Preparatory Action on Security Research

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Preparatory Action on Security Research

• Enhancement of the European industrial potential
  in the field of security research
• Towards a programme to advance European Security
  through Research and Technology
• Herbert von Bose

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Why a Preparatory Action on Security Research?

• A Commission immediate response to requests from
  the Council, the European Parliament and the
  European Industry
• A Commission contribution to the wider EU agenda
  to address challenges threats set out in the
  European Security Strategy
• With the ultimate goal to work towards a
  fully-fledged programme to advance security of
  European Citizens through research and technology
  from 2007

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Some  Security  Challenges

• Europe is facing new threats, more diverse, less
  predictable
• Enlargement process will lead to an increased
  population, increased territory, direct borders
  with less stable regions
• Need to invest in a European security culture
  supported by a credible EU industry
• Need to address fragmentation and capitalize on
  existing RTD activities, capabilities and
  competences
• Need to develop synergies between civil and
  military research, between public and private
  sectors
• Need to stimulate coherence, coordination and
  investment

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PASR main features

• An initiative outside the 6th RTD Framework
  Programme
• A planned duration of 3 years (2004-2006)
• An overall planned budget of 65M
• of which 15M for the year 2004 (approved)

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PASR overall objectives

• To contribute to the improvement of Security of
  the European Citizens
• To enhance EU Industrial Competitiveness
• To reinforce the basis to underpin policy
  decisions
• To explore conditions and mechanisms of an
  environment favourable to enhance European
  scientific, technological and industrial
  capabilities in the field of security
• To define the priorities at Community level of a
  future EU Security Research Programme

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Scope for Security in the PASR

• Broad comprehensive security concept going beyond
  military aspects and security of States with
  focus on the security of EU citizens
• multidisciplinary and multisectoral with a clear
  European dimension and Community added value
• mission- oriented approach

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Project priorities

• Improving situation awareness
• Optimising security and protection of networked
  systems
• Protecting against terrorism (including
  bio-terrorism and incidents with biological,
  chemical and other substances)
• Enhancing crisis management
• Achieving interoperability and integrated systems
  for information and communication

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Improving situation awareness

• Aim Identify and address main threats that could
  affect Europe
• Land and sea borders
• Assets of global interest
• Information gathering and processing
• Sharing of intelligence
• Development and demonstration of concepts and
  technologies to enhance borders and assets
  surveillance

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Optimising security protection of networked
systems

• Networked systems communications systems,
  utility systems, transportation facilities,
  networks for (cyber) commerce and business
• Aim to analyse the security of use,
  vulnerabilities, and identification of
  interdependencies to show how to implement
  protective security measures against both
  electronic and physical threats

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Protecting against Terrorism

• To identify and prioritise the material and
  information requirements in combating and
  protecting against terrorism
• To demonstrate technology solutions for threat
  detection, identification, protection and
  neutralisation
• To demonstrate technology solutions for detection
  of containment and disposal of threatening
  substances.

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Enhancing crisis management

• Aim to address the operational and technological
  issues for crisis prevention, operational
  preparedness and management of declared crisis.
• Development of shared information management
  tools and models to facilitate the efficient
  integration of diverse emergency and management
  services

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Achieving interoperability and integrated
systems forinformation and communication

• Aim to develop and demonstrate interoperability
  concepts enabling the linking of existing and new
  assets in clusters.
• Development and demonstration of concepts and
  architectures for internationally interoperable
  systems and standards. Attention to be given to
  dependability, organisational aspects, protection
  of confidentiality and integrity of information.

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Supporting Activities

• RTD roadmaps
• Standardisation activities
• Dissemination, networking and coordinating
  activities
• Activities relevant to the need to improve the
  security of the European citizen and society

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Maximum funding

• Projects
• Industrial Research 75
• Pre-competitive development activities 50
• Management 100 (up to 7 of overall Community
  contribution)
• Supporting Activities
• 75 of eligible costs
• This amount may include up to 10 for management
  (financed at 100 rate)

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Tentative Schedule

• Call publication 31 March
• Closing date 23 June
• Evaluation early July
• Feed back to proposers early September
• Negotiations September-October
• Contract awards November-December

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Additional information

• RTD Security Information Desk
• RTD-pasr_at_cec.eu.int
• http//www.cordis.lu/security/
• http//europa.eu.int/comm/research/security/index_
  en.html