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Designing Safer Urban Spaces (DESURBS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Security
Destination: Increasing the Security of infrastructures and utilities
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Israel,Greece,Spain,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Norway
Call:  (FP7-SEC-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4109672.89
EU funding (EUR): 3208549.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The DESURBS project makes significant and novel advances with the following developments: 1) An urban space security event database that includes incidents or ‘near misses’ that have (or might have) resulted in injury or loss of life, damage to urban spaces, the auxiliary infrastructures supporting those spaces, or the surrounding natural environment 2) An integrated security and resilience (ISR) design framework that engages local stakeholders for identifying vulnerabilities and improving urban spaces with respect to security threats. 3) Comprehensive and generic supporting tools and methodologies including urban resilient design guidelines and quantitative risk and vulnerability assessment models, tools and technologies to facilitate the qualitative ISR assessment process. 4) A web-based Decision Support System Portal integrating the project’s outputs and including tailored visualization and mapping tools to help end users better understand the vulnerabilities and design possibilities. An objective rating scale for quantifying safety of different urban space designs is developed and used to show that DESURBS solutions result in urban spaces less prone for and less affected by security threats. Primary case studies with end users in Jerusalem in Israel, Nottingham in the UK and Barcelona in Spain inform the development process. The consortium consists of eight partners from five countries, and includes academic and research institutions as well as an SME for exploiting the project’s outputs among end-users and stakeholders. The SME partner is committed to maintaining, updating and hosting the DESURBS Decision Support System Portal and associated databases and tools after the lifetime of the project. An Advisory Board with members from governmental and municipal urban planning and preparedness organizations ensures that the DESURBS advances are relevant, exploitable and will have the desired impact for end users.

Keywords: urban design,urban planning,urban security and resilience
Counterfeit Pharmaceuticals Interception using Radiofrequency Methods in Realtime (CONPHIRMER)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Security
Destination: Increasing the Security of citizens
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,France,Slovenia,Sweden,Italy,United Kingdom,Poland
Call:  (FP7-SEC-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-07-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3599540.0
EU funding (EUR): 2634489.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

The CONPHIRMER consortium has come together to put into the hands of customs officers and other agents of law enforcement a portable and easy-to-use sensor for telling genuine medicines from fakes without having to remove the medicines from their packaging. With this device agencies charged with tackling the growing menace of the trafficking in counterfeit medicines will be able to screen packaged pharmaceuticals at EU borders and airports quickly and accurately using a non-invasive and non-destructive technology that uses only harmless radio waves. The proposal is for a three-year programme leading to the trialing of a prototype, portable, handheld scanner, that will draw on the expertise of seven organisations in five states, including two recent additions to the EU family, Poland and Slovenia. The technology employed will be based on quadrupole resonance (QR), a radiofrequency (RF) spectroscopic technique that has already been developed and deployed for the detection of concealed explosives. The completed prototype will not require operators to have special chemical or technical knowledge to deploy it, allowing training in its use to be completed quickly; and it will utilise only easy to source RF and electrical parts, unlike alternative technologies such as Raman, infra-red or terahertz spectroscopic methods. It will also offer a clear advantage over these other technologies in that RF can penetrate even multiple layers of packaging material, allowing for scans to be carried out without the need to remove pharmaceutical products from their packaging.

Keywords: quadrupole resonance qr,counterfeit medicines,interdiction,portable handheld scanner,non-destructive,non-invasive.
Securing the European Electricity Supply Against Malicious and accidental thrEats (SESAME)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Security
Destination: Increasing the Security of infrastructures and utilities
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Austria,Spain,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Romania,European organisations area,United Kingdom,Austria,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-SEC-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-05-01
End date: 2014-08-31
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3993481.28
EU funding (EUR): 2753789.76
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

