17.04.2023
Civil Security from Space
A new programme for civil security and protection enabled by space assets.
ESA has created a new multi-disciplinary programme that aligns ESA with European stakeholders’ needs, to propel the integration of Europe’s competencies and assets into monitoring, mitigating and resolving civil security and crisis events.
The World Economic Forum’s 2021 Global Risks Report puts extreme weather events and cybersecurity failures among the most prominent current and future challenges the world is facing, ahead of any other economic, environmental or geopolitical risks. In the same direction, the recent sixth report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) raises awareness on the escalation of climate-related risks as well as their interaction with non-climatic risks “creating compound and cascading risks that are more complex and difficult to manage”. There is a need to act swiftly to further protect Europe’s citizens and institutions, and to support critical infrastructures.
ESA’s Civil Security from Space Programme (CSS) aims to foster the use of space-based solutions, which help save lives and livelihoods and enable civil security players to act swiftly to support humanitarian responses, law enforcement, safety and emergency events, anywhere, at any time and for the benefit of everyone.
The CSS Programme offers European industry the opportunity to boost the use of space and deliver the necessary tools to address the challenges of civil security and crisis management.