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Register Once, Cross Faster: How Pre-Registration is Transforming Land Border Crossings

Written by
James Ferryman
Posted on
15th July 2026

Land border crossings present border management challenges quite different from airports. There is less advance information about who is coming, when, and why. Traffic flows are harder to predict and manage. And the consequences of a slow crossing ar…

Register Once, Cross Faster: How Pre-Registration is Transforming Land Border Crossings

EINSTEIN conducts successful trial in Greece

Written by
James Ferryman
Posted on
8th July 202627th July 2026

The EINSTEIN Project successfully completed its GR Trial on 1–2 July 2026 in Alexandroupolis and BCP Kipoi, Greece. Led by the Center for Security Studies as the Trials Leader, the activity brought together our partners…Read More >

EINSTEIN conducts successful trial in Greece

Your Phone as Your Passport: The Rise of Digital Travel Credentials

Written by
James Ferryman
Posted on
8th July 20265th July 2026

For as long as international travel has required documentation, that documentation has been physical. The biometric passport embedded a digital chip in that physical object but did not replace the object itself. The next evolution is more radical: a …

Your Phone as Your Passport: The Rise of Digital Travel Credentials

Smarter Borders: The EU Entry/Exit System and the Challenge of Real-Time Fraud Detection

Written by
James Ferryman
Posted on
1st July 20265th July 2026

When the EU Entry/Exit System (EES) is fully operational, it will represent the largest expansion of biometric data collection at European borders in history. Third-country nationals entering the Schengen Area will have their facial image and fingerp…

Smarter Borders: The EU Entry/Exit System and the Challenge of Real-Time Fraud Detection

Bridging the Gap Between Research and Deployment: EINSTEIN Hosts First Innovation Procurement Webinar

Written by
James Ferryman
Posted on
25th June 202625th June 2026

On 22 June 2026, the EINSTEIN project hosted its first dedicated exploitation webinar, bringing together participants from across the Stopless Borders Cluster for a 90-minute session on innovation procurement —…Read More >

Bridging the Gap Between Research and Deployment: EINSTEIN Hosts First Innovation Procurement Webinar

Border Control in Your Pocket: How Smartphones are Becoming Fraud Detection Tools

Written by
James Ferryman
Posted on
24th June 202617th June 2026

A decade ago, the idea that a border officer might conduct a biometric identity check using a standard smartphone would have seemed far-fetched. Border technology meant specialist hardware — dedicated fingerprint readers, RFID chip readers, document …

Border Control in Your Pocket: How Smartphones are Becoming Fraud Detection Tools

Is That Passport Real? The Hidden Science of Document Fraud Detection

Written by
James Ferryman
Posted on
17th June 202617th June 2026

A modern biometric passport is one of the most technically sophisticated objects in everyday circulation. It contains a chip with cryptographically signed biometric data, multiple layers of security printing, holographic overlaminates, laser-perforat…

Is That Passport Real? The Hidden Science of Document Fraud Detection

EINSTEIN at Identity Week 2026

Written by
James Ferryman
Posted on
12th June 202612th June 2026

This week, the EINSTEIN project took to the stage at Identity Week Europe 2026 in Amsterdam, with a presentation and panel discussion bringing together technologists, researchers, and border authority practitioners…Read More >

EINSTEIN at Identity Week 2026

Join a Free Workshop on Digitising Identity on 24th June

Written by
James Ferryman
Posted on
11th June 202611th June 2026

On behalf of EINSTEIN, a Horizon Europe-funded project, you are invited to participate in an online workshop on June 24th on the development of solutions for identity and document fraud…Read More >

Join a Free Workshop on Digitising Identity on 24th June

Algorithms That Explain Themselves: The Case for Explainable Biometric AI

Written by
James Ferryman
Posted on
10th June 20269th June 2026

Imagine a border officer is presented with a screen showing that the face recognition system has flagged a passport photograph as a possible morphing attack. The system’s confidence score reads 0.73. The threshold is 0.5. The algorithm says: reject. …

Algorithms That Explain Themselves: The Case for Explainable Biometric AI

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