Project

Privacy-First Situational Awareness Platform for Violent Terrorism and Crime Prediction, Counter Radicalisation and Citizen Protec­tion project will develop and deploy an integrated situational awareness sys­tem that will identify radical content online – informal groupings of radical­isers and vulnerable individuals with potential to be radicalised.

Under this project, an open platform for analysis and early alert – the Count­eR solution – will be launched, collecting and analysing data from dispersed sources in order to predict critical communities at risk of radicalisation and violent extremism and aid law enforcement to detect radicalisation processes more easily. The CounteR solution’s ultimate goal is to provide law enforce­ment agencies (LEAs), Internet providers, and social media platforms with an early-warning tool to be used in the detection of radical content online for preventing the spread of radicalisation and, ultimately, life-threatening terrorist attacks. At the same time, CounteR will preserve the content’s pri­vacy protection and data anonymization. The system aims at supporting the fight against organised crime and terrorism threats and at fostering informa­tion-sharing and collaboration between diverse European agencies in charge of countering radical propaganda, fundraising, recruitment, and planning of terrorist acts.