encourage the methods necessary for strategically preventing and fighting crime and maintaining security, such as the work carried out in the European Union Crime Prevention Network and public-private partnerships.

to stimulate, promote and develop horizontal methods and tools necessary for strategically preventing and fighting crime and guaranteeing security and public order such as the work carried out in the European Union Crime Prevention Network, public-private partnerships, best practices in crime prevention, comparable statistics, applied criminology and an enhanced approach towards young offenders.

The cooperation may in addition to the exchange of operational information involve all other tasks of Europol mentioned in Article 3 of the Europol Convention, including the exchange of specialist knowledge, strategic intelligence, general situation reports, information on investigative procedures, information on crime prevention methods, participation in training activities as well as providing advice in individual investigations.

In the field of preventing and combating organised crime, as well as in the field of prevention of specific forms of crime, it can also co-finance trans-national projects to improve the response to crimes such as trafficking in human beings and sexual exploitation of children.

In addition, thirteen specific modules will cover the problems of Control of migration flows, Drug trafficking, Financial crime and Money Laundering, Stolen art, Car theft, Trade in human beings, Trafficking in weapons and radioactive materials, Environmental crime, Methods of technical crime investigation, Prevention of criminality, Maintaining public order, Policing a multicultural society, Dealing with extreme phenomena.

(18) RECOGNISES that, when analysing problems and defining programmes as well as implementing prevention measures, several Member States, in accordance with their national law, provide for the possibility that law enforcement agencies and judicial authorities, the social groups concerned, tradesmen and civil administration bodies (at both local and regional level) confer on a regular basis (examples of this are the "crime prevention boards" which exist in a number of Member States, and the Netherlands "trilateral commissions"); therefore, Member States are encouraged to set up comparable structures at national, regional and local level, ...[+++] where appropriate and in accordance with their legal systems and traditions, to discuss and study questions of prevention, in particular the prevention of organised crime, and to draw up proposals to promote prevention;