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 subcontracting practices – such as agriculture, construction, logistics, fashion, and manufacturing. These fragmented structures often obscure responsibility and enable traffickers to operate through formally compliant intermediaries, making detection and prosecution challenging for authorities.
In the EU-funded INVERT project – led by Transcrime – we developed an advanced toolbox to support EU prosecutors and law enforcement agencies in identifying exploitative businesses and potential victims. The tool has been piloted in real investigations, with the involvement of public authorities, NGOs and research centres.
The project’s final conference will present:
- The INVERT suite, designed to support investigations by integrating and visualising risk data on companies and individuals potentially involved in labour exploitation.
- A set of company-focused risk indicators, aimed at detecting anomalies such as opaque ownership structures, links to high-risk sectors or individuals, and suspicious financial behaviours.
- A set of victim-focused risk indicators, developed to identify vulnerable individuals based on employment patterns, personal profiles, and connections to known or suspected traffickers.
- Discussion with experts and authorities on investigative best practices and innovative judicial measures.
- Analysis of case studies and presentation of validation results and findings from pilot applications
- Training materials to enhance operational capacity and inter-agency cooperation.
This event is aimed at EU prosecutor offices, law enforcement agencies (LEAs), anti-trafficking NGOs, and public and private sector stakeholders dealing with labour compliance, financial oversight and criminal investigations. The agenda is available here.
Register to join the event online.
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