Threats for the supply of electricity have changed dramatically throughout the last decade: additional to the natural and accidental ones, the new threat of malicious attacks needs to be considered. Such attacks might be jointly imparted so as to affect large portions of the European grid, make repair difficult and cause huge societal impact. The outstanding importance and the far more complex level of interconnectivity of electricity distribution / transmission / generation – compared to the supply through other energy carriers - makes the development of a highly focused toolkit for its protection an essential and urgent task. SESAME develops a Decision Support System (DSS) for the protection of the European power system and applies it to two regional electricity grids, Austria and Romania. This DSS enables to: • identify the vulnerabilities and to detect their origins, • estimate the damage / impact of real or simulated network failures, • identify the possible measures for prevention of outages and acceleration of automatic restoration, • rank these measures according to their effectiveness and their cost-benefit ratios, • carry out contingency analyses of the transmission / distribution network and generation facilities, • detect long-term erroneous trends in the security of energy supply and counteract against them by adjusting the market mechanisms. There do not exist State-of-the-Art approaches incorporating all of these core dimensions of the problem: the increase in complexity of the security of energy supply requires a comprehensive and multi-disciplinary solution. SESAME brings together the most distinguished experts in the fields of power network security, technology policy and regulatory economics, impact assessment of disasters, network simulation software and knowledge engineering. All partners have proven their excellence in complex security research in earlier cooperative projects and most of them have already worked together successfully.

Keywords: power systems vulnerability,malicious threats
Microstructure secured and self-verifying medicines (SAVEMED)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Security
Destination: Increasing the Security of citizens
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Switzerland,Italy,Germany,Germany,Poland,Ireland
Call:  (FP7-SEC-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-04-01
End date: 2014-03-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4278114.8
EU funding (EUR): 3144724.5
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Counterfeit medicines are a serious and fast expanding threat for the customer’s health and the pharmaceutical manufacturers business. The aim of this research collaboration is to add anti-counterfeiting and track & trace technology to the product level that goes beyond the state-of-the-art security approach on the packaging level. The project SAVEmed will bring a solution for the counterfeit and the illegal re-import problem in the medical product market, thereby ensuring product pedigree and defend illegal re-packing. In SAVEmed project the direct marking of medical products with secure microstructures will be realised by modifying the tools used to manufacture the products as well as the ones used for their packages on the micron– and sub-micron level. The project aim is to transfer diffractive gratings, random microstructures, micro-barcodes and contrast generating micro-prisms in steel tools. Moreover, algorithm enabling cross checking of the secure microstructures on the product (even through coatings) and on the package will be developed to ensure the highest level of security possible. In SAVEmed this direct product marking approach will be realised for pharmaceutical tablets, injection moulded pharma caps and laminated sterile pouches. Nevertheless the approach is applicable to nearly all other types of medical products. The strategies of criminal organisations will be analysed and the development will be adapted to counteract these strategies. Key advantage of the implementation of secure microstructures directly in or on the medical product itself is that no chemical or biological additives and that no costly changes of production lines are needed. Thus no additional approvals from regulatory agencies are requested. This project will ensure a correct balance of market-pull and technological push by including major actors in anti-counterfeit technology research, 3 SMEs, 2 large industries and pre-assembled end-users External Advisory Board.
Interoperability of data and procedures in large-scale multinational disaster response actions (IDIRA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Security
Destination: Restoring security and safety in case of crisis
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Austria,Austria,Greece,United Kingdom,Italy,Germany,Czechia,Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-SEC-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-05-01
End date: 2015-04-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 10836072.86
EU funding (EUR): 8032971.06
Participants: 19
Project status: CLOSED

What is missing so far in the European Union are disaster management procedures, tools and systems which fully take into account the specific characteristics and requirements of large-scale international cooperation in emergency situations. These characteristics are distinguished by many diverse emergency response organisations that need to collaborate across technological systems, organisational borders as well as language and cultural barriers. They do not have the same background knowledge and arrive at different points in time. Technologies and procedures currently used in multinational disaster response and prior EU funded projects have provided many solutions for single aspects, but to the best of the Consortium’s knowledge there is no concept available yet which supports the entire process. This situation is the motivation for IDIRA. The mentioned characteristics of multinational disaster response led to the conclusion that we shall develop a system of technologies and guidelines which help in optimal resource planning and operations across national and organisational borders. The set of tools, interfaces and procedures developed in IDIRA will be designed to be configured, deployed and operated in a flexible manner, providing interoperable services for data integration, information exchange, resource planning and decision support to local and international disaster response units and decision makers. This core result of IDIRA will take the form an architectural framework and an exemplary implementation of a Mobile Integrated Command and Control Structure supporting co-ordinated large-scale disaster management. It is foreseen to make the best possible use of existing ideas, technology and standards, integrating available solutions and complementing them with new components where necessary. In actual operation, the components based on IDIRA solutions will be building on and be integrated with local command & control infrastructure and response procedures.

