Over the past two years, more than 600 experts and 65 distinguished personalities from all over Europe intensively debated in an open forum aspects of European Research and Innovation deemed essential to enhancing the security of our citizen. ESRIF (European Security Research and Innovation Forum), is the name of that forum. ESRIF tasks itself to define the European Research and Innovation needs for the mid- to long term, following the ‘public – private dialogue’ as a model.