DISSS is what we do
The world is more than ever asking for innovative solutions to help both create and maintain a safe, secure and resilient society. In order to actively contribute to this cause and establish “safe and secure spaces”, the Dutch Institute for Safe and Secure Spaces (DISSS) was founded on 22 April 2022.
As a non-profit organisation, DISSS conducts research and develops innovative solutions for safe and secure spaces, placing human beings and their natural behaviours at the heart of its activities and innovations.
DISSS Programmes
DISSS focuses on the following three thematic areas. The Institute continuously tests whether and how its efforts fit within these three programmes. In addition, projects will be selected on their social relevance.
Protecting public spaces
Protecting private spaces
Protecting personal spaces
DISSS Goals
Building bridges: By organising, facilitating, realising, generating and managing successful innovative solutions in the public, private and cyber security domain, which are relevant to society and contribute to a safe society;
Building communities: Connecting and creating support among stakeholders of the DISSS Foundation in a sustainable way by networking and collaborating according to the multiple-helix principles;
Building knowledge: Setting up a high-quality knowledge centre within the foundation for open technology, social innovations and security;
Building innovations: Initiating and conducting scientific research within the field of technological and social innovations for security issues;
Building resilience: Developing and testing new technological and social innovations within the field of safety and security. Attention is paid to knowledge combining scientific domains such as information technology, (behavioural) psychology, criminology and investigation, location-based services, data science, and other disciplines;
Building solutions: Initiating business development and management organisations for innovations (co-)developed by the foundation.
Contact us
Visiting address
Dutch Institute for Safe and Secure Spaces (DISSS)
Walpoort 10, 5211 DK, 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands