The final conference organised within the SecurePART Project - “Strengthening the Links between Civil Society Organizations and Security Research“, took place on 3 March 2016 in Brussels.
SecurePART Project takes into consideration that security is important to everyone and aims to increase the engagement and involvement of civil society organisations in security research in order to allow citizens to take more active role in security.
At this conference, the participants discussed the SecurePART findings about benefits and challenges of strengthening CSO engagement in security research. SecurePART presented its final Action Plan to the European Commission in order to help link Civil Society Organizations with researchers, industry, and policy makers in a productive way, so that Security Research contributes to making society more secure.
The consortium decided that the best format for the final event was a conference with a short introduction of the project, an explanation of the action plan and recommendations for strengthening the links between Civil Society Organizations and Security Research the consortium developed.
In order to assure a fruitful discussion among the different stakeholders participating at the event two panel discussions took place with the following themes:
- CSO participation modes in Security Research
- Future issues on the Security Research Agenda of the EC
More information on the SecurePART project could be found at: http://www.securepart.eu/en/