PEN-CP focuses on accelerating innovation efforts across three core Customs technical areas: Data and risk management; Detection technologies; and Laboratory equipment. We have a broad variety of innovation and knowledge instruments in use, including Technology grants, Challenge competitions, Innovation awards, Annual studies and Expert reports. 

 

Across our activities, we aim to connect innovation-spirited Customs officers, helping them to ‘find friends in Customs innovation’. The vision is to become a robust and permanent Customs innovation boosting network, helping to accelerate both incremental and radical innovations, for the direct benefit of Customs administrations in Europe and even beyond.

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BORDERLINK is a Horizon Europe project funded by the European Union, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland that enhances customs and border management by pioneering innovative technologies, developing reference databases, and establishing standards to improve interoperability and interconnectivity.

 

By improving interoperability, BORDERLINK enables seamless cooperation between customs administrations, other border control agencies, and security stakeholders. 

 

The 10 Innovations in BORDERLINK:

  

1. Data interoperability in the inland waterways domain

2. Standard Test Units

3. Certified X-ray operator training

4. Library of synthetic X-ray images

5. Federated database for sharing X-ray images

6. Cloud library for reference Raman spectra

7. Eco-friendly recycling service for seized cigarettes

8. Intelligence database of seized cigarettes

9. Educational games on Green customs

10. BORDERLINK Observatory

 

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I-SEAMORE is an Horizon Europe co-funded project that aims to develop an integrated Ecosystem composed of an advanced platform solution to host and manage the operation of several innovative assets, services and systems for maritime operations. It aims to provide European Authorities with increased situational awareness and operational capabilities for Maritime surveillance operations resorting to aerial and water surface support. I-SEAMORE includes the modernization and/or development of a set of services and tools that will enable the MOCs to take advantage from the use of heterogeneous data sources as well as data and information processing mechanisms.

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