Impacts

PopEye aims to strengthen the EU’s border management capacity by providing Border Authorities and Law Enforcement Agencies with next-generation, privacy-preserving biometric technologies that ensure reliability, usability, scalability, throughput, and risk minimisation, outperforming the state-of-the-art offer. We foresee our a number of social, economic, and environmental impacts:

• Enhance the security and resilience of the Schengen area, improving the EU’s capacity to respond to accidents, natural disasters, and security challenges (i.e., trafficking, piracy, terrorism, cyber and hybrid threats).
• Strengthen the operational performance of Border Authorities by enhancing accuracy, reducing human error, mitigating bias, and enabling better-informed decision-making.
• Improve the traveller experience by creating seamless, non-intrusive, and faster border control processes, while upholding the protection of fundamental rights.
• Foster citizen trust in and social acceptance of biometric technologies and AI-driven systems through transparency, communication, and stakeholder engagement.

• Reduce the environmental footprint of border operations through streamlined, digitalised, and more resource-efficient processes
• Enable smarter transport and logistics, indirectly reducing emissions from congestion and inefficient border crossing management