Humanitarian Demining related RTD in Central and Eastern Europe

This report has been created within the framework of the EUDEM2 Technology Survey activities. Its goal is to identify and detail demining related R&D activities in Central and Eastern (CE) Europe, as a first step towards drawing a complete picture of the research potential in these countries, a number of which will soon become new EC member states.

The report contains a listing with short descriptions of research centres and commercial companies, situated in 12 CE European countries, which are working on existing or innovative technologies partly or fully useful for advanced Humanitarian Demining (HD) applications.

These institutions have been localised using previous knowledge, publication research and active Internet based research. (Emphasis has been put, in this first release, in documenting lesser known R&D efforts rather than already well known ones, such as those carried out in Croatia.)

It is our hope that this report will help drawing attention to these activities, with the longer term aim of integrating CE countries fully, or at least involving them, into European HD and security related programmes. This is true for the new member states as well as for Russia, in which a total of 29 activities (out of 67), some funded and/or assisted by NATO, are already being carried out.