Terrorist acts with homemade explosives (HMEs) are an increasing threat against citizens throughout Europe. PREVAIL focus to find a chemical solution by researching into inhibitors and markers that can be added to commercial available products. The added inhibitors should obstruct or considerably complicate the manufacture of HMEs. The markers should increase the chance of detection of HMEs made of fertilisers. This must be done while not obstructing the legal uses or increase the toxicity of the products.
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PREVAIL
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PRACTICE
The PRACTICE project will improve the preparedness and resilience of EU member states and associated countries from an attack by a terrorist group using non-conventional weapons, specifically an attack with CBRN (Chemical, Biological, Radiological and/or Nuclear) materials by developing an innovative and new toolbox. 
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FOCUS
FOCUS will help shape European security research to enable the EU to effectively respond to tomorrow's challenges stemming from the globalization of risks, threats and vulnerabilities. FOCUS will concentrate on alternative future EU roles to prevent or respond to incidents situated on the "borderline" between the internal and external dimensions of the security affecting the Union and its citizens. It will do so by elaborating multiple scenarios, based on IT-supported foresight, in the form of alternative futures. These will be plausibility-probed versus mere threat scenarios. The main contribution of FOCUS is to develop an effective long-term foresight and assessment tool at the EU level, populated with the analyses carried out by the project. Moreover, FOCUS will deliver tangible products (such as an IT platform) and contents (i.e., a roadmap) for planning research and deciding on priorities. These products are usable beyond the project. 
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SEREN2
SEREN2 (SEcurity REsearch Ncp network – phase 2) aims to continue promoting and enhancing trans-national cooperation among Security National Contact Points. 
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VALUESEC
Funded by the European Commission’s 7th Framework Program, the ValueSec project is intended to support and enhance the decision making process with a toolset so that that security measures reflect the interests of all stakeholders. Decisions must be based on transparent criteria and a rigorous cost-benefit-analysis, incorporating quantitative and qualitative factors such as social, cultural, ethical and economic implications in the overall analysis. 
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Alert4All (A4A)
Alert4All (A4A) is an EU FP7 co-funded project under the FP7-SEC-2010 Call, which started on 16/03/2011 and has a duration of 30 months. The overall A4A objective is to improve the effectiveness of alert and communication to the population in crisis management. To achieve this goal, A4A will provide an extensive and interdisciplinary alerting framework that integrates the key enablers to achieve significant improvements in terms of level of alerts’ penetration, cost-benefit ratio and impact of alert strategies. With the project results, A4A aims at contributing to lay the foundations of an effective alert and communication paradigm that is scalable from regional to pan-European range. A4A will provide solutions to align alert procedures and processes in contemporary crises (natural or man-made) to available and emerging information management and communication technologies, emerging information sources and trends in social and human behaviour. 
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STAR-TRANS
Strategic Risk Assessment and Contingency Planning in Interconnected Transport Networks (STAR-TRANS) objective is to develop a comprehensive Transportation Security Risk Assessment Framework for assessing related risk and provide cohered contingency management procedures in interconnected, interdependent and heterogeneous transport networks. The aim of proposed Transportation Security Risk Assessment Framework is to formalise the linkage between risk incidents, transportation network assets and dependency types between assets in order to assess the impact of an incident on the affected interconnected and interdependent networks. The proposed Transportation Security Risk Assessment Framework will consist of a modelling formalism to specify transportation network structure, assets and dependencies between assets, as well as ICT-based supporting tools to generate impact assessment reports on interconnected and interdependent transportation networks in cases of risk incidents. 
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CrisComScore
CrisComScore developed an open access communication scorecard and guides for communication with public groups in emergency situations to clarify communication with citizens and news media, as well as within the response network. 
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LAZIO CONNECT Association
LAZIO CONNECT Association is a collaborative technological and legal platform created on 22nd July 2009 whose members are large-scale companies and manufacturing units of national and international groups, small- and medium-sized enterprises and research organizations acting, within the Regional territory in several different industries such as aerospace, electronics, ICT, avionics, aeronautic services and airport maintenance. LAZIO CONNECT operates as a networking entity facilitating collaboration amongst Companies, Public End users and Research Organization, legally independent, that get together into temporary task-forces called Extended Enterprises which, by sharing knowledge and resources, can compete in the ever more demanding business landscape. Up to now, the Association counts 43 members: Large enterprises (such as, Agusta Westland, Ids, Northrop Grumman Italia, National Instruments Italy, Rheinmetall Italia, Selex Galileo, Selex Sistemi Integrati, Telespazio, Thales Alenia Space Italia), SMEs and Research bodies. 
