TAKEDOWN: Understand the Dimensions of Organised Crime and Terrorist Networks for Developing Effective and Efficient Security Solutions for First-line-practitioners and Professionals

Matteo E. Bonfanti, Lukas Meyer, Nadia Mondini

2016 - 2019

Funded by: European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme, Grant Agreement No. 700688

TAKEDOWN (hereinafter also TD) deals with organised crime and terrorism. It investigates the reasons and processes of engagement in organised criminal activities (OC) and terrorist networks (TN), and the existing nexus between the two phenomena. The project aims at three correlated goals:

elaborate a knowledge-based, dynamic, multi-perspective (i.e. social, psychological, cultural, economic, juridical and technological) and multi-layered (i.e. sectors of OC and TN, relevant methods and techniques, type of response approaches, levels and practices) model that explains the inherent dynamics of OC and TN;
provide project researchers with deeper insight into OC and TN in order to develop digital and non-digital solutions to be offered to specific stakeholders (first-line practitioners, LEAs, policy-makers,) for preventing/contrasting the two phenomena;
leverage the collaboration between the scientific research community, public agencies, practitioners, and the industry in the field of OC and TN

Partners

The Research Consortium consists of 18 partners from EU Member States, Switzerland, and Israel. These are: SYNYO GmbH (Coordinator), The ETH Center for Security Studies, the Euro-Arab Foundation for Higher Studies, the UAB Institute of Law and Technology (IDT), the Middlesex University, the University of Leeds, the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, the Czech Technical University, the Technische Universität Darmstadt, AGENFOR Italia, the Center for the Study of Democracy, the Peace Action, Training and Research Institute of Romania, the The University of Security Management in Košice, LSEC (Leaders In Security), the AEI – Agency for European Integration and Economic Development, the Valencia City Council – Local Police, The Police Academy in Szczytno, the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA). More info on the partnership (and an interactive map) can be found here http://takedownproject.eu/consortium/

More info: external page http://takedownproject.eu/

Publications

external page Vincenzo Ruggiero (ed.) (2019),Organized Crime and Terrorist Networks, Routledge