Universal CBRNE protection system supporting the safety and open nature of higher education institutions

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Universities are interested in stimulating students' creativity with freedom of movement, easy access to laboratories, libraries and shared work and leisure spaces. Meanwhile, terrorist threats at universities exist as exemplified by the last year Prague University attack. In addition, there are all sorts of chemical reagents, biological or radioactive materials or high-energy substances (CBRNE) present, which provides a lure for terrorists especially given by the freedom of movement and reluctance to set up restrictive security systems. The UNICOPS project is a proposal to enhance the security of international students learning at universities in EU MS. Planned activities include: • analyses of existing national regulations, internal procedures • verification of their effectiveness and vulnerability during a series of study visits (12 in 9 EU MS) • creation of procedures, recommendations to improve existing security systems especially for CBRN • development of the training programme consisting of mixture of traditional (handbook, leaflets etc.) and more attractive especially for young people like VR tools and a game (THOR) containing scenarios of different CBRN events • preparation of wide range of specialists from different groups to respond to CBRNE incidents • verification of effectiveness of proposed solutions under near real-world conditions large scale exercises (4) to validate both the recommendations and developed procedures. The developed training programme will be developed at the PU level of dissemination and available, ready to be implemented by all interested EU universities. The broad composition of the consortium, (9 universities from 6 EU MS), gives a direct access to more 260 000 people (including UNIC members). Planned scientific activities (articles, conferences), together with developed ready-to-be-implemented tools will increase the security of EU MS students and staff by improving their resilience and response to CBRNE acts.