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Transcrime Analytics at the World Bank
Prof. Ernesto Savona, Michele Riccardi and Alberto Aziani will provide the presentation ‘Transcrime analytics: innovative approaches on money laundering, corruption and illicit financial flows’ at the World Bank during the seminar co-hosted by the Anticorruption CoP and The Office of the Executive Directors 21. During the seminar, which will be…
New year, new challenges, new logo. Message from the Director
Transcrime was established in 1994 as a Joint Research Centre on Transnational Crime, anticipating scholars, practitioners and policy makers on this issue. Six years later, the signature of the United Nations Convention on Transnational Organised Crime consolidated the past successful experiences of combatting transnational crime and opened the way for…
2022: a great success for Transcrime and Crime&tech in leading innovative research for reducing crime
The year 2022 marks a great success for our research centre Transcrime and its spin-off Crime&tech. We were awarded more than 18 projects: 5 Horizon Europe projects; 5 DG Home – Internal Security Fund (ISF) projects; 1 DG Justice project; 7 projects funded by other institutions; And a high…
Transcrime has been awarded as coordinator project INVERT
Transcrime has been awarded as coordinator project INVERT (Identifying compaNies and Victims in the Exploitation phase to disRupt the financial business model of adult and child labour Trafficking), part of the ISF Programme funded by the European Commission. This project aims at counteracting the use of legal companies by labour…
Collaboration between Università Cattolica – Transcrime and Dipartimento Giustizia Minorile e di Comunità of the Ministry of Justice
It was recently signed the new collaboration between Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore-Transcrime and the Dipartimento Giustizia Minorile e di Comunità of the Ministry of Justice. This activity stems from the need to enhance the collaboration between the two institutions for the acquisition, exchange and analysis of data, as well…
The new Transcrime report mapping opaque corporate structures in Europe
It is now available on our website the project Datacros Final Report. This project has focused on studying the distribution of opaque corporate structures across Europe, analysing anomalies in 56 million companies’ structures, and has developed the first prototype tool specifically designed for public authorities that allows real time identification…
The second Newsletter of Project MEDI-THEFT with Transcrime analysis on organized theft of medicine
It is now available the second newsletter of Project MEDI-THEFT, the EU funded project coordinate by AIFA – Agenzia Italiana del Farmaco, aiming at counteracting organised theft of medicines across the EU. In this second Issue, available on the official project website (here), Marco Dugato provides a comprehensive…
Transcrime takes part in an operational action of the EMPACT platform coordinated by the Dipartimento della Pubblica Sicurezza to counter mafia infiltration in the legal economy in Europe
The presence and the investments of Italian mafias outside national borders are now well established. Therefore, it becomes essential to increase collaboration and exchange of information between Law Enforcement Agencies to better understand, investigate, prevent and counter the expansion of these groups. In response to this need, it was decided…
Project PARSEC Kick-off Meeting in Bruges
In these last two days we have joined the Kick-off Meeting of Project PARSEC in Bruges. PARSEC is a project funded by the European Commission as part of the Horizon Programme, focusing on parcel and letter security in the context of postal and express courier services. This project aims at…
Fermi kick-off meeting in Munich
On the 17th and 18th of October, as Transcrime we joined the in-person kick-off meeting of project FERMI – Fake nEws Risk MItigator in Munich. This project is funded by the European Commission as part of the Horizon programme. During these two-days event we had the chance to meet in…
Transcrime si aggiudica il progetto SHRINEs
Transcrime has been awarded, as partner, project SHRINEs, funded by the European Commission as part of the Internal Security Fund – Police programme. This project will last for 2 years, and will promote an inter-faith network to raise awareness and dialogue among different religions on the importance of using technological…
Transcrime has been awarded project ALLIES
Transcrime has been awarded, as partner, project ALLIES (AI-based framework for supporting micro (and small) HSPs on the report and removaL of onLIne tErroriStContent), funded by the European Commission as part of the Internal Security Fund programme. This project will last for 2 years, and aims at supporting micro (and…
“The theft of medicines in the EU”: the new report on pharmaceutical crime
Today we published the report “The theft of medicines in the EU”, the new paper presenting key results of the Medi-Theft Project. The study was conducted by Marco Dugato and Cosimo Sidoti in collaboration with AIFA – Agenzia Italiana del farmaco, Arma dei Carabinieri, Fondazione SAFE, Affordable Medicines Europe…
The new study mapping Juvenile Gangs presence in Italy
Today we published the new report which has focused on analysing Juvenile Gangs in Italy, providing a new classification and map of their presence in our country. This study, written by Transcrime – Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore together with the Servizio Analisi Criminale del Dipartimento della Pubblica Sicurezza del…
Tenacity kick-off meeting in Athens
In the last two days as Transcrime we joined the in-person kick-off meeting of project Tenacity – Travelling Intelligence Against Crime and Terrorism (GA 101074048) in Athens. This project is funded by the European Commission as part of the Horizon programme. The consortium of the project, composed of 17 partners…
Project Emeritus Kick-Off Meeting
Today we joined the online kick-off meeting of Project Emeritus, funded by the European Commission (GA 101073874). Crime&tech, spin-off company of Transcrime and Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore joined this event as partner, together with the coordinator of the consortium, Gmv Aerospace And Defence S.A., and the other 21 partners.
