INVERT

Identifying compaNies and Victims in the Exploitation phase to disRupt the financial business model of adult and child labour Trafficking

Funded by European Commission

Starting date July 2023

End date May 2025

Website https://invert-project.eu/

This project aims at counteracting the use of legal companies by labour traffickers to exploit victims, helping EU prosecutor offices, law enforcement agencies (LEAs), and judicial authorities in the identification and disruption of these business models and in the dismantlement of the trafficking chain.

INVERT intends to achieve the following objectives:

Identification of risk indicators of ongoing child and adult labour trafficking processes.
Based on this data, creation of tools to identify companies at risk and to provide risk profiles of potential victims.
Development of technical and professional specific training modules for prosecutors’ offices and LEAs to enhance their operational capacity and improve inter-agency cooperation.
Testing and validation of the INVERT suite in ongoing investigations related to trafficking phenomena.

The INVERT consortium consists of European institutions involved in the fight against human trafficking: in addition to Transcrime (project coordinator), 2 prosecution offices, 1 LEA, 2 security risk analysis and research centre and 1 NGO are participating, with external support from the European Labour Authority.