On October 4 - 6, 2010, the Essen Security Innovation Symposium will take place within the framework of SECURITY ESSEN. Leading European experts from the political, industrial, economic and scientific fields will comprehensively devote themselves to the challenges of civil security.
Vigilance learnt that the speakers will include Stefaan De Clerck, Belgian Minister of Justice, Dr. Luigi Rebuffi, CEO of the European Organisation for Security (EOS) industrial platform, and Prof. Wolf-RĂ¼diger Dombrowsky from Steinbeis-Hochschule Berlin. The Essen Security Innovation Symposium will make an important contribution to a better understanding of the steps necessary for the implementation of research results and their innovations. This will be highlighted by the fact that the Security Research Department of the Research Execution Agency (REA) of the European Commission will participate in the event.
"The event will centre on the search for European and international solutions to all-encompassing problems such as exist in a concrete form and are placing new responsibility not only on the state, but also on industry and the economy," said Prof. Dr. Alexander Siedschlag, Director of CEUSS Center for European Security Studies at the Sigmund Freud Private University of Vienna and organisers of the conference.
Until now, 23 speakers from politics, the economy and science who will come from twelve different countries have promised to participate. On October 5, Stefaan De Clerck, Belgian Minister of Justice, will be expected for a speech about the programme of the Belgian presidency of the EU Council in the field of "Home Affairs" and will be followed by Dr. Luigi Rebuffi, CEO of the European Organisation for Security (EOS) industrial platform, who will discuss the consequences of the Lisbon Treaty for the European security industry.
The final speech on October 6 will be delivered by the well-known disaster researcher Prof. Wolf-RĂ¼diger Dombrowsky from Steinbeis-Hochschule Berlin. Prof. Dombrowsky is a member of the Radiation Protection Commission at the Federal Ministry of the Environment, Nature Conservation and Reactor Safety as well as the Vice-Chairman of the Protection Commission at the Federal Ministry of the Interior.
The high-ranking international event will take place in English; the lectures will have a generally comprehensible structure.