Horizon 2020 (2014 - 2020)

Information management topic 1: Civilian humanitarian mission personnel tracking

Last update: Jun 19, 2020 Last update: Jun 19, 2020

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Location:EU 27
EU 27
Contracting authority type:Development Institution
Status:Awarded
Budget:N/A
Award ceiling:N/A
Award floor:N/A
Sector:Security & Peacebuilding, ICT & Telecommunications
Eligible applicants:Unrestricted / Unspecified
Eligible citizenships:Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, A ...
Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Angola, Anguilla, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Austria, Azerbaijan, Azores, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, British Virgin Islands, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canary Islands, Cape Verde, Caribbean Netherlands, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Costa Rica, Cote d'Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Dem. Rep. Congo, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Commonwealth of, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Eritrea, Estonia, Eswatini (Swaziland), Ethiopia, Falkland Islands, Faroe Islands, Fiji, Finland, France, French Polynesia, French Southern Territory, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Greenland, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Micronesia, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Montserrat, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, New Caledonia, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, North Korea, North Macedonia, Norway, Pakistan, Palau, Palestine / West Bank & Gaza, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Pitcairn, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Spain, Sri Lanka, St. Pierre and Miquelon, Sudan, Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tonga, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Turks and Caicos, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Wallis and Futuna, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Date posted: Dec 12, 2013

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Call updates:
18 March 2016 11:31

An overview of the evaluation results (flash call info) is now available under the tab ‘Call documents’

02 September 2015 17:05

A total of 93 proposals were submitted in response to this call: 

 BES-01-2015, BES-02-2015, BES-03-2015, BES-04-2015, BES-05-2015, BES-06-2015, BES-07-2015, BES-08-2015, BES-10-2015, BES-11-2015 and BES-13-2015: 93 proposals.
  The evaluation of the proposals is planned to start by mid-September 2015 and will be closed by the end of December 2015. Applicants will be informed on the outcome of the evaluations before the end of January 2015.

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3- Guide for classification of information emanating from Security Research

28 May 2014 19:03

The “Guide for classification of information emanating from Security Research” is available here


TOPIC : Information management topic 1: Civilian humanitarian mission personnel tracking

Topic identifier: BES-10-2015
Publication date: 11 December 2013

Types of action: RIA Research and Innovation action
DeadlineModel:
Opening date:
single-stage
25 March 2015
Deadline: 27 August 2015 17:00:00

Time Zone : (Brussels time)
 
  Horizon 2020
Call identifier: H2020-BES-2014-2015
Topic Description
Scope:

Specific challenge:

Civilian intervention staff in humanitarian missions is quite often at risk due to the instability of the countries of deployment and possibly due to the action of adversary forces still trying to gain the control of the country, the population and offered support. Their security is of a paramount importance.

Scope:

Proposals should address the problem of tracking (from the headquarters) the assets (e.g. Automatic Vehicle Location – AVL – technologies) and the staff of the missions deployed in third countries for instance in the CSDP context. Real-time tracking may help to reduce the exposure to security risks of these missions. The proposed solution should integrate and/or complement seamlessly the communication system in use (either standard or specific) and, if any, the Control and Command system in place (even if abroad). It must integrate features to assure its own security not being usable if in wrong hands. It should also integrate navigation/guidance (in the field) of assets and staff, using European GNSS where appropriate. Cost effectiveness should be considered (both acquisition and operation) as clients are quite often NGOs with limited resources.

The Commission considers that proposals requesting a contribution from the EU of between €3m and €5m would allow this specific challenge to be addressed appropriately. Nonetheless, this does not preclude submission and selection of proposals requesting other amounts.

Expected impact:

This project should lead to the development of novel secure communication and tracking solutions/technologies for civilian missions, in particular those of the European External Action Service. Through better tracking of civilian intervention staff it should lead to more efficient and effective humanitarian missions. Ultimately, it should reduce threats to personnel on the ground and contribute to a more efficient implementation of such missions.

Type of action: Research & Innovation Actions

 

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