Civil Security for Society 2026 · Advanced border surveillance and situational awareness

Project results are expected to contribute to some or all of the following expected outcomes: • Improved detection, localization, characterization and, when applicable, neutralisation, of unmanned vehicles alone or in swarms, involved in trafficking or smuggling activities across external borders, while complying with legal and ethical guidelines; • Improved border situational awareness, especially in the context of large-scale movements of people across borders,…

Capabilities for situational awareness and surveillance of land and sea borders need improvement, in consideration of potential future challenges that may require updated capabilities. These challenges may include potential future large-scale movements of people across external borders, resulting from future attempts to instrumentalisation of irregular migration, but also from conflicts, social, economic, environmental and climate stress in the European neighbourhood; as…

Activities are expected to achieve TRL 6-7 by the end of the project - see General Annex B.