Collaborations and synergies

EMERITUS has a structured and ongoing activity to develop collaborations and synergies with similar funded projects, organisations, and institutional initiatives.

If you want to collaborate with the EMERITUS project, contact us through the contact form at the bottom of the page!

The institutional collaborations established so far include

IMPEL, the European Union Network for the Implementation and Enforcement of Environmental Law;
ENPE, the European Network of Prosecutors for the Environment.

Here you can read more about the EMERITUS-PERIVALLON co-creation session on the urgent needs and tools for fighting waste-related environmental crimes IMPEL and ENPE attended.

CERIS, the Community for European Research and Innovation for Security

EUSPA, the EU Agency for Space Programme;

Europol, the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation.

Moreover, EMERITUS is collaborating with the following funded projects and is part of the LEA Projects Cluster (more info at the bottom)

PERIVALLON

PERIVALLON aims to provide an improved and comprehensive intelligence picture of organised environmental crime and develop effective and efficient tools and solutions for detecting and preventing such types of criminal activities and for assessing their environmental impact, and the insights obtained through the proposed Environmental Crime Observatory. The capacity of end users (including Police Authorities and Border Guards) will be improved by enabling them to tackle such criminal activities by providing an innovative training curriculum. Moreover, improved international cooperation will be facilitated through improved data sharing enabled by blockchain technologies, while improved regulation shaping and tuning will be supported through relevant policy recommendations. The project brings together 24 partners from 12 EU and non-EU countries – Police and Border Guard Authorities, 3 authorities related to environmental protection, Research/Academic institutions, industry partners (including 7 SMEs), one EU Agency, and one Foundation. As such, PERIVALLON delivers a strong representation of the challenges, requirements, and tools to meet its objectives.

You can read more about the collaboration in place between the sister projects here:

NarcoView

The project NarcoView is part of the call on “The operational cooperation in the fight against environmental crime” by the Internal Security Fund – Police (ISF-P). The project is led by the National Police Netherlands and Saxion University of Applied Sciences, with a consortium comprised of several non-profit and governmental organizations from The Netherlands, Belgium and Bulgaria.

The project NarcoView aims to enhance monitoring and detection of the environmental crime, and specifically – crime of illegal dumping of chemical waste from synthetic drugs production. It is accomplished by gathering and processing intelligence through the use of remote sensing, data science and machine learning algorithms, which in turn is integrated in a web-based platform for law enforcement agencies. By utilizing data-driven techniques, the prototype platform allows to prioritize and inspect areas in a more efficient way. Additionally, the drone-based remote sensing technology provides enriched data about the crime scene without its contamination. Research on effective integration of a developed tool in the workflow of the law enforcement agencies and usability of the generated intelligence in prosecution is also part of the project objectives.

RITHMS

The RITHMS project (Research, Intelligence and Technology for Heritage and Market Security) intends to boost the operational capacity of Police and Customs/Border Authorities in addressing the increasingly organised and poly-criminal nature of trafficking in cultural goods through research, technological innovation, outreach and training. Illicit trade in cultural heritage has progressed from a local phenomenon limited to the initiative of a few individuals to a highly remunerative source of income for criminal organisations and terrorist groups that have taken advantage of the opportunities offered by the web and social media to further expand an already flourishing market. Against this background, RITHMS proposes an interdisciplinary approach made necessary by the transnational character of this crime and its links to other criminal networks.

LEA PROJECTS CLUSTER

The LEA Projects Cluster brings together 36 European R&I projects sharing common stakeholders and similar objectives in supporting law enforcement authorities (LEAs) against organised crime, terrorism, cybercrime and money laundering to foster synergies and collaborations. Joint activities include:
1. Share knowledge to support LEA activities against money laundering (ML), cybercrime, organised crime and terrorism through, e.g., joint webinars.
2. Leverage dissemination activities by featuring projects on the Cluster website and newsletter.
3. Ensure the coherence and complementarity of projects’ recommendations to the EC, LEAs and other stakeholders, as far as possible.
4. Explore a degree of interoperability or compatibility between the projects’ technical platforms, modules and/or services. 5. Explore synergies, research opportunities and possible joint exploitation activities.

Collaborations and synergies

PERIVALLON

NarcoView

RITHMS

LEA PROJECTS CLUSTER

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