Under the theme "Making Europe a safer place: demonstrating the impact of EU-funded security research", SRE 2018 demonstrated the strength and inspiring results of security-related research and innovation activities and how these positively contribute to the work being conducted on a daily basis by thousands of security practitioners.
The Security Research Event (SRE) consisted of two interrelated parts:
- A Conference in which the main challenges related to the theme of the event will be addressed;
- An Exhibition that concretely support the conference's theme, featuring 56 projects showcasing their results.
SRE 2018 gathered 800 participants representing a wide range of security stakeholders: researchers, industry representatives, public security providers and practitioners (i.e. fire departments, police, border guards, Law Enforcement Agencies, etc.), as well as a wide number of policymakers from across Europe.
While the first day of the Conference was characterised by two high level panels and a dinner reception sponsored by the Austrian presidency, the second day addressed a number of security-related dimensions such as:

• Border security

• Citizens awareness

• Cybercrime

• Protection of public spaces

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• Maritime Security

• Disaster resilient societies

• Terrorism

• Radicalisation