Scope of Our Project

The main aim of INTERCEPT is to enhance the capabilities of European law enforcement authorities and provide them with effective means to safely stop vehicles remotely. We initiated our actions in response to the needs reported by security forces with a focus on vehicles that pose imminent and high-security threats to citizens and society. There are still serious challenges with the early detection of potentially dangerous situations; monitoring detected events, and coordinating security forces’ response

The project team, together with security stakeholders, will identify technology gaps to be addressed to reduce existing vulnerabilities and improve security efficiency. Based on this, a security use case and related challenges will be defined. These will form the foundation for conducting a Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) project, during which specific solutions will be developed. Learn more about PCP here.

The INTERCEPT project stems from the work carried out in the i-LEAD project. Following discussions between procurement teams and experts in stopping vehicles, a joint technical specification for a solution to stop motot vehicles remotely was prepared. However, it became clear that no electronic or electrical device could universally stop all vehicles, leading to the decision for a PCP action to support the required advancements. INTERCEPT is a project that will lay solid foundations for this procurement initiative.

Learn About Goals

We will extract common security needs from a range of public buyers who share a chain of security processes.

A value of INTERCEPT is the consideration and visibility of the potential EU-based supply of technical alternatives that reflect the demand in the EU market for common security technologies.

INTERCEPT will achieve this through broad access to consolidated practices, guidelines and aligning commonly shared requirements with market innovators and their innovations. The work will be facilitated through common validation strategies, rapid innovation, experimentation and a Pre-Commercial Procurement action.

Consolidating demand for innovative security technologies

We will extract common security needs from a range of public buyers who share a chain of security processes.

Better informed decision-making related to investment in innovative security technologies

A value of INTERCEPT is the consideration and visibility of the potential EU-based supply of technical alternatives that reflect the demand in the EU market for common security technologies.

Increasing the innovation capacity of EU public procurers

INTERCEPT will achieve this through broad access to consolidated practices, guidelines and aligning commonly shared requirements with market innovators and their innovations. The work will be facilitated through common validation strategies, rapid innovation, experimentation and a Pre-Commercial Procurement action.

Check the Milestones

Beginning of the project

Workshop: Use Cases Review

Athens, Greece

Open Market Consultation

Warsaw, Poland

Workshop: Security Processes

Finland

Final Validation of Common Challenge

Lecce, Italy

End of the Project

Paris, France

Beginning of the project

Workshop: Use Cases Review

Athens, Greece

Open Market Consultation

Warsaw, Poland

Workshop: Security Processes

Finland

Final Validation of Common Challenge

Lecce, Italy

End of the Project

Paris, France

TARGET GROUPS

LEAs and local authorities

who want to improve their capability to safely stop vehicles remotely, plus those interested in the uptake of security research and innovation in relation to the fight against terrorist threats.

Public procurers and contracting authorities

responsible for investing in innovative security technologies. INTERCEPT caters for those interested in better understanding the potential of EU-based supply of technical alternatives that address common needs of EU public buyers.