“AI-Powered Crime Detection and Prevention: Bridging Technology and Law Enforcement” special session at the EEITE 2025
10/06/2025
Safer Societies Across Europe Through Collaborative and Trusted AI Innovation
The AI4SafeEurope Cluster brings together some of the most innovative Horizon Europe projects working at the intersection of AI, security, and law enforcement. United by a shared mission to support law enforcement agencies (LEAs), policymakers, and security stakeholders across Europe, the cluster fosters collaboration, joint dissemination, and strategic alignment among eight cutting-edge initiatives.
This growing cluster leverages the Booster EU-funded initiative to amplify its collective impact, share knowledge and tools, and support a coordinated outreach. Coordinated by the AVALANCHE project, the cluster currently comprises the following projects:
- AVALANCHE: Empowers LEAs to combat disinformation, hate speech, and deepfakes using AI-powered OSINT, sentiment analysis, and secure intelligence sharing.
- CEASEFIRE: Fights illicit firearms trafficking with AI-based tools for online monitoring, in-field detection, and cross-border intelligence sharing.
- ENSEMBLE: Tackles cross-border cybercrime using explainable AI, collaborative investigation tools, and real-time threat monitoring.
- FERMI: Develops tools for understanding and mitigating offline risks stemming from online disinformation, radicalisation, and fake news.
- GANNDALF: Enhances cybercrime detection and investigation with modular decision-support tools, secure data-sharing, and cyber hygiene resources.
- NOTIONES: Establishes a practitioner–researcher network to monitor and assess emerging intelligence and security technologies.
- PRESERVE: Builds privacy-aware AI tools for proactive threat detection and behavioural risk analysis to support LEAs.
- PRESERVE C-UAS: Delivers a counter-UAS platform enabling police authorities to detect and manage drone-based threats in public spaces.
Through shared expertise, monthly coordination meetings, shared workspaces, joint workshops, and special sessions, ethical AI development, and interoperable solutions, the cluster projects collectively address pressing challenges like disinformation and fake news, organized and cross-border cybercrime, border protection, while leveraging novel and emerging AI technologies and ensuring that AI serves public safety ethically and transparently.
Stay tuned as we advance toward a safer, smarter, and more secure Europe.