German Prevention Congress

Name

German Prevention Congress

Legal name

DPT – Deutscher Präventionstag gemeinnützige Gesellschaft mbH

Website

https://praeventionstag.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

1995

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Crime Prevention Congress Services

NAICS

Political Organizations (813940), Social Advocacy Organizations (8133), Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities (922)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600), Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Government, Public Policy & Regulatory Congresses (THAHAJAF)

akta.pro secondary industry

Medical, Scientific & Healthcare Congress Organizers (THAHACAD)

Keywords

• Crime prevention congress
• Violence prevention events
• Prevention research institute
• Online prevention seminars
• Prevention knowledge platform

Headquarters

HQ city

Hannover

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Annual Congress Operations: The DPT organizes the annual German Prevention Congress. The congress is free of charge for participants. Revenue and operational funding are derived from partnerships with federal and state ministries (Bundesministerium für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend; Bundesministerium der Justiz und für Verbraucherschutz), institutional partners, and cooperative sponsors.
2. Sponsorship and Exhibition: Cooperation partners and sponsors support individual congresses and ongoing operations. The 31st DPT lists over 30 partner organizations including federal ministries, foundations, international organizations, and civil society groups.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

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Core offering

The German Prevention Congress (Deutscher Präventionstag, DPT) organizes the world's largest annual congress on violence and crime prevention, held in different German cities since 1995. Beyond the annual congress, it operates a year-round knowledge platform comprising the DPT-Institut for applied prevention research, free online seminars (Prävinare), an extensive media library documenting more than 1,200 presentations, a daily prevention news service, a searchable project and institution portal (DPT-Map), and the German Prevention Prize.

Product overview

The Deutscher Praeventionstag (German Prevention Congress) is the world's largest annual congress for violence and crime prevention, organized by the DPT gemeinnuetzige GmbH. Beyond the annual congress, the organization operates a comprehensive year-round information and documentation platform comprising the DPT-Institut for applied prevention research, Praevinare online seminars, an extensive media library with over 1,200 documented presentations, the DPT-Map search portal, daily prevention news, and the German Prevention Prize. The portfolio forms an integrated knowledge ecosystem connecting prevention practitioners, researchers, policymakers, and the public.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• DPT-Institut für angewandte Präventionsforschung (DPT-I): Institute for applied prevention research that promotes dialogue between prevention research, practice, and policy; conducts online seminars (Prävinare) and research projects
• Prävinare

Products and services

• Annual German Prevention Congress (Jahreskongress) Multi-day annual congress on violence and crime prevention held in different German cities since 1995, featuring hundreds of presentations, exhibitions, and a congress declaration with policy recommendations; free admission for all participants.
• DPT-Institut für angewandte Präventionsforschung (DPT-I) Applied prevention research institute that conducts research projects, international collaborations (e.g. Cutting Crime Impact, LIAISE 2, Engage 2 Innovate, Communities That Care), and disseminates findings to practitioners and policymakers.
• Prävinare Online Seminars Free live online seminars offering expert presentations and chat-based interactivity on topics such as radicalisation prevention, urban security, extremism, and environmental crime prevention design; recordings are made available afterwards.
• DPT-Mediathek (Media Library / Individual Documentation) Online repository cataloguing presentations, written contributions, expert opinions, congress declarations, evaluation reports, congress catalogues, books, and video recordings from past congresses, with associated speaker and institution databases.
• Daily Prevention News (Tägliche Präventions-News) Daily curated news aggregation covering prevention events, research, and policy developments across Germany and internationally, published on the DPT website and accessible as an online archive.
• DPT-Map Search Portal Targeted search portal enabling users to find prevention projects, measures, institutions, and individuals, aggregating data from published databases of recognized specialist organizations.
• Congress Publications (Books and Reports) Published congress documentation volumes and scientific companion writings summarising the focus theme of each annual congress (e.g. the 504-page 'Sicherheit im Wandel' from the 29th DPT), available online and through bookshops.

Quantifiable outcome

• 1,137 participants from 14 countries at the 25th DPT (2020), with 280 speakers and 169 exhibition contributions
• +2 more outcomes

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Partnerships

27 partnerships are on record, tiered core, major and minor.

