European funds for Security (1)

European funds for research and development: Security

Deadline: 23rd November 2011

BENEFICIARIES:
Any legal entities established in a Member State or Associated country
MAIN AREAS OF INTERVENTION:
Activity: Increasing the Security of the Citizens
Explosives

• Less than Lethal Handling of PBIEDs
• Home made explosives (HMEs) and recipes characterisation

CBRN Protection

• CBRNE Demo Phase II
• Improving drinking water security management and mitigation in large municipalities against major deliberate, accidental or natural CBRN-related contaminations
• Identification and development of low-risk alternatives to high-risk chemicals
• Securing the food chains from primary production and animal feeds to consumer ready food against deliberate, accidental or natural CBRN contamination

Information Gathering

• Digital, miniaturised operational tool for investigation

Activity: Security of infrastructures and utilities
Design, planning of buildings and urban areas

• Resilience of large scale urban built infrastructure
• Criticality analysis of critical infrastructure including concepts for forgery proof and efficient facility access systems

Energy, Transport, communication grids

• Identification of measures to counter illegal export of metal-bearing waste
• Air traffic Management/Control threat assessment model
• Improving security in air cargo transport
• A common EU aviation security requirement to reduce costs and facilitate passenger flows

Surveillance

• Early warning security systems: physical protection of critical buildings
• Supply chain
• Pre-normative technology development for improved and more efficient security of the supply chain

Cyber crime

• Convergence of physical and cyber security
• Cyber resilience – Secure cloud computing for critical infrastructure

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