The theme for this year's European Crime Prevention Award and the EU Crime Prevention Network (EUCPN)'s Best Practices Annual Conference was “Preventing crime and victimisation among children and young people. Current and future challenges – school, cyberspace and recruitment to criminal groups”.
One of the EUCPN’s main tasks is to arrange an annual conference for sharing and disseminating experience and knowledge of best practices in preventing crime and increasing safety and security in EU Member States. The conference is always held in connection with the European Crime Prevention Award (ECPA) contest.
Some 250 policymakers, practitioners and researchers from all EU Member States, candidate countries and relevant organisations were present at the conference.
The conference consisted of lectures and seminars and one important element was presenting and discussing the projects nominated for the ECPA contest. The winning entry, Kiva from Finland, received an award that was presented at an official ceremony.
