STAIR4SECURITY- STANDARDS, INNOVATION AND RESEARCH FOR SECURITY

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A wide range of security threats including man-made and natural risks can result in disruptive events having serious consequences for societal and citizen security. Both, public and private stakeholders require adequate solutions in organization, procedures and technological capabilities to be able to respond timely and effectively. Thus, there is a need to develop specific standards to enable the various public and private organizations within Europe, being local, national, European or international to be effectively coordinated ensuring as much as possible a smoothly cooperation before, during and after a disruptive event. The main objective of this proposal is to propose a collaborative platform as single entry point of information on the security sector coming mostly from research activities allowing a better governance of standardization needs in the Disaster Resilience and Chemical Biological Radiological Nuclear and Explosive (CBRN-E) sectors. The aim of the platform is to permit a better overview of current and new projects being at, national, European or International level; ensuring more coordination between all stakeholders and responding more efficiently and timely to the critical needs following an agreed strategic vision and identified priorities. Besides ensuring the necessary partnering network, the project will review the necessary tools and mechanisms including the CEN and CENELEC Workshop Agreement (CWA) process and a fast-track procedure to adopt, if market relevant, a CWA or any other deliverable or reference document e.g. TS and TR into a consensus standard (EN). Possibilities and conditions to include classified information in a non-consensus standard (CWA, TS or TR) will also be explored.