New project called KLEPTOTRACE

New EC-funded ISF security project for our team called KLEPTOTRACE: “Strengthening EU asset recovery and sanction tracing against transnational high-level corruption” (https://lnkd.in/dzFMe6A5), where the goal is to develop advanced artificial intelligence technologies in order to detect high-level corruption patterns in massive amounts of data.

KLEPOTRACE project kick-off meeting

The KLEPOTRACE EU-funded research project kick-off meeting successfully took place in Milan on June 8th, 2023. The consortium aims to combat high-level corruption methods by strengthening the investigation, tracing, and recovery of assets linked to criminal activities. In this context, the Department of Informatics and Telematics of Harokopio University of Athens (DIT-HUA) will spearhead the […]

Polícia de Segurança Pública Lisbon

Happy to visit today the headquarters of Polícia de Segurança Pública (PSP) and, in particular, the National Firearms Focal Point (NFFP) in Lisbon, in the context of the FCT project Ceasefire Project. Interesting and real-world study case, regarding how artificial intelligence can facilitate the struggle against firearms trafficking.

Final conference of RESPOND-A

It is with excitement (and a little bit of emotion) that took place today the final conference of RESPOND-A in Nicosia, Cyprus hosted by our coordinator CERIDES – Center of Excellence in Risk and Decision Sciences This is the culmination of 3 years of hard work by all consortium members, who worked together to design, […]

Visiting the police warehouses at the Head of the Provincial Police Headquarters in Gdańsk

Visiting today the police warehouses at the Head of the Provincial Police Headquarters in Gdańsk. In collaboration also with the Polish customs authorities, we are developing AI tools for automatically detecting firearms trafficking instances in fast parcel services using X-ray technologies. The first step is to develop real-world datasets. Our research is funded by the […]

Ceasefire’s 2nd physical plenary meeting

On April 4-5, Ceasefire had its 2nd physical plenary meeting in Poland, at the premises of the Provincial Police Headquarters in Gdansk, which is a partner of the project consortium. Members of Ceasefire exchanged ideas and shared progress on this exciting project about combating firearms trafficking, discussing next actions and planning future work.

Workshop on “Europol’s new role in Horizon Europe”

On 14 March 2023, Ceasefire participated in CERIS (the Community for European Research and Innovation for Security) FCT workshop on “Europol’s new role in Horizon Europe”, in Brussels, Belgium. The project was represented by its coordinator CERTH (Mr. Georgios Stavropoulos) and its technical manager HUA (Prof. Georgios Th. Papadopoulos), taking part in a fruitful exchange […]

FCT workshop in Brussels

Attending today in Brussels the CERIS (the Community for European Research and Innovation for Security) FCT workshop on “Europol’s new role in Horizon Europe”, representing FCT projects Ceasefire Project and TENSOR.

Kick-off meeting of TENSOR in Athens

Happy to participate the last two days to the kick-off meeting of the EC-funded FCT project “Reliable biometric technologies to assist police authorities in combating terrorism and organized crime” (TENSOR). The meeting was hosted at the premises of Netcompany-Intrasoft in Athens, Greece. The overall goal is to provide law-enforcement agencies a platform that will facilitate […]

“Modern technologies for combating terrorism financing” seminar

Within the context of ISFP project Anti-FinTer and together with our sister project CTC Project, we are organising a 2-day seminar on “Modern technologies for combating terrorism financing” to be held on 7-8 February, 2023 in Athens, Greece. This is an open invitation for interested stakeholders (researchers, LEA practitioners, developers, SMEs, industry, etc.) to participate […]