TRANSCEND: Transdisciplinary methods for societal impact assessment and impact creation for security research technologies

欧洲的研究与创新（R&I）和安全政策旨在通过部署安全技术来应对威胁欧洲社会的挑战。安全技术通常旨在促进公共安全，保障和增加社会弹性。与此同时，安全技术引发了争议，并可能产生巨大的社会、法律、伦理、经济和政治影响。这类技术往往侵犯人权，再现并加剧权力不平衡和社会不公正。在安全技术的研究和开发过程中，民间社会很少或有限制地参与，因此社会关注的问题可能无法在这一过程中得到很好的解决。安全技术和R&I不应造成社会不信任或错失共同建设社会复原力的机会。TRANSCEND旨在改善公民和社会参与安全R&I的实践：使个人和代表他们发言的组织能够积极和创造性地参与设计和部署的迭代过程。TRANSCEND将开发一个方法工具箱，以加强民间社会在安全R&I中的参与。该工具箱将在四个试点项目中进行测试和评估，与来自学术界、政府、行业和社会的跨学科参与者密切合作，与各种“实地”组织密切合作。这四个试点项目分别侧重于网络安全、抗灾社会、打击犯罪和恐怖主义以及边境管理。TRANSCEND框架将提供关于如何设计和构建有意义的民间社会和公众参与，以进行安全研究技术的社会影响评估的指导方针，并为TRANSCEND工具箱的使用提供特定领域的说明。TRANSCEND将有助于在整个欧盟范围内采用公民和社会参与的有效方法，从而使公民社会有更大的发言权，在正确的桌子上占有一席之地，并使安全从业人员有动力和装备来加强这种参与。

European research and innovation (R&I) and security policies aim to address challenges that threaten European societies by deploying security technologies. Security technologies are typically intended to promote public safety, security and increase societal resilience. At the same time, security technologies spur controversies and can have enormous societal, legal, ethical, economic and political impact. Such technologies often infringe human rights, reproduce and reinforce power imbalances and social injustice. Civil society is rarely or restrictively involved during research and development of security technologies, and thus societal concerns might not be well addressed in this process. Security technologies and R&I should not create societal mistrust or missed opportunities to jointly build societal resilience. TRANSCEND aims to improve practices of citizen and societal engagement in security R&I: to enable individuals, and organisations that speak on their behalf, to participate actively and creatively in iterative processes of design and deployment. TRANSCEND will develop a Toolbox of methods to enhance the involvement of civil society in security R&I. The Toolbox will be tested and evaluated in four pilots, in close collaboration with diverse ‘on the ground’ organisations by bringing together transdisciplinary actors from academia, government, industry and society. The four pilots focus on cybersecurity, disaster resilient societies, fighting crime and terrorism and border management respectively. The TRANSCEND Framework will present guidelines on how to design and structure meaningful civil society and public engagement for societal impact assessment for security research technologies and present domain-specific instructions for the use of the TRANSCEND toolbox. TRANSCEND will contribute to the uptake of effective methods for citizen and societal engagement throughout the EU, so that civil society are given a louder voice, a place at the right tables and security practitioners are motivated and equipped to enhance such participation.