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The CO-SECUR project will be present at the 30th @German Prevention Congress, the world’s largest annual conference on violence and crime prevention. The conference, which will be held in Augsburg on 23 and 24 June 2025, has as its theme ‘Prevention and Social Peace’ and will bring together 3,000 participants. #COSECUR presents innovative and community-based approaches to improving safety in public spaces during large events. ️ The sessions include: Social and participatory approaches to innovation

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Jorge Garces, director of the Social Welfare Policy Research Institute (Polibienestar), visits the University of Nuuk in Greenland Polibienestar’s relationship with this university began approximately two years ago when professors Jorge Garcés, Annamaria Campanini and Francisco Rodenas invited professors Steven Arnfjord and Kevin Perry to participate in the book International Handbook of Social Work, a global treatise featuring 93 experts in social policy from 30 countries across five continents, including Greenland. The book has been

Polibienestar celebrates its sixth national meeting in Murcia with its associated units The event was opened by Paloma Bragado, Vice-Rector for Health Sciences and Services to the University Community at the University of Murcia. Jorge Garcés, Mari Paz García, former Dean of the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Murcia, and Samuel Baixauli Soler, Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Murcia, focused their messages on thanking Pedro

On Friday 30th of May, we held the Final Policy Workshop of the EU-funded U-GARDEN project in Brussels, with 25 participants from across Europe working on urban agriculture, sustainability, and public policy. The workshop focused on discussing draft policy recommendations to promote urban and peri-urban agriculture across European cities and regions. The event was honoured to welcome Carmen Zulita Ferrari, Urban Food Systems and Resilience Programme Specialist at the FAO (UN), who shared the organisation’s