SEREN2, which is an FP7 Security funded project, is about improving the services of the Security NCP Network through trans-national activities.

The aim of the SEREN2 coordination action is to link the different NCPs of the Security research programme, to initiate coordination in the network, and to improve the quality of the network and, as a matter of fact, the ability of its members to deliver a high level of services to the community.  Security Research presents several specificities as compared to other COOPERATION's thematic priorities. In consequence, perhaps more than in the other FP7 programmes and thematic priorities, there is a strong necessity to inform and support the European Security Research community to participate to FP7.

To tackle and overcome the difficulties of building international partnerships and in order to foster the participation in the security research field, the network will organize joint brokerage events and awareness campaigns with focus on promoting good project ideas and on identifying ways and means for the end-user involvement. To support these activities, special tools will be developed and implemented as security tailored partner search system and matchmaking tool for competencies. Security research new aspects (policies, new programmes, conferences and workshops) will be monitored and analyzed to provide synthesized information to stakeholders at all levels (from NCPs level to clients level).

Having in mind that security in general is a very dynamic field, that security research has been recently included in the Framework Programme and because it presents several particularities as compared to other themes it is important that the Security NCPs project foresees activities focused on this particularities and specific elements, so that the network achieves full capacity to efficiently support their customers in all aspects of their participation in FP7 / Security, therefore to be able to fulfill their role in assisting potential participants, to constantly improve its capability to ensure high standard services to be provided while assisting potential participants to develop successful proposals to be submitted in future calls.

Being the second phase of SEcurity REsearch NCP network project, the activities to be undertaken have been conceived based on the outcomes of the first phase and have focused on improving the quality of the capabilities and services in such a way as to respond to the needs and expectations of both Security NCPs and their clients.

The SEREN2 project is funded by the Research Executive Agency under the SECURITY Thematic area of the Cooperation Programme of the Seventh Framework Programme FP7 (2007-2013) under grant agreement No Security CA- 261814.

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