The MultiRATE project successfully concluded its activities with a high-profile final event held on May 28th, 2025, at the Titania Hotel in Athens, Greece. Organised by M4D, the event gathered over 40 participants, including researchers, industry stakeholders, policy makers, and representatives from EU agencies such as the Policy Officer and SSRI Area Coordinator from DG Home as well as the Project Officer from REA as, and EUROPOL. MultiRATE paved the way of the holistic evaluation of the readiness level of solutions developed in the security domain and will be available to the entire R&D community.
M4D served as the coordinator of the MultiRATE project, overseeing both the scientific and technical management throughout its duration. It also played a key role in developing the project’s Technology Readiness Level (TRL) framework and calculator, used to assess how mature a security technology is.
The main focus of the event was the presentation of the Holistic Readiness Level (HRL) framework, MultiRATE’s main outcome as well as of the Forecasting Module (FM). The HRL offers a comprehensive and multi-dimensional methodology for evaluating the maturity of security technologies, across several critical axes: technological, societal, ethical/legal/privacy, integration, commercialisation, and manufacturing readiness, while the FM supports the evaluation of the investment required to advance a technological element from one Technological Readiness Level to another.
Partners from CENTRIC, Fraunhofer, CEA, ENG, Satways, VICOM, INOV, and VTT also presented the tools and methodologies developed within the MultiRATE project. The HRL framework was validated through several real-world use cases and synergistic research projects that participated in the event, presenting their integration and evaluation efforts. In this context, EU-funded projects such as STARLIGHT, FALCON, TENSOR, SENTINEL, TREEADS, TeamUP, CESAGRAM and VANGUARD, demonstrated how they applied the HRL within their own research, further highlighting its adaptability and relevance for future standardisation and certification efforts.
A panel discussion followed, focusing on the challenges of assessing technology maturity and the potential for adopting tools like the HRL framework in real-world contexts.
The event marked the conclusion of the MultiRATE project, a Horizon Europe project that ran from December 2022 to May 2025. With M4D’s coordination playing a key role in guiding its scientific and technical progress, the project has made a meaningful contribution to advancing the HRL methodology within security and technological innovation efforts across Europe.