H2020 Secure Societies Briefing Event: Disaster Resilience and Fighting Crime and Terrorism

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Horizon 2020 is the biggest EU Research & Innovation programme with nearly €80 billion in funding available over 7 years (2014 to 2020). The Secure Societies pillar is worth approximately €1.7Bn and aims to fund research and innovation activities required to protect the security of Europe & its citizens.  
There is barely any societal sector, which is not to some extent concerned by disasters and related resilience and security issues.
The primary aims of the Secure Societies Challenge are:
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<LI>to enhance the resilience of our society against natural and man-made disasters, ranging from the development of new crisis management tools to communication interoperability, and to develop novel solutions for the protection of critical infrastructure; </LI>
<LI>to fight crime and terrorism ranging from new forensic tools to protection against explosives;</LI>
<LI>to improve border security, ranging from improved maritime border protection to supply chain security and to support the Union's external security policies including through conflict prevention and peace building; and</LI>
<LI>to provide enhanced cyber-security, ranging from secure information sharing to new assurance models.</LI>
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The UK has already had considerable success with significant funding in the first call coming to UK academics & industry and the 2016-17 Secure Societies programme has now been published.
<A HREF="http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/wp/2016_2017/main/h2020-wp1617-security_en.pdf" REL="nofollow">http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/wp/2016_2017/main/h2020-wp1617-security_en.pdf</A>
To encourage UK participation in these calls, the Knowledge Transfer Network are holding two briefing events to provide information & answer questions. The morning sessions will be general information whilst the afternoon ones will be designed around 2 of the 4 specific themes to allow attendees to network, make contacts & explore the individual calls.
Agenda
09:30 Registration and Coffee
10:00 Welcome, Housekeeping and Introduction to the KTN, Hazel Biggs
10:10 EU perspective and H2020 Secure Societies Call Priorities, Graham Willmott
Head of Unit Innovation and Industry for Security in Directorate General Migration and Home Affairs
10:40 H2020 Secure Societies Overview, Helen Almey,
National Contact Point for Secure Societies & support for SME instrument, Innovate UK
11:10 Successful Bidder Overview
Mandy Dillon, Lancaster University
11:30 Success and how to be Successful: Some call specific tips
Helen Almey, innovate UK
12:00 User Perspective
Harriet  Mainprize, Innovation Development Officer West Yorkshire for Innovation
12:30 Stand-up Introductions
12:45 Lunch
13:40 Ethics in Secure Societies
Kevin Macnish, Consultant at University of Leeds and H2020 Independent Ethics Expert           
14:10 How to Write a Good Proposal
Shahid Mughal, Innvotek
14:40 UK Home Office Perspective
Tim Cooke, Home Office
15:10 In-depth Programme Discussions
17:00 Close
 

NB Agenda may be subject to change
 
This event is also available via webinar for those that are unable to attend in person. For more information and to register, click <A HREF="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/webinar-h2020-secure-societies-briefing-event-disaster-resilience-and-fighting-crime-and-terrorism-tickets-19058230681">here </A>
 
 
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