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CONFERENCE: LEARNING BY DOING.MAKING INTERDISCIPLINARITY WORK

3rd Panel discussion on FP7Cooperation themes

Interdisciplinary Projectsin the field of security

The RESPECT Project

Sveva Avveduto

Brussels, 15 January, 2013

•RESPECT (Rules, Expectations & Securitythrough Privacy-Enhanced Convenient Technologies)

•Funding scheme: Collaborative Project (Small orMedium scale focused research)- FP7-SEC-2011.10.6

•Duration: 36 Months (2012 - 2015)•Co-ordinator: Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

Prof. Joseph A. Cannataci•EU funding: €3,492,687

THE RESPECT PROJECT facts and figures

Sveva AvvedutoCNR-Irpps, Italy

RESPECT's Objectives• Review the actual effectiveness of

surveillance systems andprocedures

• Identify and examine the socialand economic costs

• Determine the legal basis adoptedfor these systems and procedures

• Explore European citizen’sawareness/acceptance ofsurveillance systems andprocedures and Identify thepossible effect of culturalinfluences on citizens’ acceptance


RESPECT's Objectives

• Compare and further develop findings on thesesystems, procedures and attitudes with findingsfound in the FP7 CONSENT and SMARTprojects

• Establish best-practice criteria developed onthe basis of operational, economic, social andlegal efficiency and citizen perceptions

• Develop a tool-kit capable of pan-Europeanapplication on citizens’ acceptance


RESPECT specificity

• Adopting an inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary approach which is both morediverse and more comprehensive than thattaken in previous studies

• Aiming at achieving practical results for keystakeholders capable of being deployedacross and outside Europe


RESPECT’s target audiences andstakeholders

• Policy makers• Police and security services• Technology providers• Data protection authorities• Citizens• Media• Research and Academia


RESPECT Partners Partner name CountryUniversity of Groningen Netherlands

University of Central Lancashire UK

University of Ljubljana Slovenia

Laboratorio di Scienze della Cittadinanza Italy

Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj Napoca Romania

Universitetet i Oslo Norway

Universidad de Leon Spain

Law and Internet Foundation Bulgaria

Uppsala Universitet Sweden

Georg-August-Universität Göttingen StiftungÖffentlichen Rechts

Germany

Sheffield University UK

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover Germany

CNR National Research Council Italy

Univerzita Komenskeho v Bratislave Slovakia

Universita ta Malta Malta

University of Vienna Austria

Masaryk University CzechRepublic

Edith Cowan University Australia

INTERPOL FranceSveva AvvedutoCNR-Irpps, Italy

Workplan and methodology

• RESPECT has been divided into 14research and development work packages

• Three distinct project streams1.Status Quo Analysis2.Citizen Attitudes3.Best Practice


1. Status quo analysis• The design philosophy for

RESPECT implements amulti-disciplinary approachto the issues underinvestigation. It bringstogether serving or ex-policeand intelligence officers withengineers, securityspecialists, IT/privacylawyers, sociologists as wellas experts in consumerbehaviour, marketing and e-government.


2. Citizen attitudes

• RESPECT uses quantitative andqualitative research methodologies to carryout a study aimed at establishing theattitudes of citizens to most forms ofsurveillance and privacy

• web-based questionnaire• focus group discussions


3. Best Practice

• Criteria for fairness covering efficiency,proportionality, privacy and data protection

• Development of a toolkit for policy-makers, system designers andpolice/security forces to implement andpromote a best practice approach basedon the fairness criteria


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