Fostering research security
Protecting the knowledge base — people, data, intellectual property and partnerships — without closing down the openness that makes European research work.
Research ecosystems are now part of strategic competition. European universities, institutes and companies are expected to stay open — to publish, to collaborate across borders, to host visiting researchers — while also protecting intellectual property, sensitive data and the people who hold it. Openness without safeguards exposes an institution to leakage, intrusion and reputational damage, and it does so quietly: the loss is usually discovered long after the partnership that caused it was signed.
CORE works with research organisations, funders, ministries and companies to make that judgement systematic rather than instinctive. A typical engagement produces a research security risk assessment, a map of sensitive technology and data exposure, a due-diligence checklist for new partnerships and a policy template the institution can adopt — followed by training for principal investigators and technology-transfer officers, and a scenario exercise on leakage or compromise. This is the first link in the chain: everything CORE does on technology transfer, dual-use scaling and information dominance assumes a knowledge base worth protecting, and protected.
