National Center for Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion, Novi Sad, Serbia will host the 23rd International Safe Communities Conference, 10-12 October 2017 in the Congress Center MASTER in Novi Sad. 

Our biennial conference offers an exciting opportunity to meet and network with hundreds of public health and safety practitioners in the field of safe community and injury prevention from all around the world.

The conference brings together domestic and international NGOs, agencies, corporations and other organizations focused in the injury and violence prevention.

The 23rd International Safe Communities Conference will be the “takeaway” conference; We hope that everyone will leave Novi Sad with the dozens of new ideas, strategies to build capacity, new approaches, business cards of new allies, new ideas for educational programs and awareness campaigns and important new research findings to support safe community and injury prevention efforts.

Main partners are the International Safe Communities Certifying Center, Stockholm, Sweden and the European Safe Community Network, Harstad, Norway. 

General Sponsor of the Conference is the Government of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, Sponsor is the City of Novi Sad and the patron is HRH Princess Katherine of Serbia.

The main theme of the 23rd International Safe Communities Conference is “Safe Communities is an Essential Need for a Modern-Day Society”, which seeks to find new ideas and experiences to solve the actual problem and to make the world safer.