FALCON – Fighting Corruption and Organised Crime

FALCON will address the significant challenges of the global fight against corruption by developing appropriate tools and taking an interdisciplinary, evidence-based, and data-driven approach. In particular, we will 1. develop objective and actionable indicators of corruption, 2. design and implement powerful data analytics tools, data pipelines, and applications, and 3. manage the entire lifecycle of corruption data to comprehensively evaluate corruption risks, inform policy decisions, and support law enforcement. FALCON addresses four corruption phenomena as pilot use cases: - public procurement fraud, - circumvention of sanctions against oligarchs and kleptocrats, - corruption schemes linked to smuggling at border crossings, and - conflicts of interest of politically exposed persons. Through our comprehensive methodology, we will scrutinize these phenomena and uncover new insights that shed light on corruption. FALCON is coordinated by the Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS), Greece. The consortium consists of 25 partners from 15 European countries - involving researchers and experts from both technological disciplines and social sciences, as well as law enforcement experts such as police authorities and border guards from six countries. We want to establish relationships with other academics, GovTech providers, financial intermediaries, policymakers, NGOs, and civil society. This project has received funding from Horizon Europe, the European Union’s research and innovation program, under Grant Agreement ID 101121281. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Executive Agency. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.