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SICMA - simulation of crises management activities
The project objective is to improve Health Service crisis managers decision-making capabilities. This is achieved through development of SICMA which is an integrated suite of modelling and analysis tools. SICMA provides insight into the collective behaviour of the whole organisation in preparation and response to crisis scenarios. MORE INFO 
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DITSEF - Digital & Innovative Technologies for Security & Efficiency of First responder operations
The DITSEF Collaborative Project is an EC FP7 funded project under the ICT and Security Joint Call (FP7-ICT-SEC-2007-1), which commenced on 01/01/2010.The DITSEF Partners stem from Large Industries, Research, Small-Medium Enterprises and End Users.The DITSEF Project also consists of an additional group, the End-User Club, which incorporates representatives of the DITSEF Project's end users from both the First Responders domain as well as the Critical Infrastructure domain. MORE INFO 
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ARGUS 3D
ARGUS 3D is funded by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme, theme "security", call FP7-SEC-2007-1, work programme topic 3.3-01 "Air 3D detection of manned and unmanned platforms". ARGUS 3D final objective consists of study, design and realization of a simple demonstrator of a low cost, interoperable, radar based, system able to identify, all kinds of non-cooperative threat with the contribution of data coming from: an innovative three-dimensional PSR; conventional sensors (Primary radar, Secondary radar, ADBS, etc); a network composed by a multitude of multi-operational passive, bistatic and high resolution radar. MORE INFO 
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ATOM - Airport detection and Tracking Of dangerous Materials by passive and active sensors arrays
The objective of the ATOM project is to study, design and develop the functional prototype of an innovative multi-sensor based system integrating active and passive radar sensors, improving the security level also in the Terminal area of the airport. ATOM system will be a non-intrusive but pervasive security system. MORE INFO 
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Pilot SHIELD: Pilot embedded Systems arcHIteccturE for multi-Layer Dependable solutions
pSHIELD is a pilot project which is a reduced R&D project addressing the core concepts of SHIELD, participated by the core/key partners and extended to a new group of partners coming from Norway and Portugal. The pilot is foreseen to be a pioneer investigation to be enhanced with R&D activities that will be proposed in the future ARTEMIS Calls. pSHIELD wants to investigate and validate a reduced but still consistent and coherent set of innovative concepts behind the SHIELD project, in a restricted scenario with a rearranged consortium tailored on the pilot’s scope. MORE INFO
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SAMURAI-Suspicious and Abnormal behaviour Monitoring Using a netwoRk of cAmeras for sItuation awareness enhancement
SAMURAI is a collaborative project funded under the European Commission Seventh Framework Programme Theme 10 (Security). The aim of SAMURAI is to develop and integrate an innovative intelligent surveillance system for monitoring people and vehicle activities at both inside and surrounding areas of a critical public infrastructure. MORE INFO 
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SUBITO - Surveillance of Unattended Baggage and the Identification and Tracking of the Owner
SUBITO is a capability project funded by the EU under Security Topic SEC-2007 and designed to research and further develop automated real time detection of abandoned luggage, fast identification of the individual responsible and his/her subsequent path and current location. MORE INFO
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SecureCHAINS Project
The SecureCHAINS project has as a main mission to contribute to a more competitive STSC. To reach this, the project’s consortium will cooperate with the industry to gain a better understanding of the nature and structure of the STSC from prime contractors to subcontractors coming from the various tiers of the supply chains. 
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CRITICAL STEP Project
The CRITICAL Software Technology for an Evolutionary Partnership (CRITICAL STEP) is a Marie-Curie Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways (IAPP) belonging to call FP7-PEOPLE-2008-IAPP. It aims at establishing the basis for a long term strategic research collaboration between partners involved in this project in the growing and challenging domain of software for large-scale Safety-Critical Systems (SCSs) based on the use of Off-The-Shelf (OTS) software components for the control of complex distributed infrastructures. 
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SHARE Project
SHARE is a project (co-funded by the European Commission FP7) with the aim to facilitate open source software code sharing and utilisation within the embedded system domain, creating a nurturing environment for applications and solutions to be developed on OSS middleware, and paving the way for new business models and services. 
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INSEARCH project
The European Project “INSEARCH - Supporting SMEs innovation processes through advanced IT search systems” financed by the 7FP programme, aims to develop and implement an advanced IT system able to support SMEs in the on-line research of relevant knowledge related to the innovation process, such as patents, papers and market information. 
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SMART - Providing services for SMEs in collaborative transport research projects
SMART is a Support Action co-funded by the FP7 of the European Commission. The aim of the project is to provide services to support SMEs participation in RTD research projects under the Transport Work-Programme, mainly:
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OPTIX Project
OPTIX (Optical Technologies for the Identification of explosives) is a project funded by the European Commission under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). OPTIX is composed of a balanced set of technological and industrial partners, from big industry to SMEs, from universities to research organisation, and topped with a best-in-class end user. The geographical distribution of OPTIX covers 6 EU Members States.
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