Data space for security and law enforcement

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Code: 19314 | Identifier Code: DIGITAL-2022-CLOUD-AI-02-SEC-LAW | Programme name: 15593 | Start submission calls: 22/02/2022 | End submission calls: 17/05/2022

The objective is to deploy a common European Security data space for innovation allowing research, development, testing, training and validation of algorithms for AI-based systems for security (law enforcement) based on various types of datasets, including operational pseudonymized and anonymized datasets, following the data minimization principle. Particular attention must be given to reducing potential bias in algorithms to be used by law enforcement.

Blockchain Standardisation

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Code: 19308 | Identifier Code: DIGITAL-2022-DEPLOY-02-BLOCKCHAIN-STANDARD | Programme name: 15593 | Start submission calls: 22/02/2022 | End submission calls: 17/05/2022

The objective is to reinforce the European presence in blockchain standardisation efforts.

Markets & networking

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Code: 19305 | Identifier Code: CREA-MEDIA-2022-MARKETNET | Programme name: 3948 | Sub-program: MEDIA | Start submission calls: 22/02/2022 | End submission calls: 28/06/2022

The objective of the Markets & networking support:

• To encourage business-to-business exchanges among European audiovisual professionals, and in particular an increased participation from LCC Group B countries, by facilitating access to physical and online markets;
• To include industry events focused on contents and/or the uptake of new technologies and business models, as long as they can make an impact on visibility and sales of European works;
• To value environmental-friendly approaches;

Protection of the euro against counterfeiting

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Code: 19295 | Identifier Code: PERI-2022-ANTI-COUNTERFEIT | Programme name: 3864 | Start submission calls: 22/02/2022 | End submission calls: 21/04/2022

The Pericles IV programme has the objective to protect euro banknotes and coins against counterfeiting and related fraud, by supporting and supplementing the measures undertaken by the Member States and assisting the competent national and Union authorities in their efforts to develop among themselves and with the Commission a close and regular cooperation and an exchange of best practice, where appropriate including third countries and international organisations.
The present call aims to:

• support and supplement the measures undertaken by the Member States;
•  assist the competent national and authorities in their efforts to develop among themselves and with the European Commission a close and regular cooperation and an exchange of best practices, where appropriate including third countries and international organisations.

Enhanced capacities of first responders more efficient rescue operations, including decontamination of infrastructures in the case of a CBRN-E event

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Code: 19259 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL3-2022-DRS-01-09 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Civil security for society (Cluster 3) (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 30/06/2022 | End submission calls: 23/11/2022

Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:

• Analysis on if and how the specific requirements of operating under CBRN-E conditions can be taken into consideration also for teams/capacities that are traditionally not operating under CBRN-E conditions (e. g. search and rescue, medical care, shelter, firefighting, flood rescue, etc.).
• Development of innovative technologies and/or operating procedures for emergency management units that might need to work under CBRN-E (Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosives) conditions such as search and rescue (including victim triage procedures), medical care, shelter, firefighting, flood rescue, etc.
• Develop innovative technology and procedures for mass decontamination but also for the decontamination of inanimate material (infrastructure, buildings, vehicles, equipment).

Improved crime scene investigations related to transfer, persistence and background abundance

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Code: 19255 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL3-2022-FCT-01-01 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Civil security for society (Cluster 3) (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 30/06/2022 | End submission calls: 23/11/2022

Police Authorities deal with a growing complexity of crime scenes containing various types of trace evidence items that can also present safety hazards for the forensic experts and crime scene investigators. There is a need to improve these processes and make them more accurate, effective and sensitive in such a complex scenario, by employing modern approaches, for instance (but not limited to) nanotechnology, next generation sequencing or Artificial Intelligence. Also there is a need to modernise forensic science for the professionalisation of crime scene investigations.

