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Fight Against Large-scale Corruption and Organised Crime Networkscore

FALCON · Horizon Europe grant · 2023-09-01–2026-08-31

EC contribution

€4,720,938

Total cost

€5,080,455

Beneficiaries

27
About the data

Source: CORDIS (official EU open data), Horizon Europe. Framework HORIZON · call HORIZON-CL3-2022-FCT-01 · scheme HORIZON-IA · topic HORIZON-CL3-2022-FCT-01-05. CORDIS record →

Objective

Current evidence suggests that the global fight against corruption faces serious challenges: policy decisions are not well informed, the corruption landscape is complex and enormous, while measuring corruption is so far mostly based on subjective approaches, and there is lack of appropriate technological tools to support anti-corruption. To address these challenges, FALCON is designed and dedicated to support the composition, update and management of comprehensive corruption intelligence pictures, within domains and jurisdictions of interest. This will be accomplished following a multi-actor, evidence-based, data-driven approach, building upon existing assets and prior work of consortium partners. FALCON will, first, develop and validate objective and actionable indicators (individual and composite) of corruption that can be used to inform policy decisions. Second, it will design, implement and integrate powerful data analytics tools, data pipelines and applications that support the management of the entire lifecycle of corruption intelligence pictures. This will enable comprehensive corruption risk assessment, informed policy making, and improved anticorruption law enforcement. FALCON will be piloted in four corruption domains – corruption schemes at border crossings, sanction circumvention by kleptocrats/oligarchs, public procurement fraud, conflicts of interest of politically exposed persons (PEPs) – involving law enforcement experts (police authorities and border guards) from six (6) European countries and other key actors (i.e., GovTech providers, academia, financial intermediaries, policy makers, NGOs, and civil society). FALCON’s implementation will be incremental and iterative, forming synergies between SSH and technological expertise, and will adhere to the principles of Trustworthy AI and responsible research and innovation. Lastly, FALCON has defined specific key exploitable results and performance indicators for measuring its progress and success.

Beneficiaries (27)

OrganisationCountryRoleEC contributionSME
EREVNITIKO PANEPISTIMIAKO INSTITOUTO SYSTIMATON EPIKOINONION KAI YPOLOGISTON EL coordinator €338,125
FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG EV DE participant €445,790
ETHNIKO KENTRO EREVNAS KAI TECHNOLOGIKIS ANAPTYXIS EL participant €408,750
UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE VALENCIA ES participant €345,000
UNIVERSITA CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE IT participant €335,316
MINISTERE DE L'INTERIEUR FR participant €316,500
ENGINEERING - INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA SPA IT participant €297,066
AKKI ATLATHATO KORMANYZAS KUTATOINTEZET KFT HU participant €257,250 Yes
ABI LAB-CENTRO DI RICERCA E INNOVAZIONE PER LA BANCA IT participant €234,500
FUNDACION CENTRO DE TECNOLOGIAS DE INTERACCION VISUAL Y COMUNICACIONES VICOMTECH ES participant €222,900
BALTIJOS PAZANGIU TECHNOLOGIJU INSTITUTAS LT participant €202,250 Yes
SPACE HELLAS ANONYMI ETAIREIA SYSTIMATA KAI YPIRESIES TILEPIKOINONIONPLIROFORIKIS ASFALEIAS - IDIOTIKI EPICHEIRISI PAROCHIS YPERISION ASFA EL participant €176,750
UNIVERSITE DE STRASBOURG FR participant €175,000
FUNDACJA AKADEMIA ANTYKORUPCYJNA PL participant €152,500
VALSTYBES SIENOS APSAUGOS TARNYBA PRIE VIDAUS REIKALU MINISTERIJOS LT participant €134,375
GOETEBORGS UNIVERSITET SE participant €122,500
INSPECTORATUL GENERAL AL POLITIEI MD participant €105,375
MINISTARSTVO UNUTRASNJIH POSLOVA REPUBLIKE SRBIJE RS participant €103,000
INSPECTORATUL TERITORIAL AL POLITIEI DE FRONTIERA IASI RO participant €100,000
AFSEA SEKTSIA SOFIA BG participant €88,228 Yes
GLAVNA DIREKTSIA GRANICHNA POLITSIA BG participant €77,500
RADEXPERT CONSULTING & MANAGEMENTS.R.L. RO participant €76,741 Yes
INSTITUT PO OTBRANA BG participant €5,522
CRIME AND TECH SRL IT thirdParty €0 Yes
BASEL INSTITUTE ON GOVERNANCE CH associatedPartner
UNIVERSITAT BASEL CH associatedPartner
SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY UK associatedPartner

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