NewsInnovation creates demand for upskilling, says Executive Director at EU Innovation Hub event
CEPOL Executive Director, Montserrat Marín Lopez participated, as keynote speaker, at the EU Innovation Hub for Internal Security Annual event,
organised on 3 October in Brussels in cooperation with the CERIS Community (Community for European Research and Innovation for Security). The event brought together approximately 180 participants, including policy makers and law enforcement officials, as well as representatives from research organisations and EU-funded R&D projects.
Topics of discussion included:
- the role of Key Enabling Technologies (KETs) in enhancing or delivering new capabilities;
- how AI ‘regulatory sandboxes’ can be used to develop, test and validate AI-based tools in full compliance with EU regulations;
- the challenge of encryption and access to data; and
- ensuring the uptake of innovation stemming from EU-funded security research.
Speaking during the high-level panel session, Ms. Marín Lopez acknowledged that the combined efforts of the Hub’s members, and working together as a team, have been the driving force behind the success of this initiative. She also reiterated CEPOL’s commitment to continue contributing to the Hub’s activities, within the scope of the agency’s Strategy 2023-2027:
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Since the Hub’s establishment in 2020, CEPOL has been actively supporting its activities, such as the development of the Accountability Principles for Artificial Intelligence in the field of Internal Security (AP4AI), aiming to provide solutions to assess, review and safeguard the accountability of AI usage by internal security practitioners in line with EU values and fundamental rights. CEPOL also promotes the Hub’s work, as EMPACT coordinator of the common horizontal strategic goal 6 ‘Capacity building through training, networking and innovation’.
Furthermore, to raise awareness among law enforcement officials regarding the available tools offered, CEPOL has delivered the following webinars:
The above webinars are already available or will be uploaded soon in LEEd, the agency’s Law Enforcement Education Platform.
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About the EU Innovation Hub for Internal Security
The EU Innovation Hub for Internal Security is a collaborative network of innovation labs that was established by the Council’s Standing Committee on Operational Cooperation on Internal Security (COSI) in February 2020. The EU Innovation Hub is a cross-sectorial EU platform and aims to ensure coordination and collaboration between all innovation actors of the wider field of the internal security. The Innovation Hub, being composed of various EU Agencies, European Commission (HOME and JRC), the Council General Secretariat and the EU Counter Terrorism Coordinators Office, works to provide the latest innovation updates and effective solutions to support the efforts of internal security actors in the EU and its Member States, including justice, border security, immigration, asylum and law enforcement practitioners.
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