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This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under agreement No 883424

  1. ENTRANCE at a glance
  2. ENTRANCE Consortium

Role of partners

A strong consortium

Most organisations and individuals in ENTRANCE have already collaborated through previous successful EU funded projects such as C-BORD, CORE, CONTAIN, EUROSKY and are reuniting their capabilities to build the value chain of NII for effective border controls. A further strength of the consortium is the participation of five practitioners - Border Guards Authorities and/or Customs Authorities - readily engaged to defining the requirements and testing the solutions onsite. Besides technical aspects, the ENTRANCE solution will have been designed by customs, for customs.

Complementary expertise

The ENTRANCE partners combine a range of expertise as briefly described below:

Technology suppliers:

  • Research & academia: CEA, the University of Padova and the Ruder Boskovic Institute are technology suppliers from the public research institutes and universities with extensive knowledge and long research track records in inspection range of technologies, nuclear material detection systems and illicit material detection
  • SMEs: Arktis Radiation Detectors, Iris Instruments, ETC and CAEN are experts in the technology domains that are relevant for the inspection of containers and large-volume freight
  • Large industry: Smiths Detection and Bertin Technologies are major industrial technology providers specialised in security equipment (X-Ray imaging systems and Gamma / neutron detectors)

Practitioners: Ministry of Finance, Croatia, Financial Directorate of the Slovak Republic, National Customs Agency of Bulgaria, Belgian Customs and Excise and the Ministry of Interior, Croatia are Border Guards Authorities or Customs Authorities. Practitioners with expertise on customs’ requirements and challenges related to container inspection at Border Control Points

Experts: Joint Research Center, Center for the Study of Democracy and Michael Doherty Customs and Border Security Services all have expertise in technology assessment, practitioner requirements, ethical and sociological issues

Service provider: ARTTIC handles both the project management and communication and dissemination activities to ensure that the project results deliver a strong impact to relevant stakeholders

Universita Degli Studi di Padova

Website

https://www.unipd.it/en/

Location

Padova, Italy

Universita Degli Studi di Padova

Role in the project

Università degli Studi di Padova (UNIPD) is one of the largest universities in Italy and the foremost in terms of research. UNIPD will be the WP3 leader of the ENTRANCE project.

In the project, UNIPD will bring well-established knowledge in the Tagged Neutron Inspection System, acquired during the previous C-BORD project. UNIPD also designed a TNIS mobile system within the SMANDRA Italian system in collaboration with CAEN. Finally, UNIPD is experienced in the general design and operation of a mobile system for cargo scanning operations in the MODES_SNM project.