Keywords: disaster management,interoperability,training,multinational disaster response,resource management
Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System - Preparatory Phase (SIOS-PP)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Destination: Support to new research infrastructures
Action type: Combination of CP & CSA
Countries involved: Norway,Germany,Poland,Italy,United Kingdom,Russian Federation,Denmark,Finland,Netherlands,China,France,Korea, Republic of,Poland,Sweden,Japan
Call:  (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2010-10-01
End date: 2014-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6675481.6
EU funding (EUR): 3999965.0
Participants: 26
Project status: CLOSED

Environmental change and climate change in particular, are expected to be most pronounced in the polar regions. For this reason, a multi-disciplinary research infrastructure covering all important elements of the coupled Earth System in the Arctic is a very valuable tool to quantify the ongoing global change and to verify the capability of Earth System models to predict future changes. The proposed EFRI project "Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System" (SIOS) is intended to take this role. The main goal of the SIOS Preparatory Phase (SIOS-PP) project is to define, work out and decide on the formal framework needed to establish and operate the geographically distributed and thematically composed multi-national research infrastructure with a node function in different aspects, that SIOS will manifest. This covers, on one side, aspects common for all ESFRI initiatives, such as legal status, governance structure, financial strategy, a data management and utilization plan, and an (on- and offshore) logistics plan. In addition, SIOS-PP will address topics that are special for this infrastructure: a dedicated remote sensing strategy, an internal scientific and observational, as well as an international integration and cooperation plan, which will link SIOS to regional European Arctic and pan-Arctic scientific infrastructure networks. The SIOS-PP project will be carried out by a consortium of 27 partners from 14 countries including 4 non-EU and non-associated countries; three of the partners are national funding agencies. In addition, 19 associated partners with infrastructure or strong scientific interests on Svalbard will cooperate during the preparatory phase. The project has a duration of 3 years.

Keywords: polar research,environmental change,earth system science
PLANT AND FOOD BIOSECURITY (PLANTFOODSEC)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Security
Destination: Security Research coordination and structuring
Action type: Network of Excellence
Countries involved: Italy,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Germany,France,Hungary,Türkiye,Italy,Israel,United States
Call:  (FP7-SEC-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-02-01
End date: 2016-01-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5642277.69
EU funding (EUR): 4624499.0
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

This project will focus on biological threats having the capacity to affect and damage agriculture, infect plants and ultimately affect the food and feed at any stage in the food supply chain. Traditional thinking and planning regarding bioterrorism has focused primarily on humans as the primary target. If the perpetrator’s objectives can be met solely through the creation of human illness, death and associated panic, this may be appropriate. However, if economic and political vulnerabilities are included as contributing factors, agricultural bioterrorism must be considered among other possible avenues of attack. Agricultural bioterrorism (agroterrorism) is a subset of bioterrorism, and it is defined as the deliberate introduction of an animal or plant disease/pest with the goal of generating fear, causing economic losses, and/or undermining stability. Programmes preparing for attacks against agriculture are not new, and have been conducted both by nation-states and by substate organizations throughout history. At least nine countries (Canada, France, Germany, Iraq, Japan, South Africa, United Kingdom, USA and the former USSR) had documented agricultural bioweapons programmes during some part of the 20th century. Four other countries (Egypt, North Korea, Rhodesia and Syria) are believed to have or have had agricultural bioweapons programmes. In the mean time, natural outbreaks of diseases demonstrate the destructive potential of an agroterroristic attack. Recent trends in biosecurity recommend a shift from a largely national approach to biosecurity towards greater international cooperation. Current capabilities to detect and respond to agroterrorism are limited and spread among many organizations, with a corresponding lack of coordination. The project deals with threats which are multifaceted, interrelated, complex and increasingly transnational in their impact. The European Network of Excellence PLANTFOODSEC aims to establish a virtual Centre of Competence in plant and food biosecurity to enhance preparedness and response capabilities to prevent, to respond and to recover from a biological incident or deliberate criminal activity threatening the European agrifood system.

