A Milestone for PPHS: Celebrating 20 Years of Progress in 2025

2025 has only just started, yet the Polish Platform for Homeland Security (PPHS) is already working at full capacity. This year will be filled with new challenges and ambitious undertakings, but it also marks an exceptional milestone: we are officially launching celebrations of PPHS’s 20th anniversary!

20 Years of Growth and Change

In 2005, there was an agreement between the police, universities, and research institutes to establish the Polish Platform for Homeland Security. The primary aim was, above all, to support the modernisation of the Polish law enforcement agencies. Since then, the world – and especially the security landscape – has changed dramatically. PPHS continually strives to rise to these challenges, adapting to the needs and expectations of stakeholders both in Poland and, more recently, abroad.

Over the past two decades, our organisation has undergone intensive development and emerged as a key player in the field of civil security – recognised and valued not only in Poland but also across Europe. Over the years, we joined more than 60 research and development projects, nationally and internationally, coordinating five. Through 2025, we will soon launch further initiatives, building from continued growth and productivity in 2024.

Joint Success

Throughout the 20 years, PPHS has trained tens of thousands of people, collaborating with various communities and prioritising capacity and capability improvements of personnel in the internal security sector. Through these engagements, we have organised dozens of conferences, workshops, and expert meetings, and our communications portfolio already includes hundreds of materials that help build knowledge and skills. It is impossible to count all the outcomes of our work – it represents a vast wealth of experience that we draw upon and wish to share.

We don’t share this to boast, only to illustrate the scale of growth and to mark the achievement as the collective success of the founding institutions and each individual who has participated and contributed to the positive impact!

Strategic discussions at the beginning of the year allowed us to set new, ambitious goals for 2025.

Celebrating the 20th Anniversary and Looking Ahead

To mark PPHS’s 20th anniversary, we are preparing a series of actions and publications under the strapline “Connections Matter,” showcasing our work and illustrating the wide range of topics we cover. Through these engagements, we aim to highlight the key thematic areas in which we specialise, the fantastic achievements of our experts and partners, and to demonstrate how we transform our ideas into concrete solutions.

We constantly seek new forms of collaboration and development – both in the context of research projects and practical implementations – and the anniversary is not just a time for reflecting on and summarising our achievements but, above all, an occasion to look to the future.

We are facing many exciting changes and opportunities for growth, including new technologies, integrated security solutions, and even broader cooperation with national and international partners. All of this enables us to set ever-more ambitious goals.

Stay Up to Date

We invite you to follow our activities during this special anniversary year. The publications scheduled for the coming months will give you valuable insight into our achievements, mission, and the values guiding us. We encourage all those interested to:

• Subscribe to our newsletter – we regularly share news, training announcements, and expert publications.
• Follow the PPHS profile on LinkedIn – that is where you will learn about new projects and events as soon as they are announced.
• Identify people in your own networks – and share information connected with PPHS’s work that can provide inspiration and value.

Stay with us and celebrate 20 years of PPHS’s operations. The next chapter awaits, and it promises to be filled with significant initiatives and new successes in the civil security domain.