More investments in security research
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Video surveillance of public places remains a controversial issue. Is the restriction of freedom rights the price that has to be paid to protect citizens from terrorism and crime? (Foto: JOKER / Sascha Müller-Jänsch)
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Over the next few years, the Federal Government is going to spend 100 million EUR to support security research and integrate it into its high-tech strategy. This was also emphasised recently by Federal Research Minister Dr. Annette Schavan at a national conference entitled "Future Security" in Karlsruhe: "This is precisely where research is called for. If we want to prevent freedom rights being put under pressure for the benefit of security, we must seek innovative solutions. We have to take advantage of the opportunities that new advanced technologies and the concomitant action strategies and organisational forms offer. Here, we must increasingly implement results of social science causal research because security depends on maintaining a lead in research and science and implementing results in organisation and technology."
The topic is to play a key role in Germany's EU Presidency in the first half of 2007, too. Furthermore, it is going to be firmly established in the 7th EU Research Framework Programme for 2007 to 2013. Experts will be discussing state-of-the-art research and future prospects for security research at the first European Conference on Security in Berlin in March 2007.
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