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Arthur's Legal, Strategies & Systems

Arthur’s Legal, Strategies & Systems is the independent, global strategic legal firm & knowledge partner. It covers the unique combination of technology, strategy, impact, ethics & law focusing on (inter)national, regional and global strategy & policy aspects in this Digital Age. Expert Advisor to public and private Sector organisations within EU, EEA, UK, allies and friends (Digital Ecosystems, Data, IoT, AI, Robotics, Computing, Spectrum, Dynamic Attributes, Risk, Safety, Cybersecurity, Privacy, Trust, Dynamic Assurance, Digital Sovereignty & Accountability).

Role in the project:

Strategy, Ethics, Policy, Legal & Impact

KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN

The Centre for IT & IP Law (CiTiP) is a research center at the Faculty of Law and Criminology of the University of Leuven (KU Leuven), with currently a staff of over 85 researchers specialized in legal and ethical aspects of IT innovation and intellectual property. Researchers working at CITIP focus on the re-thinking the current legal framework, necessitated by the rapid evolution of technology.

Role in the project:

The Centre for IT & IP Law (CiTiP) contributes in the project as a legal and ethical partner. Providing its legal expertise CiTiP will contribte in know-how, best practices, standardisation and policy reccomendations, mainly engaged in WP7 by leading T7.3 and conducting a legal and ethical analysis of the project while simultaneously supporting the partners in different Work Packages. Also CiTiP acts as the Research Ethics Manager of CEDAR.

Transparency International Deutschland e.V.

Transparency International Deutschland e.V., a national chapter of Transparency International, combats corruption, focusing on transparency in elections, administration, and business. Founded in 1993, it now has over 1200 members and primarily operates through volunteers. It actively lobbies for anti-corruption reforms, upholding values like integrity, accountability, and civil participation to raise public awareness about corruption's effects and strengthen integrity systems.

Role in the project:

Transparency International will act as domain experts on corruption, advising in the Italian, Ukrainian and Slovenian pilot studies and assessing the impact of these. It will further use its expertise to validate the data sets produced. As an already established entity in the field of anti-corruption efforts, it will disseminate the results.

The State Agency for the Restoration and Development of Infrastructure of Ukraine (the Agency for Restoration)

The State Agency for the Restoration and Development of Infrastructure of Ukraine (the Agency for Restoration ) is a central executive body and which: 1) implements the state policy in the field of road economy and management of public roads of national importance; 2) implements the state policy in terms of implementation of measures for construction, repair, modernization of infrastructure, residential real estate, public purpose, industrial complex, social sphere, housing and communal services, improvement of settlements, household waste management, engineering, transport, energy infrastr

Role in the project:

In the project, we will focus on developing an automated system for verifying counterparties and ensuring greater transparency, efficiency and security of decisions regarding public procurement participants in recovery projects. Development of the system "Register of Business Partners of the Agency for Restoration and Affiliated Enterprises", which will reflect the results of their cooperation

General hospital Celje

General hospital Celje is the third largest hospital in Slovenia. Providing comprehensive inpatient and outpatient care at the secondary level, but also at the primary and tertiary level, we organise healthcare services for an area with a population of approximately 300,000. We also operate in the field of education, training, and development and are a learning base for all levels of education in the health sector. We carry out and strengthen scientific and research activities, co-design health policy, and provide conditions for the personal and professional development of our employees.

Role in the project:

In the public procurement in Slovenia, low-value tenders (tenders for goods and services of value lower than 40.000 EUR, and for construction projects of value lower than 80.000 EUR) are specifically problematic. This is because such tenders are less regulated and consequently done in a less standardized manner. In the Slovenian healthcare sector, each hospital manages its low-value tenders with its practices, approaches, and technology (which is largely outdated). Each hospital publishes several such low-value tenders each day, without any schedule or a system in place. Most often, these are published in a PDF format on the hospital’s website. Bids are submitted over email, not through a procurement platform. Consequently, no real-time monitoring of procurement practices is possible, and any fraud analysis can only be done post-festum. This opens many opportunities for fraud.In the project, we will focus on advanced approaches to ensure transparent procurement management in Slovenian hospitals. In doing so, we will deal with providing and preparing data for analysis and using advanced approaches and techniques for searching suspicious financial transactions.

Ministry of Digital Transformation

The Ministry of Digital Transformation monitors and analyses the state of digital transformation and the information society at the national level. It is responsible for the areas of the information society, electronic communications, digital inclusion, digital competences, the data economy, management of information and communication systems, and the provision of electronic public administration services.

Role in the project:

In the project, we will focus on data policy and AI policy in data spaces. We also will help to find relevant datasets, and how to governance data in the project.

Ministry of Health; Office for Control, Quality and Investments in Healthcare of the Republic of Slovenia

The Office for Control, Quality, and Investments in Healthcare oversees administrative control in compliance with healthcare regulations. Responsibilities include selecting board members for healthcare institutions, proposing guidelines for their supervision, and suggesting performance criteria. The office strategically plans and monitors healthcare quality, conducts risk analyses, and proposes risk management solutions.

Role in the project:

We participate in the project as a state body that brings experience.

Ministry of the Interior, Police

In cooperation with individuals and communities, the Slovenian police ensures the safety of people and property, prevents, detects and investigates criminal acts, ensures public order, protects the national border and contributes to the safety of road traffic. This is not possible without advanced analytics solutions, including AI. That is why the Slovenian police pays great attention to their effective, ethical and legal use. Participation in the CEDAR project will contribute to increasing capacity and knowledge in this area.

Role in the project:

In the project, we will focus on advanced approaches to ensure transparent procurement management in Slovenian hospitals. In doing so, we will deal with providing and preparing data for analysis and using advanced approaches and techniques for searching suspicious financial transactions.

Regional Agency for Environmental Protection of Friuli Venezia Giulia

Arpa FVG is the Regional Agency for Environmental Protection of Friuli Venezia Giulia. ARPA is a public law body responsible of technical activities for environmental supervision and control, research and technical-scientific support activities, as well as for the provision of analysis and monitoring services related to health and environment.

Role in the project:

ARPA, as associated partner of CEDAR, will contribute to the Italian pilot, providing support on environmental aspects and data related to public procurements.

ANCE FVG

ANCE Friuli Venezia Giulia is the Regional Association of construction industrialists belonging - at national level - to ANCE, which represents the professional interests of the sector in relations with regional institutions and administrations, with political, economic, trade union, social organizations and with any other regional component of society.

Role in the project:

ANCE will collect insights describing critical events and situations, to define testing scenarios and roles, to propose significant KPI and metrics. ANCE will support piloting activities (setup and evaluation) as domain experts.

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