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.