Partners

Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research TNO (NL) (Coordinator)

Swedish Defence Research Agency FOI (SE)

University of Kent (UK)

Sogeti Europe (FR)

TEMIS SA (FR)

European Commission – Joint Research Centre, Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen (IT)

Sigmund Freud Private University, CEUSS | Center for European Security Studies (AT)

The CEUSS | Center for European Security Studies (www.european-security info) is a security research department of Sigmund Freud Private University Vienna and in charge of the contribution of Sigmund Freud Private University to CPSI. The Center is a follow-up to a foundation of the Austrian Ministry of Defence on behalf of the republic of Austria (2004-2007). The Center engages in research and in knowledge transfer, including academic teaching, publications and conferences. It acts as an interdisciplinary institution of frontier research and employability-oriented teaching in ESDP (European Security and Defence Policy) affairs as well as in European security research according to the ESRAB/ESRIF (European Security Research Advisory Board/European Security Innovation Forum) definition, conceiving of security research as "research activities that aim at identifying, preventing, deterring, preparing and protecting against unlawful or intentional malicious acts harming European societies, human beings, organisations or structures, material and immaterial goods and infrastructures, including mitigation and operational continuity after such an attack (also applicable after natural/industrial disasters).”

Among the research activities of the Center is the analysis and refinement of methods of security policy analysis. Methodologically, the Center especially focuses on comparative strategic culture research and qualitative methods of strategic studies and public security analysis in inter-nation comparison. 

The Center organizes the annual European Security Conference Initiative (ESCI, www.esci.at). Methodologically, the Center especially focuses on security culture research and qualitative methods of strategic studies and public security analysis and has recently published a textbook on these subjects. The Center has a partnership policy with several research institutions, including official partnerships with NATO School Oberammergau/Germany, the Center for Disaster Research at the University of Kiel/Germany and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR).

In its research methodology, the CEUSS | Center for European Security Studies follows a pluralistic approach resting on methods such as