Improved international cooperation addressing first responder capability gaps

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Code: 19252 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL3-2022-DRS-01-07 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Civil security for society (Cluster 3) (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 30/06/2022 | End submission calls: 23/11/2022

Projects’ results are expected to contribute to the following outcomes:

• Improved real-time detection, tracking and analysis of different situations, incidents and risks 
• More targeted actionable intelligence and more efficient command operations due to the fast analysis of different information sources
• Enhanced European and global interoperability for different types of first responders (e.g. firefighters, medical responders, police, civil protection)
• Availability of first responder solutions that are oriented on internationally defined requirements and recognised practices, and thus can be used with different national systems and equipment

Enhanced situational awareness and preparedness of first responders and improved capacities to minimise time-to-react in urban areas in the case of CBRN-E-related events

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Code: 19239 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL3-2022-DRS-01-08 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Civil security for society (Cluster 3) (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 30/06/2022 | End submission calls: 23/11/2022

Addressing first responders’ needs requires innovative actions resulting in technological, institutional and capacity-building solutions that are tailored to the risks, affordable, accepted by citizens, and customised and implemented for the (cross-sectoral) needs of practitioners. Innovative solutions are required to enable first responders to get a faster overview of any disaster situation based on the knowledge of past events and prevention actions.

Enhanced citizen preparedness in the event of a disaster or crisis-related emergency

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Code: 19236 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL3-2022-DRS-01-01 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Civil security for society (Cluster 3) (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 30/06/2022 | End submission calls: 23/11/2022

Improving societal resilience to disasters or crises relies on various features related to preparedness of citizens, communities, education systems, public administrations, business companies and practitioners. Individual, public and multi-level actions are needed in disaster risk management and they have huge implications on potentially reducing losses and increasing the operational capacity of responders, along with significant impacts on the emergency planning and management phases and its relation to continuous operations and existing safety management.

Enhanced preparedness and management of High-Impact Low-Probability or unexpected events

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Code: 19224 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL3-2022-DRS-01-02 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Civil security for society (Cluster 3) (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 30/06/2022 | End submission calls: 23/11/2022

The risk landscape has changed significantly over the last decades. With new and emerging risks and risk magnifiers such as climate change, cyber threats, infectious diseases and terrorism, countries need to anticipate and prepare for the unexpected and difficult to predict. High-impact, low-probability risks (HILP/Hi-Lo) can be understood as “events or occurrences that cannot easily be anticipated, arise randomly and unexpectedly, and have immediate effects and significant impacts”.

Better understanding the influence of organisational cultures and human interactions in the forensic context as well as a common lexicon

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Code: 19166 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL3-2022-FCT-01-02 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Civil security for society (Cluster 3) (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 30/06/2022 | End submission calls: 23/11/2022

Projects’ results are expected to contribute to all of the following outcomes:

• Increased European common forensic investigation capabilities and cross-border exchanges thanks to a better understanding of main organisational cultures and of human interactions in the forensic context, and of the main causes of biases in interpretation and reasoning;
• Strengthened bridges between different actors in an investigative process through an improved non-ambiguous communication and enhanced communication mechanisms at all levels;
• Improved European common forensics investigation capabilities and cross-border exchanges thanks to a common, modern lexicon that is used by forensic institutes and Police Authorities, validated against practitioners’ needs and requirements, to facilitate their (specialised) daily work on investigating terrorism and other forms of serious crime;
• Development of safer justice outcomes through an increased understanding of how human interactions impacts on decisions at all levels of an investigative process;

Enhanced fight against the abuse of online gaming culture by extremists

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Code: 19159 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL3-2022-FCT-01-03 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Civil security for society (Cluster 3) (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 30/06/2022 | End submission calls: 23/11/2022

Research is needed to analyse the use of online gaming culture and structure by violent extremists as well as their modus operandi through video game chatrooms and forums.
Regarding video games themselves, an in-depth analysis is needed on how the type of the video game, of its theme, design, aesthetics etc. plays a role in the choice of the chatroom to be used as a recruitment area. As far as video game chatrooms, including social media platforms discussing video games, are concerned, dissemination strategies of violent extremists through them as well as their ways of grooming should be analysed.

