Call for Proposals - Security 2012 FP7-SEC-2012-1 Closed!
Objectives
The objective of the Security theme is to develop the technologies and knowledge for building capabilities needed to:
- ensure the security of citizens from threats such as terrorism, natural disasters and crime, while respecting fundamental rights including privacy,
- ensure optimal and concerted use of available and evolving technologies to the benefit of civil European security,
- stimulate the cooperation of providers and users for civil security solutions,
- improve the competitiveness of the European security industry and
- deliver mission-oriented research results to reduce security gaps.
All seven activity areas, the four mission-oriented and the three cross-cutting areas have topics in the Security call 5. Topics address one (or more) of the following four ambitions:
- important capability gaps (urgent needs that can easily be fulfilled with new solutions based on innovative technologies),
- validation of solutions resulting from research and development (experimentation involving their appropriation by the end-users),
- core critical capabilities needed by Europe (where technologies are not yet mature),
- high risk / high pay-off projects (with a view at long-term development of groundbreaking new technologies).
The Security theme has an exclusively civil application focus.
Actions
Activity: 10.1 Increasing the Security of the Citizens
Area: 10.1.1 Organised crime (None)
Area: 10.1.2 Intelligence against terrorism (None)
Area: 10.1.3 Explosives
- SEC-2012.1.3-1 Less than Lethal Handling of PBIEDs
- SEC-2012.1.3-2 Home made explosives (HMEs) and recipes characterisation
Area: 10.1.4 Ordinary Crime and Forensic (None)
Area: 10.1.5 CBRN Protection
- SEC-2012.1.5-1 CBRNE Demo Phase II
- SEC-2012.1.5-2 Improving drinking water security management and mitigation in large municipalities against major deliberate, accidental or natural CBRN-related contaminations
- SEC-2012.1.5-3 Identification and development of low-risk alternatives to high-risk chemicals
- SEC-2012.1.5-4 Securing the food chains from primary production and animal feeds to consumer ready food against deliberate, accidental or natural CBRN contamination
Area: 10.1.6 Information Gathering
- SEC-2012.1.6-1 Digital, miniaturised operational tool for investigation
Activity: 10.2 Security of infrastructures and utilities
Area: 10.2.1 Design, planning of buildings and urban areas
- SEC-2012.2.1-1 Resilience of large scale urban built infrastructure
- SEC-2012.2.1-2 Criticality analysis of critical infrastructure including concepts for forgery proof and efficient facility access systems
Area: 10.2.2 Energy, Transport, communication grids
- SEC-2012.2.2-1 Identification of measures to counter illegal export of metal-bearing waste
- SEC-2012.2.2-2 Air traffic Management/Control threat assessment model
- SEC-2012.2.2-3 Improving security in air cargo transport
- SEC-2012.2.2-4 A common EU aviation security requirement to reduce costs and facilitate passenger flows
Area: 10.2.3 Surveillance
- SEC-2012.2.3-1 Early warning security systems: physical protection of critical buildings
Area: 10.2.4 Supply chain
- SEC-2012.2.4-1 Pre-normative technology development for improved and more efficient security of the supply chain
Area: 10.2.5 Cyber crime
- SEC-2012.2.5-1 Convergence of physical and cyber security
- SEC-2012.2.5-2 Cyber resilience – Secure cloud computing for critical infrastructure
Activity: 10.3 Intelligent surveillance and border security
Area: 10.3.1 Sea borders
- SEC-2012.3.1-1 Increasing trustworthiness of vessel reporting systems
- SEC-2012.3.1-2 Pre-Operational Validation (POV) at EU level of common application of Surveillance tools
Area: 10.3.2 Land borders (None)
Area: 10.3.3 Air borders (None)
Area: 10.3.4 Border checks
- SEC-2012.3.4-1 Research on "automated" comparison of x-ray images for cargo scanning with reference material (use of historic images in an automated environment) to identify irregularities
- SEC-2012.3.4-2 Research and validation for sub-surface fingerprint live scanners
- SEC-2012.3.4-3 Tools and processes for assessing the impact of policies/actions on border control
- SEC-2012.3.4-4 Innovative, costefficient and reliable technology to detect humans hidden in vehicles/closed compartments
- SEC-2012.3.4-5 Further research, development and pilot implementation of Terahertz passive detection techniques (T-Ray)
