Objective
The aim of the SOURCE Network of Excellence is to create a robust and sustainable virtual centre of excellence capable of exploring and advancing societal issues in security research and development. The SOURCE Network of Excellence is built upon five types of activities: networking activities, research, information gathering, education and training, and knowledge-sharing. These five areas together address both the ambitions and the expected impact of the Work Programme specific to the Security call. Through an integrated information gathering hub, education programmes across the security sectors, and a comprehensive programme of networking activities the SOURCE project will advance European excellence in research and industrial innovation and form the foundation for a permanent virtual centre of excellence capable of continuing to bring added-value to research on societal security. Through a broad set of concerted activities the centre will gather experts and actors from all levels of the security chain (researchers, industry actors, policy-makers, civil society, end-users and the public at large), all linked by a common project of documenting, analysing and understanding the link between security and the society in which it is played out. Through an array of networking activities, meetings, scientific and popular publications, film, press and social media, a scholarly journal and the formation of an international association for the study and improvement of societal security, the SOURCE Network of Excellence will meet the goals of raising the awareness among policy makers and end-users, raising the competitiveness of the security industry by better applying it to the social layers of insecurity in society and, as a consequence, contribute to the improvement of the well-being and security of European citizens.
Fields of science
Call for proposal
FP7-SEC-2012-1
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Funding Scheme
NoE - Network of ExcellenceCoordinator
75008 Paris
France
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Participants (15)
164 90 Stockholm
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2 Dublin
80686 Munchen
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2595 DA Den Haag
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1000 Bruxelles
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1050 Brussel
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1040 Vienna
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WC2R 2LS London
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1000 Bruxelles
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48160 Derio (Bizkaia)
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75341 Paris Cedex 07
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1070 Wien
1070 Wien
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75230 Paris Cedex 05
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0186 Oslo
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