• Landeshauptstadt HannovercoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerStanding event partner for the 31st DPT 2026. The city of Hannover hosted the congress and serves as a key local government partner for the event.
• Polizeiliche Kriminalprävention der Länder und des Bundes (ProPK)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerStanding event partner providing law enforcement expertise and crime prevention resources. ProPK is the police crime prevention program of the German federal and state governments.
• Stiftung Deutsches Forum für Kriminalprävention (DFK)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerStanding event partner and co-supporter of the DPT Festschrift. The DFK is a foundation dedicated to crime prevention in Germany.
• WEISSER RING e.V.coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerStanding event partner and co-presenter of partner webinars on victimology and crime prevention. WEISSER RING is Germany's national victim support organization.
• Bundesministerium für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend (BMFSFJ)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerStanding event partner and federal ministry partner for the DPT. Provides institutional support and alignment with national prevention policy priorities.
• Bundesministerium der Justiz und für Verbraucherschutz (BMJV)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerStanding event partner and federal ministry partner. Provides institutional support and alignment with justice and criminal law prevention policy.
• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCooperation partner bringing international crime prevention standards, the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, and global knowledge products to the DPT platform.
• UN-HabitatmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner bringing the Safer Cities Programme (SCP) and international urban safety and security expertise to the DPT congress and research network.
• Deutsch-Europäisches Forum für Urbane Sicherheit e.V. (DEFUS)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCooperation partner and co-founder of the German section of the International CPTED Association with the DPT-I. Collaborates on urban safety webinars and research.
• European Forum for Urban Security (EFUS)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternational cooperation partner bringing European urban security perspectives and networks to the DPT.
• Kriminologisches Forschungsinstitut Niedersachsen (KFN)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerResearch partner providing criminological expertise and participating in joint projects including the Cutting Crime Impact (CCI) EU project.
• Deutsches Jugendinstitut (DJI)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerResearch partner contributing youth-specific prevention expertise to the congress and related research projects.
• ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften – Institut für Delinquenz und KriminalpräventionminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSwiss academic partner specializing in delinquency and crime prevention, founded in 2015. Contributes research expertise to the DPT network.
• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbHmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternational cooperation partner providing development and prevention expertise from German international cooperation activities.
• Berliner Kongress Wehrhafte DemokratieminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner organization focusing on democratic resilience and prevention of extremism, contributing to the DPT's radicalisation prevention programming.
• Deutsche Sportjugend im DOSB e.V.minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner organization contributing sport-based prevention perspectives and youth programming expertise.
• Transatlantischer Dialog / GMAD e.V.minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner organization promoting fair opportunities for young people based on Glen Mills Schools principles and criminological research. Founded in 2000, it supports prevention programs at the intersection of youth welfare, schools, and justice.
• MOTRA (MonITORING DER RADIKALISIERUNG)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerResearch monitoring initiative on radicalisation that contributes to the DPT's extremism prevention research programming.
• Österreichischer PräventionskongressminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAustrian counterpart congress partner providing cross-national exchange on prevention between Germany and Austria.
• Deutsche Stiftung für Verbrechensverhütung und Straffälligenhilfe (DVS)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerParent foundation and sole shareholder of DPT – Deutscher Präventionstag gGmbH. The DVS establishes and supports the prevention congress as its primary activity.
• Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerEU-wide network coordinated by the European Commission. The DPT-I cooperated with RAN from 2016 to deliver a four-part English-language online seminar series on radicalisation prevention, covering families, schools, community policing, and municipal work.
• Deutsch-Europäisches Forum für Urbane Sicherheit e.V. (DEFUS) – LIAISE 2 ProjectmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCooperation under the EU-funded LIAISE 2 project (Local Institutions Against Extremism) from 2017, producing an eight-part online seminar series on extremism and radicalisation. DEFUS and DPT-I co-developed content for municipal prevention practitioners.
• Cutting Crime Impact (CCI) – EU Horizon 2020 ProjectcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe DPT-I served as a partner in the EU-funded CCI project (2021), delivering a ten-part English-language online seminar series presenting toolkits for preventing high-impact petty crime and human-centred design approaches to urban security. The project involved six European law enforcement agencies.
• Engage 2 Innovate (E2i) – EU ProjectmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerEU project on security research in urban crime prevention and radicalisation. The DPT-I is a partner contributing expertise and conducting an international student design competition on 'Prevention of Radicalisation in Municipalities' (deadline: 30 June 2026).
• Communities That Care (CTC) – Bündnis für CTC in DeutschlandmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe DPT-I is a partner in the German CTC Alliance, contributing to activities for spreading the Communities That Care framework strategy for municipal prevention.
• Pufii.de – Präventive Unterstützung für Integrations-InitiativenmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSince 2016, the DPT-I has jointly operated the nationwide specialist and information portal Pufii.de with DEFUS, providing resources for integration initiatives and societal integration in Germany.
• Kriminalistisches Forschungsinstitut Niedersachsen (KFN) – SIBA ProjectmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerResearch partner in the BMBF-funded 'Sicherheit im Bahnhofsviertel' (SiBa) project, addressing urban safety and crime prevention in station districts. The DPT-I contributed a four-part online seminar series (2019–2020).

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