Project description
Law enforcement to fight AI-related crime with AI solutions
Today’s security challenges require sustainable use of artificial intelligence (AI) in law enforcement agencies (LEAs). The EU-funded STARLIGHT project will increase awareness, ability, adoption, and long-term results of AI applications in European LEAs. It will improve the widespread understanding of AI across LEAs to reinforce their investigative and cybersecurity operations and support legal, ethical, and societal values. By offering opportunities to exploit AI tools and solutions, STARLIGHT will ensure LEAs can protect their own AI systems, and increase LEA expertise and capacity against AI-supported crime and terrorism. The project will raise high-quality datasets, an interoperable and standardised framework, and an AI hub to enhance the EU’s strategic autonomy in AI.
Objective
The increasing complexity of security challenges combined with the accumulation of significant amounts of digital data calls for better and more widespread use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities for law enforcement agencies (LEAs). AI can provide benefits to LEAs at all levels given the right understanding, tools, data and protection while increased awareness of criminal misuse is providing an immediate and concerning threat that must be tackled rapidly. Furthermore, a community that brings together LEAs, researchers, industry, security practitioners and other actors in the security ecosystem under a coordinated and strategic effort is essential for the realisation of these efforts into operational practices.
STARLIGHT presents an inclusive and sustainable vision for increasing the awareness, capability, adoption and long-term impact of AI in Europe for LEAs. Five strategic goals underpin STARLIGHT’s approach: (1) Improve the widespread UNDERSTANDing of AI across LEAs to reinforce their investigative and cybersecurity operations and the need to uphold legal, ethical and societal values; (2) Provide opportunities to LEAs to EXPLOIT AI tools and solutions in their operational work that are trustworthy, transparent and human-centric; (3) Ensure that LEAs can PROTECT their own AI systems through privacy- and security-by-design approaches, better cybersecurity tools and knowledge; (4) Raise LEAs’ expertise and capacity to COMBAT the misuse of AI-supported crime and terrorism; and (5) BOOST AI for LEAs in Europe through high-quality datasets, an interoperable and standardised framework for long term sustainability of solutions, and the creation of an AI hub for LEAs that supports a strong AI security industry and enhances the EU’s strategic autonomy in AI. STARLIGHT will ensure European LEAs lead the way in AI innovation, autonomy and resilience, addressing the challenges of now and the future, prioritising the safety and security of Europe for all.
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Programme(s)
- H2020-EU.3.7. - Secure societies - Protecting freedom and security of Europe and its citizens Main Programme
- H2020-EU.3.7.6. - Ensure privacy and freedom, including in the Internet and enhance the societal, legal and ethical understanding of all areas of security, risk and management
- H2020-EU.3.7.4. - Improve cyber security
- H2020-EU.3.7.1. - Fight crime, illegal trafficking and terrorism, including understanding and tackling terrorist ideas and beliefs
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48001 BIZKAIA
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1210 Wien
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1010 Wien
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14473 Potsdam
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75794 Paris
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31042 TOULOUSE
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2691 HB S Gravenzande
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50733 Koln
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01010 Vitoria-Gasteiz
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67663 Kaiserslautern
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00144 ROMA
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03202 Elche
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57001 Thermi Thessaloniki
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2517 KK Den Haag
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20009 Donostia San Sebastian
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101 77 Athens
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08037 Barcelona
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6051 Larnaca
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1000 029 LISBOA
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106 82 ATHINA
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61-612 Poznan
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3000 Leuven
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10177 Athina
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08303 Vilnius
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10138 Torino
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75800 Paris
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75002 Paris
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1149-019 Lisboa
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28071 Madrid
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00184 Rome
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80336 Munchen
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01370 Vantaa
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1120 Bruxelles / Brussel
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2595 DA Den Haag
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2490 AA The Hague
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09128 Cagliari
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1050 Bruxelles / Brussel
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17089 Praha 7
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10226 Stockholm
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15060 Tallinn
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S1 1WB Sheffield
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5651GW Eindhoven
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02150 Espoo
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92230 Gennevilliers
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2595 CC The Hague
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LV-1004 Riga
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164 90 Stockholm
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1000-029 Lisboa
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28040 Madrid
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9723ZA Groningen
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92800 PUTEAUX
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81677 Munich
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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