ENACT

The goal of ENACT is to set up a Knowledge Network for Security R&I in the Fighting Crime and Terrorism area capable of i) supporting the EU-funded FCT security R&I cycle and the overall community and market actors with actionable evidence, and ii) 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: i) deliver a network-enabling service that facilitates the exchange of knowledge and value within the wider FCT community; ii) 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; iii) communicate project activities and disseminate & exploit project findings in a timely manner, ensuring continuous availability of updated actionable knowledge in each of the four domains (and corresponding observatories) addressed, namely capabilities, technology, market and Ethical, Legal, and Societal Implications (ELS); iv) foster cooperation between FCT market actors in order to improve the market visibility and the uptake of innovation, and; v) ensure the sustainability of the “knowledge as a service” model and the enabled networking environment beyond the project duration.

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 a 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.

CERTH serves as the technical manager of ENACT, while also leading the final cycle of the knowledge networks’ observatories and managing intra-observatory coordination.

Consortium

Ministério da Justiça, Portugal
MINISTERIO DEL INTERIOR, Spain
MINISTRY OF THE INTERIOR, Finland
MINISTERE DE L’INTERIEUR, France
Netherlands Police, Netherlands
KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN, Belgium
ETHNIKO KENTRO EREVNAS KAI TECHNOLOGIKIS ANAPTYXIS, Greece
INOV INSTITUTO DE ENGENHARIA DE SISTEMAS E COMPUTADORES INOVACAO, Portugal
FUNDACION CENTRO DE TECNOLOGIAS DE INTERACCION VISUAL Y COMUNICACIONES VICOMTECH, Spain
ENGINEERING – INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA SPA, Italy
EUROPEAN ORGANISATION FOR SECURITY, Belgium