New research shows European universities’ cooperation with Israel in EU security research programmes

 

The European Union has several research cooperation funding programs, which are open to some non-EU countries including Israel.

Stop Wapenhandel made an overview of all the cooperation under FP7, Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe with the three major Israeli arms companies (Elbit, IAI and Rafael) and with the Israeli Ministry of Defence and Ministry of Public Security (including non-security related projects) for European higher education establishments (excluding military, police and security academies) and all the security-related research projects under the same three programmes with the involvement of Israeli entities and European higher education establishments (excluding military, police and security academies).

Total funding for Israeli entities under Framework Programme 7 (2007-2013 – €879 million), Horizon 2020 (2014-2020 – €1.28 billion) and Horizon Europe (2021-2027 – €503 million until 2023) adds up to over €2.6 billion.
Israel’s participation in the Framework Programmes, the EU’s main seven-year R&I funding instruments, and in particular the participation of its military and security industry ands its participation in the security themed parts of these programmes, has been criticized many times. In 2018 the European Network Against Arms Trade (ENAAT) was one of the signatories of a call to “immediately exclude all Israeli military and security companies from the EU framework programs”.

The overview of the cooperation, ordered by European country, can be found here:
https://stopwapenhandel.org/european-universities-cooperation-with-israel-in-eu-security-research-programs/.

For further research the cooperation lists are also available in the form of comprehensive online spreadsheets.

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