PARTNERS

MCE

EUROPEAN FEDERATION FOR MISSING AND SEXUALLY EXPLOITED CHILDREN

Missing Children Europe is the European federation for missing and sexually exploited children, representing 32 organisations from 27 European countries. We provide the link between research, policies, and organisations on the ground to protect children from any kind of violence, abuse or neglect that is caused by or results from them going missing.

KEMEA

Center for Security Studies

The Center for Security Studies (KEMEA) is a think tank on homeland security policies and an established research center since 2005 (L. 3387/2005) under the auspices of the Hellenic Ministry of Citizen Protection, aiming to support security policy implementations in Greece, at a strategic level. The activities KEMEA is involved in, include a) The certification of practitioners in private security professions at the national level, b) Research and Development in the context of National and European projects in close cooperation with LEAs, and c) Training of practitioners in new systems and technologies. KEMEA also provides advisory and consulting services to the Ministry of Citizen Protection, as well as other Public and Private authorities, on safety and security issues.

CESIE

European Centre of Studies and Initiatives

CESIE is a non-profit and non-governmental organisation based in Palermo (Italy) and established in 2001. CESIE is committed to promote the cultural, social, educational and economic development at local, national, European and international levels. The Rights and Justice Unit of CESIE specifically works in promoting equality, diversity and non-discrimination by raising awareness on gender equality from an intersectional and non binary approach in relation to empowerment and rights awareness. They also work on the prevention of all types of violence, including gender-based violence, child abuse and online/offline violence, polarization and radicalization, and put a special focus on supporting victims and survivors.

FBK

FONDAZIONE BRUNO KESSLER

FBK is an Italian Research Institute focusing on high quality research with market and societal impact. Being the result of a history that is more than half a century old, through 2 scientific hubs, 7 research centers, 410 researchers, 2 specialized libraries, 7 laboratories, FBK aims to results of excellence in science and technology with particular emphasis on interdisciplinary approaches and an applicative dimension. FBK achieves all this thanks to a constant attention to collaborations and exchange activities with research organizations, both institutional and corporate, national and international, which extend the institute’s innovation capability, involving the community and the local economy in the circulation of knowledge and technologies. FBK participates to CESAGRAM with its Digital Society Centre involving the Motivational Digital Systems Research and Intelligent Interaction and Interfaces Units, all committed in the leadership and execution of the activities foreseen in WP3 aimed to design and deploy an online gamified educational platform for vulnerable children and to support innovative training programs.

KU

KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN / University of Leuven (Centre for IT & IP Law)

The Centre for IT & IP Law is a research center at the Faculty of Law and Criminology of the University of Leuven (KU Leuven), with currently a staff of over 80 researchers specialized in legal and ethical aspects of IT innovation and intellectual property. Researchers working at the Centre for IT and IP Law focus on the fundamental re-thinking of the current legal framework, necessitated by the rapid evolution of technology in various fields, such as government, media, health care, informatics, digital economy, banking, transport, culture, etc. Their research is characterized by an intra- and extra-juridical interdisciplinary approach, constantly aspiring cross-fertilization between legal, technical, economic, ethical and socio-cultural perspectives. The Centre for IT & IP Law has a solid track record as a law and ethics partner of large international and interdisciplinary research projects. It is internationally renowned for its expertise in the areas of Artificial Intelligence & Autonomous systems, Data Protection & Privacy, eHealth & Pharma, Ethics & Law, Intellectual Property, Media & Telecommunications, (Cyber)security and Cybercrime.

TSoC

TO HAMOGELO TOU PAIDIOU / The Smile of the Child

“The Smile of the Child” is the largest internationally recognized non-profit, non-governmental Organization in Greece in the critical field of child protection, support of children and families with children in need, as well as free public health service for children, both in prevention and treatment. Over 27 years of activities, TSoC has made the difference for more than 1.800.000 children and their families in Greece. TSoC currently operates with approximately 3.000 active volunteers on a daily basis and 488 specialized personnel. The experience of the Organization is first and foremost on the front line, and its actions for the protection and assistance of children victims/potential victims of abuse, neglect, trafficking and any other type of risk, include, among others, the direct social intervention through the Helplines, the provision of a safe living environment and psychological, medical and material support, trainings of professionals, interventions in schools for students, teachers and parents/guardians, raising public awareness through information campaigns

GMJ

MINISTRY OF JUSTICE, TRANSPARENCY AND HUMAN RIGHTS

The Ministry of Justice, was initially established as the State Justice Secretariat in April 1833.
It is entrusted with the management of judicial function, which is one of the three State functions. The Minister of Justice, supervises the administration of justice, namely organisational issues of the courts and infrastructure as well as economic and administrative support and guarantees the personal and operational independence of judges in accordance with the Constitutional requirements.

