Border authorities and Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) across Europe face important challenges in how they patrol and protect the borders. Their work becomes more problematic considering the heterogeneity of threats, the wideness of the surveyed area, the adverse weather conditions and the wide range of terrains. Although there are several research tools and works targeting these areas independently for border surveillance, nowadays border authorities do not have access to an intelligent holistic solution providing all aforementioned functionalities. Towards delivering such a solution, ROBORDER aims at developing and demonstrating a fully-functional autonomous border surveillance system with unmanned mobile robots including aerial, water surface, underwater and ground vehicles, capable of functioning both as standalone and in swarms, which will incorporate multimodal sensors as part of an interoperable network. The system will be equipped with adaptable sensing and robotic technologies that can operate in a wide range of operational and environmental settings. To provide a complete and detailed situational awareness picture that supports highly efficient operations, the network of sensors will include static networked sensors such as border surveillance radars, as well as mobile sensors customised and installed on board unmanned vehicles. To succeed implementing an operational solution, a number of supplementary technologies will also be applied that will enable the establishment of robust communication links between the command and control unit and the heterogeneous robots. On top of this, detection capabilities for early identification of criminal activities and hazardous incidents will be developed. This information will be forwarded to the command and control unit that will enable the integration of large volumes of heterogeneous sensor data and the provision of a quick overview of the situation at a glance to the operators, supporting them in their decisions.

iCROSS envisages to enable faster thorough border control for third country nationals crossing the borders of EU, with technologies that adopt the future development of the Schengen Border Management. The project will present an optimal mixture of an enhanced, voluntary form of a Registered Traveller Programme and an auxiliary solution for the Entry/Exit System based on involving bona fide travellers. iCROSS designs and implements a system that adopts mobility concepts and consists of a two-stage procedure, designed to reduce cost/time spent per traveller at the crossing station. It leverages software and hardware technologies ranging from portable readers/scanners, various emerging and novel subsystems for automatic controls, wireless networking for mobile controls, and secure backend storage and processing. The two-stage procedure includes: (A) the registration before the travel to gather initial personal, travel document and vehicle data, perform a short, automated, non-invasive interview with an avatar, subject to lie detection and link the traveller to any pre-existing authority data. Utilizing multifactor analytics and risk-based approach, the data registered is processed and correlated with publicly open data or external systems such as the SIS II. Processing will need the travellers consent as set in EU legislation and national law. (B) the actual control at the border that complements pre-registered information with results of security controls that are performed with a portable, wireless connected iCROSS unit that can be used inside buses/trains or any point. Multiple technologies check validity and authenticity of parameters (e.g. travel documents, visa, face recognition of traveller using passport picture, real-time automated non-invasive lie detection in interview by officer, etc.). The data collected are encrypted, securely transferred and analysed in real time, providing an automated decision support system for the border control officers.

"In the WMP activities related to transnational development, particular emphasis is placed on providing police officers and employees with conditions enabling the extension of knowledge and competences both through national and foreign trainings. One of the main assumptions formulated in the internationalization strategy in the field of police vocational education and training is to intensify the participation of WMP in international educational projects. They are aimed mainly at the exchange of information, experience and good practices used by European police to regulate and balance learning processes and procedures. Training-teaching staff that participate in the training transmits the acquired experience and knowledge during cascading trainings to the WMP employees as well as towards non-police entities. The project takes into account the WMP internationalization strategy, which assumes that each participant will receive full support enabling them to take part in an international training project as well as further selfimprovement. The training activities of this project are also in line with the strategic objective of WMP, which aims to strengthen international regional cooperation, in particular, in the area of organized economic crime and combating cross-border criminal groups, which corresponds to the subject of the project. The exchange of experience and knowledge will ensure closer cooperation between project partners and will broaden the scope of international cooperation to a large extent. The following partner institutions expressed their willingness to participate in our project: Riga Municipal Police, Vilnius County Police HQ, Munich Police HQ, Police Academy of the Republic of Croatia, National Police General Directorate of Bulgaria, Hungarian National Police HQ, General Inspectorate of Romanian Police, Cyprus Police,Macedonian Police. The project assumes a cycle of 1-week visits of 6-person WMP trainer groups in the above institutions. Visits at partner institutions will be based on daily service observation (job shadowing), discussion of practical aspects of using tools and methods used in identifying people and verifying identity documents as a skill to comprehensively assess a set of traits and behaviors of a person - in particular in the psychological field aspects of identity verification, and to develop new forms and procedures for professional development in this area. Hence the main goal of the project - extending the offer of professional training of municipal police officers by raising professional qualifications at the national and European level in the area of identity verification - document control. Raising knowledge and competences of teaching staff in this area will also contribute to more effective fight against terrorism and organized criminal groups, including groups dealing with trafficking in human beings and significantly hinders their criminal activity. The main objective, directly related to the practice of the implementation of the tasks of the European police services, will be achieved by raising the participants' knowledge in the following thematic areas: - Identity control - ways of deceiving the controlling party, as well as organizational and psychological determinants of effective control; - Verification of the person's identity based on the data contained in the document - psychological reaction aspects of the controlled; - Control of the appearance and image of the person; - Verification of data contained in the document; - Comparison of the description data; - Evaluation of progression; - Questioning from data; - Forcing interaction of the controlled party; - Proceeding in the case of lack of orders understanding of or lack of reaction to orders by controlled person; - Verification of documents secured against forgery; - Specification of culturally conditioned behaviors; - Document in the light of law. The project will last 18 months. Although initially it was assumed that 3 mobility projects will take place with the participation of 15 participants, thanks to the wide interest in its subject, 9 partners have expressed their willingness to cooperate with the WMP training-teaching staff, dealing with organizing, coordinating and implementing various training projects for policemen and employees of the Warsaw garrison. Thanks to the exchange of experiences and good practices with the above-mentioned polices, a new vocational training program that takes into account changes taking place in Europe will be created, the implementation of which will have a direct impact on the security of citizens. This program will be a part of the "" Diversity of Vocational Training Program "", which was created during the implementation of the previous project implemented under the Erasmus + program; • traditional direct trainings and cascading trainings • printed teaching materials and information on IT site"

