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 number of new clients acquired by Crime&tech.
We would like to thank everyone who helped us in achieving this significant result!
Horizon Europe projects:
- CEASEFIRE – Advanced versatile artificial intelligence technologies and interconnected cross-sectoral fully-operational national focal points for combating illicit firearms trafficking
- EMERITUS – Environmental crimes’ intelligence and investigation protocol based on multiple data sources
- FERMI – Fake News Risk Mitigator
- PARSEC – Parcel and Letter Security for Postal and Express Courier Flows
- TENACITY – Travelling Intelligence Against Crime and Terrorism
Internal Security Fund projects:
- ALLIES – AI-based framework for supporting micro (and small) HSPs on the report and removal of online terrorist content
- DATACROS II – Empowering a tool to assess corruption risk factors in firms’ ownership structure
- INVERT – Identifying companies and victims in the exploitation phase to disrupt the financial business model of adult and child labour trafficking
- KLEPTOTRACE – Strengthening EU asset recovery and sanction tracing against transnational high-level corruption
- SHRINES – Raising awareness for the protection of places of worship by promoting interfaith dialogue on the use of advanced technologies
DG Justice projects:
- RECOVER – Mutual recognition of freezing and confiscation orders between efficiency and the rule of law
Other:
- Infiltrazione della criminalità organizzata nel tessuto economico regionale di Regione Lombardia (Learn More)
- Diagnóstico del marco legal, regulatorio, institucional y tecnológico del Registro de Beneficiarios Finales de República Dominicana (Learn More)
- Institutional capacity and illicit financial flows in Latin America and the Caribbean (Learn More)
- Identification and evaluation of conflict of interests (Learn More)
- Methodology for the assessment of risks of illicit financial flows related to corruption, tax evasion and tax avoidance in selected African countries – REAP Initiative (Learn More)
- Analysis of ownership structures and shareholders in targeted countries and their linkages with jurisdictions with opaque financial sector – REAP Initiative (Learn More)
- CSAE – Study on the implementation of the Directive on Child Sexual abuse and assessment of its impact (Learn More)

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“AML Data Sharing”: the new report on data sharing for AML/CFT purposes
The new report AML Data Sharing: a survey on sharing data for anti-money laundering purposes has been published today. It is the first research conducted in Italy and in Europe on the exchange of information between obliged entities for anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT). The study…

April 26th – Jornada de dialogo en materia de Prevencion de Lavado de Activos y Financiamiento del Terrorismo
On April 26th (9.00 – 17.45, UTC-3), Michele Riccardi will participate as Keynote speaker in the “Jornada de dialogo en materia de Prevencion de Lavado de Activos y Financiamiento del Terrorismo” organized by Banco de la Nación Argentina, with a speech on “Transparency of beneficial and corporate ownership: registry developments…

Summer School on Crypto and Anti-Money Laundering – II Edition
Registrate to participate in the second edition of the Summer School on Crypto and Anti-Money Laundering. It’s organized by Transcrime – Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, in collaboration with Crime&tech and Deloitte. The lessons will be held on June 29-30 and July 6-7, with online participation. The deadline for registrations is June 16th. After the success of the…

“AML Data Sharing” – May 19th – Agenda
Registrations are open for the event “AML Data Sharing: la condivisione di dati a fini anti-riciclaggio“. The event will take place on May 19th, h. 9.30 – 13:30, at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan, Cripta Aula Magna, Largo Gemelli 1. We will present the results of the study…

Transcrime has been awarded the VANGUARD and FALCON projects under the Horizon Europe program
Transcrime has been awarded as a partner two new European projects in the security sector, Vanguard and Falcon. These projects are funded by the European Commission under the Horizon Europe program. The Vanguard project (adVANced technoloGical solutions coupled with societal-oriented Understanding and AwaReness for…

Promenade: Operational Trials and External End-User Webinar
In March, the operational trials phase of the Toolkit developed in PROMENADE was successfully concluded, in collaboration with four EU Border Guards (in Greece, Spain, Lithuania and France). Within the project, Transcrime has developed Risk Investigator, an innovative tool to: trace ownership structures and Beneficial…