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    Frontex Signs Working Arrangement with State Border Service of Azerbaijan

    2013-04-16

    Warsaw, 16 April, 2013 — Representatives of Frontex and the border authority of Azerbaijan signed a Working Arrangement today. Executive Director Ilkka Laitinen represented the Agency in a signing ceremony with Lieutenant-General Elchin Guliyev, Chief of State Border Service of the Republic of Azerbaijan, at the Frontex headquarters in Warsaw.

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    Above the snowline — cold-weather survival training for air crews

    2013-04-15

    Nothing is easy in deep snow. The simple act of walking is rendered impossible without snow shoes. Other indispensible equipment includes the right clothing, from socks and underwear to gloves and sunglasses, and of course the essential compass and map. Only then, given the right training, do you stand a chance against the elements. Hence the first day of cold-weather survival training for air crews starts with the basics — a run-through of clothing and equipment.

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    Call for Expressions of Interest: Pool of Experts on Automated Border Control

    2013-04-12

    The Frontex Research and Development Unit (RDU) invites relevant candidates to express their interest in participating in a pool of experts in the field of Automated Border Control (ABC). Interested experts are invited to submit their applications in response to this Call for Expressions of Interest (CEI). Candidates will be shortlisted for the pool on the basis of their professional and technical ability and their capacity to carry out the tasks described in the CEI.

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    Call for White papers on rapid deployable and cost-effective land border surveillance systems

    2013-03-27

    At the core of Frontex’s research and development (R&D) work is exploration of the potential offered by new border management technologies to meet the dual objective of enhancing security while facilitating travel. The Agency proactively monitors and contributes to developments in research relevant to the control and surveillance of the external borders. Frontex also keeps Member States and the European Commission up to date with developments.

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    Border control in the information age

    2013-03-26

    This vision of the future relies to a large extent on technology to improve security, convenience and cost-effectiveness in border control where a key enabler is the use of biometrics. The Smart Borders package was presented to the Council and the European Parliament by Commissioner for Home Affairs Cecilia Malmström as a means of creating an “Open, secure Europe,” that will facilitate, speed up and reinforce the border-check procedures at the EU external borders for third-country nationals.”

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