Transcrime has been awarded project Recover
Transcrime has been awarded, as partner, project RECOVER – Mutual recognition of freezing and confiscation orders between efficiency and the rule of law, funded by the European Commission as part of the Justice Programme (JUST). This project, carried out in cooperation with the University of Catania and several judicial authorities…
Apply to the International Ph.D in Criminology
It is now possible to apply to the public competition for the International Ph.D. in Criminology of 2022. Check out all the requirements in the official Call available here in Italian and English. More information on the Ph.D. programme are available on the dedicated page of Università Cattolica…
Transcrime and Guardia di Finanza Lombardia against mafia infiltration in the PNRR
Yesterday, on the 30th anniversary of the Capaci bombing, Transcrime research center and Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore signed with the Comando Regionale Lombardia of the Guardia di Finanza the new partnership for the development of models and indicators aimed at identifying frauds and preventing mafia infiltration during the distribution of…
Cryptocurrencies and Anti-Money Laundering: the new Summer School by Transcrime and Università Cattolica
Being aware of the risks of money laundering and terrorist financing associate with cryptocurrencies and crypto-assets is becoming more and more important nowadays, especially as a consequence of the huge diffusione of these tools and recent policy regulations improvements. The new Summer School – Cryptocurrencies and Anti-Money Laundering, organized…
The new report on criminal schemes in online counterfeiting
Today was published the final report of project FATA – From Awareness To Action, the new study by our spin-off Crime&tech and the Direzione Centrale della Polizia Criminale – Ministero dell’Interno on online counterfeiting. The project was carried out with the support of Amazon and was developed to study…
Transcrime and Crime&tech awarded with 5 Horizon Europe projects
Transcrime, together with its spin-off Crime&tech, is awarded five Horizon Europe projects, from cluster number 3 of the programme, focusing on Civil Security. Horizon Europe is a key funding programme for research and innovation created by the European Union. It aims at facilitating the developing of new and innovative solutions…
Inside the matrioska: the firms controlled by sanctioned ‘oligarchs’ across European regions and sectors
Transcrime research center is proud to present the latest analysis carried out in collaboration with its spin-off Crime&tech srl. In this study, the researchers have worked to track and identify those companies owned by russian oligarchs, who had been sanctioned during the last few weeks. With this innovative analysis,…
TOM – The Ownership Monitor: a new hub for analysing business ownership structures
Transcrime and Crime&tech launch TOM – The Ownership Monitor. This is an innovative hub which collects all our research and development projects aimed at analysing business ownership structures and their links with crime. TOM is producing analyses, tools and trainings. We are partnering with company and BO registries, business…
DATACROS II Kick-off Meeting
Today, on Wednesday February 23rd, was the day of the Kick-off meeting of project DATACROS II – Empowering a Tool to Assess Corruption Risk factors in firms’ Ownership Structure (ISF Police 2017-AG-CORRUPT-101038736), co-funded by the European Commission – DG Home Affairs and coordinated by Transcrime. This represents the second phase…
