SAFE-FESTIVALS

SAFE FESTIVALS aims to improve security in public spaces during festivals and concerts. The project uses a collaborative and immersive training approach based on a serious gaming simulation platform to enable security actors, organizers, and municipalities to develop security strategies. The simulation platform will support event planning, enable environment creation, and simulate threat scenarios with different roles and in different conditions. The project’s key scope is to improve the safety and security of festivals and crowded events in (semi-) public spaces by providing better training for security actors, increasing awareness among local stakeholders, reducing costs and improving replicability, emphasizing incremental risk analysis, and promoting continuous learning and improvements.

Since recent developments, safety and security of festivals is not any longer a need, but has rapidly become a must, SAFE–FESTIVALS develops AI- and data-driven tools for security stakeholders to improve safety and security through immersive serious games.

In this first half of the project, the SAFE-FESTIVALS project team has worked closely with end-users and security stakeholders to collect
their needs and expectations and derive the requirements for the SAFE-FESTIVALS platform, and deliver a baseline architecture, also thanks to the support of the CNTRL festival security company. The results of all this work results in the description of requirements and baseline architecture within deliverable D1 SAFE-FESTIVALS.