Provide ground-breaking advances in view of coping with “extreme data”, i.e. data that exhibits one or more of the following characteristics, to an extent that makes current technologies fail – increasing volume, speed, variety; complexity/diversity/multilinguality of data; the dispersed data sources; sparse/missing/insufficient data/extreme variations in values

The actions should address the integration of relevant technologies (e.g. big data, AI, IoT,
HPC, edge/fog/cloud computing, language technologies, cybersecurity, telecommunications,
autonomous systems etc.) as a means towards achieving the goals, and foster links to the
respective research, industrial and user/innovator communities

Provide better technologies, tools and solutions for data mining of large, constantly growing amounts and varieties of data, and/or extremely sparse/dispersed/heterogeneous/multilingual data, in particular IoT, industrial, business, administrative, environmental, scientific or societal data

Introduction

The recent COVID-19 crisis has demonstrated that the ability to rapidly identify viruses on scene are crucial to ensure adequate risk assessment, optimal risk management, and proper counter measures. Consequently, a determining factor is to bring a rapidly deployable diagnostic capacity as close as possible to the crisis area

Scope

Pandemics risk mitigation comprises prevention, preparedness and post-crisis management, including networking, regional and international partnership, consolidating, coordinating and optimizing existing capabilities in terms of expertise, training, technical assistance and equipment

Objectives

– Inventory and comparison of existing mobile laboratories

– New (mobile laboratory) solutions for the fast, reliable and unambiguous detection and identification of infectious agents, diagnostic tests, monitoring and mapping of contamination and enhanced field data communication to decision-making authorities.

– Strategies to orchestrate mobile laboratory capacities in the EU, and improvements in the management of trained staff in Europe

Firearms are the lifeblood of organised crime in Europe as well as worldwide.

Firearms trafficking is a big enabler of organised crime and terrorism.

– developing technological solutions for addressing new threats such as 3D printed firearms
– improving the intelligence picture in firearms trafficking developing solutions to facilitate and approximate a systematic collection on data on all firearms seizures
– developing a European-level tool tracking in real-time all firearms-related incidents or shootings and extracting continuously
updated data
– increasing knowledge on the legal limitations and room for improvement in police and judicial cooperation in the field of firearms trafficking, developing tools to enable automated cross-border exchange of ballistics information
– improving international cooperation by supporting operational cooperation between the Police Authorities and other relevant security practitioners of the EU and of third countries

– Contribution to the implementation of the 2020-2024 EU Action Plan on firearms trafficking;

– Improved intelligence picture of firearms trafficking in Europe

– Harmonised procedures in the investigation of trans-border crimes in full compliance

with applicable legislation on protection of personal data

– Improved cooperation between European Police and Border Guards Authorities, as well

as with international actors, in tackling this form of crime

– Strengthened ability of security practitioners to identify organised crime networks involved in firearms trafficking in an early stage

– Enhanced ability of security practitioners to prevent the emergence of organised crime networks involved in firearms trafficking, and respond to the threat of existing organisations

Intro

Environmental crime breaches environmental legislation and causes significant harm or risk to the environment, climate and/or human health. Environmental crime is highly lucrative, but the sanctions are low, and it is often harder to detect than more traditional forms of organised crime. These crimes present a high risk for the environment, climate and health, and are very harmful to society as a whole. The extent of the problem is clearly demonstrated by waste trafficking, which is characterised by the clear interconnection between criminal actors and legal businesses.

Scope

Law Enforcement Agencies) LEAs need new means, both technological and intelligence-based, to prevent and combat illegal environment-related activities, such as illegal waste dumping (e.g., developing or improving existing technologies able to differentiate such substances from non-pollutant components, possibly involving remote sensing approaches), in detecting hazardous waste (e.g., fuel or electronic equipment), and in having a complete intelligence picture of this type of crime.

Objective

– Improved intelligence picture of organised environmental crime in Europe.
– Improved tools and innovative training curricula for European LEAs and Border Guards Authorities, validated against practitioners’ needs and requirements.
– Improved cooperation between European LEAs, Border Guards Authorities and other national Authorities involved in tackling this form of crime.
– Improved cooperation with third countries and international actors involved in the fight against environmental crime.
– Enhanced ability of security practitioners to identify and prevent emergent and existing organised crime networks involved in environmental crime.
– Increased ability of public services to detect places of illegal waste storage.
– Shaping and tuning of environmental crime regulation.

Intro

Trafficking in cultural goods has become one of the most profitable criminal activities for organised crime groups and the booming art and antiquity market is creating new business models for organised crime. At the same time, the art and antiquity market is also one of the least regulated markets in Europe, characterised by a lack of traceability.

Scope

– Robust research on methodologies that prioritise new data collection and analysis, and applications towards the development of evidence-based policy.

– Proposals should support the gathering of intelligence and the development of tools that relevant practitioners need to fight this crime and to collect actionable (cross-border) evidence acceptable in court

Objectives

Improved and validated tools (including the lawful court-proof collection of crime evidence) for European Police Authorities, Border Guards and Customs Authorities to tackle criminal activities related to trafficking of cultural goods.