TRESSPASS is a H2020 42-month Innovation action project that covers air, maritime and land (including car and train) border crossing points, and specifically travel routes that combine different modalities. It excludes border crossings outside of border crossing points, as it happens with boats of refugees on the Mediterranean. With regards to threats, this includes smuggling, irregular immigration, cross border crime, and terrorism, including threats to the transport itself (e.g. aviation security – per the topic text). It also excludes other threats as posed by state-actors. The project includes all tiers
of the four-tier access model:
(1) measures undertaken in, or jointly with third countries or service providers;
(2) cooperation with neighbouring countries;
(3) border control and counter-smuggling measures, and
(4) control measures within the area of free movement.
TRESSPASS will
(a) develop a single cohesive risk-based border management concept
(b) develop three pivoting pilot demonstrators: Schiphol Airport, Polish Land Border at External EU crossing control point and Port of Piraeus
(c) demonstrate the validity of the single cohesive risk-based border management concept by using red teaming and simulations
(d) prepare for the further development of this concept beyond this project by linking to other known risk-based border management projects (in- and outside EU, within EU research frameworks and on national levels), and describe how their
results contribute to a single cohesive risk-based border management concept.
TRESSPASS is a strong European Consortium of 22 partners.
TRESSPASS project is funded by the European Union and the Horizon 2020 programme, under Grant Agreement no 787120.