• Posted 16-Mar-2020

€275 million available for security research projects

A call for project proposals on security research across 20 different topics is open until 27 August 2020 in order to boost the effectiveness of the Security Union.

It makes available €275 million in total for projects working on protecting the infrastructure of Europe, increasing the disaster resilience of societies, fighting crime and terrorism, securing external borders, improving digital security and data protection, as well as artificial intelligence in support of law enforcement and citizen protection.

The proposals that have passed the evaluation will be known by mid-January 2021, and the grant agreements with the project teams should be signed by end of April 2021.

The requirements for submitting a research proposal are detailed in the call documents published on each topic page. You will also find there, rules on funding, such as the list of eligible countries, submission rules, types of projects and their funding rates, as well as other useful information for preparing the project proposal.

Source: Research Executive Agency News (http://bit.ly/39Uph7n)