At the same time, the Ministry is charged with the development of legislative initiative in basic justice sectors, in which is included the harmonization of internal law with the rules of international law. Additionally, this initiative includes development of institutional actions that widens and strengthens individual rights and freedoms and empowers the function of the democratic institutions in general.

CERTH

ETHNIKO KENTRO EREVNAS KAI TECHNOLOGIKIS ANAPTYXIS / Center for Research and Technology Hellas

The Centre for Research and Technology-Hellas (CERTH), founded in 2000, is the only research centre in Northern Greece and one of the largest in the country; more than 1200 people work at CERTH, with the majority being scientists. Climate change, sustainable energy, artificial intelligence, advanced robotics, Internet of Things, holistic approaches to healthcare and nutrition, autonomous vehicles, smart cities of the future and circular economy, are the primal fields around which CERTH’s five institutes are organised. CERTH’s Information Technologies Institute (ITI) is one of the leading Institutions of Greece in the fields of Informatics, Telematics and Telecommunications and was founded in 1998 as a non-profit organisation under the auspices of the General Secretariat of Research and Technology of Greece (GSRT), with its head office located in Thessaloniki, Greece.

 

CERTH-ITI participates in CESAGRAM via the Multimodal Data Fusion and Analytics Group (M4D) of the Multimedia Knowledge and Social Media Analytics Lab (MKLab), which has significant experience and scientific expertise in Web & Social Media Μonitoring and Mining, Image & Video Analysis, Computer Vision, Interactive Multimedia Search and Retrieval, Artificial Intelligence (including Machine Learning and Deep Learning), Multimodal Data Fusion and Analytics, Semantic Technologies and Integration of heterogeneous resources, Knowledge Representation, Reasoning, and Management, Visual analytics, Big Data Analytics, as well as Crisis and Security Management.

MCF

MARIE COLLINS FOUNDATION

The Marie Collins Foundation (MCF), founded in 2011, is a charity based in the UK that is leading the way both nationally and internationally when it comes to responding when a child is sexually abused online. We are dedicated to supporting victims of technology assisted child sexual abuse and exploitation on their recovery journey to go on to live safe and fulfilling lives. We provide a voice for the victim and survivor community and support professionals who work with young people through training, mentoring, and promoting the sharing of best practice. We advocate for victims and survivors by lobbying and sharing our expertise with government and policy makers to improve safeguarding responses for victims and their families. Our work is based on sound evidence of need, thus we both commission and participate in academic research. We have a dedicated team of experienced professionals and an extensive network of trusted partners and affiliates around the world who share, and are committed to achieving our vision that any child harmed by technology-assisted child sexual abuse will be supported throughout their recovery journey. 

MPFSC

DINGUSIU ZMONIU SEIMU PARAMOS CENTRAS / MISSING PERSONS FAMILIES SUPPORT CENTRE

Missing Persons Families Support Centre (MPFSC) – is a non governmental organisation, established in 2000 in Vilnius, Lithuania. MPFSC was established by two women, whose children went missing, up to this date their mission to support parents in this difficult time is alive in a mission of organization. MPFSC works with providing comprehensive support for missing children and their relatives, administrate 24/7 hotline 116000 for missing children in Lithuania. MPFSC is also working with various issues connected with missing of children and adults like human trafficking, gender – based violence. Gender equality and inclusion are main values that are mainstreamed in all activities of the organization. MPFSC is a member of National coalition against human trafficking and provide comprefensive support for victims of human trafficking, domestic violence and other crimes. MPFSC work with prevention of missing children, implement educational programs on gender equality, gender – based violence, including sexual violence and sexual exploitation for youth. In 2021 MPFSC received National Equality Award for prevention of teen dating violence among youth www.9pamoka.lt MPFSC together with Police department in Lithuania and Facebook established Amber Alert Facebook in Lithuania. MPFSC is a member of Missing Children Europe, Amber Alert Europe, International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (ICMEC), Renate Network against human trafficking, Men engage Europe.

