Objective
FIAC will strengthen digital forensics and law enforcement capacities across Europe by addressing the growing challenge of crimes involving cryptocurrencies and privacy-enhancing technologies. Criminal networks increasingly exploit blockchain’s pseudonymity, privacy coins, and darknet platforms to hide illicit financial flows, undermining financial integrity and judicial effectiveness. FIAC responds to this emerging threat by developing a modern, EU-aligned forensic ecosystem integrating advanced technologies, legal frameworks, and operational collaboration for lawful, court-proof investigations. FIAC will deliver crypto-forensic tools, algorithms, and visual analytics to trace transactions across multiple ledgers, detect obfuscation techniques, and generate verifiable, reproducible evidence in compliance with data protection and privacy laws. Using AI, graph analytics, and machine learning, FIAC will expose drug networks, money laundering, ransomware activities, and market manipulation patterns. Its federated collaboration infrastructure will enable secure and lawful cross-border data sharing and analysis among Financial Investigation Units (FIUs), Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) and forensic institutes. FIAC will also provide modern, uniform, and validated forensic methodologies, accompanied by training curricula to enhance skills and operational readiness of security practitioners across Europe. The project will create a regulatory and ethical framework guiding lawful digital evidence collection, while delivering evidence-based policy recommendations to strengthen AML/CFT and cryptocurrency-related regulations. Validated in real investigative environments, FIAC’s outcomes will empower FIUs, LEAs and judicial actors with scalable, privacy-preserving forensic capabilities and cross-border collaboration mechanisms.
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Programme(s)
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HORIZON.2.3 - Civil Security for Society
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HORIZON.2.3.2 - Protection and Security
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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-CL3-2025-01
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101 77 Athens
Greece
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