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Athens, Greece \u2013 <\/strong>The MEDEA Consortium is proud to organise and launch an Open Call for Security Solutions and Ideas, running from September 20th<\/sup> to November 19th<\/sup> 2021.<\/strong> <\/p>\n A few words about the MEDEA project<\/strong><\/p>\n MEDEA is an EU funded project which has brought together multi-disciplinary security practitioners in the Mediterranean and Black Sea (M&BS) Region with the<\/strong> aim to support and enhance their societies\u2019 safety, security, and resilience. To that effect, this community has defined a coherent strategy to jointly tackle existing and emerging security challenges<\/strong> across technological, human, organisational, and regulatory dimensions.<\/p>\n Open Call for security solutions and ideas<\/strong><\/p>\n The MEDEA Project aspires to fulfill fifty-five capability gaps identified by security practitioners in the M&BS Region. Solution providers, innovation pioneers, researchers, academics, policy makers, and experienced security practitioners<\/strong> are encouraged to participate and submit their proposals, products, and solutions so as to improve security practitioners\u2019 operational capabilities in the following thematic areas, i.e.: <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Why participate<\/strong><\/p>\n This open call process will offer a unique opportunity<\/strong> to solution providers and innovators to engage<\/strong> in a constructive dialogue with first-line practitioners<\/strong> and to understand their operational needs<\/strong> with the scope of limiting, or altogether eliminating, identified and frequently occurring capability gaps, and anticipating adversities in a better equipped manner. <\/p>\n Additionally, the responders to this call will be offered incentives. Selected security solution providers<\/strong> will be offered the opportunity to engage <\/strong>with potential end-users and demonstrate<\/strong> their solutions in a series of proof-of-concept demonstrations. Likewise, selected security innovators<\/strong> will be offered cash prizes<\/strong>, recognition, and advertisement of their submission. <\/p>\n More information on how to submit your application is available on our website<\/a><\/span> , where you shall find all the details specified in the Terms of Reference<\/strong>, the practitioners\u2019 identified capability gaps documented in Annex 2<\/strong>, who can participate and how, as well as what the benefits are.<\/p>\n For frequent updates, and news you may follow us on:<\/p>\n\n
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