The session Designing Safer Urban Spaces (DESURBS) – is a multi-disciplinary research project, funded through the European Union’s FP7 Research Programme. It is developing a series of tools, accessible through an interactive portal, which will assist urban stakeholders to plan, design, manage and maintain safer urban spaces.This event sees the launch of an online, interactive decision support tool to help users across Europe identify strength and weaknesses in urban spaces and take the most appropriate steps to identify, mitigate against or eliminate the risks to them through enhancing resilience.The event is an opportunity to understand the ongoing and changing importance of urban resilience in European cities, to identify new approaches to enhancing urban resilience and to discover new tools which facilitate these objectives.