FALCON

Current evidence suggests that the global fight against corruption faces serious challenges: policy decisions are not well informed, the corruption landscape is complex and enormous, while measuring corruption is so far mostly based on subjective approaches, and there is lack of appropriate technological tools to support anti-corruption. To address these challenges, FALCON is designed and dedicated to support the composition, update and management of comprehensive corruption intelligence pictures, within domains and jurisdictions of interest. This will be accomplished following a multi-actor, evidence-based, data-driven approach, building upon existing assets and prior work of consortium partners. FALCON will, first, develop and validate objective and actionable indicators of corruption that can be used to inform policy decisions. Second, it will design, implement and integrate powerful data analytics tools, data pipelines and applications that support the management of the entire lifecycle of corruption intelligence pictures. These technological components will enable comprehensive corruption risk assessment, informed policy making, and improved anticorruption law enforcement. FALCON will be piloted in four corruption domains – corruption schemes at border crossings, sanction circumvention by kleptocrats/oligarchs, public procurement fraud, conflicts of interest of politically exposed persons – involving law enforcement experts (police authorities and border guards) and other key actors (e.g., GovTech providers, academia, financial intermediaries). FALCON’s implementation will be incremental and iterative, forming synergies between SSH and technological expertise, and will adhere to the principles of Trustworthy AI and responsible research and innovation.

ΙΤΙ-CERTH is responsible for the scientific management of the FALCON project and has a critical role in the project by also leading the WP related to the acquisition of corruption data, the development of advanced analysis tools for the extraction of corruption indicators from the obtained knowledge, as well as for the provision of further insights in the understanding of corruption phenomena and for the detection of such phenomena by using anomaly detection techniques and spatio-temporal trends analysis. ITI-CERTH also leads the design and development of a predictive analytics framework to facilitate the prompt response of Law Enforcement Agencies targeting the prevention of criminal activities linked to corruption. Finally, ITI-CERTH contributes to other technical tasks related to the design of the FALCON’s architecture, the deployment and the validation of the developed systems to encounter corruption.

Consortium

EREVNITIKO PANEPISTIMIAKO INSTITOUTO SYSTIMATON EPIKOINONION KAI YPOLOGISTON, Greece
FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG EV, Germany
BALTIJOS PAZANGIU TECHNOLOGIJU INSTITUTAS, Lithuania
ETHNIKO KENTRO EREVNAS KAI TECHNOLOGIKIS ANAPTYXIS, Greece
ENGINEERING – INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA SPA, Italy
SPACE HELLAS ANONYMI ETAIREIA SYSTIMATA KAI YPIRESIES TILEPIKOINONIONPLIROFORIKIS ASFALEIAS – IDIOTIKI EPICHEIRISI PAROCHIS YPERISION ASFA, Greece
UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE VALENCIA, Spain
FUNDACION CENTRO DE TECNOLOGIAS DE INTERACCION VISUAL Y COMUNICACIONES VICOMTECH,Spain
ABI LAB-CENTRO DI RICERCA E INNOVAZIONE PER LA BANCA, Italy
UNIVERSITE DE STRASBOURG, France
AKKI ATLATHATO KORMANYZAS KUTATOINTEZET KFT, Hungary
UNIVERSITA CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE, Italy
GOETEBORGS UNIVERSITET, Sweden
FUNDACJA AKADEMIA ANTYKORUPCYJNA, Poland
INSTITUT PO OTBRANA, Bulgaria
INSPECTORATUL GENERAL AL POLITIEI, Moldova
MINISTERE DE L’INTERIEUR, France
MINISTARSTVO UNUTRASNJIH POSLOVA REPUBLIKE SRBIJE, Serbia
GLAVNA DIREKTSIA GRANICHNA POLITSIA, Bulgaria
RADEXPERT CONSULTING & MANAGEMENTS.R.L, Romania
INSPECTORATUL TERITORIAL AL POLITIEI DE FRONTIERA IASI, Romania
VALSTYBES SIENOS APSAUGOS TARNYBA PRIE VIDAUS REIKALU MINISTERIJOS, Lithuania