European event safety experts came together in the three-year SAFE project to develop a pan-European standard in the areas of event safety, security and crowd management education.

The Safe Project is an Erasmus+ funded initiative led by PRODISS (France), which engages some of the most influential networks in the event sector in Europe, including the ILMC, the EAA (European Arena Association), BDKV (Bundesverband der Konzert- und Veranstaltungswirtschaft – Germany), Wallifornia Music Tech (Belgium), and many other associations, companies, festivals, venues and events.

The programmes were created by Laura Brands and Gerard van Duykeren (TSC), Chris Kemp (Mind over Matter) and Pascal Viot (iSSUE), with the help of a range of partners across Europe.

The process pooled interdisciplinary expertise at a European level, and incorporated contributions from leading specialists in event security and crowd management. The SAFE project has been developed to enable festivals, venues and events across Europe to access education courses through which they can teach internal trainers to deliver quality programmes to their own staff.