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for training and education for security functions and tasks. Such infrastructures would provide a platform for and facilitate
inter-service and cross-border training. ESRIF WG 9 recommends to build on existing experience and to establish links with
existing networks for professional training like CEPOL on police training and education.
Advanced training concepts and scenario based training
Most training is still focused on formal training environments. Given the complexity of many security related tasks, training
could signifi cantly benefi t from virtual realities and gaming environments. New training methods should be explored, for
instance use web technologies to increase informal learning, improve communities of practice, extend existing virtual reality
and gaming environments with strong didactics, train instructors/ trainers/ developers/designers to use other learning
environments/tools, better include operational lessons learnt into learning environments (and vice versa).
In addition, training based on scenarios hardly exists in the civil domain. Scenarios would provide realistic contexts and
environments for example complex crisis management operations, such as CB incidents in a metro station, or incidents
with explosives, etc.
9.4 Priorities
ESRIF WG 9 has taken a holistic approach to broad-based innovation, i.e. engaging all stakeholders. It is important to tailor the
technological solutions to the operational requirements and user needs in the fi eld and it is necessary to develop the required
market mechanisms to ensure and enhance the development of security-related industrial products and services. Only then,
security-related research will be an important enabler towards more effi cient and eff ective operational capabilities in securityrelated
tasks and missions, and it will enhance the competitiveness of the European security-related industry.
It is very diffi cult to prioritize actions in such a holistic concept, since initiatives need to be taken at all levels to really move
forward. It is important to consider the entire innovation chain, including the involvement of public and private end-users,
competence mapping and networking, interaction and integration of supply and demand, education and training, etc.
This was well supported by the ESRIF community. Most of the issues raised by ESRIF WG 9 have been incorporated into Part I of the
ESRIF report: chapter 2 has dedicated key messages on innovation, industrial policy, education and training, chapter 3 identifi es
in the ESRIA a number of concrete standardization needs and training requirements, chapter 4 emphasizes the importance of
standards, validation, certifi cation, market incentives and legal frame and chapter 5 supports in its recommendations the ESRIF
WG 9 suggestions for a European security label, pre-commercial procurement, lead market initiatives in security, the creation
of knowledge centres, etc.
9.5 Conclusions
In summary, ESRIF WG 9 proposes to:
Reach out for competitive leadership in selected elements of the security market by 2015
Establish a rolling process aiming to co-ordinate and harmonise end-user needs and requirements
Use risk modelling methodologies derived from the insurance sector and elsewhere to prioritise investment
Develop a stable legal context as a reference
Improve the understanding of the complex interaction of diff erent rules, conditions and regulations
Promote the concept of Privacy-by-Design / Protection-by-Design as strongly intertwined with the concept of
security by design
Explore the value of a European legal framework that would take proper account of liability
Develop a dynamic standardisation policy
Launch a European Security Label
Enhance public private dialogue and innovative PPP to jointly address security challenges and to enhance security
Promote pre-commercial procurement of innovative security solutions
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