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“Missions” and thematic areas :
1. Security of the citizens
2. Security of critical infrastructures
3. Border security
4. Crisis management
5. Foresight and scenarios
6. CBRN
7. Situation awareness and the role of space
8. Identifi cation of people and assets
Horizontal (cross-cutting) issues :
9. Innovation issues
10. Governance and coordination
11. Human and societal dynamics of security
Co-ordinating with each other, the WGs’ work was simultaneous. Each group had a leader and a rapporteur to guide the process.
Methodology
ESRIF’s work approach and roadmap can be summarised as follows:
The fi rst year was dedicated to assessing existing security policy decisions, strategies and plans at European and national
level, as well as recent studies and projects such as those of PASR, FP6 and FP7. Exploiting its experts’ knowledge base, ESRIF
identifi ed the mid-term threats and risks for Europe’s security and the resulting challenges.
During the second year the required capabilities and capability gaps in European security policy needed to counter the
above threats were identifi ed. Finally, a set of comprehensive recommendations for research and policy measures in the
innovation domain were drawn up indicating priority areas.
Not only did ESRIF draw on the work of the GoP and ESRAB, but also on contributions from other fora to avoid duplication of
eff orts and to maximise consistency with the results of previous and ongoing research programmes.
In order to explicitly account for long term developments ESRIF engaged in a scenario planning exercise where a set of
alternative future worlds were developed to contextualise the midterm fi ndings on threats, risks and challenges identifi ed by
ESRIF Working Groups. This “robustness check” demonstrated a tendency for societal risk to grow over time, which underscores
the need for security innovation to avoid excessive costs.
The ESRIA road map
In Part I of the fi nal report the ESRIA roadmap was visualised. The foundation of ESRIA is based on the table described below
(and attached in annex II).
A common framework guided the construction of the roadmap, based on the answers to the critical «why-what-how-when»
questions that defi ne and explain the research plan, including in some cases the investment indication.
The following information is inserted into the Road Map table on each item:
1. Running number
2. WG number
1. WHAT? Research capability
2. WHY? Reasoning
3. HOW? Plot of the future development in scientifi c or technical fi eld
4. Key link elements (Reference to Part I Paragraph where the research need is mentioned)
5. WHEN? Timeline (short -20019/13; mid- 2013/2020; long-term beyond 2020)
6. Weight/Cost estimation (only on a voluntary basis)
7. Cluster number
The working groups aligned themselves with the fi ve clusters (decribed in chapter 3 of Part I), according to a structure based
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