23 April 2025
EUCCS Project recognized by the European Commission in the new EU Security Strategy: A crucial contribution to European resilience.
The first half of 2025 marked a significant milestone for the EUCCS (European Critical Communication System) and particularly for the work led by the EUCCS Preparation program, coordinated by PSCE (Public Safety Communication Europe). The European Commission, under the leadership of President Ursula von der Leyen, has published its new security strategy for the European Union (2025-2027), and we are honored to be explicitly mentioned. This official recognition underscores the strategic importance of our initiative within the European security landscape. EUCCS stands at the intersection of priorities defined in the security strategy (ProtectEU[1]) and the newly adopted EU Preparedness Strategy[2], aimed at strengthening the European Union’s collective resilience against hybrid, natural, or intentional threats.
“Being identified as a key item to Strengthen EU security capabilities in the European Union’s Internal Security strategy is a strong signal,” states David Lund, coordinator of the EUCCS Preparation programme at PSCE Europe. “EUCCS embodies a concrete response to European ambitions in terms of resilience, digital sovereignty, and the protection of European citizens.”
EUCCS: At the heart of the EU’s operational resilience
Our project directly aligns with several key objectives of the EU Preparedness Strategy, including:
– Strengthening crisis communication capabilities: We are working to make crisis communications interoperable between Member States and with our international partners. This results in improved coordination of relief efforts, real-time information sharing, cross-border cooperation and lives saved through seamless communication. Communication wherever you are, whenever you need it, for public safety responders and with whomever you need to communicate (aka Operational Mobility)[3].
– Integrating hybrid threats into planning scenarios: We are working to be able not only to react to crises, but to be able to anticipate hybrid threats.
– Developing a European crisis management architecture: We are contributing to building a secure, interconnected, and seamless operating system for crisis management. This means faster and more effective responses when every second counts. This architecture shall be flexible enough to constantly be able to integrate innovation.
These priorities address the Commission’s expressed need to anticipate crises rather than simply react to them, and to build a Union of preparedness through robust common capabilities.
A European ambition
The EUCCS project embodies the European Union’s desire to make Europe a security community, based on innovation, cooperation, and technological sovereignty. It contributes to making Europe a stronger and more resilient global actor in the face of hybrid threats, geopolitical crises, and increasing cyber risks. We are proud to contribute to making Europe a safer and more resilient space. Together, we are building a future where every European citizen can feel protected, regardless of the threats, and where public safety responders can operate in the most timely and secure manner.
EUCCS Preparation is an EU-funded program, previously known as BroadEU.Net. It builds on the experience of the projects BroadWay[4] and BroadMap[5], and it supports the establishment and realization of the Europea Critical Communication System (EUCCS): a pan European mission critical high-capacity mobile communication system for law enforcement, emergency response and all Public Protection and Disaster Relief (PPDR) responders. EUCCS Preparation involves experts from most of the EU Member States and Schengen countries to develop interconnected national testbeds to further explore and de-risk the technologies that will make the EUCCS possible.
[1] [1] COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS on ProtectEU: a European Internal Security Strategy – Document 52025PC0148 – https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A52025PC0148
[2] [2] JOINT COMMUNICATION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE EUROPEAN COUNCIL, THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS on the European Preparedness Union Strategy https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/circabc-ewpp/d/d/workspace/SpacesStore/b81316ab-a513-49a1-b520-b6a6e0de6986/file.bin
[3] ‘Operational Mobility’ has always been a foundational objective of BroadWay and now the EUCCS Preparation programme.
