"Project to policy kick off seminar" for security research

This "Project to policy kick off seminar" (P2PKOS) aimed to raise awareness at 2 levels. On the one hand projects funded under the Horizon 2020 Societal Challenge 7 call needed to better understand the EU policy landscape in areas such as digital security, protection of critical infrastructure, border management, crime and terrorism or crisis management. On the other hand, EC policy officers working on various security related areas were interested to get a deeper knowledge of the security research project portfolio and how projects findings could impact and support their policy making work.

The event was organised on 31 January by the European Commission (Research Executive Agency, DG Migration and Home Affairs, and DG Connect).

The event was very successful with almost 100 participants: 36 project representatives exchanged with numerous colleagues from DG Migration and Home Affairs, DG Connect and Research Executive Agency as well as DG DG Defence Industry and Space, ECHO, ENER, MARE, MOVE, RTD, TAXUD, JRC, EUROPOL, CEPOL and FRONTEX.

The wide range of participants from the Commission clearly shows the interdisciplinary nature of security research. After a plenary session to recap the event objectives, group sessions for the different thematic areas enabled direct, lively and open discussions. The P2PKOS is only the start of a process: follow-up actions will be defined based on the discussions in order to build a lasting relationship between projects and policy officers for a mutual benefit.

For more information about the new projects in the Digital Security area: EnergyShield, CRITICAL-CHAINS, CyberMar, FORESIGHT, SPIDER, PHOENIX, SOTER, SDN-microSENSE

For more information about the new projects in Infrastructure Protection: SecureGas, InfraStress, SATIE

"Project to policy kick off seminar" for security research

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