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Prevent and Detect – DATACROS III Training
“How to early-detect organised crime infiltration, corruption and fraud: red-flags and best practices” 14 November 2025 | 10.30 – 16.30 CET Webinar on Webex I processi di appalto pubblico, concessione di autorizzazioni locali e contratti di servizio sono target primari per le strategie di penetrazione…
Kick-off Meeting of SECURE: Strengthening the Rule of Law against Corruption
Corruption is a powerful driver of organised crime within the European Union, and the exposure of Member States has been highlighted by recent scandals. According to Europol’s recent report, today over 70% of the EU’s major criminal networks currently rely on corruption to move illicit assets, misappropriate public funds…
Fighting Labour Exploitation: Final INVERT conference
“Disrupt to Protect: Fighting Labour Exploitation Through Innovation” Date and time: 19 September 2025, h. 9:00 – 13:00 Location: Brussels – Online participation Final INVERT conference Labour exploitation persists across Europe, particularly in high-risk sectors characterised by complex supply chains and…
Professor Ernesto Ugo Savona Receives 2025 ESC Criminology Award
Today, our Director, Professor Ernesto Ugo Savona, was awarded the 2025 ESC European Criminology Award. Announced at the 25th annual conference of the European Society of Criminology in Athens, the award recognised his lifetime contribution to the field. This prestigious tribute acknowledged his achievements over his 55-year academic career, his…
Transcrime and Crime&tech at the XXV ESC Annual Conference
Eurocrim25 Conference: “Logos of crime and punishment” 3-6 September 2025 – Athens, Greece At the 25th Eurocrim Conference organised by the European Society of Criminology (ESC), researchers from Transcrime and Crime&tech will present our latest findings on issues including human trafficking, labour exploitation, organised crime, disinformation, the…
EMERITUS: investigative protocol and technologies to detect waste crime
Waste crimes, including waste dumping, trafficking, and illegal storage, are multifaceted environmental offences. Investigating them is challenging not only due to complex modi operandi and multiple actors involved, but also because their environmental impact is often not immediately visible. The Horizon Europe-funded project…
Transcrime awarded ISF project SECURE to strengthen anti-corruption enforcement
SECURE is a research project co-funded by the European Union’s Internal Security Fund. Its aim is to strengthen anti-corruption efforts across Europe by addressing current and emerging threats. The project will enhance anti-corruption enforcement by: reviewing the anti-corruption pillar of the EU Rule of Law (RoL) report and analysing obstacles to…
Conference: ‘Assessing risks in the supply-chain”
A conference in Italian will be held on 4 June at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan. It will bring together researchers, authorities and compliance and security professionals from leading Italian companies to discuss risk assessment in supply chains. Date and time: 4…
Four journeys into criminology: meet the PhD students of the XL cycle
What pathways lead to a PhD in criminology? For Davide, Gaia, Alessandro, and Sara, the answer is as varied as their backgrounds. Yet, for each of them, it was a blend of personal passion, professional experience, and intellectual curiosity. Finance, engineering, law, and statistics. Each…
NextIJ training sessions for investigative journalists
The Next-IJ project is offering a series of three online investigative journalism workshops designed to improve the skills of European journalists in key areas such as data journalism, investigative techniques and the essential ethical and legal frameworks needed for effective reporting. These workshops will take…
25 years of the ESC – memories of Ernesto Savona (ESC President 2003-2004)
The following article was produced by Professor Ernesto Savona, Director of Transcrime, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the European Society of Criminology and is available on the ESC website. In 2003, when I was elected President of the ESC, the driving idea was the opening of…
High-Level Corruption: An Analysis of Schemes, Costs and Policy Recommendations
The FALCON project has published a comprehensive policy brief that examines corruption schemes and societal impact, and provides policy recommendations to enhance anti-corruption efforts across Europe. Corruption, defined broadly as the misuse of public office for private gain, undermines civil, political, and economic rights, erodes trust in institutions and hinders…
Persistent Sanctions Evasion: Increasingly Transnational Schemes Often Involving Unwitting Companies
KLEPTOTRACE Final Conference – Press Release Authorities from 27 European countries met at Europol HQ to discuss the results of KLEPTOTRACE, an EU co-funded project coordinated by Transcrime-Università Cattolica The Hague, 10 April 2025 – Sophisticated evasion schemes, weak compliance protocols, and jurisdictional loopholes keep eroding the effectiveness…
Online radicalisation, extremism and terrorism: our research within the ALLIES project
As the EU-funded ALLIES project draws to a close, we are sharing the results of our research into the phenomenon of online radicalisation. These efforts have led to the creation of innovative tools, including a unified taxonomy and a risk assessment module, which are now part of the project’s toolbox.
