About the CORPS project
"The most important under-addressed threat relating to terrorism, and one which acutely requires new thinking on the part of the international community, is that of terrorists using a biological weapon."
(Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary General, United Nations, 27 April 2006).
The above statement by the former UN Secretary General clearly indicates the need for societies to address the possibility of biological weapons being directed against them and to develop appropriate countermeasures.
Centre for Biosecurity and Biopreparedness (CBB), Statens Serum Institut, and the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO) are carrying out the EU-project CORPS - Cross-sector Observations of Threat Perceptions and Research Priorities for Biological Homeland Security in Europe
The overall project objective is to establish a network of agencies involved in biological homeland security in Europe, to analyse their security- and threat perceptions and institutional values in order to provide policy recommendations on the prioritization of Research and Development activities needed to counter biological terrorism.
The analysis will be based on 2 questionnaires that are distributed to respondents across Europe.
The information collected from the questionnaires will form the basis of a set of policy recommendations on the prioritization of R&D activities in biological homeland security in Europe. Only participants in the project, who include various European organisations in the field of biological preparedness and defence, will have access to the project reports.
The project will deliver to participants:
- Insight into differences in threat perceptions
- Assessment of needs to improve preparedness capabilities
- Access to a database of persons involved in biological homeland security in Europe
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