Horizon 2020 Secure Societies Call 2020 - Border and External Security Giulio Maria Mancini Policy Officer DG HOME Unit B4 Innovation and Industry ...

Horizon 2020
Secure Societies
Call 2020
Border and External Security
                                             Giulio Maria Mancini
                                                     Policy Officer
                                                DG HOME Unit B4
                               Innovation and Industry for Security

Sub-Call Title: Border and external security - BES
                                          Indicative
       Topic          Funding   Budget      budget      TRL   Gender   Intl   SSH
                      scheme    (MEUR)   per proposal                  Coop
                                           (MEUR)

SU-BES01-2018-2019-     RIA      5.00         5          -      Y       Y      Y
       2020
    1 Sub-topic
SU-BES02-2018-2019-     RIA     21.00         7         5-6     N       N      N
       2020
    2 Sub-topics
SU-BES03-2018-2019-     IA      10.00         5         6-8     N       N      N
       2020
    2 Sub-topics

The reasoning behind the BES call
Development of technologies, capabilities and solutions to:
 Improve EU border security in terms of:
 •   Flow of people: Research will support the exploitation of the potential given by the European Border Surveillance
     System (EUROSUR - Regulation No 1052/2013) and promote an enhanced use of new technology for border
     checks in relation to the recent legislative initiatives (DG HOME)
 •   Flow of goods: Customs play and important role in the fight against crime and terrorism by checking for illegal
     trafficking and trade. Research will address, in the context of the EU’s customs policy, supply chain security trying
     to strike the right balance with trade facilitation (DG TAXUD)
 Contribute to capability development of the European Border and Coast Guard
 Support the EU External Security Policies in civilian tasks (EEAS)
.. But also understanding the phenomena with impact on border and external security. Social sciences and humanities
      involved.

The policy landscape

  EU Agenda on Security         EU Agenda on Migration            Taxation       Union
                                                                  and            External
                                                                  Customs        Security
                                                                  Union          Policies in
                                                                                 Civilian
                                                                                 Tasks
                                                                  EU
                                                                  Customs
                                                                  Strategy
                                                                                  CSDP
 THB Directive       Smart Borders           EUROSUR              Union
                                                                  Customs
 Expl. of Children   Interoperability of EU Information systems   Code
 Directive
                          European Border And Coast Guard
 Serious and
 Organised Crime                                                    EU Maritime Security
                     Document fraud          Migrant Smugg.
                                                                    Action Plan

General information on the call topics
Topics published in 2020:

  SU-BES01-2018-2019-2020:

 Human factors and Social, societal and organisational aspects of border and external security (RIA)

  SU-BES02-2018-2019-2020:

 Technologies to enhance border and external security (RIA)

  SU-BES03-2018-2019-2020:

 Demonstration of applied solutions to enhance border and external security (IA)

SU-BES01-2018-2019-2020 (RIA) Title: Human factors, and
    social, societal and organisational aspects of border and external
    security

 Sub-topic 3: [2020] Developing indicators of threats at the EU external borders on the basis of sound risk and
  vulnerability assessment methodologies.

Scope:
• Improving the effectiveness of border control, including air, land and maritime borders, by developing dynamic composite
  indicators of threats, to compare various threats occurring simultaneously at the border. This should be based not only on the
  absolute number of detections at the border, but also on their synergies and inter-relationships, as well as on the impact that such
  detections may have on the internal security of the EU.

• Research would enrich the vulnerability assessment tasks defined in the EBCG Regulation.

Expected impact:

•   Contribution to the development of EU joint capabilities for border management and support to the implementation of policy priorities

SU-BES02-2018-2019-2020 (RIA) Title: Technologies to
enhance border and external security

Specific challenge:

 Development of novel technologies, provided that they are affordable, accepted by citizens and customized and implemented for
  the needs of security practitioners.

Two sub-topics open in 2020:

 Sub-topic 5: Disruptive technologies for non-intrusive identification of hidden goods

Scope:

   Research should focus on: 1. the use of improved sensing technologies producing a highly detailed, insight into the internal
   structure of a container. 2. System suitable for deployment and operation in a flexible and relocatable way. 3. Swift gathering and
   exchange of information with other systems to facilitate a faster and accurate localisation and identification of illicit cargo.

 Sub-topic Open: Other issues relevant to this challenge

SU-BES02-2018-2019-2020 (RIA) Title: Technologies to
enhance border and external security

Other considerations:

•       In compliance with EU societal values, fundamental rights and applicable legislation.

Expected impact:

    •    Short term: Benchmarks to assess progress, plan for uptake of results

    •    Mid term: Evidence based knowledge, progress beyond state of the art, technical and operational guidelines

    •    Long term: Implementation of actions (e.g. Smart borders, EU Maritime Security Strategy, EU Strategy and
         Action Plan for customs risk management)

SU-BES03-2018-2019-2020 (IA) Title: Demonstration of applied
solutions to enhance border and external security

Specific challenge:

 Demonstration (and validation) of highly mature technologies (TRL 6-8) in the context of actual operations.

Two sub-topics in 2020:

 Sub-topic 3: Improved systems for the vessel tracking, behaviour analysis and automatic anomaly detection.
Scope:
  Focus on three elements: 1. reporting and surveillance systems data (e.g. containing information on a vessel
  journey), 2. relevant information databases (containing vessels’ and/or containers’ historical information) and 3.
  real or near real time data resulting from other reporting or surveillance sources.
 Sub-topic Open: Other issues relevant to this challenge

SU-BES03-2018-2019-2020 (IA) Title: Demonstration of applied
solutions to enhance border and external security

Overall expected impact:
 Improved cost-effectiveness and efficiency of systems for the prevention of cross border crime and for border
  surveillance for civilian purposes.
 European standards for interoperable systems.
 Substantial and tangible improvement of (maritime) situational awareness and reaction capability
 Contribution to the implementation of the European Border Surveillance System (EUROSUR) and to its
  interoperability with other systems.
Specific Expected impact for Sub-topic 3
  Implementation of actions of civilian nature identified in the EU Maritime Security Strategy Action Plan.

Thank you

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