| The information day targets potential applicants to the first three calls for project proposals under the societal challenge ‘Secure societies – Protecting freedom and security of Europe and its citizens’:
The submission of proposals to these calls will open on 25 March 2014 with the deadline of 28 August 2014.
Participants of the information day will receive detailed information about the calls and their legal and procedural rules, as well as practical information on the new proposal submission system and an overview of the new features of Horizon 2020. Potential applicants will have the opportunity to present their project ideas and exchange views at the brokerage and networking sessions.
Registration for the event is free, and compulsory if you want to attend. Travel and subsistence costs should be covered by the participants.
More about the Secure Societies challenge and the calls
The Secure Societies challenge aims to protect the freedom and security of Europe and its citizens. Its objective is to foster secure European societies in a context of unprecedented transformations and growing global interdependencies and threats, while strengthening the European culture of freedom and justice. The indicative budget of the programme will reach €1,694 million over the duration of Horizon 2020 (2014-20).
Three calls for project proposals are currently open under this challenge and will be presented at the event:
Call H2020-DRS-2014 ‘Disaster-resilience: safeguarding and securing society, including adapting to climate change’ (€ 65.4 million) is designed for actions to reduce the loss of human life, environmental, economic and material damage from natural and man-made disasters, including extreme weather events, crime and terrorist threats.
Call H2020-FCT-2014 ‘Fight against crime and terrorism’ (€ 34.81 million) aims both to avoid an incident and to mitigate its potential consequences. This requires new technologies and capabilities for fighting and preventing crime (including cyber-crime), illegal trafficking and terrorism (including cyber-terrorism), as well as understanding and tackling terrorist ideas and beliefs to avoid aviation related threats.
Call H2020-BES-2014 ‘Border Security and External Security’ (€ 40.78 million) targets the development of both the technologies and the capabilities for rapid identification, to improve border security, and to support the Union’s external security policies in civilian tasks.
The Secure Societies challenge is part of Horizon 2020, the EU’s new Framework Programme for Research and Innovation. The aforementioned calls are managed by the Research Executive Agency (REA).
Browse the REA’s ‘Breakthroughs’ section for a selection of featured projects in Security Research funded under the 7th Framework Programme (2007-13). They include OPTIX (detecting explosives at a distance), ESS (minimizing damage in air crash aftermath) and Shiparrestor (improving the efficiency of marine rescue and recovery operations). |
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