On 29-30 September this year, Łukasz Szymankiewicz, PhD, a member of the research team under the ProSPeReS project, represented our University in a two-day workshop during which participants learned about the tools used to assess the risk and vulnerability to terrorist attacks of selected locations (Vulnerability Assessment Methodology, VAT).
The workshop took place in Eindhoven, where the headquarters of the workshop host - the Dutch Institute for Technology, Safety & Security (DITSS) is located, while the classes were conducted by experts from the KEMEA Center for Security Studies based in Athens. This was the first stationary meeting within the consortium, which was attended by experts in counter-terrorism and CBRN threats, representatives of academia, police and religious communities from the Netherlands, Greece, Slovakia and Poland. During the workshop, in addition to theoretical classes and training in conducting vulnerability assessments of a selected religious site, participants had study visits to a local mosque and St. Catherine's Church, where they could practice the presented vulnerability assessment methodology.
ProSPeReS - Protection System for Large Gatherings of People in Religious Sites - a project implemented under the European Union's Internal Security Fund for 2014-2020. The head of WSB University research team is Adrian Siadkowski, PhD, prof. AWSB.