European Network Against Crime and Terrorism

The programming of Security R&I is a highly sensitive exercise which has grown in complexity during the past years. Moreover, the uptake of innovation stemming from EU-funded security R&I projects remains a challenge. The goal of ENACT is to set up a Knowledge Network for Security R&I in the FCT area capable of supporting the EU-funded FCT security R&I cycle and the overall community and market actors with actionable evidence, and boosting the Innovation Uptake of the outcomes and results stemming from FCT Security funded R&I projects.

ENACT brings together the most unique blend of knowledge, background, skills, resources and connections to:

1. Deliver a network enabling service that facilitates the exchange of knowledge and value within the wider FCT community – NETWORKING pillar.
2. Catalogue, aggregate and exploit the existing knowledge on the FCT area ensuring continuous availability of a structured knowledge base accessible to decision makers of the various R&I domains – RESEARCH pillar.
3. Communicate project activities and disseminate & exploit project findings, ensuring continuous availability of updated actionable knowledge in each of the four domains addressed, namely capabilities, technology, market and SSH – Communication, Dissemination & Exploitation (CDE) pillar.
4. Foster cooperation between FCT market actors in order to improve the market visibility and the uptake of innovation – COOPERATION pillar.
5. Ensure the sustainability of the “knowledge as a service” model and the enabled networking environment beyond the project duration – INTRA-OBSERVATORY COORDINATION pillar.

To operationalise these five pillars, ENACT will implement coordination and support measures to extract information from the FCT R&I community, making use of the project’s connections with specific Knowledge Hubs. It will also classify the information according to at least one recognisable taxonomy, define concrete metrics, derive results based on the exploitation of the acquired information and feed them back into the community, thus contributing to a more impactful EU FCT R&I effort, under two major targeted ambitions:

• Provide evidence-based support to the decision-makers in the EU research and innovation (R&I) ecosystem in the FCT domain, targeted explicitly at enabling more  effective and efficient programming of EU-funded R&I for the fight against crime and terrorism.
• Act as a catalyst for the uptake of innovation by enhancing the visibility and reliability of innovative FCT security solutions.