CERIS news (37)
RSS![Innovating Smart Cities Resilience through Research and Best Practices](https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2024-05/Innovating%20Smart%20Cities%20Resilience%20through%20Research%20and%20Best%20Practices.jpg?h=827069f2&itok=fdLpsBXi)
In the framework of CERIS, led-by DG HOME’s Security Research and Innovation Unit, an event on Innovating Smart Cities Resilience through Research and Best Practices gathered 60 policymakers, practitioners, researchers and representatives of academia, industry, and civil society in Brussels ...
![CERIS workshop on the Impact of Climate Change on Security Practitioners](https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2024-06/CERIS%20workshop%20on%20the%20Impact%20of%20Climate%20Change%20on%20Security%20Practitioners.jpg?h=5dc9785f&itok=dQ9NH2H0)
Climate change is a multi-faceted challenge and it is therefore of paramount importance to identify the most pressing security implications and find corresponding solutions. It is also a global issue that demands action from all of us.
![CERIS Workshop on illicit drugs draws more than 100 participants to Brussels](https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2024-04/CERIS%20Workshop%20on%20illicit%20drugs%20draws%20more%20than%20100%20participants%20to%20Brussels_en.png?h=b69e0e0e&itok=gi6dhM70)
On 21 February 2024, a CERIS workshop on illicit drugs, organised by DG HOME’s Security Research and Innovation Unit HOME.F2, brought together more than 100 participants from police forces, customs and forensic institutes, as well as policymakers, researchers and representatives from ...
![CERIS discusses cross-cutting issues impacting research and innovation-2](https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2024-04/CERIS%20discusses%20cross-cutting%20issues%20impacting%20research%20and%20innovation-2.png?h=b69e0e0e&itok=eLi_fVn9)
On 14 and 15 December 2023, more than 100 participants from the Community for European Research and Innovation for Security (led by DG HOME F.2, Innovation and Security Research) gathered in Brussels to discuss the impact of cross-cutting issues on research and innovation in the domain of ...
![Innovation for Maritime Situational Awareness and Security](https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2024-03/Innovation%20for%20Maritime%20Situational%20Awareness%20and%20Security-1.jpg?h=6eb229a4&itok=HsXOAeSc)
Over 110 participants from coast guards, border and customs authorities as well as academia, research institutions, industry, and civil society organisations came together on 19 February 2024 in Brussels for a Workshop of the Community for European Research and Innovation for Security (CERIS).
![Foresight and Key Enabling Technologies](https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2024-03/Foresight%20and%20Key%20Enabling%20Technologies_en.jpg?h=c9f93661&itok=XgkhxtY4)
Anticipating the future, both in terms of threats and opportunities offered by new emerging technologies is a real challenge. Having the capacity to depict plausible futures, to identify upcoming risks and to propose early responses can be of invaluable help to decision makers.
![Expert Group: Annual plenary meeting wrap-up](https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2024-02/Expert%20Group%20Annual%20plenary%20meeting%20wrap-up-1.jpg?itok=LM-CPako)
CERIS provides a platform for policy makers, security practitioners, researchers and academia, industry and civil society to identify gaps & needs and solutions for civil security. Set up in October 2022, the CERIS expert group is the backbone of the CERIS community that counts 3100 subscribers.
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The annual event of the EU Innovation Hub for internal security took place in Brussels on 3 October 2023, together with the CERIS Expert Group Annual Event on 4 and 5 October. The event was co-organised with CERIS with support of DG HOME, in order to bring together the Hub and the CERIS experts.
![CERIS workshop on Infrastructure Resilience Addressing CER requirements through research](https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2023-12/CERIS%20workshop%20on%20Infrastructure%20Resilience%20Addressing%20CER%20requirements%20through%20research_0.png?itok=6FxOY9Hm)
Strengthening the resilience of critical infrastructure has increasing importance for the EU thus the European Commission organised a workshop in the framework of the CERIS to discuss how EU security research may contributes to this goal.
![CERIS Workshop on anticorruption and integrity research](https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2023-12/CERIS%20Workshop%20on%20anticorruption%20and%20integrity%20research_0.png?itok=POaNSBPj)
Researchers, policy makers, practitioners and civil society came together, as part of the Community for European Research and Innovation for Security (CERIS), to discuss how ongoing anti-corruption research projects can lead to new and enhanced tools to prevent, detect and fight corruption.