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The project’s main goal is to enhance migrants’ quality of life and facilitate their integration to local society by improving their access to language training courses and other guidance and counselling material. Such marginalised social groups will be therefore assisted to become active members of the receiving society
The project’s main goal is to enhance migrants’ quality of life and facilitate their integration to local society by improving their access to language training courses and other guidance and counselling material. Such marginalised social groups will be therefore assisted to become active members of the receiving society
===[[UINFC2 - Engaging Users in Preventing and Fighting Cyber Crime]]===
UINFC2 - Engaging Users in Preventing and Fighting Cyber Crime is a project co-funded by the Directorate-General Home Affairs and Justice with partners the Center for Security Studies (KEMEA), the University of Piraeus, the Cyprus Neuroscience and Technology Institute, ADITESS, Mezza Group and CENTRIC. The Council of Europe designates as a top priority for the forthcoming years the prevention and fighting of cybercrime. Currently, cybercrime presents an enormous increase in the number of incidents occur, the ferocity of the underlying attacks, as well as the targets (i.e., persons, services, entities) and the impact (both societal and economic) of the carried malicious actions.
The main objectives of the project are:
<br>- To build and strengthen the capabilities of LEAs, asoociations, organizations and EU bodies, including the Global Alliance against Child Sexual Abuse in order to strategically combat children’s online crimes.
<br>- To assist LEAs in automatically detecting online illegal data from social media, blogs, underground communities etc., and determine investigation priorities.
<br>- To introduce the latest achievements of ICT in data mining, intelligence, correlation, classification, automatic monitoring, decision making, report producing, etc., in combating crimes.
<br>- To facilitate the formal exchange of compiled information produced by the intelligent analysis of online contents, amongst all stakeholders in order to enhance collaboration and effectively counteract crimes.
<br>- To strengthen the mission of the recently founded European Cybercrime Center, by producing strategic reports on crimes’ trends and emerging threats in order to provide comparable statistics among Member States.
===[[Cyprus Cyber Crime Center of Excellence for Training, Research and Education]]===
3CE is a project co-funded by the Directorate-General Home Affairs and Justice of the European Union. The project is coordinated by the [[Cyprus Neuroscience and Technology Institute]] (CNTI), with partners the Office of the Commissioner of Electronic Communications & Postal Regulation [[OCECPR]], the [[Cyprus Police Office for Combating Cybercrime]] (OCC), the [[European University Cyprus]] (EUC) and the Advanced Integrated Technology Solutions & Services Ltd. ([[ADITESS]]).
The objectives of the 3CE project are:
<br> 1. To create a Cyprus Cyber Crime Center of Excellence for training, research and education that will be of similar structure and format with existing National Centers of Excellence in Europe.
<br> 2. To collaborate closely and become a member of 2CENTRE; the Cybercrime Center of Excellence Network, established through the funding of the ISEC programme.
<br> 3. To collaborate closely with the Cybercrime Centers of Excellence of other countries
<br> 4. To become the National Knowledge Center (NKC) in the area of Cybercrime in Cyprus responsible for training all actors working in fields related to cybercrime
<br> 5. To provide high quality short training courses in the area of cybercrime
<br> 6. To provide interdisciplinary University and Vocational Training Courses in the the area of Cybercrime
<br> 7. To collaborate effectively with Europol, EC3 and Eurojust
<br> 8. To enhance the efficiency of the identification and investigation of Cybercrime in Cyprus
<br> 9. To assert the needs of Cybercrime investigation in Cyprus
<br> 10. To link with the Cyprus Safer Internet Center (CSIC) and enhance its awareness campaigns that focus on Cybercrime
<br> 11. To serve as the stepping stone towards creating a sustainable infrastructure for the CenterCentre by including aligning 3CEthis project within the Cypriot Cyprus National Cyber Security Strategy.