On Wednesday 23rd and Thursday 24th of September 2014, the Kick off Meeting of UINFC2  –  project, which is funded within the framework of “Prevention of and Fight against Crime (ISEC 2013)” call of  DG HOME AFFAIRS, took place in Nicosia organized by Additess Ltd.

The UINFC2 concept is to facilitate cooperation and coordination among all major EU stakeholders, National Authorities, Law enforcement Agencies and related bodies through the provision of structured, analysed, classified and correlated information, in real time, related to cybercrime and online child sexual exploitation. More specifically, UINFC2 objectives are:

– To build and strengthen the capabilities of LEAs, asoociations, organizations and EU bodies to strategically combat cybercrime and online child sexual exploitation.

– To assist LEAs in automatically detecting online illegal data from social media, blogs, underground communities etc., and determine investigation priorities.

– To introduce the latest achievements of ICT in data mining, intelligence, correlation, classification, automatic monitoring, decision making, report producing, etc., in combating cybercrimes.

– To facilitate the formal exchange of compiled information amongst all stakeholders in order to enhance collaboration and effectively counteract cybercrimes and online child sexual exploitation.

– To strengthen the mission of EC3, by producing strategic reports on crimes’ trends, emerging threats and comparable statistics among Member States.

Center for Security Studies (KEMEA) is the coordinator of UINFC2 project which also consists of the following beneficiaries – partners:

– University of Piraeus, University – Greece
– Centric, Research Center – UK
– CNTI, Research Center – Cyprus
– Additess, SME – Cyprus
– MEZZA, SME – UK