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PROGRAMME

FP7-SECURITY

Security

Background & policy context: 

Security related research is an important building block for supporting European freedom, security and justice. It will also contribute to developing technologies and capabilities in support of other European Community policies in areas such as transport, civil protection, energy, environment and health.

Making Europe more secure for its citizens while increasing its industrial competitiveness, is the goal of European Security Research. Europe has never been so peacefully consolidated, so prosperous and secure, yet at the same time so vulnerable against threats like terrorism, organised crime and natural disasters. By cooperating and coordinating efforts on a continent-wide scale, by stimulating the cooperation of providers and users for civil security solutions, the EU can better understand and respond to risks in a constantly changing world.


The evolving nature of security issues implies many new challenges. In order to protect our fundamental rights and freedom, technological preparedness and response of society to potential or actual threats are essential. The overall societal dimension and preparedness is of great importance at all stages, including prevention, crisis and after crisis management.

The relationship between defence technologies on the one hand, and security technologies on the other, is particularly noticeable in the field of R&D, with technologies that show potential developments in both areas (Dual Use). At both research and industrial development levels, synergies are possible and desirable.

Research into the Security theme at EU level is essential as security is a precondition of prosperity and freedom. It is also an important building block supporting the 'Common foreign and security policy' and helping to realise a high level of security within the area of justice, freedom and security. It will also contribute to developing technologies and capabilities in support of other Community policies in areas such as transport, civil protection, energy, environment and health.


Strategic Objectives: 

The objectives of the FP7 research theme 'Security' are:

  • To develop the technologies and knowledge for building capabilities needed to ensure the security of citizens from threats such as terrorism, natural disasters, and crime, while respecting fundamental human rights and privacy;
  • To ensure optimal and concerted use of available and evolving technologies to the benefit of civil European security;
  • To stimulate the cooperation of providers and users for civil security solutions;
  • To improve the competitiveness of the European security industry;
  • To deliver mission-oriented research results to reduce security gaps.

Research supported under this theme is intended to ensure optimal and concerted use of available technologies to the benefit of civil European security, and to stimulate the co-operation of providers and users for civil security solutions. This is expected to help improve the competitiveness of the European security industry and to deliver mission-orientated research results to reduce security gaps, whilst ensuring transparency and accountability.

Research activities are multidisciplinary and mission oriented. They range from technology and methodology development to systems integration. In addition, societal aspects are also addressed. The Security theme covers both transport-related and non transport-related research.


At Community level 'Security' research maintains an exclusively civil orientation and focuses on activities of clear, added value to the national level. As a consequence, civil security research within FP7 will reinforce the competitiveness of the European security industry. Close coordination with the activities of the 'European Defence Agency' (EDA) will be needed in order to ensure complementarity due to the 'dual use' nature of many technologies.

Programme organisation: 

Activities in this research theme address the following mission areas:

  1. Security of citizens: delivering technology solutions for civil protection, including bio-security and protection against risks arising from crime and terrorist attacks;
  2. Security of infrastructures and utilities: analysing and securing existing and future public and private critical/networked infrastructure (e.g. in transport, energy, ICT), systems and services (including financial and administrative services);
  3. Intelligent surveillance and border security: focusing on technologies and capabilities to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of all systems, equipment, tools and processes as well as methods for rapid identification required for improving the security of Europe's land and coastal borders, including border control and surveillance issues;
  4. Restoring security and safety in case of crisis: focusing on technologies providing an overview of, and support for diverse emergency management operations (such as civil protection, humanitarian and rescue tasks), and on issues, such as inter-organisational preparation, coordination and communication, distributed architectures and human factors.

The above four areas are supported by the following themes of a more cross-cutting nature:

  • Security systems integration, interconnectivity and interoperability: Intelligence, information gathering and civil security, focusing on technologies to enhance the interoperability of systems, equipment, services and processes, including law enforcement, firefighting, civil defence and medical information infrastructures, as well as on the reliability, organisational aspects, protection of confidentiality and integrity of information and traceability of all transactions and processing;
  • Security and society: mission orientated research which will focus on socio-economic analyses, scenario building and activities related to: cultural, social, political and economic dimensions of security, communication with society, the role of human values and policy-making, psychology social environment of terrorism, citizens' perception of security, ethics, protection of privacy, societal foresight and systemic risk analysis. Research also addresses technologies that better safeguard privacy and liberties, and will address vulnerabilities and new threats, as well as the management and impact assessment of possible consequences;
  • Security researc
Leading Institutions:

European Commission

Type of funding:
Programme funding arrangements and funding conditions: 

General FP7 programme conditions apply (see CORDIS). In general, EU funding provides a contribution to the research and complementary funding is required from the project participants themselves.

