Projects

MONITOR – Countering Radicalisation in Southeast and Central Europe through Development of (Counter-) Radicalisation Monitoring Tool

2014 – 2016

European Commission, DG Home Affairs, Programme for the Prevention of and Fight Against Crime (ISEC)

Coordinator: Center for the Study Democracy – CSD

The main project objectives were to explore pathways to radicalisaton (the result of context specific social processes and different patterns of local, national and transnational contacts and interaction), to examine the risk factors that may lead to radicalisation in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic and in Greece. Then, the knowledge and experience were extracted from the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and other EU Member States about methodologies and indicators to assess and monitor the risks of radicalisation that could potentially lead to acts of violence and terrorism. Finally, the radicalisation monitoring tool was developed to be applied in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic and Greece; it had to raise awareness within relevant state agencies, civil society organisations and identified risk groups.

ARGOS – Advanced pRotection of critical buildinGs by Overall anticipating System

2014 – 2015

FP7-SEC-2012-1

Coordinator: EVERIS Spain, S.L.U.

The project focused on the development of an early warning system to protect critical infrastructure through the multi-modal sensor network, with embedded analytics for the first level processing (together with a second level of powerful video analytics placed in the local gateway) so that only metadata will be transferred instead of images. All the technology will safeguard the complete privacy-respectful operation.

Azerbaijan's Security Policy as a Tool of Peace and Regional Stability

2014

The Council for State Support to Non-Governmental Organizations under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

The project and its outcomes shed light on the aims and means of the Azerbaijani policy in providing peace and stability vis-à-vis existing tensions with neighboring countries, namely Armenia, which later evolved in a troubled way of war and successive normalization.

EUSECON – A New Agenda for European Security Economics

2008 – 2012

FP7-SEC-2007-1

Coordinator: DIW Berlin – German Institute for Economic Research

The project analyses the field of European security economics by identifying the nature and scope of this field, and by building new analytical and conceptual insights on the most pressing research needs in this field. The focus was put on human drivers of the new insecurity, that is terrorism and organized crime, and on the causes, dynamics and long-term effects of both human-induced insecurity threats and European security policies. This also improved the long-term viability of the European policy making capacity on security and competitiveness in this field.

Key trends of global development

2011

CENTRA Technology Inc.