Higher Education Institutions (HEI) are interested in stimulating students’ creativity with freedom of movement, easy access to laboratories, libraries and shared work and leisure spaces. Meanwhile, terrorist threats at universities exist as exemplified by the last year Prague University attack. In addition, there are all sorts of chemical reagents, biological or radioactive materials or high-energy substances (CBRNE) present, which provides a lure for terrorists especially given by the freedom of movement and reluctance to set up restrictive security systems. The UNICOPS project aims to enhance the security of students and staff member at universities in EU MS.

Planned activities include:

• analyses of existing national regulations as well as internal procedures
• hands-on observation of current security system during a series of study visits (12 in 9 EU MS)
• creation of procedures, recommendations to improve existing security systems especially directed at CBRNE threats
• development of the training programme consisting of mixture of traditional (handbook, leaflets etc.) and more attractive especially for young people like interactive game (THOR) containing scenarios of different CBRN events
• equipping wide range of specialists from different groups (e.g.: students, administrative staff, laboratory staff) with relevant CBRNE knowledge
• verification of effectiveness of proposed solutions under near real-world conditions through large scale exercises (4) to validate both the recommendations and developed procedures.

The developed training programme will be available and ready to be implemented by all interested EU universities.

The broad composition of the consortium, (9 universities from 6 EU MS), gives a direct access to more 260 000 people (including UNIC members). Planned scientific activities (articles, conferences), together with developed ready-to-be-implemented tools will increase the security of EU MS students and staff by improving their resilience and response to CBRNE acts.