PRIMO Res Publica is focused on ‘Public Value & Risk Guidance’. It has ‘building trust‘ as its mission to create, maintain, and protect public values and mitigate the risks attached to these values.

PRIMO, the ‘Public Risk Management Organisation’, was founded in 2005 and developed into an international association, PRIMO Europe, in 2007, based in Brussels with chapters in various European countries, such as Denmark, France, Malta, the Netherlands and Flanders. In 2024, a transition took place in which financial resources were transferred to the University of Twente to support professional education and to the umbrella organisations of the municipal secretaries involved.

The original databases of related organisations with publications and rights to the portfolio were handed over to Jack Kruf, one of the founders of PRIMO Europe and PRIMO Nederland. He founded PRIMO Res Publica, an organisation to maintain, curate and expand this library towards its original focus: the governance of public values and the hereto related public risks (being ‘possible harms to these values’). The website now contains a selection of sources of inspiration, meetings, masterclasses, and publications spanning a period of more than 70 years. Many new publications have been added since its foundation.

At the same time, a new international association was established, focusing specifically on risk leadership: the Strategic Risk Leadership Association: “The SRLA is a pan-European expert network aimed at advancing knowledge and use of risk management for strategic decision-making in European national and local governments, comprising the public sector at large, and it links to private enterprise.”