- SEC-2012.3.4-6 Enhancing the workflow and functionalities of Automated Border Control (ABC) gates
Area: 10.3.5 Border intelligent surveillance
- SEC-2012.3.5-1 Development of airborne sensors and data link
Activity: 10.4 Restoring security and safety in case of crisis
Area: 10.4.1 Preparedness, prevention, mitigation and planning
- SEC-2012.4.1-1 Preparedness for and management of large scale fires
- SEC-2012.4.1-2 Psycho social support in Crisis Management
Area: 10.4.2 Response
- SEC-2012.4.2-1 Positioning and timing tools to guarantee security assets trace & tracking together with worker safety in a secure environment
- SEC-2012.4.2-2 Situational awareness guidance and evacuation systems for large crowds, including crowds unpredictable behaviour
- SEC-2012.4.2-3 Post crisis lesson learned exercise
Area: 10.4.3 Recovery
- SEC-2012.4.3-1 Next generation damage and post-crisis needs assessment tool for reconstruction and recovery planning
Area: 10.4.4 CBRN Response
- SEC-2012.4.4-1 Development of mobile laboratories, structures and functions to support rapid assessment of CBRN events with a cross-border or international impact
- SEC-2012.4.4-2 Means of decontamination of large groups, urban/wide areas and large, complex and/or sensitive object
- SEC-2012.4.4-3 Tools for detection, traceability, triage and individual monitoring of victims after a mass contamination
Activity: 10.5 Security systems integration, interconnectivity and interoperability
Area: 10.5.1 Information Management (None)
Area: 10.5.2 Secure Communications
- SEC-2012.5.2-1 Preparation of the next generation of PPDR communication network
Area: 10.5.3 Interoperability
- SEC-2012.5.3-1 Embedded protection of security systems and anti-tampering technologies
- SEC-2012.5.3-2 Establishment of a first responders platform for interoperability
- SEC-2012.5.3-3 Establishment of a interoperability platform/centre for testing and validating decision and intelligence systems
- SEC-2012.5.3-4 Global solution for interoperability between first responder communication systems
Area: 10.5.4 Standardisation (None)
Activity: 10.6 Security and society
Area: 10.6.1 Citizens, media and security
- SEC-2012.6.1-1 Methodologies to assess the effectiveness of measures addressing violent radicalisation
- SEC-2012.6.1-2 Tools and methodologies, definitions and strategies for privacy by design for surveillance technologies, including ICT systems
- SEC-2012.6.1-3 Use of new communication/social media in crisis situations
Area: 10.6.2 Organisational requirements for interoperability of public users (None)
Area: 10.6.3 Foresight, scenarios and security as an evolving concept
- SEC-2012.6.3-1 Developing an efficient and effective environmental scanning system as part of the early warning system for the detection of emerging organised crime threats
- SEC-2012.6.3-2 Criteria for assessing and mainstreaming societal impacts of security research activities
Area: 10.6.4 Security economics
- SEC-2012.6.4-1 Fight against corruption
Area: 10.6.5 Ethics and Justice
- SEC-2012.6.5-1 Legitimacy and effectiveness of legal measures against security threats
Activity: 10.7 Security Research coordination and structuring
Area: 10.7.1 ERA-Net (None)
Area: 10.7.2 Small and Medium Enterprises
- SEC-2012.7.2-1 Open topic for Small and Medium Enterprises: "Advancing contemporary forensic methods and equipment"
Area: 10.7.3 Studies (None)
Area: 10.7.4 Other coordination
- SEC-2012.7.4-1 Coordination of national research programmes in the area of security research
- SEC-2012.7.4-2 Networking of researchers for a high level multiorganisational and cross-border collaboration
Area: 10.7.5 End users (None)
Area: 10.7.6 Training (None)
European community funding
The Community provisional funding available for the call for proposals is:
- 241,70 Million EUR (Global Budget)
All the important deadlines
- 23 November 2011 - 9 years ago (Deadline for the presentation of proposals)
Further information about the call
Official webpage of the call
Useful documents
Organisations eligible to participate
Opened to the following bodies or institutes with legal status established in the covered areas:
- Any legal organisation
Covered areas
Bodies or institutes must have their registered legal seat in one of the countries taking part in the Programme which are:
- European Union (EU)
Directorate-Generale responsible
Directorate-General for Research
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