[src08.fr] The Third European Security Research Conference (SRC’08)
will be held in Paris on 29 and 30 September 2008. Organised under the
French Presidency of the European Union, this event will bring together
more than 1,200 representatives from the worlds of research, industry
and European institutions. SRC’08 is organized by the Ministry
of Higher Education and Research, the Ministry of the Interior,
Overseas Territories and Local Authorities and the Ministry of Defence
with the support of the European Commission. The
main objective of SRC’08 will be to showcase the concrete implications
of security research for citizens on the one hand and to stress the
need to bring together research and innovation offers and security
needs and the market on the other hand.This conference, which is also part of the actions undertaken under the European Security Research Programme (ESRP) of the 7th
Framework programme (FP7), will be opened by European authorities
representing the Commission and the Parliament as well as by the
Ministers in charge of research and domestic security (depending on
interventions by other authorities).