The European Commission is launching the 2025 Security Innovation Award, which will recognize innovative solutions coming from innovators involved in security research funded under the EU Research Framework Programme. The aim is to promote solutions that have achieved significant impact when it comes to market uptake of research results in the area of civil security. Read more and apply! Deadline: 19 March 2025 at 20.00 CET.
The uptake of innovation stemming from EU-funded security research is not a single-step process, and there is no single method of ensuring the market uptake of successful research results. Innovation uptake needs to be contemplated as a long process that is conditioned by a number of enabling actions to be taken before research is even planned and long after it is completed. The Security Innovation Award 2025 is part of next the next Security Research Event taking place in Warsaw on 24 & 25 June 2025.
The winner will be invited to the Security Research Event (SRE) 2025 for the award ceremony.
The Commission invites beneficiaries of Framework Programme 7 (FP7), Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe civil security funding in the areas of Fighting Crime and Terrorism, Disaster Resilient Societies, Resilient Infrastructure, Border Management, Strengthening Security Research and Innovation and Cybersecurity, to apply from now until 19 March 2025 at 20.00 CET by filling the application form.
Any question regarding the Award can be addressed to HOME-SRE-2025-SIA@ec.europa.eu.
- Eligibility Criteria
The European Commission invites innovators to submit applications (one application per solution; one innovator can submit more than one application) detailing the impact that their innovative solution had in the area of civil security. The following eligibility criteria apply:
- Participation in the Award is voluntary;
- Participation in the Award is open to all innovators involved in concluded FP7-SECURITY, H2020-SC7 and Horizon Europe CL3 project consortia;
- Innovators are eligible to submit an application for as many of their innovative solutions as they wish, but solutions must come from EU-funded security research;
- The innovator must present an innovative solution, which is deployed;
- The innovator cannot submit the same innovation which has been found winner in the past edition of this Award;
- Participation in the Award presentation at the Security Research Event is mandatory for the Award nominees’;
- Applications must be received by 19 March 2025, 20.00 CET.
