The European Defence Agency (EDA) has asked RAND Europe to compile an inventory of cyber defence capabilities at the European level (in the context of EU-led missions) and of European Member States. The research will gather empirical evidence on policy, doctrine, training, and organisational issues relating to military cyber-defence capabilities. Given the role of non-military actors in cyberspace, the study will analyse and chart the interdependencies between military cyberdefence and other organisations, such as national and governmental computer emergency response teams.
The Dutch National Security Strategy utilizes a risk assessment model to protect society and civilians within its territory from internal and external threats. RAND Europe has been asked to examine the validity of the preference profiles and associated weighting currently used in the analysis of the Dutch National Risk Assessment, and also to provide advice and recommendations on which method is most suitable and on how best to reflect the views of the Dutch public in the National Risk Assessment.
The European Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy is eager to know what priority measures and actions should be undertaken in the area of internet innovation, especially when those innovations conflict with citizens' right to privacy. It has asked RAND Europe to review EU privacy safeguards as well as current and likely tensions in the EU between technology and privacy, and to suggest ways to promote further internet-based innovation and competition in the EU while respecting citizens’ right to privacy, for example by way of privacy-by-design.
RAND Europe has been asked to analyse the legal situation in five countries regarding the conflict of interest problem that arises between requests made under U.S. e-discovery rules and national laws regarding data protection and privacy. The research team will use national correspondents in the five countries along with a small number of interviews with key stakeholders in order to conduct the fieldwork.
RAND Europe is working alongside nine other partners from across Europe on a 3.5 year-long study of radicalisation for the European Commission. The project, SAFIRE, aims to review the evidence base and pilot an intervention in order to draw lessons for European counter-terrorism. RAND Europe is responsible for the review and quantification of the literature on radicalisation, clarifying what we know and how reliable it is. It will also be running a workshop with frontline workers in order to identify indicators of radicalisation and it will compare these with the evidence found in the literature.
It is important for Europe to understand and manage how its critical defence technologies depend upon foreign suppliers. RAND Europe — along with partners in Sweden (FOI) and France (ONERA) — is researching the extent of these 'dependences' to better understand critical risks and how they might be best managed. The results of the study will assist the European Defence Agency (EDA) in defining a roadmap to address key issues.
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