HP

HELLENIC POLICE

The Hellenic Police assumed its present structure in 1984 when the Gendarmerie (Chorofylaki) and the Urban Police Forces (Astynomia Poleon) were merged (Law 1481/1-10-1984, Government Gazette 152 A). Hellenic Police (Elliniki Astynomia) is a Law Enforcement Agency according to the Law nr. 2800/2000 and its mission is to: – ensure peace and order as well as citizens` unhindered social development, a mission that includes general policing duties and traffic safety and – prevent and interdict crime as well as to protect the State and the democratic form of government within the framework of constitutional order, a mission that also includes the implementation of public and state security policy.
Hellenic Police is comprised of both central and regional Services. Hellenic Police`s headquarters is the supreme authority over these Services. Its efforts center on the fulfillment of the Force`s mission, within the framework of the Ministry of Interior`s policy. For this reason it schedules, directs, oversees and monitors the activities of its Services, and it ensures the necessary conditions for the exercise of its authority.

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TERMS OF USE - COOKIES POLICY - DATA PROTECTION POLICY

A. TERMS OF USE

The CESAGRAM project website https://cesagramproject.eu/ is owned by the CESAGRAM Consortium and managed by the Center for Security Studies (KEMEA), as a Consortium member.

CESAGRAM is a research project that has received funding from the EU-funded ISF project under grant agreement no. 101084974. The project started on 1 January 2023 and is scheduled to end on 31 December 2024. The CESAGRAM consortium consists of 11 partners from academia, NGOs, as well as public authorities. The present website is part of the dissemination and communication activities undertaken by the CESAGRAM consortium with the aim to successfully communicate its research outputs on a rather innovative topic to a wider public and facilitate the creation of synergies with interested stakeholders.

This website can provide all (hereafter referred to as ‘users’/‘visitors’) with information, participation, content delivery, or content collection services regarding the project CESAGRAM, under the terms of use included in this document.

The website is the sole responsibility of the Parties of the Consortium and cannot be considered to reflect the views of the European Commission. The use/visit of this website and/or its services is provided under the unconditional acceptance of the terms of use described herein. Navigating through this website, staying on this website, creating links to it (URL) or to its files/services, and archiving/bookmarking it, constitute acceptance of its terms of use.

The use of the website must be conducted solely under legitimate purposes and in a manner that does not restrict or impede its use by third parties. The user/visitor of this website is obligated to use it in accordance with the law and the present terms of use. The user/visitor of the website shall not commit any acts or omissions that may cause damage or malfunction and may adversely affect or endanger the provision of services provided through the website to citizens.

The content of the website, including (indicatively and not exhaustively) texts, graphics, images, videos, sounds, services, etc. (hereafter referred to as ‘Content’) is legally protected under the applicable Intellectual Property Rights legal framework and we reserve all rights of use and ownership of the Content, all copies created based on it, as well as all intellectual property rights and all other property rights pertaining to it.

We make reasonable efforts to ensure that the information and content that appears on the website is as accurate, true and up-to-date as possible. It also provides the content (e.g., information, names, photographs, pictures, images, data, etc.) and the services made available through the website ‘AS IS’. Under no circumstances, can we be held liable for any legal claims, civil or criminal, or damages of any kind (direct loss, special damage, or indirect loss) to the user/visitor of this website.

The website may contain links to third-party websites for the sole purpose of providing information to the user/visitor. The referral to links belonging to third-party websites does not constitute an endorsement of their views and actions or the acceptance of the content they express, publish or post. Third-parties – owners of the websites/responsible under the law – are solely responsible for the content of their websites or for any damage that may result from their use when the user / visitor of the Website gains access to them.

We make all efforts to ensure the proper function of our network but we do not guarantee that our server operations will be uninterrupted or error-free, free from viruses, malicious software or other similar elements.

The terms and conditions of use of this website, as well as any amendment thereof, are governed by and supplemented by the applicable national and European law and the applicable international treaties. Any provision of these terms which is found to be against the above legal framework or is rendered invalid ceases to be valid and enforceable and shall be withdrawn from the present terms, without in any way undermining the validity of the remaining terms.

The terms and conditions of use of this website constitute the overall agreement between the Consortium and the users/visitors of its webpages and services and bind solely them. No modification of the terms of use is taken into account and is part of this agreement, unless it is expressed in writing and is incorporated in the present Terms of Use. Unless otherwise stated on this website, the above terms of use are immediately applicable in their entirety. We unilaterally reserve the right to modify, add, alter the content or services of the Website and its terms of use, whenever it deems necessary, without prior notice, through this website, always within the legal framework in force.

