The REACT project wants to identify how communication strategies can be built with an impact on the process of effective risk awareness and prevention in the field of national security. To achieve this, we have proposed, inter alia, to identify which is the social perception about the risks to national security, to evaluate to what extent this perceptions differs from the way in which risks are defined in the official documents governing national security and, subsequently, to outline some elements to substantiate effective communication strategies.
In this paper we try to evaluate the steps taken so far by the project team, to present the partial results obtained after applying the Q sort method on a sample of 100 subjects, from four different target groups and to identify some lessons learned throughout this process.
Acknowledgement: „This work was supported by a grant of the Romanian National Authority for Scientific Research and Innovation, CNCS – UEFISCDI, project number PN-II-RU-TE-2014-4-1669.”