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On 28 November, the EU Innovation Hub for Internal Security held its Annual Event in Brussels. The event was co-organised with HOME.F2 under the CERIS banner (the Community for European Research and Innovation for Security), in order to bring together the Hub and the CERIS communities.
On 26 November 2024, the Directorate-General of Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (DG ECHO), in collaboration with the Directorate-General of Migration and Home Affairs (DG HOME) and the Research Executive Agency (REA), hosted the second Workshop for Emergency Medical Teams (EMTs).
The participants took stock of the lessons learned from major public events hosted recently in the EU, like the Olympic Games in Paris, and discussed how EU-funded Innovation and Security Research can best contribute to the safety of European citizens enjoying these events.
Did you know that fake news are 70% more likely to be shared than truths? That nearly 70% of all drugs seizures made by customs agencies in the EU take place at EU ports? That Europe is the fastest-warming continent in the world?
On 25 and 26 June 2024, 167 participants attended the Projects to Policy Seminar in Brussels. The Seminar brought together inter alia 70 representatives from 32 newly launched EU security research projects, 45 policy officers from the European Commission (DG HOME, DG ECHO, DG TAXUD, DG RTD, JRC) ...
The recently launched European Ports Alliance public private partnership held its first workshop on Friday 12 July 2024 in Brussels, on the topic of innovation to fight drug trafficking through ports.
Under the CERIS banner, the workshop aimed to present and discuss EU-funded and European innovation and technologies to fight trafficking in postal service, money laundering, financial fraud, and the circumvention of sanctions and export controls.
In the framework of CERIS, led-by DG HOME’s Security Research and Innovation Unit, an event on Innovating Smart Cities Resilience through Research and Best Practices gathered 60 policymakers, practitioners, researchers and representatives of academia, industry, and civil society in Brussels ...
Climate change is a multi-faceted challenge and it is therefore of paramount importance to identify the most pressing security implications and find corresponding solutions. It is also a global issue that demands action from all of us.
On 21 February 2024, a CERIS workshop on illicit drugs, organised by DG HOME’s Security Research and Innovation Unit HOME.F2, brought together more than 100 participants from police forces, customs and forensic institutes, as well as policymakers, researchers and representatives from ...