<< Objectives >>VR4React aims to contribute to reducing reactive aggression in prison by:- Train prison educators and psychologists to deliver the VR psychoeducational intervention to reduce aggressive behaviours of inmates with a history of reactive aggression. It seeks to promote inmates’ ability to adopt prosocial and adaptative behaviours when facing triggering situations.- Capacitate prison officers with skills and competencies to handle reactive aggressive behaviours among inmates more effectively.<< Implementation >>VR4React intends to design, create and implement a twofold approach intervention programme, on the scope thematic and intervention of reactive aggression, by:TRAINING- creating and psychoeducational intervention programme using VR, for inmates, and capacitating psychologists and prison educators to deliver it;- creating a technology-enhanced training (using VR) to capacity building of prison guards.ENGAGING STAKEHOLDERS- Stakeholders Discussion Events.- Final conference<< Results >>The VR4React’s foreseen impacts are as follow:- Promote psychological, social, and emotional well-being (by reducing victimisation and developing adaptive behaviours in inmates).- Promote the capacity building and training of prison staff on reactive aggression topics.- Promote the trainer's skills and knowledge on the delivery of the intervention.- Reduce the risks of reactive aggression to prison staff and inmates.- Promote rehabilitation and reintegration for reactive aggressive offender

In the domain of Cybersecurity Research and innovation, European scientists hold pioneering positions in fields such as cryptography, formal methods, or secure components. Yet this excellence on focused domains does not translate into larger-scale, system-level advantages. Too often, scattered and small teams fall short of critical mass capabilities, despite demonstrating world-class talent and results. Europe’s strength is in its diversity, but that strength is only materialised if we cooperate, combine, and develop common lines of research. Given today’s societal challenges, this has become more than an advantage – an urgent necessity. Various approaches are being developed to enhance collaboration at many levels. Europe’s framework programs have sprung projects in cybersecurity over the past thirty years, encouraging international cooperation and funding support actions. More recently, the Cybersecurity PPP has brought together public institutions and industrial actors around common roadmaps and projects. While encouraging, these efforts have highlighted the need to break the mould, to step up investments and intensify coordination. The SPARTA proposal brings together a unique set of actors at the intersection of scientific excellence, technological innovation, and societal sciences in cybersecurity. Strongly guided by concrete and risky challenges, it will setup unique collaboration means, leading the way in building transformative capabilities and forming world-leading expertise centres. Through innovative governance, ambitious demonstration cases, and active community engagement, SPARTA aims at re-thinking the way cybersecurity research is performed in Europe across domains and expertise, from foundations to applications, in academia and industry.

In order to address the fast-evolving challenges with respect to advanced forms of cybercrimes enabled by fully available state-of-the-art technologies (Crime-as-a-Service), there is a need for LEAs to form and apply cutting-edge collaboration frameworks that will break communication silos within the wider judicial ecosystem. These frameworks may span in numerous pillars, such as (i) regulated, privacy-preserving and easy sharing of information related to criminal activities enabling cross-border agency-to-agency collaboration in a transparent and explainable manner; (ii) joint criminal investigation further facilitated by beyond state-of-the-art tools enabling real-time collaboration and the full exploitation of distributed digital infrastructures to enhance cybercrime intelligence; (iii) exchanging different types of expertise (cybersecurity experts, forensics experts, lawyers and stakeholders from the judicial ecosystem, psychologists, social scientists) to realise cutting edge investigative approaches; and (iv) knowledge and best practices sharing with respect to trainings and cybercrime awareness. GANNDALF will set new grounds for the fight against advanced forms of cyber threats and cyber-dependent crimes; it will (i) realise cutting-edge agency-to-agency data sharing mechanisms, optimising the balance between transparency and privacy based on the needs of each LEA; (ii) deploy a modular, decision-support toolbox that will comprise not only ground-breaking technologies for collaborative investigation, prediction and identification of advanced forms of cyber threats, but also optimisation mechanisms enabling the full exploitation of these technologies; (iii) build on the above 2 offerings and deliver a customizable, collaborative crime investigation sandbox for scenarios, hypotheses analysis and crime investigation; and (iv) facilitate policy drafting, training and citizens’ engagement via innovative mechanisms that will realise the Cyber Hygiene 2.0 visiοn.

<< Objectives >>IN2PREV aims to improve LEAs and NGOs’ response to refugees and asylum seekers in European host and transit countries to prevent their radicalisation by ensuring their successful integration. More specifically, it aims to comprehensively enhance LEAs and NGOs’ competencies and knowledge regarding working with refugees and asylum seekers, thus boosting their fundamental involvement in the integration of these populations and the prevention of radicalisation.<< Implementation >>IN2PREV will create an EU-wide network of frontline practitioners to promote information-sharing and collaboration, produce a tool to be implemented by LEA and NGO’s staff to assess refugees’ vulnerability to radicalisation, develop a mentoring programme for refugees and asylum seekers’ successful inclusion and integration, and train professionals to identify vulnerability risk factors to radicalisation on these populations and facilitate their inclusion through a mentoring approach.<< Results >>IN2PREV will create a digital platform to host the network of frontline practitioners, develop the Frontline Extremism Vulnerability Risk–Structured Evaluation Screening (FEVR-SES) tool, produce the Mentoring Approach for Refugees and Asylum Seekers Assurance Programme (M4-Rinc), and create two training programmes on preventing and identifying vulnerability risk factors to radicalisation on refugees and asylum seekers, and on facilitating these individuals’ integration through mentoring.

OnMoveID will leverage increasing sensory, computational and communicational technological capabilities of standard non-trusted smartphones for advanced privacy-preserving, legal and ethical compliant management of travel documents for fast on-the-move identification of travellers for all types of border crossings: land, sea, and air. High efficiency and security are achieved in three phases: (1) Registration of border crossing (duration ca. 10 min only once, then e.g. annually), within trusted extended 3rd generation EUID wallet. Also, self-scanned identity documents will be stored, verified and used to assess biometric standstill face images and fingerprints using smartphone cameras. (2) Back-up registration (duration ca. 5 min) at registration desk at border with advanced document scanning and digital identity generation using AI. (3.1) Walk-through along lanes (duration ca. 20 sec) of travellers is used to identify and track in consent smartphone positions using ultrasound, to conduct body count from heart beat detection and localization, to generate external best face images from multiple fixed (multi)spectral cameras, while using smartphone sensors to take walk-through face and fingerprint images. (3.2) Drive-through passenger vehicles (ca. 10 sec) uses multispectral cameras. (3.3) Bus inspection (duration ca. 2 min) uses in addition smartphone camera of border officers for taking in-consent images of passengers within the bus. OnMoveID will use rule- and risk-based decision making to accept (back-up) registration as well as final border crossing acceptance or rejection. It extends S-o-t-A of all existing legacy and emerging border management systems and data bases (e.g. EES, VIS, ETIAS) at EU level while improving travellers’ throughput, based on communication and cloud computing within extended EUID/digital wallet framework. OnMoveID is functionally and performance tested and iteratively improved at borders in (i) Finland, (ii) Slovakia, and (iii) UK.