Announcements


Invitation to Frontex Industry Days

2020-01-15

Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency is organising the next Frontex Industry Days on 17-18 March 2020. We are eager to learn of the latest technological developments, products and services in the field of border control and surveillance.

The Industry Days will feature pioneering products made available by industry and showcase them to the end user community of Member States’ border authorities and Frontex experts. The aim of the event is to create a forum to freely discuss innovation in border control among all participants.

If your company is interested in presenting a new technological development, please sign up to participate via our dedicated expression of interest form available here, providing a brief description of your company and product. Please note that places are limited and submissions will undergo an assessment process. The selection of the submitted proposals will be based on the novelty and potential impact of the company’s products and/or services for the border guard community. Frontex will contact all of the interested companies to communicate the outcome of the selection.

The deadline for participation in this call is 30 January 2020, 12.00 noon Warsaw local time.

The Industry Days will take place at the Frontex Headquarters, 6 Plac Europejski, Warsaw, Poland from 17 to 18 March from 9am to 4pm, Warsaw local time. Participation is free of charge, however all costs related to transport, accommodation, etc. will need to be covered by the interested participants.


Follow-up

Due to sanitary restrictions, the event was rescheduled online to 12, 14, 26, and 27 May.

Following our announcement, 14 industry representatives were invited to an online panel discussion to explore the technical aspects of their proposed solutions in-depth.

Participants included Frontex experts, representatives from Member States, the European Commission and European Agencies such as EMSA, EASA, EFCA, eu-LISA and EU SatCen and International Organizations such as UNHCR.