STARLIGHT

STARLIGHT aims to empower LEAs with automated, operational, and cyber-resilient investigation, intelligence, surveillance and control capabilities to tackle traditional and emergent criminal activities, terrorism, cybercrime, and cyber-attacks, within and at the borders of the EU. STARLIGHT also aims at contributing to the establishment of a strong EU AI-based security ecosystem, thus enhancing the EU’s strategic autonomy in the field of AI for LEAs. The ecosystem will be built around an AI framework for reliable, accountable, responsible and transparent LEA AI solutions that will enable the involvement and transfer of knowledge between LEAs, Researchers, Industry, SMEs, and Policy makers. Overall, STARLIGHT will ensure that European LEAs lead the way in AI innovation, autonomy and resilience, addressing the challenges of the present and the future, prioritising the safety and security of Europe for all.

STARLIGHT solution as a whole will be responsible for the provision of cutting-edge AI/ML and data-driven technologies for: (i) generating high-quality multilingual and multimodal data, (ii) understanding the physical (sensors and data-gathering devices related to robotics and IoT systems) and cyber world (online sources from Surface/Deep Web, Darknets) through the exploitation and provisioning of advanced and resilient AI/ML methods and tools capable of handling large volumes of multimodal data, fusing, correlating, analysing and ultimately generating knowledge and intelligence in an explainable, transparent, and accountable manner, (iii) analysing, predicting, anticipating, detecting and mitigating current and future cyber-threats and attacks to AI LEA systems, including adversarial AI. STARLIGHT solutions will be validated by six high-priority use case application areas: 1) Counter-terrorism, 2) Child Sexual Exploitation, 3) Border & External Security, 4) Cybersecurity & Cybercrime, 5) Addressing Information Overload in Serious Organised Crime, and 6) Protection of Public Spaces. To follow the ever-evolving and rapidly changing priorities of LEAs as well as the continuous evolution of technologies such as AI, a co-design and co-creation approach will be adopted.

Consortium

COMMISSARIAT A L ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (CEA), France
ADVANCED MODEL SOLUTIONS SA (AMS), Spain
AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GMBH (AIT), Austria
BUNDESMINISTERIUM FUER INNERES (BKA), Austria
BUNDESPOLIZEI (BPOL), Germany
CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS (IRIT-CNRS), France
CFLW CYBER STRATEGIES BV (CFLW), Netherlands
CYBERCRIME RESEARCH INSTITUTE GMBH (CRI), Germany
GOBIERNO VASCO – DEPARTAMENTO SEGURIDAD (ERTZ), Spain
DEUTSCHES FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM FUR KUNSTLICHE INTELLIGENZ GMBH (DFKI), Germany
ENGINEERING – INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA SPA (ENG), Italy
ETHICAL & LEGAL PLUS SL (PlusEthics) , Spain
ETHNIKO KENTRO EREVNAS KAI TECHNOLOGIKIS ANAPTYXIS (CERTH), Greece
EUROPEAN UNION AGENCY FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT COOPERATION (EUROPOL), Netherlands
FUNDACION CENTRO DE TECNOLOGIAS DE INTERACCION VISUAL Y COMUNICACIONES VICOMTECH (VICOM), Spain
HELLENIC POLICE (HP), Greece
HERTA SECURITY SL (HERTA), Spain
IANUS CONSULTING LTD (IANUS), Cyprus
INOV INSTITUTO DE ENGENHARIA DE SISTEMAS E COMPUTADORES INOVACAO (INOV), Portugal
INSTITUTE OF COMMUNICATION AND COMPUTER SYSTEMS (ICCS), Greece
ITTI SP ZOO (ITTI), Poland
KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN (KU LEUVEN), Belgium
KENTRO MELETON ASFALEIAS (KEMEA), Greece
LIETUVOS KIBERNETINIU NUSIKALTIMU KOMPETENCIJU IR TYRIMU CENTRAS (L3CE), Lithuania
FONDAZIONE LINKS – LEADING INNOVATION & KNOWLEDGE FOR SOCIETY (LINKS),, Italy
MINISTERE DE L’INTERIEUR (MININT), France
Ministério da Justiça (PJ), Portugal
MINISTERIO DEL INTERIOR (ES-MIR), Spain
MINISTERO DELL’INTERNO (MIPS), Italy
MUNICH INNOVATION LABS GMBH (MIL), Germany
NATIONAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION (NBI), Finland
NATIONAAL INSTITUUT VOOR CRIMINALISTIEK EN CRIMINOLOGIE – INSTITUT NATIONAL DE CRIMINALISTIQUE ET DE CRIMINOLOGIE (NICC), Belgium
NEDERLANDSE ORGANISATIE VOOR TOEGEPAST NATUURWETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK TNO (TNO), Netherlands
Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI), Netherlands
PLURIBUS ONE SRL (PLURIBUS), Italy
POLICE FEDERALE BELGE (BFP), Belgium
POLICEJNI PREZIDIUM CESKE REPUBLIKY (PP CR), Czechia
POLISMYNDIGHETEN SWEDISH POLICE AUTHORITY (SPA), Sweden
Politsei- ja Piirivalveamet, (EPBG), Estonia
SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY (CENTRIC), United Kingdom
STICHTING DUTCH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGY, SAFETY & SECURITY (DITSS) , Netherlands
TEKNOLOGIAN TUTKIMUSKESKUS VTT OY (VTT), Finland
THALES S IX GTS FRANCE SAS (TSGF), France
THE NATIONAL POLICE OF THE NETHERLANDS (NPN), Netherlands
TILDE SIA (TILDE),, Latvia
TOTALFORSVARETS FORSKNINGSINSTITUT (FOI), Sweden
VOICEINTERACTION – TECNOLOGIAS DE PROCESSAMENTO DA FALA, SA (VOI), Portugal
UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE MADRID (UPM), Spain
WEB-IQ BV (WEBIQ), Netherlands
XXII GROUP (XXII), France
ZENTRALE STELLE FÜR INFORMATIONSTECHNIK IM SICHERHEITSBEREICH (ZITiS), Germany
ZONE DE POLICE BRUXELLES IXELLES (POLBRU), Belgium