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LESSEN DATA ACCESS AND GOVERNANCE OBSTACLES

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Harnessing the potential of research data to combat crime and terrorism

The availability of high-quality and sufficient data is important in the field of Fighting Crime and Terrorism (FCT) research. Limited domain-specific data presents a major challenge, hindering the development and implementation of effective methods, platforms and tools. The EU-funded LAGO project will create a trusted EU research data ecosystem to facilitate data-oriented research collaboration between law enforcement agencies, security practitioners, relevant EU agencies, researchers and policymakers. Specifically, it will develop a reference architecture based on principles of decentralisation and transparency. Compliant with EU data protection regulations, the reference architecture will be accompanied by technological tools to ensure its practical implementation. The ultimate goal of LAGO is to innovate the FCT data-oriented research sphere.

Objective

LAGO will deliver the foundation for a trusted EU FTC Research Data Ecosystem (RDE) to address the so-called “Data Issue” in the FCT research landscape, i.e. the lack of domain-specific data in sufficient quality and quantity to enable appropriate training and testing of the developed methods, platforms and tools. LAGO will be instrumental in identifying common barriers and subsequently providing the structural, governance and technical foundations to foster and innovate data-oriented research collaboration among LEAs, security practitioners, relevant EU agencies, academic and industry researchers, policy makers and regulators. For this purpose, LAGO will develop an evidence-based and validated multi-actor Reference Architecture for the FCT RDE for these actors to deposit, share and co-create data and tools for FCT research purposes based on common rules, protocols, standards and instruments in a trusted and secured environment. The envisaged Reference Architecture and accompanying governance framework will be based on the design principles of decentralisation, data sovereignty, data quality, openness, transparency and trust and comply with EU values and principles on data protection, privacy and ethics. The Reference Architecture will be accompanied by a TRL-7 Reference Implementation of added-value technological tools to ensure practical realisation of the Reference Architecture as multiple data spaces and across the full range of concrete usage scenarios. A Roadmap will finally provide the consolidated rules, conditions and considerations for the actual deployment of the EU FCT RDE. The ultimate ambition of LAGO is to go beyond the creation of a common repository in order to innovate the FCT data-oriented research sphere by creation the crucial foundations for the sustainable, safe and trusted creation, co-creation, sharing and maintenance of training and testing datasets for the FCT research domain.

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Call for proposal

HORIZON-CL3-2021-FCT-01

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Funding Scheme

IA - Innovation action

Coordinator

ENGINEERING - INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA SPA
Net EU contribution
€ 692 125,00
Address
Piazzale dell'agricoltura 24
00144 Roma
Italy

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Region
Centro (IT) Lazio Roma
Activity type
Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
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Other funding
€ 296 625,00

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EC signature date 19 July 2022
Last update: 15 September 2022

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