Shaping ground-breaking technologies to support end-users countering identity-fraud at borders
Tuesday 25th March 2025
10.30am – 12.30pm
The SafeTravellers Horizon Europe project is developing new methods of enabling frictionless, secure and efficient crossing of EU borders. It is exploring options for developing Digital Travel Credentials (DTCs) in a European context together with sensor and other supporting technologies to make this possible, including privacy-preserving mechanisms to meet ethics and GDPR requirements. SafeTravellers is both proposing a new way of citizen identification based on multi-modal biometrics to address current issues with identity documents, as well as an enhancement of the current method of identity verification at the borders through novel mechanisms to detect identity & travel document fraud and attacks on biometric systems.
The European Association of Airport & Seaport Police (EAASP), one of the partners involved in the EU-funded project SafeTravellers, is leading this workshop.
The project aims to deliver a near operational system at Technology Readiness Level 7 or above. SafeTravellers aims to:
a) Strengthen the security at the borders and supporting associated law enforcement identity investigation activities.
b) Improve the productivity of the Border Authorities by providing them with the appropriate tools to perform trustworthy identity management, combat identity fraud at the hardware, identity and travel document, and biometrics level.
c) Offer a frictionless border crossing experience for EU and Third Country Nationals (TCN) citizens so they will not have to stop when crossing the border checkpoints.
At a Workshop at the World Border Security Congress meeting in 2024, practitioners were given the opportunity to contribute their operational wishes for an enhanced border system as part of the requirements definition phase. The aim of the workshop in 2025 is to report progress on said requirements and present the outline plans for Pilot testing in Airport, Land Border, Rail and Maritime environments. Participants will be invited to refine the plans for the Pilots to make them as useful as possible to the wider Border Security community.
The workshop will discuss opportunities for future engagement of participants in project demonstration activities in simulated operational environments.
The opportunity for participants is to identify issues of importance and thereby maximise their benefits from the final solution.
Join this workshop and help shape the future of the SaveTravellers programme.