I’m happy to announce the supply to UK innovators, working in academia, business, analysis organisations and public our bodies, a €1.6 billion funding alternative by way of the EU Fee’s Horizon Europe Civil Safety for Society Work Programme.
Horizon Europe is the EU’s newest analysis and innovation programme and can run from 2021 – 2027 with an total funds of not less than €95.5 billion.
The UK will ‘affiliate’ to Horizon Europe, which implies that UK entities can take part and apply for funding on the identical phrases and circumstances as EU-based candidates.
Safety and societal challenges
With safety challenges quickly evolving, and the character of felony exercise changing into increasingly advanced safety analysis has by no means been as essential and very important as it’s immediately. Via new applied sciences and information, it’s potential to maneuver from a reactive to a proactive response to criminality. The Civil Safety for Society Work Programme affords alternatives for such analysis and innovation and to contribute to the protection and safety of residents and communities.
Safety for Society – The ‘locations’ in cluster 3
Throughout the Civil Safety for Society Work Programme there are 6 locations providing a various vary of alternatives for these inquisitive about growing new applied sciences, methodologies, merchandise, processes and companies. These locations are:
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Higher defend the EU and its residents towards crime and terrorism
Anticipated Impression: “Crime and terrorism are extra successfully tackled, whereas respecting elementary rights, … because of extra highly effective prevention, preparedness and response, a greater understanding of associated human, societal and technological points, and the event of cutting-edge capabilities for police authorities … together with measures towards cybercrime.”
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Efficient administration of EU exterior borders
Anticipated Impression: “Reliable passengers and shipments journey extra simply into the EU, whereas illicit trades, trafficking, piracy, terrorist and different felony acts are prevented, resulting from improved air, land and sea border administration and maritime safety together with higher information on social components.”
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Resilient infrastructure
Anticipated Impression: “… resilience and autonomy of bodily and digital infrastructures are enhanced and very important societal capabilities are ensured, because of extra highly effective prevention, preparedness and response, a greater understanding of associated human, societal and technological points, and the event of cutting-edge capabilities for… infrastructure operators…”
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Elevated cybersecurity
Anticipated influence: “Elevated cybersecurity and a safer on-line atmosphere by growing and utilizing successfully EU and Member States’ capabilities in digital applied sciences supporting safety of knowledge and networks aspiring to technological sovereignty on this area, whereas respecting privateness and different elementary rights; this could contribute to safe companies, processes and merchandise, in addition to to sturdy digital infrastructures succesful to withstand and counter cyber-attacks and hybrid threats.”
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Catastrophe-resilient society for Europe
Anticipated Impression: “Losses from pure, unintentional and man-made disasters are decreased by way of enhanced catastrophe threat discount primarily based on preventive actions, higher societal preparedness, and resilience and improved catastrophe threat administration in a systemic approach.”
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Strengthened safety analysis and innovation
As well as, various cross-cutting R&I actions will assist all the above anticipated impacts:
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- “generate information and worth in cross-cutting issues with a purpose to keep away from sector particular bias and to interrupt silos that impede the proliferation of widespread safety options;
- strengthen key pillars of the analysis and innovation cycle to extend the effectiveness and effectivity of its contribution to the event of safety capabilities;
- assist innovation uptake and go-to-market methods with the intention of paving the best way in direction of an elevated industrialisation, commercialisation, adoption and deployment of profitable outcomes of safety analysis, thus contributing to bolster the competitiveness of EU safety business and safeguard the safety of provide of EU merchandise in key safety areas.”
Integration of Social Science and Humanities
The inclusion of Social Science and Humanities is likely one of the essential components of the analysis to be undertaken inside Civil Safety for Society. Via this initiative the EU Fee goals to make sure that residents and communities are totally engaged, and human components and societal influence is taken into account. This can guarantee public belief and confidence in new safety applied sciences is optimised and challenge outcomes are additional enhanced. So, in case you are a Social Scientist who’s inquisitive about getting concerned in safety analysis, check out the Civil Safety for Society Work Programme, or e-mail me, Zale Johnson, at: [email protected]
Collaboration, collaboration, collaboration!
As in most of the clusters, the Civil Safety for Society cluster offers the chance for worldwide collaboration and cooperation together with the sharing of data, expertise, experience and mutual studying. Inside every of the 6 locations, there are particular necessities for various communities of practitioners to come back collectively to handle challenges and establish options as a group.
Bringing collectively end-users, academia, business, analysis organisations, and public our bodies not solely makes for a extra holistic consortium and improves the standard of challenge deliverables however affords people the possibility to construct new working relationships with their friends Europe and past. Check out the Civil Safety for Society Work Programme and see the place you may make a distinction.
Right here to assist
Because the UK’s Nationwide Contact Level and Innovation Lead – Safety, I’m right here to supply sensible assist and recommendation, and I work carefully with my NCP Colleagues to make sure that the service we provide is second to none. You will discover the contact particulars of every member of the crew right here. We are able to reply questions on any facet of Horizon Europe funding, together with:
- Navigating funding alternatives and selecting the place to use
- Discovering companions (for many Horizon Europe Well being tasks you’d apply as a part of a world consortium of organisations from not less than 3 completely different nations)
- Proposal preparation and the appliance course of
- Admin and finance questions
In case you are new to European funding, our introductory webinar on Horizon Europe Civil Safety for Society and the overview of the entire of Horizon Europe obtainable on the KTN web site could also be helpful.
For extra data on the Civil Safety for Society Work Programme please get in contact with me at: [email protected]
Blogs within the Horizon Europe collection:
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