“Modern technologies for combating terrorism financing” seminar

Ceasefire was present on February 7, 2023, in Athens, Greece, at the 2-day seminar “Modern technologies for combating terrorism financing”, supported by ISFP sister projects Anti-FinTer and CTC Project. The technical manager, George Th. Papadopoulos (Harokopio University of Athens), presented Ceasefire on behalf of the project consortium.
The project “KLEPTOTRACE” got accepted

Happy to share that we are involved in one more Internal Security Fund (ISF) accepted proposal! The project is entitled KLEPTOTRACE (“Strengthening EU asset recovery and sanction tracing against transnational high-level corruption”) and will receive funding under topic ISF-2022-TF1-AG-CORRUPT. Overall, KLEPTOTRACE will boost the investigation, tracing and recovery of assets related to transnational high-level corruption, […]
Kick-off meeting of Ceasefire in Thessaloniki

Happy to participate last week to the kick-off meeting of EC-funded FCT project “Advanced versatile artificial intelligence technologies and interconnected cross-sectoral fully-operational national focal points for combating illicit firearms trafficking” (Ceasefire Project), where I serve as the project’s technical manager. The meeting was hosted at the premises of Centre for Research & Technology Hellas (CERTH) […]
Kick-off meeting of Ceasefire Online

Happy to participate today to the kick-off meeting of EC-funded FCT project “Advanced versatile artificial intelligence technologies and interconnected cross-sectoral fully-operational national focal points for combating illicit firearms trafficking” (Ceasefire), where I serve as the project’s technical manager. The overall goal is to develop efficient and reliable AI-enabled technologies to combat firearms trafficking, supporting both […]
First community event of the Anti-FinTer ISFP project

Happy for participating this week in the first major community event of the Anti-FinTer ISFP project, held at the premises of IEF. Instituto de Estudios Fiscales in Madrid, Spain. Among other activities, the project event focused on: a) Delivering training courses (through the project’s first “Knowledge Hub Meeting”) regarding crypto-assets and dark web analytics fundamentals, […]
EC-funded security proposals

Happy to share that in the recent call for EC-funded security proposals, I have been involved in the following 3 successful attempts: Pleased to having coordinated the Ceasefire preparation activities. So, lots of interesting ideas/innovations to implement and many nice partners to collaborate ahead!
Respond A Project Advisory latest updates

Happy to be a member of the Respond A Project Advisory Board and to receive the latest updates of the project developments. Promising technologies are being evaluated for supporting the operational activities of first-responders and a dense plan of field trials to be implemented ahead.
SANCUS Project

Happy to be a member of the SANCUS Project Advisory Board and to be informed about the project’s ongoing activities, aiming at developing sophisticated software suites for evaluating the security of 5G systems. Promising solutions were presented and interesting discussions took place today.
“Anti-FinTer” proposal has been accepted

Happy to share that our proposal “Anti-FinTer” (Versatile artificial intelligence investigative technologies for revealing online cross-border financing activities of terrorism) has been accepted to be granted by the EC Internal Security Fund – Police (ISFP). Looking forward to the implementation phase! Project partners: AIT, FORTH, VICOMTECH, IANUS, CFLW, UL, FNTT, AGENCIATRIBUTARIA, PJ, GDBOP, MOF