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Last year`s group visit to SanPatrignano.
On October 10-11, ECAD organizes a study visit to SanPatrignano Recovery Community in Italy, close to Rimini.
WeFree Days Preliminary Programme (PDF)
As a custom established, this study visit coincides with the WeFree days 2017 and the political Forum focusing on recovery from drug addicition and the difficulty of asking for help, also on addressing the needs of the young and adolescent trials between diversity and standartisation.
Political focus on the topic of drug abuse drives a lot of public attention to the problem of drugs and adolescent experimentation. This involves Italian political bodies and international organizations, media, artists, parents and schools in order to raise awareness on drug abuse and the harms to the environment caused by drugs´ production as well as the harms to society, one´s own health and many other aspects. Many solutions to the prblem of drug abuse are suggested by the young people themselves.
Join ECAD team to see how recovery oriented treatment works in practice. ECAD will also organize a particular topic-oriented seminar in SanPatrignano, it will be announced later in the summer.
Register yourself to participate in this study visit by filling out the Booking Form and sending it back to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
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ECAD 24th Mayors` Conference materials
Laimonas Vasiliauskas, Senior Specialist, Serious and Organized Crime Department, EUROPOL
European Illicit Drug Market (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)
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)
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)
Jon Sigfusson, Director for Icelandic Centre of Social Research and Analysis, Reykjavik University, ICSRA
Youth in Europe and Planet Youth (PDF)
Walter Kegö, Senior Fellow Institute for Security and Development Policy, ISDP, Sweden.
Environmental Consequences of Illicit Drug Production
Antonio Boscini, Health Director, San Patrignano Community, Rimini, Italy
Recovery and social reinsertion: San Patrignano Community model extended (PDF)
ECAD expresses warmest gratitude to the City of Kaunas, Kaunas Mayor Hon. Visvaldas Matijošaitis, Deputy Mayor Rasa Šnapštienė and Mayor’s advisor Irena Segalovičienė, Kaunas City Adeministration, and especially to Chief Specialist Lina Lauciute.
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Picture: @ Evaldas Virketis
ECAD holds 24th Mayors`Conference in Kaunas on June 12-13, at Vytautas Magnus University, 28, S.Daukanto street.
Together with Kaunas Municipality, we have prepared an ambitious programme for our guests:
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME (PDF)
(PDF)Also, on the occasion of the Conference, Prevention Days will be held in Kaunas on June 9-13th.
Organizers: Kaunas City Municipality, Kaunas City community policing officers and Kaunas City Municipality Public Health Bureau.
“Mobile Info Desk” will be presented with a program against smoking, alcohol and use of drugs through the foreign educational measures (the simulated mouth of cancer patient; the glass of resins; eyeglasses of being visibly drunk or intoxicated by drugs; 3D suitcase of consequences of drug abuse; measuring of carbon monoxide (for smokers)); blowing bubbles instead of smoking; dissemination of information about harmful addictions; tasks and games for youth; parent and specialists will learn about the card of intoxication of drugs and its possibilities.
June 9th Friday
08.00 – 13.00 at Kaunas City Municipality Hall.
June 12th, Monday.
08.00-13.00 at Students‘ Square (near Vytautas Magnus University, Daukanto street).
June 13th, Tuesday
08.00 -12.00 at Students‘ Square (near Vytautas Magnus University, Daukanto street).
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appy to present the first tentative programme for the Mayors´ Conference in Kaunas. Kaunas municipality and ECAD are working hard to finalize the last details these weeks. 
We dedicate this conference to Preventing, Protecting and Policing drug crime and unwanted social behaviour.You can register for the conference by filling in the Conference Booking Form and sending it back to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Download ECAD Conference Booking form below. Kindly fill it in and send back to ECAD at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or fax it to +46 8 508 29 466.
Conference Booking Form
You book your hotel accommodation yourself.
The preferred hotel choices are Best Western Santanka Hotel and Kaunas Hotel. There are lots of reasonable hotel choices in the area.
Welcome to Kaunas!
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Please register before May 1, 2017 by filling in the Booking Form and returning it back to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Best Western Santaka Hotel and The Kaunas Hotel are available for ECAD conference guests at a special negotiated price by May 1, 2017.
You book your accomodation yourself, contact your chosen hotel and state that yours is an ECAD booking.
It is very convenient to use both hotels` shuttle service offer to get to Kaunas if you arrive at Vilnius airport. The service costs 80 € and you will receive this offer when your booking is received and approved by the hotel you choose.
Kaunas in summer is a wonderful place to be, the old city is often called a "Paris in a miniature" and the city has been announced as the European capital of culture.
Use this opportunity to get to know more about Kaunas and the ways of preventing, protecting and policing safe cities this June!
FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT (pdf)
KAUNAS CITY HALL, Picture: @G. Banaitis
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The ECAD Mayors' Conference
ECAD's activities from year to year culminate in the annual ECAD Mayors Conference, hosted by a distinct ECAD member city every summer. Councillors and other politicians and policymakers convene with academics and civil society organizations to participate in seminars and study visits, discussing the latest developments in drug prevention efforts throughout Europe.
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!
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!
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