The 2006 Call of the Preparatory Action for Security Research

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• The 2006 Call of the Preparatory Action for
  Security Research

Pieter De Smet European Commission DG ENTR-H4
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Presentation Summary

• PASR 2005 Results
• Call overview and statistics
• Evaluation outcome
• PASR 2006 Call for Proposals
• General principles
• Call specificity
• Project priorities
• Supporting Activities priorities
• Selection criteria

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Call overview

• Budget for 2005 15 M
• 8 Projects
• 5 Supporting activities
• 156 Proposals received
• 119 Projects ( 1 Ineligible)
• 36 Supporting Activities
• Evaluation session 30 May 3 June 2005
• 74 evaluators
• from all MS (except CY, LU, LV, MT) EDA EU

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Participation of stakeholder groups in PASR-2005
submitted
ranked list
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Participation of SME in PASR-2005
submitted
of ranked list
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Project characteristics (1 to 2 years)

• Mission-oriented
• Tangible results, providing basis for the future
  European security research
• Multidisciplinary, collaborative projects, multi
  stakeholders
• Involving final users
• In one priority or across several priorities

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Projects priority missions

• Protection of networked systems
• Protection against terrorism (including
  bio-terrorism and incidents with biological,
  chemical and other substances)
• Enhancing crisis management
• Interoperability and integrated systems
• Improving situation awareness

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Supporting Activities priority areas

• Co-operation and networking and dissemination
  activities
• Investigating procedures, management of IPR and
  legal arrangements for the exchange of classified
  information
• Studies in support of security solutions with a
  particular emphasis on human behaviour,
  perception of security and privacy
• Standardisation activities
• Feasibility of joint use of large-scale research,
  testing and evaluation infrastructures (no
  proposal received)

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General principles PASR-2006 (1)

• Last year of the PASR. Call opened on 10
  February, closure on 10 May 2006.
• Evaluation from 12 to 16 June 2006.
• Procedures, rules, eligibility and selection
  criteria unchanged.
• Financing up to 75 of the costs (50 for
  pre-competitive development activities)
• Objectives
• Support security policies and contribute to
  competitiveness of security industries ??need to
  address areas not sufficiently covered by 2004
  and 2005 calls
• Prepare a fully fledged security research
  programme ??need to test different call scenarios

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General principles PASR-2006 (2)

• Projects will have 1 to 2 years duration
• Missionoriented
• Tangible results, providing basis for the future
  European security research
• Collaborative projects, multidisciplinary,
  multi-stakeholders
• Involving final users
• In one priority or across several priorities
• Supporting activities will have 6 months to 3
  years duration

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General principles PASR-2006 (3)

• Budget of 15 M for new activities
• Call for proposals will be published in January
  2006, with closure date in May 2006
• 85 foreseen for projects
• 15 for supporting activities
• Priority areas remain the same but we propose to
  focus the call on
• 12 specific key activities

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PASR-2006 Call specificity (1)Areas not
sufficiently covered by 2004 and 2005 calls

• Critical infrastructures protection
• Protection and countermeasures against CBRN and
  explosives
• Consequence management in case of incident
• Humanitarian operations
• Integration of SMEs
• Requests from MS
• Communications in case of crisis
• Intelligence interoperability
• Border surveillance

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PASR 2006 call specificity (2)

• Advantages
• Cover crucial areas
• Test another manner to call for proposals before
  the start of FP7
• Decrease oversubscription
• Reduce proposers disappointment when not
  selected only for budgetary reasons
• Better success rate
• Disadvantages
• Some proposals from previous calls cannot be
  resubmitted

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Projects priorities

• Networked systems
• Protection against terrorism
• Crisis management
• Interoperability and integrated systems
• Situation awareness
• Key activities are defined for each priority

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Project Priority 1 Networked systems
PASR-2006 Key activities

• Measures (incl. resulting risk assessments) for
  enhanced protection and assurance of utility
  systems and services, or transportation
  facilities critical to maintain security in an
  enlarged Europe, in particular for
• drinking water supply or oil/natural gas supply,
• industrial sites, or
• land, water borne and multimodal transport
• Prevention, protection, response and alert
  capabilities to improve the dependability and
  resilience of control systems for (networked)
  infrastructures

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Project Priority 2 Protection against terrorism
PASR-2006 Key activities

• Effective integration of various sensor
  techniques and data correlation techniques for
  fast, sensitive and affordable detection and
  identification of
• explosive devices, or
• biological substances
• Technologies for protection and countermeasures
  against the
• impact of explosions, or
• effects of CBRN with an emphasis on biological
  releases

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Project Priority 3 Crisis management
PASR-2006 Key activities

• Shared information management tools and models to
  facilitate the efficient integration of diverse
  emergency and management services for
  humanitarian operations and rescue tasks in
  support of the Common Foreign and Security Policy
  (CFSP) with an emphasis on security aspects and
  attention to organisational structures,
  inter-organisational co-ordination and
  communication, distributed architectures and
  human factors.
• Joint, cross-border control and command systems
  for emergency and management services in the
  domain of security operations
• Technologies and protocols for decontamination of
  CBRN substances for personnel, equipment and
  facilities

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Project Priority 4 Interoperability
PASR-2006 Key activities

• Novel concepts and architectures for information
  exchange between national administrations for
  pan-European e-government services in the domain
  of security.
• Novel concepts and architectures for wireless
  communication and information exchange systems
  for pan-European and (inter-)national emergency
  and management services. The architecture should
  allow for the integration of multi-purpose,
  specific modules for waveforms and cryptography.

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Project Priority 5 Improving situation awareness
PASR-2006 Key activities

• Recognition of terrorist and crime activities,
  such as identification of radical ideologies,
  participating individuals, hotspots for
  recruitment and their dynamics, financing, using
  intelligence databases, internet, CCTV
  telephone logs, etc.
• Smart documentation enabling the capability to
  identify, locate and track persons (e.g.
  integrating multimodal biometrics, locating
  devices, etc.) while respecting the EU rules on
  privacy
• Novel concepts, architectures and technologies
  for locating illegal immigration at the EU borders

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Supporting Activities Priorities

• Coordination network between security technology
  stakeholders including research activities
  supported on the national and/or regional level
• Coordination network integrating security supply
  chains including small and medium enterprises
  (SME)
• Studies in support of security solutions with a
  particular emphasis on human behaviour
  perception of security and privacy resilience of
  society to acts of terrorism macro-economics
  effects of security
• Assessment of standardisation needs for equipment
  and services associated with security, e.g.
  application of biometrics for identity
  management, training
• Studies on the feasibility of joint use of
  large-scale research, testing and evaluation
  infrastructures in the security field
• Studies on the fight against terrorist financing

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Selection Criteria

• Relevance to the Programme of Work 2006
• Reinforcement of the competitiveness for European
  industry and potential for exploitation
• Scientific, technological excellence ,
  contributions to tangible results
• Building effective partnerships, including users,
  industry, research establishments
• Ability for efficient management, protect
  information if necessary, IPR management

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PASR Information

• More Information on
• http//europa.eu.int/comm/enterprise/security
• http//www.cordis.lu/security
• Help Desk PASR
• entr-pasr_at_cec.eu.int