You may access the website https://cesagramproject.eu/ without having to disclose any data about your person. Nevertheless, the installed browser on your device sends automatically information to the server of the CESAGRAM website, including information about your browser type and version, as well as the date and time of access, so as to establish a connection and permit your access to the website.

B. COOKIES POLICY

We use cookies and analytics services to maintain and monitor the performance of the CESAGRAM website and to optimize our services, as well as to receive aggregate data that we can use in our dissemination reports for the European Commission.

Cookies are data files that are transferred from a web server to the Website visitor’s computer, in order to keep statistics and to provide the best experience to the visitor – strictly necessary and functional cookies. Cookies are an industry standard used by most websites to facilitate the user’s repeated access to a website and its use through the personalisation of the service provided as they can store the personal choices of the user. Cookies are not harmful to the user’s computer system or its files, and apart from the user himself/herself/themselves, only the website from which a particular cookie has been transferred to his or her or their computer can read, modify it or delete it.

If the user/visitor does not wish his or her or their information to be collected through cookies, he or she can use the “reject” option on banner. It should be noted, however, that discarding cookies may result in making it more difficult or impossible to use certain parts of the Website, and/or that there is a change in its intended appearance and operation, as a permanent connection will be required. At all events, the user/visitor can manage the collection of any cookies through the website’s settings.

We shall contain such data in hardcopy and electronic files and/or databases in full compliance with data protection legislation, including security and confidentiality requirements based on the principles of good practice, proportionality and transparency regarding processing.

The CESAGRAM website will use the Matomo for WordPress plugin. Matomo is an open-source web analytics platform. A web analytics platform is used by KEMEA (the website owner), in order to measure, collect, analyse and report visitor’s data for dissemination and reporting of the project purposes. For more information, we advise you to visit: https://matomo.org/ . Matomo settings are customized, so that the visitor’s IP address is anonymized.User ID tracking and content tracking are disabled. We have also disabled first -party analytics cookies and all third-party cookies . Essential non-analytics cookies may be created, for which you will be asked to consent. You may choose to prevent this website from aggregating and analysing the actions you take here. For that reason, you will be asked whether you opt-in or out of tracking.

Please, note that you will be asked to consent on the use and storage of cookies and/or trackers.

C. DATA PROTECTION POLICY

The present data protection policy clarifies in a layered manner the processing of personal information of visitors of the CESAGRAM project website. The data processing on the CESAGRAM website is pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation), Greek Law 4624/2019 on the protection of personal data and any other applicable law.

  1. Data Controller

The Data Controller is the Center for Security Studies (KEMEA) with offices in Athens, at P. Kanellopoulou str., 4, 10177 Greece. The Data Controller can be contacted by writing to the address above or by sending an e-mail message to kemea@kemea.gr , or by calling at Telephone: +30 2107710805 or sending a Fax at Fax number:  +30 211 100 4499.

  1. Data Protection Officer (DPO)

KEMEA’s Data Protection Officer may be reached at dpo@kemea-research.gr in case you have any question about the processing of your data when using the CESAGRAM website or you wish to exercise any of your rights as a data subject.

  1. Types of personal of personal data to be processed:
  • When visiting the CESAGRAM website

The IT systems and applications designated for the operation of this Website detect, during the course of their ordinary operation, certain data – the transmission of which is implicit in the use of Internet communication protocols – not associated with directly identifiable users.

The data collected may include cookies, IP addresses of computers used by users connecting to the site, the URI – Uniform Resource Identifier – addresses of the resources requested, the time of the request, the method used to send the request to the server, the size of the file obtained in response, the numerical code indicating the status of the response from the server (completed successfully, error, etc.) and other parameters relating to the operating system and the user’s IT environment.

  • When filing a question/request via our contact form

Other personal data collected are those provided by the user/visitor when corresponding with the e-mail addresses indicated on our website or when filling our online contact form or registering on the website (providing e.g., name, surname, username, password, e-mail address, institution/body etc.).

The sending of personal, non-mandatory data also by email on an optional, explicit and voluntary basis to the addresses indicated on this website means that the address of the sender is then acquired, this being necessary in order to respond to the request, together with any other personal data included in the message.

