NOTIONES is a Latin lemma meaning “notions, concepts, ideas, investigations, examinations, cognisance, becoming acquainted” and therefore refers to “being informed”. The NOTIONES project brings this concept to the security and law enforcement domain, aiming at improving the knowledge of security professionals and intelligence practitioners with the latest innovation and technology assets available.
The NOTIONES project (
https://www.notiones.eu/(s’ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre)) is a five years’ duration Coordination and Support Action project funded by the European Union. The NOTIONES Network main objective is to bring together experts in the fields of security and intelligence to identify the challenges and needs associated with contemporary intelligence processes and the role of technology in their operations. The NOTIONES Network of practitioners come from security and intelligence services of EU Member States and Associated Countries. The Network includes technology experts, experts in security research programming and practitioners (14 organisations) from military, civil, financial, judiciary, local, national and international polices, coming from 16 EU Members States, 4 Associated Countries and 1 Other Countries.
The output recommendations arising from the studies and discussions among the experts in the NOTIONES Network will be synthesized into specifications that can be provided to industry and academy across Europe, providing tangible benefits to those organisations and individuals engaged in intelligence, security and related work.
After an intensive initial phase of state-of-the-art review to identify challenges and gaps around research and technology assets, the project work is organised in an iterative cycle that will be ongoing for the whole duration of the project, with a total of five rounds of innovation monitoring and discussions, and new focus areas identified periodically.
Therefore, the NOTIONES project will continuously work in the monitoring of technologies and the definition of requirements and recommendations for their industrialization for intelligence and security applications will provide a great advantage to practitioners as well as themes for future EC-funded research projects in the fields of intelligence and security.
As the matching between technologies and intelligence needs or terrorist threats will be carried out, the most promising areas of innovation will be selected as focus of the working groups and will be subject to an in-depth monitoring based on horizon scanning techniques and investigation of research projects addressing them. This will allow to identify professionals, companies and academy representatives that will be involved in the interaction activities of NOTIONES, especially in conferences organised by the project.
Furthermore, the results of the NOTIONES project will be presented to the broad intelligence community in workshops towards the end of each year of the project and will contribute to the definition of further security and intelligence research.
