SANDERA will examine how future developments in European security and defence policies combined with technological change and the evolution of European science and technology policies could interact in intended and unintended ways to affect the pace and character of the move towards the ERA as well as priorities for the 8th Framework Programme SANDERA focuses on the future relationship between two critical European policy domains: namely, the EU strategy since Lisbon to move towards the European Research Area and those EU policies focused on the security of the European citizen in the world Our objective will be to develop scenarios that will enable policy makers, stakeholders and the scientific community to explore the consequences of future developments at the interface between security policy and science and technology policy