NATO Science for Peace and Security

The SPS Programme's focus is set by a list of thematic priorities agreed by NATO members.{{Cite web |last= |title=SPS - Key Priorities |url=https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/85291.htm |access-date=2024-08-20 |website=NATO |language=en}} In April 2024, SPS announced the adoption of a revised list of thematic priorities to strengthen its alignment with NATO's strategic outlook and partnership priorities.{{Cite web |last= |title=NATO Allies agree on new Key Priorities for the Science for Peace and Security Programme |url=https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_224670.htm |access-date=2024-08-20 |website=NATO |language=en}}

In line with its revised list of priorities, the SPS Programme supports activities that address at least one of the following thematic areas:

• Environment, Climate Change and Security
• Energy Security
• Innovation and Emerging Disruptive Technologies (EDTs)
• Counter-terrorism
• Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) and Explosive Hazards Management
• Defence against Hybrid Threats
• Resilience
• Critical Underwater Infrastructure
• Cyber Defence
• Assessing and addressing threats posed by the Russian Federation
• Strategic Foresight
• Human and Social Aspects of Security
• Operational Support
• Other proposals linked to the implementation of NATO's core tasks

• "SAPIENCE" is a project involving four teams from universities in the Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States, and Austria in a series of competitions. In simulated disaster scenarios, participants must overcome technical challenges of increasing complexity by employing teams of autonomous drones.{{Cite web |last= |title=NATO backs autonomous drone competition in London |url=https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_228374.htm |access-date=2024-09-03 |website=NATO |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Sense & Avoid - a cooPeratIvE droNe CompEtition (SAPIENCE) |url=https://www.sapienceproject.com/ |access-date=2024-09-03 |website=www.sapienceproject.com}}
• "Hybrid space and submarine architecture to Ensure the Information Security of Telecommunications (HEIST)" is a project launched in 2024 aimed at rerouting the internet to space in the event of subsea cable attacks.{{Cite news |date=2024-07-08 |title=NATO Backs Effort to Save Internet by Rerouting to Space in Event of Subsea Attacks |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-08/nato-backs-effort-to-reroute-internet-to-space-in-event-of-subsea-attacks |access-date=2024-07-21 |work=Bloomberg.com |language=en}}File:DEXTER demonstration.jpg, Italy in May 2022.|253x253px]]
• "DEXTER" was a project involving 11 laboratories in 8 countries in the development of an integrated and affordable sensor-fusion system able to detect explosives and firearms in public places, remotely and in real time.{{Cite web |date=2022-05-26 |title=NATO counter-terrorism project proves its viability in demonstration |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=NATO_Science_for_Peace_and_Security§ion=2&oldid=1241290896&action=edit |access-date=2024-08-20 |website=Janes}}{{Cite web |last= |title=NATO demonstrates new technology to counter terrorism in crowded venues |url=https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_195801.htm |access-date=2024-08-20 |website=NATO |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2022-07-07 |title=ONERA successfully tests an explosives and firearms detection system for NATO |url=https://www.edrmagazine.eu/onera-successfully-tests-an-explosives-and-firearms-detection-system-for-nato |access-date=2024-08-20 |website=European Defence Review |language=}}
• The project "Next-Generation Incident Command System (NICS)" developed and implemented a system to facilitate coordination among first responders across the Western Balkans during natural disasters and other incidents.{{Cite web |last= |title=NATO Science presents: The Next-Generation Incident Command System |url=https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_179991.htm |access-date=2024-08-20 |website=NATO |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2018-04-04 |title=Southeastern European nations are latest to adopt emergency-response system |url=https://news.mit.edu/2018/southeast-europe-nations-adopt-emergency-response-system-nics-0404 |access-date=2024-08-20 |website=MIT News {{!}} Massachusetts Institute of Technology |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2021-10-01 |title=DHS & NATO Wrap Up Disaster Management Project with Final Exercise in North Macedonia |url=https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/news/2021/10/01/dhs-nato-wrap-disaster-management-project |access-date=2024-08-21 |website=Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate |language=en}}
• The project "Demining Robots" brought together researchers from universities in Italy, Jordan, Ukraine, and the United States, who demonstrated the feasibility of a safe landmine and Improvised Explosive Device (IED) detection system relying on a team of cooperative robotic vehicles, each carrying specialized sensors.{{Cite web |title=NATO Humanitarian Demining Robot Tested at F&M |url=https://www.fandm.edu/stories/nato-professors-demining-robots.html |access-date=2024-08-20 |website=Franklin and Marshall College |language=en}}{{Cite web |last= |title=NATO Science presents: The robot that goes first |url=https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_180760.htm |access-date=2024-08-20 |website=NATO |language=en}}
• The Summer School Marktoberdorf is an Advanced Study Institute focusing on computer science which received support from the SPS Programme on multiple occasions.{{Cite web |title=MOD23: Summer School Marktoberdorf 2023 |url=https://events.model.in.tum.de/mod23/index.html |access-date=2024-08-20 |website=Technical University of Munich}}
• Researchers in Belgium, Jordan, Morocco, and the United Kingdom collaborated on the project "Responding to Emerging Security Challenges in NATO's Southern Neighbourhood", which analysed the main geopolitical, socioeconomic and energy-related challenges in the area, developing three alternative future scenarios for the region out to 2030.{{Cite web |last= |title=Responding to Emerging Security Challenges in NATO's Southern Neighbourhood |url=https://www.realinstitutoelcano.org/en/projects/rescale/ |access-date=2024-08-20 |website=Elcano Royal Institute |language=en-US}}
• South Caucasus River Monitoring—assess pollutants and radionuclides in the Kura and Araks rivers, shared by Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Georgia.[https://www.nato.int/docu/water/html_en/water09.html]{{Cite web|url=https://aquadoc.typepad.com/waterwired/2008/05/south-caucasus-river-monitoring-project---v2.html|title=South Caucasus River Monitoring Project: Water for Peace in a Volatile and Strategic Region - WaterWired}}
• Preparation of handbooks on environmental aspects of military compounds (safe drinking water, waste management, energy supply).
• Virtual Silk Highway—satellite-based broadband technology for universities and civil research institutions in the South Caucasus and Central Asia.[https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_58802.htm?selectedLocale=en]
• Safe conversion of mélange (a highly toxic rocket fuel oxidizer left from the Cold War era) in Central Asia.[https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_157613.htm]{{Cite web |title=Rocket fuel disposal: confronting a critical environmental security risk |url=https://www.osce.org/secretariat/57488 |access-date=2024-09-02 |website=www.osce.org |language=en}}{{Cite web |last= |title=Mélange disposal project to start in Uzbekistan |url=https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_46561.htm |access-date=2024-09-02 |website=NATO |language=en}}{{Cite web |last= |title=NATO launches rocket fuel oxidizer destruction project in Uzbekistan |url=https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_59420.htm |access-date=2024-09-02 |website=NATO |language=en}}

• Foreign relations of NATO
• Major non-NATO ally

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• [http://www.nato.int/science/ Official website]
• [https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/140826.htm Annual Reports of the NATO SPS Programme 2013 - present]

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