The Research and Innovation Week is a series of events organised by the European Commission and the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
Following the invasion of Ukraine, the Foundation Ukraine organisation started implementing a new EU co-funded project to support the Polish authorities with the reception and integration of people displaced from Ukraine.
As polarisation around migration grows, the BRIDGES project aims at further understanding the production and impact of migration narratives. Focusing on six European countries, the H2020 project examines these narratives on an academic, policy, and societal level.
The municipality of Cascais has rehabilitated two buildings for the accommodation of displaced people fleeing the war in Ukraine. The project is co-funded by the EU with EUR 900,000, covering 75% of its cost. This project sets new standards for humanitarian reception in the EU.
Read about families who found a haven in Europe through the EU funded Safe Homes Programme. This EUR 5.5 million project reinforces the Commission’s Safe Homes initiative, implemented to support private housing actions for people fleeing Ukraine in cooperation with public authorities.
The Security Research Event (SRE) is the annual meeting where industry, policy makers, practitioners and knowledge institutions come together to discuss current challenges for security research in Europe and where related EU funded projects are displayed in an exhibition area. Join a wide range of security stakeholders and policymakers from across Europe to discuss security research opportunities and challenges!
In Spain, two Emergency Assistance (EMAS) projects funded by the Asylum Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF) were set up to ensure better reception and registration of migrants. The projects ran throughout 2021-2022, stabilising the situation on the ground after the significant increase of arrivals in 2020, and helped pave the way to a more sustainable and overall better integrated management of migration.
The safe stadium project includes an online platform that prepares a CBRN (Chemical, Biological, Radiological/Nuclear) protection system for sport facilities to support the protection of public spaces. The platform was created in partnership with law enforcement agencies, security agencies, sports clubs and sport facility operators. The free system responds to a rise in targeted terrorist information.
A public consultation on the digitalisation of travel documents is open until 28 June. Reply and share your experience to shape and decide a common format for future digital travel documents.
300 migrant women living in the suburbs of Milan, Barcelona, Malmo and Amsterdam were supported to become a part of their local community. This project looked at local social life, public services, gender equality and access to jobs.
A unique safety tech tool which uses machine learning in real-time to detect child sexual abuse images and videos is to be developed by a collaboration of EU and UK experts. The aim of the project PROTECH is to reduce viewing and demand for child sexual abuse images and videos. A two year project launched this month between EU and UK based experts has received €2 million to work on this challenge.
DATACROS II is a research project which aims to detect corruption in the EU through analysis of the ownership structures of companies. It is co-funded by the European Union Internal Security Fund and coordinated by the Transcrime – Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore research centre. They work on a tool that detects anomalies in company ownership structures that can, for example, flag high risks of money laundering, collusion, and corruption in the European single market.
Since the beginning of October 2022, the first nine dogs have been undergoing training which is expected to be completed mid-February 2023. These are very agile, medium sized dogs, such as Dutch or Belgian shepherds and other dog breeds used for such missions.
The SAFEZONE team represents a mix of research centers, universities and sports organizations in Italy, Germany, Portugal, and Slovenia to prevent youth radicalisation and violent extremism.
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The European Commission is proposing to digitalise the Schengen visa process, replacing the visa sticker and introducing the ability to submit applications online through a European online visa platform.
The first international event of the project WE-NET ('Working for Environmentally Educated Towns') took place in Thiene (Italy) on 13-15 November.
As every year since 2009, participants in the Central European Forum gathered in Bratislava from 13 to 15 November 2015 so as to discuss the issues of trust in public space and politics and the issues of memory.
In tune with the new positioning of the Programme within DG Migration and Home Affairs, and echoing current events, many applicants have successfully proposed for funding projects dealing with migration issues. Let's put the spotlight on three Italian projects selected in 2015 under the 'Europe for Citizens' programme.
This workshop took place in Auschwitz on 22-23 October 2015. It was organised to mark the near completion of the "Nine Tasks" project, which is funded under our Programme and aims at safeguarding this "lieu de mémoire". It brought together around 50 participants from various Museum departments and Polish Ministry of Culture.
