5 learning activities on the themes mentioned, bringing together music and safety professionals in Europe as well as technological start-ups (2 trainings / Hackathons) - Creation of 2 certificates for the target audiences of the project (responsible for the safety of the music sector and security agents) - 1 digital resource platform on technological and economic innovation issues related to security issues in the music and event sectors - 5 transnational events of dissemination of intellectual productions of the project: Certificates, digital and economic resources These activities will bring together the following participants: - European experts in adult education recognized on the implementation of international events safety strategy (Olympic Games, Euro football, major European festivals) - Heads of security in the music sector (550 on the entire project) - Responsible for safety in security companies (140 on the entire project) - Technology startups in music (30 in total) - Heads of networks and music unions (25 in total) advocating to the public authorities and disseminating the results. The whole relevance of the SAFE project is based on a formal and non-formal education methodology encouraging: - The development of contents based on the needs of the final beneficiaries of the project (security agents, artists, public) - Crossing expertise with other key sectors of events such as sports - The contribution of new technologies to the process of crowd management and security strategies (cyber security, monitoring of people flows, detection of materials etc ...) - The creation of an educational environment based on dialogue, the diversity of perspectives and the cross-over of expertise (from the safety officer to the arena manager) - The involvement of public authorities in certain project highlights The results and impacts of the SAFE project will be disseminated at all levels, from local to international, but will focus on qualifications and skills development of the final beneficiaries, at the forefront of the terrorist threat, often employed in part-time and in precarious contracts. The SAFE project will therefore fill the gap between the responsibilities and competences related to this profession, which is often underestimated, although overexposed. The recognition of the certificates created will concretely fill this gap. These impacts will be disseminated over wide networks because of the potential for dissemination of project partners. We will target in particular: Music companies and security companies to train their staff, national and European public authorities to invest massively on these issues of adult education on the issues of security of events. Our territories live more and more on a rhythm of events, the flows of people become more and more complex and the threats too. The collective response proposed by the SAFE project intends to act on the defense of our democracies through the empowerment of our populations because we can not say that we do not know the threat hanging over this specific sector.
SAFE is a European project, coordinated by PRODISS, aiming to develop the skills of adults in charge of the security of events and music venues. The project is part of a very serious context of increasing attacks on venues and events and has developed and adapted to the new challenges posed by the health crisis from March 2020. The threats have therefore become even more widespread and protective, and the responses have been limited to the current situation (increase in the number of law enforcement officers, emergency funds to compensate for a drop in ticket sales, communication campaigns to reassure the public or the total closure of venues during a pandemic). The health crisis has only accentuated this observation The partners (training and adult education institutes, consultancy organisations, trade unions, security companies, technological incubators, international networks) worked for 30 months on developing structural responses to compensate for the under-qualification of these staff in the face of these new threats. SAFE project therefore worked on developing the skills of security managers, but also of all music event personnel, as this issue has become even more central, on the following themes - Crowd management - Implementation of concerted security strategies (co-construction of specifications) - Existing or future technological innovations based on the needs of the field regarding the safety of audiences and artists - Economic impact of security costs on the music industry in Europe - Analysis of existing good practices - Security issues in the context of a health crisis SAFE project implemented several types of activities for the development of adult competences and skills: - 4 learning activities on the above-mentioned themes, bringing together music and security professionals in Europe as well as technology start-ups (2 trainings/Hackathons) - 2 certificates for the project's target audiences: a strategic programme (for event and venue managers) and an operational programme (for security companies) - 1 digital toolbox of resources on technological and economic innovations related to security issues in the music and events sectors - 1 study on safety issues in the context of a health crisis - 5 events for the dissemination of the project's intellectual productions These activities have the following participants - European experts in adult education who are recognised for their experience in implementing security strategies for international events (Olympics, Euro football, major European festivals) - Security managers in the music sector (550 over the whole project) - Security managers in security companies (100 in the whole project) - Managers of technology start-ups in the music sector (80 in total) - Managers of music networks and unions (25 in total) liaising with public authorities in particular The relevance of the SAFE project is based on a methodology of formal and non-formal education that promotes - The development of content based on the needs of the final beneficiaries of the project (security guards, artists, audiences) - Crossing expertise with other key sectors of the event industry such as sport - The contribution of new technologies to the process of crowd management and safety strategies (cyber security, search techniques, people flow monitoring, materials detection, health tests, people's identities, data management etc.) - The creation of an educational environment based on dialogue, diversity of views and cross-fertilisation of expertise (from security guard to arena manager) - The involvement of public authorities in certain key moments of the project The results and impacts of SAFE project have been multiplied at all levels, from local to international, and have been extended to issues related to the health crisis from March 2020 onwards (moving from the management of terrorist risks to a more global and integrated approach to the risks weighing on the events sector) SAFE project has succeeded in narrowing the gap between the responsibilities and skills involved in this often underestimated yet overexposed profession. This awareness on the part of public authorities and music sector managers has been accelerated by the health crisis These impacts have been disseminated over wide networks and have had a media and public impact due to the dissemination potential of the project partners In particular, we targeted: music companies and security companies to train their staff, national and European public authorities to invest massively in training adults in event safety issues The near-total shutdown of the events sector during the last year of the project led professionals to train massively in these safety issues and to realise that the only way to respond to successive crises was through continuous training of the players. This also helped to show that the issue of security was increasingly intrinsically linked to the event industry in all its diversity