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Outline Risk Based Border Management Across Air, Land and Sea Bcps TRESSPASS:Outline Risk Based Border Management across air, land and sea BCPs Joint webinar on Dimitris M. Kyriazanos, PhD ethics, privacy and Assistant Director of Research data protection NCSR Demokritos 18 June 2020 TRESSPASS robusT Risk basEd Screening and alert System for PASSengers and luggage is funded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programmeof the European Union for Research and Innovation. Grant Agreement number: 787120 — TRESSPASS — H2020-SEC-2016-2017/H2020-SEC-2016-2017-2 Outline TRESSPASS (robusT Risk basEd Screening and alert System for PASSengers and luggage) Project Coordinated by: Integrated Systems Laboratory Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos” Coordinator: Stelios C. A. Thomopoulos, PhD Dimitris M. Kyriazanos, PhD (deputy) Project coordinator Consortium TRESSPASS - robusT Risk basEd Screening and alert System for Passengers and luggage Funded by the Horizon H2020 Framework Programme of the European Union for Research and Innovation, Grant Agreement number: 787120 Risk Based Border Security - TheOutline story so far… 3 ROBUST ROutlineISK BASED SCREENINGThe AND ALERT Scope SYSTEM FOR PASSENGERS AND LUGGAGE TRESSPASS project includes air, maritime and land border crossing points, and also travel routes that combine different modalities. It excludes border crossings outside of border crossing points. With regards to threats, this includes smuggling, irregular immigration, cross border crime, and terrorism. The scope of TRESSPASS is multi threat, multimodal and includes all tiers of access model: 1. measures undertaken with third countries or service providers; 2. cooperation with neighboring countries; Tiers 3. border control and counter-smuggling measures; Tier 4 4. control measures within the area of free movement. Tier 3 Grant Agreement N° : 787120 Tier 2 Research category: Innovation Action Tier 1 Total Budget: 9.299.391,25 EU Contribution : 7.901.470,75 01 June 2018 - 30 November 2021 4 ROBUST ROutlineISK BASED SCREENINGThe AND Consortium ALERT SYSTEM FOR PASSENGERS AND LUGGAGE Participant Acronym Participant Organisation Name Country No 1 NCSRD National Centre for Scientific Research “Demokritos” GR 2 TNO Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research NL 3 WAT Military University of Technology Poland PL 4 SPH Space Hellas GR 5 SCCH Software Competence Center Hagenberg AT 6 RINA-C RINA IT 7 FHG Fraunhofer Ernst-Mach-Institut DE 8 ED European Dynamics Belgium SA BE 9 NUIM National University of Ireland Maynooth IE 10 INF Infili Technologies PC GR 11 Z&P Zanasi & Partners IT 12 ICTS ICTS (UK) Ltd UK 13 ALU.FR University of Freiburg DE 14 CASRA Center for Adaptive Security Research and Applications CH 15 VV Vicarious Perception Technologies BV NL 16 IAPR Independent Authority For Public Revenue. Directorate of Customs and Excise Duty GR 17 KEMEA-HP Center For Security Studies / Hellenic Police GR 18 PPA Piraeus Port Authority GR 19 HCG Ministry of maritime affers and insular policy/ Hellenic Coast Guard GR 20 RNM Royal Netherlands Marechaussee, Dutch border guard Ministry of Defense NL 21 PBG Polish Border Guard PL 22 AAS Schiphol Airport Authority NL 5 ROBUST ROutlineISK BASED SCREENINGThe AND Objectives ALERT SYSTEM FOR PASSENGERS AND LUGGAGE O1. Develop a single cohesive risk-based border management concept that covers the entire scope, i.e. a four-tier trans-national, multi-modal security tunnel, including concept of operations. O2. Apply an ethics and data protection “by design” approach to ensure legal and ethical compliance of the risk-based screening solutions at borders. O3. Include passenger trust in risk management model and perform sensitivity analysis and optimization. O4. Develop three pivoting pilot demonstrators for demonstration of key conceptual, operational and technical aspects of this concept. O5. Demonstrate the validity of the single cohesive risk-based border management concept by using the developed pilot demonstrators, red teaming and simulations. O6. Prepare for the further development of this concept beyond this project by linking to other known risk-based border management projects. 6 ROBUST ROutlineISK BASED SCREENING AND PilotsALERT SYSTEM FOR PASSENGERS AND LUGGAGE Pilot 2, Land Border, Poland - Belarus Pilot 1, Air Border, Schiphol airport, Amsterdam Pilot 3, Sea Border, Piraeus Port, Greece 7 ROBUST ROutlineISK BASEDTheSCREENING RBBM AND ALERT SYSTEM Concept FOR PASSENGERS AND LUGGAGE Risk Based Border Management (RBBM) The greatest challenge in risk-based border management is the estimation of the risk for each individual traveler. In TRESSPASS we propose a framework for modelling risk and a systematic approach of quantifying risk: 1. Risk indicators are accurately estimated from available data collected and background information. 2. The risk for each traveler is calculated. 3. Based on risk, the system adjusts the number and types of security checks required for each traveler, in order to maintain a desired security level, while optimizing the security system performance in terms of efficiency, traveler satisfaction and operational cost reduction. 8 ROBUST ROutlineISK BASED SCREENINGArchitecture AND ALERT SYSTEM FOR PASSENGERS AND LUGGAGE 9 ROBUST ROutlineISK BASEDLet’sSCREENING get AND ALERT connected! SYSTEM FOR PASSENGERS AND LUGGAGE https://www.tresspass.eu/ Follow TRESSPASS ! Twitter: @TRESSPASS_H2020 LinkedIn account: @TRESSPASSH2020 LinkedIn group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13621796/ Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRgHb_x1n BYsuTZap URleQg Vimeo channel: https://vimeo.com/tresspass Instagram: @tresspass.h2020 10 Outline Thank You Thank You! Stelios C. A. Thomopoulos [email protected] Office: +302106503155 Dimitris M. Kyriazanos dkyri @iit.demokritos.gr Office: +30 210 650 3150 Project coordinator Consortium TRESSPASS - robusT Risk basEd Screening and alert System for Passengers and luggage Funded by the Horizon H2020 Framework Programme of the European Union for Research and Innovation, Grant Agreement number: 787120.
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