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Mission The mission of the IPSC is to provide research results and to support EU policy-makers in their effort towards global security and towards protection of European citizens from accidents, deliberate attacks, fraud and illegal actions against EU policies

The Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen (IPSC) is one of the seven institutes of the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC).

Located in Ispra, Italy, the Institute provides scientific and technological support to European Union policies in many different areas, including global stability and security, crises management, maritime and fisheries policies, monitoring of agricultural resources, compliance monitoring, protection of critical infrastructures and nuclear safeguards. Moreover, the Institute performs statistics and information analysis for the evaluation of the effectiveness of policies.

acrobat logoIPSC's core competencies are in the field of engineering and information technologies, including satellite image processing and analysis, open source information analysis, structural mechanics, risk assessment and nuclear safeguards.

 
Annual Report for 2008 (acrobat logo 2.8MB)

Working at IPSC Opportunities exist to join this Institute and to carry out challenging and interesting work. Candidates of strong intellect who wish to pursue a research- oriented career have a number of options.
At present there are open grantholder and trainee posts at IPSC.

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