SETRICs overall aim is to create a forum for cities to exchange ideas on disaster prevention and management, enabling partners to develop their procedures and develop best practice. It is also working on the joint design of model procedures that will lead to common recommendations for European cities and assist in future training for risk managers. Achievements: Achievements so far The SETRIC project (SEcurity and TRust In Cities), partly funded by the EU INTERREG IIIC program is led by the city of Cologne and addressing the problems of risk prevention in cities. Partners of the project are Naestved in Denmark, Marseilles and Paris in France, Bologna and Siena in Italy, Prague in the Czech Republic and the CERTU Institute in France and the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology in Germany. Lead partner of the project is the city of Cologne. Of course, all these cities and institutions have developed their own strategies of how to deal with problems. The main idea of SETRIC is to share all these ideas, best practices, theoretical knowledge and organisational and communicational techniques and to improve with these interregional methods risk management in all Europe, gathering plans and simulations for special emergency situations to be used by any European city if needed. The kick-off of the project showed in a conference a series of events which had happened, what the impact was, how the cities and institutions handled them, what they have learned. Examples reached from flooding, earthquakes big chemical accidents and terreorist attacks. In the following 6 workshops took place each one dedicated to a specific topic: prevention, mitigation, response/intervention, recovery, organisation/communication and training The final conference having taken place during this reporting period, summarised the results of the project and gave recommendations for handling urban security in Europe and cros-border. The partnership within the project has been well established and intensified. It has spread via the increasing contacts with external experts participating in the project's activities. Until now some 330 internal and external experts attended the conferences and the workshops. Main outcomes were the establishment of network of more than 150 experts in urban security and of a database which was fluently enriched following the conferences and the workshops categorised by the main thematic topics. It is accessible via the public website and contains all presentations, documents and best practise cases. There are more than 100 good practises and projects stored up to date. A CD-ROM was produced containing the results of the project, the newsletters and a vast variety of good practice cases, approaches in 10 European cities searchable by the categories of urban security. The 2000 copies were dstiributed to the partners for further dissemination. 7 newsletters have been issued disseminating the main contents and results of the project activities via 1050 copies. The project and its state of the art were presented in 11 external events and via the different media channels.