Andreas Kriechbaum-Zabini, AIT expert and Thematic Coordinator in the area of Surveillance & Protection, has been accepted into the European Commission's Community for European Research and Innovation for Security (CERIS) as the only Austrian representative of a total of 15 representatives from all over Europe. In all EC committees with a total of 65 representatives, Kriechbaum-Zabini is the second Austrian expert to advise at the European level.
A central goal of the CERIS group is the exchange and networking between the European security research community and the users of research results. In 2014, the European Commission established the Community of Users for Safe, Secure and Resilient Societies (CoU), which comprised around 1,500 registered stakeholders - consisting of policy makers, end users, academia, industry and civil society - and held regular thematic events with the security research community. This platform now continues the work of the CoU under the new name "Community for European Research and Innovation for Security (CERIS)" and expands it in view of the upcoming developments of Horizon Europe in the period 2021-2027. More information here.