Methodology

ESRIF and its working groups have followed a general roadmap that is based on the following steps:

• Identification of mid term threats and challenges, taking into account existing security policy decisions, strategies and plans on the European and national level. “Mid term” is thus understood as a future for which more or less concrete planning exists, up to 5-10 years from now.
• Identification of long term threats and challenges, mainly building on foresight and scenario techniques, linking predictions and expectations about future developments with the focal areas of the ESRIF working groups. “Long term” is thus understood as a future beyond a more or less concrete planning, up to 20 years from now.
• Identification of the required capabilities to enhance security within the scope of ESRIF’s considerations, as well as the supporting framework to achieve them (society, market and governance related).
• Identification of the related research requirements, taking into account ongoing and planned programmes and work.
• Prioritisation of the research needs along criteria that ESRIF will define (including effectiveness, acceptability, cost, maturity of technologies, innovation and replacement cycles for large systems, etc.), resulting in a strategic research and innovation roadmap.
• Presentation and communication of the findings.