FACT
Horizon 2020 Secure Societies recipients
Horizon 2020 Secure Societies
Visible amount
€1,700,000,000
Amount status
programme_total
Period
2014-2020
- EU Security Industry & EU Money Research file / Tier 2
Money flank
The EU Subsidy Layer Behind Security Tech
EU public money helped build the security, border, biometrics, and surveillance technology ecosystem through R&D programmes, operational funds, and project grants. FACT The subsidy environment is European as well as transatlantic; it should not be reduced to a US-only story. INFERENCE
Public money built the market too
The maintained EU security-industry grant table records Horizon 2020 Secure Societies, FP7 predecessor funding, named corporate recipient totals, controversial border projects, the Internal Security Fund, the Border Management and Visa Instrument, and interoperability budget records. FACT
This page preserves the dossier's European co-belligerence distinction. The wider security market is not only imported from US vendors; EU institutions also finance, procure, and normalize the surveillance stack through their own programmes. INFERENCE
Precision limits travel with the row. The Idemia and Sopra Steria shared Biometric Matching System record is shown as having no public vendor-award amount in checked sources, while the interoperability line is a programme budget rather than a vendor contract. FACT
EU Grant And Programme Records
Programme totals, recipient totals, project amounts, and no-public-amount limits are kept distinct.
FACT
FP7 security-research recipients
FP7 security-research predecessor
Visible amount
€1,400,000,000
Amount status
programme_total_approximate
Period
FP7 predecessor period
- EU Security Industry & EU Money Research file / Tier 2
FACT
Thales
Horizon 2020 Secure Societies
Visible amount
€33,100,000
Amount status
recipient_total
Period
2014-2020
- EU Security Industry & EU Money Research file / Tier 2
FACT
Leonardo
Horizon 2020 Secure Societies
Visible amount
€23,200,000
Amount status
recipient_total
Period
2014-2020
- EU Security Industry & EU Money Research file / Tier 2
FACT
Airbus
Horizon 2020 Secure Societies
Visible amount
€17,800,000
Amount status
recipient_total
Period
2014-2020
- EU Security Industry & EU Money Research file / Tier 2
FACT
Atos
Horizon 2020 Secure Societies
Visible amount
€14,100,000
Amount status
recipient_total
Period
2014-2020
- EU Security Industry & EU Money Research file / Tier 2
FACT
Indra
Horizon 2020 Secure Societies
Visible amount
€12,300,000
Amount status
recipient_total
Period
2014-2020
- EU Security Industry & EU Money Research file / Tier 2
FACT
iBorderCtrl consortium
EU border-security R&D project
Visible amount
€4,500,000
Amount status
project_amount
Period
Horizon 2020 period
- EU Security Industry & EU Money Research file / Tier 2
FACT
ROBORDER consortium
EU border-security R&D project
Visible amount
€7,990,000
Amount status
project_amount
Period
Horizon 2020 period
- EU Security Industry & EU Money Research file / Tier 2
FACT
iMARS consortium
EU border-security R&D project
Visible amount
€6,990,000
Amount status
project_amount
Period
Horizon 2020 period
- EU Security Industry & EU Money Research file / Tier 2
FACT
Internal Security Fund recipients
Internal Security Fund
Visible amount
€1,910,000,000
Amount status
programme_total
Period
2021-2027
- EU Security Industry & EU Money Research file / Tier 2
FACT
Border Management and Visa Instrument recipients
Border Management and Visa Instrument
Visible amount
€6,200,000,000-€7,900,000,000
Amount status
bounded_programme_range
Period
2021-2027
- EU Security Industry & EU Money Research file / Tier 2
FACT
EU interoperability framework implementers
Interoperability framework budget
Visible amount
€461,000,000
Amount status
programme_total_not_vendor_award
Period
2019-2027
- EU Security Industry & EU Money Research file / Tier 2
- Debunked / Corrected Claims Ledger Ledger / Tier 1
FACT
Idemia and Sopra Steria
Shared Biometric Matching System framework
Visible amount
No public amount
Amount status
no_public_vendor_award_amount_in_checked_sources
Period
four-year duration with optional extensions up to six years
- EU Security Industry & EU Money Research file / Tier 2
- Debunked / Corrected Claims Ledger Ledger / Tier 1
Subsidy is not command
These records support a public-money story: EU programmes subsidize security technology and operational infrastructure that later becomes a policy and procurement environment. FACT The closed-loop market interpretation belongs to the dossier's analysis and to the cited research file, not to any single grant row. INFERENCE
That distinction keeps the scanner-market anchor intact. Thorn and Safer remain the strongest documented vendor-lobbying conflict; the EU subsidy layer shows a broader European market context around security technology without converting every grant into evidence of a shared surveillance agenda.