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Upcoming Security Calls as Horizon 2020 enters its final year
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For 2020, there is still a total of €286 million in funding available for Security calls across 21 topics. All of these are 1-stage call topics with a single deadline in August 2020. The budget is broken down into four Calls for proposals, alongside other actions which complement the content of the Calls:
- € 166 million for Security
- Border and External Security
- Disaster-Resilient Societies
- Fight against Crime and Terrorism
- General Matters
- € 69 million for Digital Security
- Cybersecurity, Digital Privacy and data protection
- € 21 million for Protecting the infrastructure of Europe and the people in the European smart cities
- € 20 million for Artificial Intelligence and security: providing a balanced assessment of opportunities and challenges for Law Enforcement in Europe
- € 10 million for other actions

Upcoming deadlines in the ‘Secure societies’ Work Programme 2018-2020
- SU-INFRA01-2018-2019-2020 (IA): Prevention, detection, response and mitigation of combined physical and cyber threats to critical infrastructure in Europe [1]
- SU-AI01-2020 (CSA): Developing a research roadmap regarding Artificial Intelligence in support of Law Enforcement [2]
- SU-AI02-2020 (IA): Secure and resilient Artificial Intelligence technologies, tools and solutions in support of Law Enforcement and citizen protection, cybersecurity operations and prevention and protection against adversarial Artificial Intelligence [2]
- SU-AI03-2020 (CSA): Human factors, and ethical, societal, legal and organisational aspects of using Artificial Intelligence in support of Law Enforcement [2]
- SU-BES01-2018-2019-2020 (RIA): Human factors, and social, societal, and organisational aspects of border and external security [3]
- SU-BES02-2018-2019-2020 (RIA): Technologies to enhance border and external security [3]
- SU-BES03-2018-2019-2020 (IA): Demonstration of applied solutions to enhance border and external security [3]
- SU-DRS02-2018-2019-2020 (RIA): Technologies for first responders [4]
- SU-DRS03-2018-2019-2020 (IA): Pre-normative research and demonstration for disaster-resilient societies [4]
- SU-DRS04-2019-2020 (RIA): Chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) cluster [4]
- SU-FCT01-2018-2019-2020 (RIA): Human factors, and social, societal, and organisational aspects to solve issues in fighting against crime and terrorism [5]
- SU-FCT02-2018-2019-2020 (RIA): Technologies to enhance the fight against crime and terrorism [5]
- SU-FCT03-2018-2019-2020 (IA): Information and data stream management to fight against (cyber)crime and terrorism [5]
- SU-FCT04-2020 (IA): Chemicals: intelligence, detection, forensics [5]
- SU-GM01-2018-2019-2020 (CSA): Pan-European networks of practitioners and other actors in the field of security [6]
- SU-GM02-2018-2020 (PCP): Strategic pre-commercial procurements of innovative, advanced systems to support security [6]
- SU-DS02-2020 (IA): Intelligent security and privacy management [7]
- SU-DS02-2020 (RIA): Intelligent security and privacy management [7]
- SU-DS03-2019-2020 (IA): Digital Security and privacy for citizens and Small and Medium Enterprises and Micro Enterprises [7]
- SU-DS04-2018-2020 (IA): Cybersecurity in the Electrical Power and Energy System (EPES): an armour against cyber and privacy attacks and data breaches [7]
[1] Protecting the infrastructure of Europe and the people in the European smart cities, [2] Artificial Intelligence and security: providing a balanced assessment of opportunities and challenges for Law Enforcement in Europe, [3] Border and External Security, [4] Disaster-Resilient Societies, [5] Fight against Crime and Terrorism, [6] General Matters, [7] Cybersecurity, Digital Privacy and data protection
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