The speakers will include Stefaan De Clerck, Belgian Minister of Justice, Dr. Luigi Rebuffi, CEO of the European Organisation for Security (EOS) industrial platform, and Prof. Wolf-Rüdiger Dombrowsky from Steinbeis-Hochschule Berlin. The Essen Security Innovation Symposium will make an important contribution to a better understanding of the steps necessary for the implementation of research results and their innovations. This will be highlighted by the fact that the Security Research Department of the Research Execution Agency (REA) of the European Commission will participate in the event.

"The event will centre on the search for European and international solutions to all-encompassing problems such as exist in a concrete form and are placing new responsibility not only on the state but also on industry and the economy," explains Prof. Dr. Alexander Siedschlag, Director of CEUSS | Center for European Security Studies at the Sigmund Freud Private University of Vienna and organiser of the conference. "Assuming responsibility begins with that knowledge at the international level which this symposium would like to accumulate and pass on."

The event will offer a diverse platform for experts to bring up the relevant security aspects within the framework of international presentations. Siedschlag: "Not only here, security as public property will have to approach the question in what way the public and private sectors will best pursue their interdependent objectives in the future in order to be able to jointly protect the society and the infrastructure."

Until now, 23 speakers from politics, the economy and science who will come from twelve different countries have promised to participate. On October 5, Stefaan De Clerck, Belgian Minister of Justice, will be expected for a speech about the programme of the Belgian presidency of the EU Council in the field of "Home Affairs" and will be followed by Dr. Luigi Rebuffi, CEO of the European Organisation for Security (EOS) industrial platform, who will discuss the consequences of the Lisbon Treaty for the European security industry.