Thierry Charlois

Recommendation for safer nightlife in Europe

In the framework of the EU Civil Society Forum on Drugs contribution to the next EU Drug Strategy, I wrote a recommendation for safer nightlife in Europe on behalf the French Harm Reduction Association.

This recommendation is actually a annex to the Forum's recommendation on EU drug policy presented in April 2012 to the European Council.

We will see by the end of 2012 if this recommendation will have an impact on the next EU Drug Strategy...

> Read the recommendation on safer nightlife HERE

> Read the Forum's recommendation on EU drug policy HERE

Consulting for EXASS Net

 

EXASS Net is a European network of partnerships between stakeholders at frontline level responding to drug problems providing experience and assistance for inter-sectoral cooperation. Initiated in 2006 by the EU Finnish presidency, this network is carried out by the Pompidou Group, Council of Europe. EXASS Net gathers the cities of Amsterdam (NL), Budapest (HU), Frankfurt (GE), Krakow (PL), the Lancashire (UK), Oslo (NO), Turku (FI), Zagreb (HR) as well as the Russian Federation, the Romanian Anti-drug agency, the Finnish Health Ministry, The UK Home Office, the networks Correlation network and Democracy, Cities & Drugs.

EXASS Net organises two plenary meetings a year in different cities during which participants share practices on a specific topic and visit local drug services. In June 2009 in Budapest, the EXASS Net members worked on Safer Nightlife.

> Read the background document on Safer Nightlife in Europe

The Amsterdam meeting in October 2009 focused on self-organised drug users' groups, drugs users' empowerment and Dutch cannabis policy.
 

> Read the background document on Drug user participation and EU cities

The Oslo meeting in June 2010 focused on Early intervention targeting youth at risk.

> Read the background document on Early intervention targeting youth at risk and EU cities

I was involved as consultant during the first 3-year phase of the project to be part of the EXASS Net steering committees, to co-animate the EXASS Net seminars and to write out background documents and Internet guides.

Exass Net - Early Intervention

EXASS Net is a European network of partnerships between stakeholders at frontline level responding to drug problems providing experience and assistance for inter-sectoral cooperation. This network is carried out by the Pompidou Group, Council of Europe.

EXASS Net organises two plenary meetings a year in different cities during which participants share practices on a specific topic and visit local drug services. In June 2010 in Oslo, the EXASS Net members worked on early intervention targeting youth at risk. As member of the EXASS Net steering committe and in order to open the practice sharing during the seminar, I wrote a background document called Early intervention targeting youth at risk and EU cities. This document brings an overview on the situation, the local responses, the involved EU networks in this field as well as the related EU policy.

> Download Early intervention targeting youth at risk and European cities

> See post on EXASS Net

EXASS Net - Drug user participation and EU cities

EXASS Net is a European network of partnerships between stakeholders at frontline level responding to drug problems providing experience and assistance for inter-sectoral cooperation. This network is carried out by the Pompidou Group, Council of Europe.

EXASS Net organises two plenary meetings a year in different cities during which participants share practices on a specific topic and visit local drug services. In October 2009 in Amsterdam, the EXASS Net members worked on drug user participation in the services and local drug policies. As member of the EXASS Net steering committe and in order to open the practice sharing during the seminar, I wrote a background document called Drug user participation and Europan cities. This document brings an overview on the situation, the local responses, the involved EU networks in this field as well as the related EU policy.

> Download Drug User participation and European cities

> See post on EXASS Net

Article on Fêtez Clairs in a French magazine

The French magazine Espaces, Tourisme et Loisirs (Spaces, Tourism and entertainment) edited a excellent thematic document called Nuit Urbaine et Tourisme (Urban night and tourism).

At this occasion, I wrote a article (in French of course...) presenting Fêtez Clairs and the nightlife context in Paris.

> Download the article...

Exass Net - Safer Nightlife in Europe

 

EXASS Net is a European network of partnerships between stakeholders at frontline level responding to drug problems providing experience and assistance for inter-sectoral cooperation. This network is carried out by the Pompidou Group, Council of Europe.  

EXASS Net organises two plenary meetings a year in different cities during which participants share practices on a specific topic and visit local drug services. In June 2009 in  Budapest , the EXASS Net members worked on drug prevention in recreational settings (Safer Nightlife). As member of the EXASS Net steering committe and in order to open the practice sharing during the seminar, I wrote a background document on Safer Nightlife in Europe. This document brings an overview on the situation, the local responses, the involved EU networks in this field as well as the related EU policy.

> Download Safer Nightlife in Europe

> See post on EXASS Net
 

 

 

DC&D guidelines

In the framework of the 1st Democracy, Cities & Drugs project, as project manager I took part in the writing of 2 fruitful guidelines:

Safer Nightlife, a European proposition to promote safer nightlife projects and share good pratcices, Stéphane Leclercq, ABD, 2008. This guideline gives tools and methodology in order to help local stakeholders to build and develop integrated safer nightlife partnerships.

Drug use, frontline services and local policies, Anne Coppel, EFUS, 2008. It is a guidelines for local elected officials supporting them in building local and integrated partnerships to improve harm reduction responses in their cities.

You can find other guidelines and other language versions at http://www.democitydrug.org