The iProcureNet project aims to build an EU network of organisations centred on the procurement of security solutions through the appointed iProcureNet National Contacts (IPNCs), together with a larger community of people composed of individuals and experts interested in procurement. Via the established Network+Community, iProcureNet will facilitate collaboration and dialogue among procurers, enabling: i) coordinated sharing and analysis of procurement trends included in the investment plans, ii) development of common and standardised practices from the technical, legal and financial perspectives, and iii) establishing pathways for joint procurement (JP) of innovative and new to market solutions, research services, and commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products in the field of security. iProcureNet will develop the iProcureNet Toolbox including a comprehensive methodology, guidelines and a knowledge database of current procurement practices and processes in Europe; and will create a firm foundation for the set-up of Established Buyers Groups (EBGs) – countries which, using the iProcureNet Toolbox, have found common ground and are ready to procure. Close collaboration with related PCP and PPI actions and the practitioner innovation networks will be a key component of the project. Ultimately, iProcureNet, will aim to create a stepping stone to future collaboration in the form of a future investment plan for collaborative procurement actions, and to develop detailed pro-innovation procurement strategies. The Network+Community will be supported by i) the iProcureNet Online Platform (IPOP) enabling professional social networking and online dialogue on good practices and procurers’ needs; ii) a sustainable organisational set-up composed of well organised bodies and processes, and iii) appropriate communication and dissemination activities including Annual Conferences, trainings and workshops. The consortium includes 15 partners, out of which 10 are procurement agencies.

Modern critical infrastructures are becoming increasingly “smarter” (e.g. cities). Making the infrastructures “smarter” usually means making them smarter in normal operation and use: more adaptive, more intelligent… But will these smart critical infrastructures (SCIs) behave equally “smartly” and be “smartly resilient” also when exposed to extreme threats, such as extreme weather disasters or terrorist attacks? If making existing infrastructure “smarter” is achieved by making it more complex, would it also make it more vulnerable? Would this affect resilience of an SCI as its ability to anticipate, prepare for, adapt and withstand, respond to, and recover? These are the main questions tackled by this proposal. The proposal envisages answering the above questions in several steps. (#1) By identifying existing indicators suitable for assessing resilience of SCIs. (#2) By identifying new “smart” resilience indicators (RIs) – including those from Big Data. (#3) By developing a new advanced resilience assessment methodology (TRL4) based on smart RIs (“resilience indicators cube”, including the resilience matrix). (#4) By developing the interactive “SCI Dashboard” tool. (#5) By applying the methodology/tools in 8 case studies, integrated under one virtual, smart-city-like, European case study. The SCIs considered (in 8 European countries!) deal with energy, transportation, health, water… Results #2, #3, #4 and #5 are a breakthrough innovation. This approach will allow benchmarking the best-practice solutions and identifying the early warnings, improving resilience of SCIs against new threats and cascading and ripple effects. The benefits/savings to be achieved by the project will be assessed by the reinsurance company participant. The consortium involves 7 leading end-users/industries in the area, 7 leading research organizations, supported by academia and lead by a dedicated European organization. External world leading resilience experts will be included in the CIRAB.