  1. Purposes of processing

The personal data of the user/visitor are processed for the following purposes:

  • communication for responding to any requests/questions submitted by the user/visitor,
  • security and proper functioning of the CESAGRAM website,
  • dissemination of the CESAGRAM project and its results, invitation to other relevant activities
  • compliance with legal or administrative obligations.
  1. Legal basis

The data processing takes place according to Article 6(1)(a) GDPR, your informed consent. You may withdraw your consent at any time with future effect, by sending an informal email to dpo@kemea-research.gr. We may also process personal data based on Article6(1)(c) GDPR, when the processing is necessary for our compliance with a legal obligation.

  1. Data recipients

Data recipients of:

  • Information that the Consortium is obligated or entitled by law, contract, judgement and regulatory decision to notify may be: public and independent administrative authorities, judicial authorities and public officials.
  • All the information necessary for the achievement of each specific purpose: the Administration and the relevant services of KEMEA and the CESAGRAM

KEMEA and the CESAGRAM Consortium shall not disclose, assign, exchange, grant or otherwise dispose, without the consent of the user/visitor, to third parties, natural or legal persons, personal data other than the cases mentioned above within the scope of national laws provisions and the General Data Protection Regulation.

  1. Data transfer

No transfer to non- EU countries/ international organizations is foreseen.

  1. Rights of the data subject

You have the following rights:

  • pursuant to Article 7(3) GDPR, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time and without any consequences for you. This means that in future we may no longer continue to process the data if the processing is based on this consent;
  • pursuant to Article 13 ,14 and  15 GDPR, you have the right to obtain information about whether your personal data are processed by us and where that is the case, access to those personal data. In particular, you have the right to obtain from us confirmation as to whether or not personal data concerning you are being processed, and, where that is the case, access to the personal data and the following information : the purpose of processing, the categories of the personal data, the categories of recipients, to whom your data has been or is disclosed to, the storage period planned, the existence of a right to request from the controller rectification, erasure, restriction of processing or objection, the existence of a right to lodge a complaint and the source of your data if it has not been collected by us. Pursuant to Article 12 GDPR, we must provide any communication relating to the processing to the data subject in a concise, transparent, intelligible and easily accessible form, using clear and plain language.
  • pursuant to Article 15 GDPR, and in case your personal data are processed by us, you have the right to access those personal data.
  • pursuant to Article 16 GDPR, you have the right to obtain the rectification of inaccurate personal data without undue delay or the completion of your personal data stored with us;
  • pursuant to Article 17 GDPR, you have the right to obtain the erasure of your personal data stored with us without undue delay, unless processing is necessary to exercise the right to freedom of expression and information, for compliance with a legal obligation, for reasons of public interest, for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes or to establish, exercise or defend legal claims;
  • pursuant to Article 18 GDPR, you have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data under the conditions set by the applicable laws;
  • pursuant to Article 20 GDPR, you have the right to receive your personal data, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format or to obtain the transmission to another data controller (right to data portability);
  • pursuant to Article 77 GDPR, to lodge a complaint with a national supervisory authority. You can contact the supervisory authority of your habitual residence or workplace or our company headquarters. In the latter case, you can file a complaint with the Hellenic Data Protection Authority (gr)

If you wish to exercise any of your rights, you may contact us via e-mail at dpo@kemea-research.gr.

  1. Data retention

Your personal data is retained only for as long as it is necessary to fulfil the purposes described above, and they will be retained until 02 February 2031 (22/02/2031) as a maximum, unless a longer retention period is required by legal obligations or regulations.

  • Data security

Your personal data are processed by electronic means in compliance with the provisions of Article 32 of GDPR 2016/679, national law and in compliance with the principles of data’s confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Your personal data are transferred in an encoded manner using the widely used and secure TLS (Transport Layer Security) encryption standard. You will recognize a secure TLS connection by the additional “s” after “http” (i.e., https://..) in the address bar of your browser or from the lock icon. Moreover, we use suitable technical and organizational measures, which are being continuously enhanced, to protect your data against accidental or intentional manipulation, partial or complete loss, destruction or against unauthorized access by third parties.

  1. Amendments to this Data Protection Policy

This data protection policy is effective as of April 2023.

We keep our Data Protection Policy under regular review to make sure it is up to date and precise. Thus, it may become necessary to change it due to the potential addition of new features to the CESAGRAM website or due to further legal requirements. You can have access to the latest data protection information on the CESAGRAM website here.