Rising Pan European and International Awareness of Biometrics and Security Ethics (RISE) is an international initiative for promoting Awareness on Ethical Aspects of Biometrics and Security Technologies.

RISE will deepen, enlarge, and ensure continuity to European and international dialogue already instigated by the international conferences on ethics and biometrics organised by the EC DG Research and the US DHS Privacy Office respectively in Brussels and Washington DC in 2005 and 2006. RISE is a 36 month Coordination and Support Action (CSA) funded under FP7, SP 4 Capacities, Grant agreement number: 230389.

Dialogue must be global

Policy must be ethically informed

Conversation must be ongoing

Preparing and convening a third international conference in China

Preparing and convening a European multi-stakeholder conference

Preparing and convening a fourth international conference in Europe.