Project description
A paradigm shift to securing public spaces
Amidst the evolving landscape of security challenges in public spaces, there is a growing need for effective and socially accepted solutions. As massive events and crowded places become potential targets, the demand for innovative security measures intensifies. Trust, acceptance, and heightened security behaviours are essential. With this in mind, the EU-funded CO-SECUR project aims to cultivate knowledge and tools to expedite the adoption of social innovations and responsible principles in security solutions. Through meticulous phases, including literature reviews, case studies, and collaborative development, the project will redefine security paradigms. Overall, the project will pave the way for a new era of public safety, fostering smart communities and innovative, transferable security technologies.
Objective
CO-SECUR aims to build knowledge and a suite of tools, including a Societal Development Plan (SDP) to foster and accelerate the adoption of social innovations and responsible innovation principles that contribute to successful, more effective, and co-produced security solutions for public spaces (with special focus on massive events and crowded places), generating trust, acceptance, increasing security, security perception, and security behavior.
For that, CO-SECUR will follow a methodology of 4 phases: 1) Literature review of evidence in security and security perception; 2) Security practices mapping and selection; 3) Descriptive analysis of 72-180 case studies from 9 European countries and critical synthesis of results; and 4) Co-writing and validation of the SDP and tools involving the Quintuple helix + media through participative activities (i.e. hybrid seminars, national working groups, national workshops, public consultation at EU level).
As a result, the SDP will contain a depth description of Social Innovation on Security in Europe, a compendium of good practices, and a roadmap of actions. The suite of tools will provide additional supportive material in terms of best practices on fostering smart local communities; policy recommendations on how to orientate security solutions towards RRI and social innovation involving the Quintuple helix + media; benchmarking for industry; and a summary of the innovative, transferable, and scalable Security Technologies.
Partners will continue to disseminate and communicate the project progress and outcomes and organize a final Security Perception Conference. At the Conference, a Memorandum of Understanding will be launched and opened to be signed by any city/region willing to promote social innovation and RRI in the security solutions implemented in public spaces.
Fields of science
Keywords
Programme(s)
Funding Scheme
HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation ActionsCoordinator
46870 Ontinyent
Spain
The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.