Stronger pillars of security Research and Innovation

A more effective and efficient evidence-based development of EU civil security capabilities built on a stronger, more systematic and analysis-intensive security research and innovation cycle.

Expected Outcomes: Project results are expected to contribute to the following outcomes:

Increased literacy on the value and efficient use of maturity assessment frameworks to communicate the readiness of technology, synchronise parallel developments, forecast implementation and support decision making in the planning of investment in the area of security;
Improved cross-disciplinary assessment of the maturity of innovative technologies based on a common harmonised framework for the security domain;
Comprehensive and timely updated map of the maturity of the security solutions developed through EU-funded security research and innovation programmes enabled by widely accessible assessment tools and methods;
Evidence-based programming of security research built on a more reliable assessment of the state of the art technologies in the field of security
Enhanced analytical capacity to support the programming of EU-funded security research and capacity building funds through a periodic and timely evidence-based policy feedback ;
Periodically aggregated and consolidated view of the capability needs and gaps in the thematic areas under consideration