Drug supply and urban worlds: Understanding the urban dynamics of illicit drug supply from European ports

The Urban School of Sciences Po and the Interministerial Mission for Combating Drugs and Addictive Behaviors (MILDECA) are launching a new series of conferences on the illicit drugs supply and its urban challenges. This ambitious initiative aims to strengthen cooperation between scientific research and key stakeholders, with the following objectives:
 

• Disseminate and promote academic research on the illicit drugs supply and urban worlds. Six conferences will be held, bringing together important stakeholders and international researchers to discuss the most robust scientific and empirical knowledge related to the topic of illicit drugs markets and their impact on urban dynamics.
• Enhance academic excellence and support future research on illicit drug supply and urban worlds. Alongside the conferences, students from the Master Governing the Large Metropolis of the Urban School will work on a capstone project. The project aims to explore the challenges related to illicit drugs markets in several port towns.
   

The conferences are submitted to invitation.

PROGRAMME 

Opening Conference: Scientific Research on Illicit Drug Supply: An Overview of the French situation and Transnational Issues
March 5, 2025, from 5:00 to 7:00 pm

Conference 2: Cultivating and Producing Drugs: Scientific Challenges of Estimating Drug Production
March 18, 2025, from 5:00 to 7:00 pm

Conference 3: Transporting Drugs: Logistical and Geopolitical Rationalities
April 15, 2025, from 5:00 to 7:00 pm

Conference 4: Transnational Criminal Groups and Drug Trafficking
May 22, 2025, from 5:00 to 7:00 pm

Conference 5: Retail Drug Markets and Urban Worlds
June 26, 2025, from 5:00 to 7:00 pm

Closing: Presentation of the student’s collective survey, as part of the Mercredi de l'Ecole Urbaine: CAPSTONE PROJECT Comparative Analysis of the Presence of Drug Traffickers in Two Major European Cities
September 17, from 5:00 to 7:00 pm

SCIENTIFIC TEAM

Gabriel Feltran, CNRS Research Professor, Sciences Po, CEE

Tommaso Vitale, Dean of the Urban School, Professor of Sociology, CEE

David Weinberger, Research Project Manager, MILDECA 

PARTNER

This project is carried out in partnership with the Mission Interministérielle de Lutte contre les Drogues Et Conduites Addictives (MILDECA).

RELATED SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY

PIRALAD Cocaine ports - Cocaine trafficking to France: investigation into the value chain from the ports of le Havre and Rotterdam
 

CONTACT 

For further information, please contact:
 

Alice RAZON
alice.razon@sciencespo.fr