Horizon Border Security: Accessible Travel Facilitation
Funds two €4M border-crossing tech projects, run with Border or Coast Guard Authorities, built for travelers with disabilities or low digital skills.
Europe already runs some of the most advanced border-crossing technology in the world — automated gates, “no-gate” seamless travel, the Entry-Exit System, ETIAS, and a growing set of digital travel credentials. This topic funds fixing the part that still doesn't work well: these systems are hard to use for families and groups traveling together, people with disabilities or reduced mobility, and tr…
Developing and testing (TRL 6-7) travel-facilitation and border-crossing solutions — automated decision-support for border-check operators, and data-minimising biometric matching — that work equally well for travelers with disabilities, reduced mobility, or low digital skills, without introducing bias. Solutions have to align with Frontex and eu-LISA's border-management priorities and the EBCG Capability Roadmap from the design stage onward, and the consortium has to include at least two Border or Coast Guard Authorities from two different EU Member States or Associated Countries as full beneficiaries.
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