COUNTER – Countering Radicalisation for a Safer World: Privacy – First Situational Awareness Platform for Violent Terrorism and Crime Prediction, Counter Radicalisation and Citizen Protection.
Years: 2021 – 2023
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 101021607.
Itstime as WP2 leader participates in the Counter project aimed at developing an early-warning tool useful for law enforcement agencies, Internet providers and social media platforms for the prevention of radicalisation spread and ultimately life-threatening terrorist attacks.
Contact Person: dr. Barbara Lucini, PhD – barbara.lucini@unicatt.it
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News Letter 1 (CounteR Project Newsletter’s Issue #1 ) features interviews with prominent CounteR Consortium members:·
- Tobias Mattes, a Senior Researcher at the BayHfoeD Research Institute, explains how CounteR’s ecosystem is being tested to support LEAs in their daily work;
- The Director of the CEPOLIS Institute, Dr. Holger Nitsch, points out that detecting and preventing radicalisation requires trust-building efforts with communities;
- Prof. Marco Lombardi from the ITSTIME Research Centre talks about social and psychological factors and risks, influencing the potential incubators of radicalisation.