PNR data are unverified information provided by passengers and collected by air carriers to enable the reservations and check-in processes. It may contain, for example, dates of travel, travel itinerary, ticket information, contact details, travel agent, means of payment, seat number and baggage information. As such, PNR is an important law enforcement tool allowing to prevent, detect and investigate terrorism and other forms of serious crime.

API is commonly understood as the information of a passenger collected at check-in or at the time of online check-in. API information includes biographic data of the passenger, ideally captured from the Machine Readable Zone (MRZ) of their travel documents, as well as some information related to their travel.

Innovation is needed on methods to facilitate the data collection and their quality check as well as to combine different data sets, to sift through vast amounts of data for risk analysis, and to streamline the identity management of passengers, while taking care of the data protection and fundamental rights.

The issue of having representative data sets for training and testing should be addressed as well.

Proposals should take into account the sensitivity of the travel intelligence data and which competent authorities are entitled to request or receive these data. Some of these authorities, notably Passenger Information Units (PIU)15, should be actively involved in the consortia.

Activities could be conducted utilizing various technological approaches as long as the developed solutions deliver the expected improved capabilities. The use of pseudonymisation techniques, rendering personal data unreadable yet searchable, should also be envisaged.

NOTE: Coordination with successful proposals from topic HORIZON-CL3-2021-FCT-01-04 should be envisaged so as to avoid duplication and to exploit complementarities as well as opportunities for increased impact. Proposed activities that could also link with security research for border management would be an asset as well as the testing and/or piloting of the tools and solutions developed in a real setting with one or more Police Authorities and other relevant authorities.

Applicants should plan to facilitate the uptake and replication across setting and up-scaling of the capabilities – i.e. solutions, tools, processes etc.