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The Mayor's Conference is a meeting place for people from Europe who are working to prevent drug abuse, ensure evidence-based practices, increase access to treatment, and promote recovery and reintegration services. The conference is one of its kind where ECAD member cities, NGOs, self-help groups, treatment centres, local, regional, and national authorities, politicians and other decision-makers, and others from Europe, meet to share evidence, best-practice experience, network and discuss strategies.
The conference will integrate capacity-strengthening opportunities through presentations given by scholars and representatives working in the field as well as through a study visit to municipalities in Malta. The agenda will be shared in due course!
To attend, register via the following link before April 21st!
We are happy to share further information regarding accommodation and others. You can contact us via This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
The conference is free to attend for the first representative of an ECAD member and in-person only!
The ECAD Mayor's plenary session will be held for ECAD members on May 11th in the afternoon.
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Christmas greetings from chair Viggo Lütcherath
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The Forum was a meeting place for all members, professionals, scholars, local, regional, and national authorities, politicians, and other decision-makers from all corners of the world actively working to prevent drug abuse, increase treatment, and promote recovery and reintegration.
This year’s programme offered tracks on prevention, treatment and recovery, and a special track on advocacy, including advocacy for funding prevention, children´s rights and against legalisation.
Access the Summary of the Forum here.
After the Conference, our annual meeting was held. Minutes from the Annual meeting can be accessed here.
The forum was inaugurated by Ms. Ghada Waly, the Executive Director of the UNODC, and phenomenal speakers that shared their work, research, project, and best practices.
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The theme of the conference is: The core elements of Planet Youth, experiences from Planet Youth communities around the world, innovations and future steps of Planet Youth.
There are a limited number of seats. Therefore, it is advised to register to attend the Conference in person in Reykjavik in September.
Find more information on the Forum, and the agenda, and register on their website!
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27th Mayors Conference - Gothenburg and online 2022
The 27th Mayors' Conference and 8th World Forum took place in Gothenburg and online 13-14th June 2022.
The World Forum and Mayor’s Conference is a meeting place for people from all continents who are working to prevent drug abuse, ensure evidence-based and gender-sensitive practices, increase access to treatment, and to promote recovery and reintegration services. This global forum is one of its kind where NGOs, self-help groups, treatment centres, scholars, local, regional, and national authorities, politicians and other decision-makers, and others from around the world will meet to share evidence and best practice experiences. This year’s World Forum will include three main tracks: Prevention, Treatment/Recovery, and Advocacy, which will stretch over 1,5 days followed by the WFAD Congress and ECAD Mayors plenary session.
We are proud to announce that the Forum was inaugurated by UNODC Executive Director Ghada Waly and will be joined by experts from around the world.
Read more on the website: https://2022.wfad.se/ and access the full report here. 
26th Mayors Conference - Cork 2019 
25th MAYORS´ CONFERENCE
and 6th World Forum Against Drugs 
Conference materials
Kevin Sabet, PhD, Director, Drug Policy Institute, University of Florida, President, Smart Approaches to Marijuana (SAM), USA
Speech at the WFAD /ECAD 25th Mayors Conference, Gothenburg, May 15, 2018 (Video 5min.)
Supply reduction in Peril? A lot of the worlds`s drug supply emanates from a war-torn Columbia.
Dr. Michael Jonsson, FOI, Swedish Defence Research Agency
Text to the slides (PDF)
In Columbia, a peace deal has been struck, which gives hope for a closure of insurgency and violence. (PDF)
Thomas Pietschmann, Dr, Drug Research Section, Division for Policy Analysis and Public Affairs
The International drug control system, global/regional and national drug patterns and trends, and supply reduction efforts at the international level (PDF)
Photo: Götaplatsen @ Klas Eriksson
Annual Mayors` Conference and the 6th World Forum Against Drugs will take off on May 14-15 in Gothenburg this year.
This joint event will address a growing interest to the effective prevention practices, full recovery and alternatives to incarceration and to life-long dependency on drug treatment.
The conference will create a room for elaborating a practical guide to how a recovery city will look like, this will be grounded on the recent evidence-based research. Sheffield Hallam University (UK), Ghent University (Belgium) and the City of Gothenburg have already started working on this guide in practice.
In order to find out more and to register please visit a joint webpage here.
MAYORS` CONFERENCE 2017
ECAD 24th Mayors` Conference materials
On June 12-13, the city of Kaunas hosted ECAD 24th Annual Mayors`s Conference 2017
Safe Cities Without Drugs. Preventing, Protecting, Policing
Key-note speakers:
David W. Spencer, Field intelligence Manager, Drug Enforcement Agency, European Region
Supply reduction and dismantling drug trafficking organizations: In what ways can local communities benefit (PDF)
Kim Nilvall, Swedish National Bureau of Investigation, Intelligence section, Organized crime
Police work in socially disadvantaged areas in Sweden: Impact of drugs on urban crime (PDF)
Torsten Stodiek, Deputy Head, Strategic Police Matters Unit, Community Policing Advisor, Transnational Threats Department, OSCE
Preventing terrorism and countering violent extremism and radicalisation that lead to terrorism:
A community and intelligence led policing approach (PDF)
Jon Sigfusson, Director for Icelandic Centre of Social Research and Analysis, Reykjavik University, ICSRA
Youth in Europe and Planet Youth (PDF)
Laimonas Vasiliauskas, Senior Specialist, Serious and Organized Crime Department, EUROPOL
European Illicit Drug Market (PDF)
Antonio Boscini, Health Director, San Patrignano Community, Rimini, Italy
Recovery and social reinsertion: San Patrignano Community model extended (PDF)
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME (PDF)
FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT (PDF)
Conference Booking Form
Kaunas Castle
Picture: @Rokas Tenys
Warm welcome to Kaunas, Lithuania!