Security Innovation Award 2025 celebrated solutions shaping a safer future for Europe and beyond

On 24 June in Warsaw, the European Commission awarded its Security Innovation Award for 2025 as part of the Security Research Event. This award puts a light on those visionaries who are at the forefront of developing advanced solutions to safeguard our society and protect our citizens. The innovation award is also an opportunity to promote innovations based on EU-funded security research projects from Horizon Europe.

This year again, many excellent applications were received. The Award selection committee after meticulous evaluation procedure identified the most outstanding and mature innovations.

The winner of the “Security Innovation Award 2025” is the CRIMSON solution. CRIMSON was developed to monitor and secure public spaces, natural environments, and critical infrastructures against a wide range of natural and human-made disasters and risks. CRIMSON supports a wide range of use cases ranging from routine security tasks to high-stakes, cross-border, and multi-agency crisis management operations across diverse domains.

The thematic award for the “best innovation with direct support to citizens” went to AinoAid™ service solution. The AinoAid™ service is a chatbot and knowledge bank offering guidance, information, and assistance for people seeking help with their close relationships, particularly in matters of domestic violence.

The thematic award for the “best open-source innovation” was granted to DRIVER+. The DRIVER+ toolkit and in particular the Trial Guide Methodology conceptualises the assessment through trials in three phases (design, crisis simulation and data collection, evaluation) and provides step-by-step guidelines, a list of roles and responsibilities, tools and methods to perform a trial through a clear, structured and co-creative approach.

Background

The Security Research Event (SRE) is a high-level meeting where industry, research, knowledge institutions and governments come together to discuss the state of play and current challenges for security research in Europe. The SRE also includes a large exhibition area dedicated to the EU funded security-related projects.

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