Zaragoza, April 24th 2025
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) and in which Teltronic is actively participating as the leader of one of the four consortia selected to lay the groundwork and conduct initial user trials for a system aimed at strengthening interoperability and cross-border communication.
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 EUCCS Project is explicitly mentioned. This official recognition underscores the strategic importance of the initiative within the European security landscape.
EUCCS stands at the intersection of priorities defined in the security strategy (ProtectEU1) and the newly adopted EU Preparedness Strategy2, 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
The project directly aligns with several key objectives of the EU Preparedness Strategy, including strengthening crisis communication by making them interoperable between Member States and with international partners. This results in improved coordination of relief efforts, real-time information sharing, cross-border cooperation and lives saved through seamless communication.
The project also works on integrating hybrid threats into planning scenarios, in order to be able not only to react to crises, but to be able to anticipate them.
Finally, EUCCS Project is contributing to building a secure, interconnected, and seamless operating system for crisis management, meaning 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.
The project is contributing to 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 BroadWay4 and BroadMap5, 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.