Across all themes support for trans-national cooperation is implemented through:

  • Collaborative research: Collaborative research constitutes the bulk and the core of EU research funding. This includes funding via Collaborative Projects, Networks of Excellence (NoE) and Coordination and support actions;
  • 'Joint Technology Initiatives': In a very limited number of cases, the scope of an RTD objective and the scale of the resources involved justify setting up long-term public private partnerships in the form of Joint Technology Initiatives. These initiatives, mainly resulting from the work of European Technology Platforms, and covering one or small number of selected aspects of research in their field, will combine private sector investment as well as national and European public funding, including grant funding from the Research Framework Programme and loan finance from the European Investment Bank;
  • Coordination of non-Community research programmes: The action undertaken in this field makes use of two main tools, the ERA-NET scheme and the participation of the Community in jointly implemented national research programmes, including intergovernmental structures such as Eureka, Eiroforum and COST.
Total Budget: 
€1.4 bn (EU funding)
Number of projects:
42
Projects covered: 

Examples of FP7-Security projects with relevance to transport are:

  • DEMASST - Demo for mass transportation security: road-mapping study
  • EFFISEC - Efficient Integrated Security Checkpoints
  • GLOBE - Global Border Environment
  • OPERAMAR - An Interoperable Approach to European Union Maritime Security Management
  • SAMURAI - Suspicious and Abnormal behaviour Monitoring Using a network of cameras & sensors for situation awareness enhancement
  • SECTRONIC - Security System for Maritime Infrastructure, Ports and Coastal Zones
  • SUBITO - Surveillance of Unattended Baggage and the Identification and Tracking of the Owner
  • TALOS - Transportable Autonomous patrol for Land border Surveillance system
  • UNCOSS - Underwater Coastal Sea Surveyor
  • WIMA²S - Wide Maritime Area Airborne Surveillance

Many other projects exist in this programme which may have limited relevance to transport or may be relevant to the wider world with transport being just one of several aspects. Examples include projects dealing with civil protection, surveillance, ethical issues in relation to security, detection of explosives, radioactive or nuclear material, security-related training, human behaviour in crisis situations, illegal immigration and so on.

Project Profiles:
  1. Single European Secure Air-cargo Space
  2. A secure, modular and distributed mobile border control solution for European land border crossing points
  3. Accelerated Checkpoint Design Integration Test and Evaluation
  4. AIRBorne information for Emergency situation Awareness and Monitoring
  5. An Interoperable Approach to European Union Maritime Security Management
  6. Assessing Security Research: Tools and Methodologies to measure societal impact
  7. Autonomous maritime surveillance system
  8. Awareness and Prevention Solutions against Graffiti Vandalism in Public Areas and Transport
  9. Common assessment and analysis of risk in global supply chains
  10. Comprehensive European Approach to the Protection of Civil Aviation
  11. Concealed Objects Stand-Off Real-time Imaging for Security
  12. Consistently Optimised Resilient Secure Global Supply-Chains
  13. Container Security Advanced Information Networking
  14. Creating an Agenda for Research ON Transportation sEcuity
  15. Creating an Agenda for Research On Transportation sEcurity
  16. CRitical Incident management training System using an Interactive Simulation environment
  17. Development of a Strategic Roadmap towards a Large scale Demonstration Project in European Logistics and Supply Chain Security
  18. Efficient Integrated Security Checkpoints
  19. European Control System Security Incident Analysis Network
  20. EUropean test bed for the maritime Common Information Sharing Environment in the 2020 perspective
  21. GAMMA - Global ATM Security Management
  22. Heavy Payload Helicoper for Last Mile Rescue
  23. Integrated approach to IMprove the supply chain for COntainer transport and integrated SECurity simultaneously
  24. Integrated System for Transport Infrastructures surveillance and Monitoring by Electromagnetic Sensing
  25. Learning 4 Security
  26. Optical technologies for the identification of explosives
  27. Prevention and Management of High Threat Pathogen Incidents in Transport Hubs
  28. Prevention, protection and REaction to CYber attackS to critical infrastructures
  29. Protection Measures for Merchant Ships
  30. Risk Analysis of Infrastructure Networks in response to extreme weather
  31. Secured Urban Transportation - European Demonstration
  32. Security Impact Assessment Measure - A decision support system for security technology investments
  33. Security of critical infrastructures related to mass transportation
  34. SECurity of Railways against Electromagnetic aTtacks
  35. Security of Road Transport Networks
  36. Security System for Maritime Infrastructures, Ports and Coastal Zones
  37. Security UPgrade for PORTs
  38. Strategic Risk Assessment and Contingency Planning in Interconnected Transport Networks
  39. SUBCOP - Suicide Bomber Counteraction and Prevention
  40. Surveillance of Unattended Baggage and the Identification and Tracking of the Owner
  41. The Railway-Industry Partnership for Integrated Security of Rail Transport
  42. Total Airport Security System
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Organisation: 
European Commission, Enterprise and Industry Directorate-General
Address: 
BREY 13/092
Zipcode: 
B-1049
City: 
Brussels
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