Keywords: agricuktural bioterrorism,biological threats
A Framework for electrical power sysTems vulnerability identification,dEfense and Restoration (AFTER)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Security
Destination: Increasing the Security of infrastructures and utilities
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Norway,Italy,Ireland,United Kingdom,France,Germany,European organisations area,Belgium,Czechia
Call:  (FP7-SEC-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-09-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5050292.11
EU funding (EUR): 3473803.0
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

AFTER project addresses the challenges posed by the need for vulnerability evaluation and contin-gency planning of the energy grids and energy plants considering also the relevant ICT systems used in protection and control. Project emphasis is on cascading events that can cause catastrophic outages of the electric power systems. The main addressed problems are related to high impact wide spread multiple contingencies, the most significant wide area criticality. This kind of contingencies and the following cascading effects can be caused by deliberate acts of terrorism, sabotage, criminal activity, malicious behaviour etc or they can simply be caused by a combination of accidents, natural disasters, negli-gence. Both risk analysis and risk mitigation will be pursued. In particular, two major objectives are addressed. The first is to develop a methodology and tool for the integrated, global vulnerability analysis and risk assessment of the interconnected Electrical Power Systems considering their interdependencies. This objective meets the TSO (Transmission System Operator) need to overcome current approaches based on separate evaluations of either power system or ICT system. Further, the adoption of risk concepts allows a more in-depth, quantitative evaluation of the security of the electrical power system. The second objective is to develop algorithms and tools supporting contingency planning in a two-fold approach: • preventing or limiting system disruption, by means of physical security techniques and defence plans; and • re-establishing the system after a major disruption, by means of restoration plans. To this aim, AFTER propose the use of the global risk assessment methodologies as a support to defence plan design. A language to model defence plans functionalities and ICT architecture is de-veloped. New defence plan concepts are also introduced to cope with emergency situations.

Keywords: risk,vulnerability,defence,restoration,power system
The lab-free CBRN detection device for the identification of biological pathogens on nucleic acid and immunological level as lab-on-a-chip system applying multisensor technologies (MULTISENSE CHIP)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Security
Destination: Restoring security and safety in case of crisis
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,France,Germany,Germany,Spain,France,Slovenia
Call:  (FP7-SEC-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-06-01
End date: 2015-11-30
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8780951.36
EU funding (EUR): 6619399.5
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The goal of MultiSENSE is the development of a detection and identification system for biological pathogens, which shall include both the sample preparation stage, during which target molecules are extracted directly and in parallel the ensuing nucleic-acid-based and/or immunological detection and identification steps, in order to build an integrated “sample in, result out” system. Disruptive technologies (e.g., advanced sensor technologies like optoelectronic sensors or electrochemical sensors), lab-on-chip technology, and innovative instrumentation are key to reaching the presently unrealized goal of identifying pathogens in parallel on both the molecular biology level via PCR and the immunological route. The chosen technologies offer several advantages: on the one hand, a small, portable, and easy-to-use device can be realized due to miniaturization; on the other, the so-called lab-on-chip technology enables operation outside of lab settings, meaning that the complete analysis including sample preparation, extraction of target molecules, etc. will be carried out in a small device the size of a microtiter plate with all necessary reagents on board. This includes dry reagent storage of lysis reagents, master mixes for the PCR, antibodies, and liquid storage of buffers. Furthermore, it will be imperative that an on-chip waste storage be included in order to eliminate contamination risk. The overall target is a “sample in, result out”-type handling procedure. A reduction of processing times is a further advantage owed to miniaturization and the combination of all biological processes in a small disposable chip instead of different instruments. Finally, suitably equipped biological laboratories are no longer necessary to run PCR and immunological assays as portable systems may instead be used to analyze suspicious samples directly at the point of interest. Sensor technology will be another enabling technology we will apply.

Keywords: biological pathogens,miniaturization,lab-on-chip technology,novel sensor technologies