Public spaces are protected while respecting privacy and avoiding mass surveillance

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Code: 19149 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL3-2022-FCT-01-04 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Civil security for society (Cluster 3) (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 30/06/2022 | End submission calls: 23/11/2022

The number of different tools for the surveillance of public spaces has been growing at massive pace in most European cities. CCTV-systems in public spaces are the most evident examples. They have been expanded in terms of quantity (number of CCTV in public spaces, such as squares, streets or touristic sites), quality (improved solution of images, possibility of tracking and automatic pattern-recognition) and also scope (CCTV present in areas like parks, 24/7 recording as standard due to higher data storage capacities).

Effective fight against trafficking in human beings

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Code: 19119 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL3-2022-FCT-01-07 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Civil security for society (Cluster 3) (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 30/06/2022 | End submission calls: 23/11/2022

Trafficking in human beings is a serious and organised form of crime that involves the criminal exploitation of vulnerable people, the goal of which is the economic gain. The proposed activities would aim to contribute to countering the culture of impunity by increasing the capacity of Police Authorities to detect the trafficking crime, the suspected perpetrators and the victims and to disrupt the business model and/or establish responsibility of all those involved in the trafficking chain.

Preparation and implementation of a course on the EU and on EU Cohesion policy for journalism schools

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Code: 19118 | Identifier Code: 2021CE16BAT002 | Programme name: 17855 | Start submission calls: 17/02/2022 | End submission calls: 24/08/2022

The specific objectives of this call for proposals are to:

• improve the level of knowledge, key competences and skills of journalism students regarding both the European Union and EU Cohesion policy;
• encourage an academic debate regarding the EU and, specifically, Cohesion policy, its results, its role in delivering on the EU’s political priorities and on its future;
• foster quality improvements and innovation in teaching about the EU and about EU Cohesion policy in the context of journalism studies, in particular through enhanced cooperation between educational institutions.

Effective fight against corruption

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Code: 19103 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL3-2022-FCT-01-05 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Civil security for society (Cluster 3) (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 30/06/2022 | End submission calls: 23/11/2022

Corruption, a criminal category that ranges from bribery of public officials via sports to abuse of power and money laundering of proceeds from crime, is a strong enabler for crime and terrorism, and, as such, it constitutes a threat to security. Firstly, there is a need to estimate the impact of corruption. Secondly, the role of corruption as an enabler of other crimes deserves analysis. Thirdly, innovative societal and technological solutions for prevention, detection and investigation of this type of crime are needed, including also the collection of cross-border court-proof evidence.

Call for Proposals NGI TruBlo 3rd Open Call

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Code: 19097 | Programme name: 19081 | Start submission calls: 17/02/2022 | End submission calls: 30/03/2022

The objective of the TruBlo Open Call No. 3 is to invite academic teams, researchers, SMEs and startups to define and implement small scale research projects on one of the two topics:

• Trust and reputation models on blockchains

• Proof-of-validity and proof-of-location

Social innovations as enablers of security solutions and increased security perception

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Code: 19046 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL3-2022-SSRI-01-04 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Civil security for society (Cluster 3) (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 30/06/2022 | End submission calls: 23/11/2022

Proposals should develop a societal development plan that builds upon a people-centred approach and examines how social innovations on security are organised, how they work, how and why they are adopted or rejected, their direct and indirect benefits and costs, including in vulnerability assessments, how they sustain, and which interfaces with other more formal security agents are established.

Knowledge Networks for security Research & Innovation

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Code: 18930 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL3-2022-SSRI-01-02 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Civil security for society (Cluster 3) (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 30/06/2022 | End submission calls: 23/11/2022

Investment in security research needs to be designed taking into consideration how and when it can deliver outcomes that contribute to the development of security capabilities. Therefore, research needs to be undertaken, from its very early stages, in a way that addresses real needs. The programming of research is highly conditioned by the quality, reliability and timeliness of the evidence that supports its decision making process. This includes the identification and understanding of the contextual elements that can or will influence or be influenced by the research (process), the research team and the research projects themselves.

MSCA COFUND 2022

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Code: 18919 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MSCA-2022-COFUND-01-01 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 11/10/2022 | End submission calls: 09/02/2023

Applicants submit proposals for new or existing doctoral or postdoctoral programmes with an impact on the enhancement of human resources in R&I at regional, national or international level. These programmes will be co-funded by MSCA COFUND.