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Security research in ERC grants awarded during FP7 and Horizon 2020

Published on | 5 years ago

Programmes ERC Security
Daniel Frank and Zdeněk Kučera from the Technology Centre CAS in Prague, Czech Republic, have analysed which ERC funded research under FP7 and Horizon 2020 was executed/is in progress on security topics, more specifically categorised along four security programme lines in the Societal Challenge 7 (Secure societies – protecting freedom and security of Europa and its citizens), which are DS – Digital Security; FCT – Fight against Crime and Terrorism, Criminology, Criminality prevention; DRS – Disaster-Resilience: Safeguarding and securing society and BES – Border Security and External Security. Under FP7 and Horizon 2020 a total of 236 ERC grants were devoted to security research amounting to 2% and 2.6% of the total of ERC grants.

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