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FP7 - Research Theme: Security
Start date:2007-01-01
End date:2013-12-31
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.
Short title:FP7-Security
Programme Acronym:FP7-SECURITY
Acronym Description:
Programme type:Seventh Framework Programme
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Programme status:Execution
Duration:84 months
Programme Funding:1400 million euro
URL:http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/cooperation/security_en.html
Framework programme:
FP7
Umbrella programme:
FP7-COOPERATION
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Contract types:Collaborative project (generic), Small or medium-scale focused research project, Support actions, Coordination (or networking) actions, Support actions, Coordination (or networking) actions
Subdivisions of Programme:The following information was based on the official information available at the time of writing. Priorities and activities may change.
For the very latest information please consult the work programmes available with the appropriate call at:
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/dc/index.cfm
Activities will address the following mission areas:
- Security of citizens: delivering technology solutions for civil protection, including bio-security and protection against risks arising from crime and terrorist attacks.
- 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).
- 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.
- 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 will be 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 will also address 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 research coordination and structuring: coordination of European and international security research efforts and development of synergies between civil, security and defence research, improvement of legal conditions, and encouragement to the optimal use of existing infrastructures.
Implementation:Across all themes support for transnational cooperation will be implemented through:
- Collaborative research: Collaborative research will constitute the bulk and the core of Community research funding. The objective is to establish, in the major fields of advancement of knowledge, excellent research projects and networks able to attract researchers and investments from Europe and the entire world, strengthening the European industrial and technological base and supporting Community policies. This will be achieved through a range of funding schemes:
- Collaborative project
- Networks of excellence
- 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.
Potential 'Joint technology initiatives' will be identified in an open and transparent way on the basis of an evaluation using a series of criteria:
- inability of existing instruments to achieve the objective,
- scale of the impact on industrial competitiveness and growth,
- added value of European-level intervention,
- degree and clarity of definition of the objective and deliverables to be pursued,
- strength of the financial and resource commitment from industry,
-importance of the contribution to broader policy objectives including benefit to society,
- capacity to attract additional national support and leverage in current and future industry funding.
- Coordination of non-Community research programmes: The action undertaken in this field will make use of two main tools, the ERA-NET scheme and the participation of the Community in jointly implemented national research programmes. The objective of the ERA-NET scheme is to step up the cooperation and coordination of research programmes carried out at national or regional level in Member States or Associated Countries through the networking of research programmes, towards their mutual opening and the development and implementation of joint activities.
It may cover subjects not directly linked to the ten themes in so far as they have sufficient added value. The action will also be used to enhance the complementarity and synergy between the 'Seventh framework programme' and activities carried out in the framework of intergovernmental structures such as Eureka, Eiroforum and COST. Financial support for the administration and coordination activities of COST will be provided so that COST can continue to contribute to coordination and exchanges between nationally funded research themes.
Where the actions are within the scope of one of the themes, they will be supported as an integral part of the activities under that theme. Where the actions are of a horizontal nature or not directly linked to the ten themes, they will be supported jointly across all of the relevant themes.
- International cooperation: International cooperation actions, showing European added-value and being of mutual interest, will support an international Science and Technology policy that has two interdependent objectives:
- to support and promote European competitiveness through strategic research partnerships with third countries including highly industrialised and emerging economies in science and technology by engaging the best third country scientists to work in and with Europe;
- to address specific problems that third countries face or that have a global character, on the basis of mutual interest and mutual benefit.
The international cooperation actions will be connected to mainstream policy issues in order to support fulfilling international commitments of the EU and contribute to sharing European values, competitiveness, socio-economic progress, environmental protection and welfare under the umbrella of global sustainable development.
International cooperation will be implemented in this specific programme in each thematic area and across themes through:
- An enhanced participation of researchers and research institutions from all International Cooperation Partner countries and industrialised countries in the thematic areas, with appropriate restrictions for the security theme for all third countries other than Associated Countries due to confidentiality aspects.
- Specific cooperation actions in each thematic area dedicated to third countries in the case of mutual interest in cooperating on particular topics to be selected and on the basis of their scientific and technological level and needs. The identification of specific needs and priorities will be closely associated with relevant bilateral cooperation agreements and with ongoing multilateral and bi-regional dialogues between the EU and these countries or groups. Priorities will be identified based on the particular needs, potential and level of economic development in the region or country.
In addition to direct financial support to participants in RTD actions, the Community will improve their access to private sector finance by contributing financially to the 'Risk-Sharing Finance Facility' (RSFF) established by the European Investment Bank (EIB). The Community contribution to RSFF will be used by the Bank, in accordance with eligibility criteria set out in the Work Programme 'Cooperation'.
A network of 'National Contact Points' is instrumental for providing access to FP7 calls, and to lower the entry barrier for newcomers and raise the average quality of submitted proposals.
General information: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 into 'Security' matters 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.
Under this theme 'Security' research requires specific implementation rules to take into account its special nature. However, the transparency of research results should not be unduly compromised. This scheme is expected to help overcome the current fragmented nature of existing efforts, the lack of critical mass of scale and scope and the lack of connections and interoperability.
At Community level 'Security' research will maintain an exclusively civil orientation and focus 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.
Security research should emphasise European capabilities regarding surveillance, distribution of information and knowledge of threats and incidents as well as systems for better assessments and situation control through better use of common ICT-systems in the fields of different operations. EU level research should be so structured as to contribute to the emergence of a common defence market in Europe.
The non-defence activities set out below will complement and integrate the technology-and systems-oriented research relevant to civil security which is carried out in other themes. They will be mission-oriented, developing the technologies and capabilities as required by the specific security missions. They are by design flexible so as to accommodate as yet unknown future security threats and related policy needs that may arise, stimulating cross-fertilisation and the take-up of existing technologies for the civil security sector, European security research will also encourage the development of multi-purpose technologies in order to maximise the scope for their application.
Research activities carried out within this framework should respect fundamental ethical principles, including those which are reflected in the 'Charter of fundamental rights' of the European Union.
Please visit the CORDIS site to check the latest calls for proposals and the official work programme under the FP7 'Security' research theme http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/dc/index.cfm
Please visit the CORDIS site (http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/find-doc_en.html) to download the following legal documents:
- DECISION No 1982/2006/EC of the European Parliament and the Council of 18 December 2006 concerning the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007-2013).
- COUNCIL DECISION of 19 December 2006 concerning the Specific Programme 'Cooperation' implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
Remarks:Please visit the CORDIS site to check the latest calls for proposals and the official work programme under the FP7 'Security' research theme http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/dc/index.cfm
Please visit the CORDIS site (http://cordis.eu
Key Publications:
Number of Projects:54
Subject index:Coordination, Cooperation, Scientific Research, Policies, Safety
Organization:Research DG
Legislative Reference:2006/971/EC
Legislative date:2006-12-19
Official Journal Reference:L 54/70
Official Journal Date:2006-12-30
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