Security research coordination and structuring Clause Samples

Security research coordination and structuring. Security research coordination and structuring is one of three cross-cutting missions in the FP7 SEC programme. Support for activities to help structure the ESRP can be 100% EU financed through Coordination and Support Actions (CSAs). Among the types of activities supported to date include:  Staccato – supply chain mapping and development of an industrial taxonomy of the security industry, methodology on Technology Watch  SecureSME – facilitating SME’s access to supply chains in the security industry  STRAW - Technology Watch to monitor available technologies for potential adaptation and deployment by users  CREATIF network - establishment of a network of facilities for testing and certification in areas of CBRN  PETRANET - establishing a ‘user network for the take-up of security research’;  SEREN and SEREN II – promoting co-operation between NCP’s involved in FP7 SEC (e.g. SEREN coordination action and the recently awarded SEREN II project) Support for supporting activities, such as the various project examples identified above was built into calls for proposals in both PASR and FP7 SEC. The Commission wished to provide support for the strategic development of the ESRP, and to promote structuring and coordination between the supply and the demand side, and to encourage the participation of SME.s As an example of the attention devoted to such activities, in the 2006 PASR call, there was support for “Coordination networks between security technology stakeholders including research activities supported at the national and/or regional level” and for the setting up of “Coordination networks integrating security technology supply chains including small and medium enterprises (SME). There were some links between coordination and structuring projects. For example, the Staccato project funded through PASR 2006 liaised with Secure SME in order to ensure that potential synergies between projects were continued. Staccato (Stakeholders Platform for Supply chain Mapping, Market Condition Analysis and Technologies Opportunities), provides an interesting example of how CSA projects have helped to promote the structuring of the future ESRP. STACCATO was a 16 month project, and the project followed up on the earlier SeNTRE (Security Network for Technological Research in Europe) project, a supporting activity funded under PASR 2004. The main aim was to propose methods and solutions for the creation of a security market and a more structured supply chain in Europe. The...