Project description
Enhancing collaboration to predict and prevent terrorist acts
Cyber and physical threats are becoming increasingly complex. As a result, public safety measures need to stay one step ahead of the fast-paced changes. The EU-funded APPRAISE project will develop an integrated threat intelligence solution designed for protecting the augmented cities environment. It will perform a continuous and effective monitoring of online sources and physical sensors to identify potential threats and improve strategies for protection of soft targets (such as shopping malls and stadiums), while preserving the freedom of citizens. Building on the latest advances in big data analysis, AI and advanced visualisation, the project will offer unprecedented capabilities to predict and identify criminal and terrorist acts and enhance the private-public collaboration of security actors.
Objective
Ensuring public spaces safety while preserving the freedom of citizens represents a challenge for European societies. Soft targets like malls, stadiums or big events continue to face a variety of evolving cyber and physical threats. To secure public spaces and other soft targets requires an integral security approach and new concepts involving all the security actors along with private operators.
APPRAISE aims to build on the latest advances in big data analysis, artificial intelligence, and advanced visualisation to create an integral security framework that will improve both the cyber/physical security and safety of public spaces by enabling a proactive, integrated, risk-based, and resilience-oriented approach. This framework will be designed to support the secured private-public collaboration and optimise the coordination of operations involving private security staff, private operators, and law enforcement agencies.
APPRAISE will offer unprecedented capabilities to predict and identify criminal and terrorist acts and enhance the operational collaboration of security actors before, during, and after an incident occurs. Social, Ethical, Legal, and Privacy observatories bringing together LEAs, private operators, technology experts, psychologists, sociologists, and society representatives will ensure full conformity of the developed tools with current EU legislation and citizens’ acceptance, preparing the ground for successful exploitation.
The consortium consists of world-class research centres, industries, SMEs, LEAs of different types (national police, municipal police, elite tactical unit) as well as private security practitioners and operators, coordinated by a large industrial company with a leading position in the security market.
APPRAISE will demonstrate its solutions in four complementary pilot sites: a tennis tournament in Italy, a transnational cycling tour with stages in France and Spain, an international fair in Poland, and a mall in Slovenia.
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Programme(s)
- H2020-EU.3.7. - Secure societies - Protecting freedom and security of Europe and its citizens Main Programme
- H2020-EU.3.7.1. - Fight crime, illegal trafficking and terrorism, including understanding and tackling terrorist ideas and beliefs
- H2020-EU.3.7.8. - Support the Union's external security policies including through conflict prevention and peace-building
Funding Scheme
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00144 ROMA
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141 22 IRAKLEIO
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61-612 Poznan
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CB2 1NN Cambridge,
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85737 Ismaning
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16122 Genova Ge
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03202 Elche
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57001 Thermi Thessaloniki
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10138 Torino
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1000 029 LISBOA
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20009 Donostia San Sebastian
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75015 PARIS 15
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S1 1WB Sheffield
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106 76 Athens
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1000 Ljubljana
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60-822 Poznan
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91570 Bievres
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10122 Torino
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1249-110 Lisboa
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80819 Gdansk
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01010 Vitoria-Gasteiz
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1501 Ljubljana
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48007 Bilbao
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20600 Eibar
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80 560 GDANSK
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1000 Ljubljana
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12489 Berlin
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141 22 IRAKLEIO
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.