1. DEMOCRACY, CITIES AND DRUGS II Thematic Platforms Presentation Safer Nightlife platform Presentation ABD – Energy Control ABD: Asociación Bienestar y Desarrollo / NGO declared of public interest Areas of work: Drugs, poverty and inclusion, childhood and family, mediation and community action, social-health, Investigation, participation. Mission statement Promote a supportive and engaged model of social cohesion that improves peoples’ quality of life and facilitate the social integration of groups in risk of exclusion or underprivileged. Activities Energy Control: Safer Nightlife program

2. DEMOCRACY, CITIES AND DRUGS II Thematic Platforms Presentation Safer Nightlife platform Context - Throughout Europe, legal and illegal drug use has become a consistent feature of nightlife and a complex issue to attend. The use of cocaine is increasing in most European countries, the interrelated consumption of psychoactive substances, which include both alcohol and tobacco, the emergence of new substances and new trends complicate both our understanding and response -DC&DI & the BASICS network -European partnership of administrations and NGOs -Difficulties to implicate the private sector

3. DEMOCRACY, CITIES AND DRUGS II Thematic Platforms Presentation Safer Nightlife platform Objectives Our platform aims to improve nightlife prevention programs and training for professionals and peer workers working on the front-line with drug users in nightlife settings (music festivals, clubs, raves, etc). Together, besides of the exchange of practices and the different topics to be discussed, we will achieve different “productions” for our own use and to diffuse: a training guideline, preventive universal “ICONS” for music events, a digital library with preventive materials and documents from all the projects translated to English and a short film.

4. DEMOCRACY, CITIES AND DRUGS II Thematic Platforms Presentation Methodology and time table In 2008: - Exchange platform 1 - Implementation seminar (Bucharest October 2008): 2 days of workshops:  Topics of the specific workshops defined previously by the partners:  New trends  Quality labels and Safer Nightlife projects development  Psychosocial support and early intervention  New technologies, Website, bluetooth  Definition of the SN training guideline objective and structure: The evaluation of Safer Nightlife projects and how to use and communicate the results of these evaluations  Discussion of topics for the 4 preventive “universal” icons and the short film - Recollection of SN specific prevention materials and documents from all countries to develop the digital library

5. DEMOCRACY, CITIES AND DRUGS II Thematic Platforms Presentation Methodology and time table In 2009: - Translation of SN specific preventive materials for the pilot version of the digital library. - Design of “universal” icons - Production of the short film - Exchange platform 2 (June - Edinburgh): 2 days of workshop:  Workshops on specific topics  Elaboration of the training guideline 1 night of partners’ common intervention on-site:  V alidation and testing of the preventive “universal” icons - 2 refinement meetings on the SN training guideline

6. DEMOCRACY, CITIES AND DRUGS II Thematic Platforms Presentation Methodology and time table In 2010: -Finalization of the digital library including evaluation, new media documents, internal protocols,… - Exchange platform 3 (date and place to be defined): 2 days of workshop:  Workshops on specific topics  Validation of the training guideline 1 night of partners’ common intervention on-site -Diffusion of the SN training guideline -Diffusion of the preventive “universal” icons -Diffusion of the short film (DVDs, Internet,…)

7. DEMOCRACY, CITIES AND DRUGS II Thematic Platforms Presentation Contact details: Stephane Leclercq basics@basics-network.org ABD: c/Quevedo, 2 080012 Barcelona. Spain. Tel: +34/932890530 www.abd-ong.org www.energycontrol.org