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Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel

Kiel University (CAU), located in Germany and founded in 1665, excels in addressing societal, environmental, and health challenges through research and teaching. With 27,500 students and 3,700 staff, it fosters interdisciplinary collaboration in four dynamic priority research areas: Marine Science, Life Science, Societal and Cultural Change, and Nano Surface & Interface Science. Dedicated to peace and prosperity, CAU is driven by the motto “Pax Optima Rerum: peace is the most valuable asset,” aiming for a sustainable future for all.

Role in the project:

With deep expertise in social science and corruption research, CAU spearheads the creation of an impact assessment framework. Collaborating closely with partners, they will employ mixed methodologies, including detailed surveys and advanced simulations, to evaluate AI technologies' scalability and effectiveness in anti-corruption efforts.

Brandenburgisches Institut für Gesellschaft und Sicherheit

The Brandenburg Institute for Society and Security (BIGS) is an independent, non-partisan non-profit institute in Potsdam, Germany with the mission of building bridges between theory and practice to improve civil security. BIGS seeks to analyze security issues from an interdisciplinary perspective and to supply needed insights, while at the same time strengthening Germany's and Europe's broader security architecture.The focus is on economic issues relating to security (economics of security).

Role in the project:

BIGS applies econometric methods to identify data traces and patterns of corrupion (detection). Data is contrasted with publicly available and comparable data from other countries to identify significant differences hinting at possible corrupt practices. Furthermore, BIGS computes correlations, i.e. the impact of corruption on economic indicators (evaluation).

TREBE Language Technologies S.L.

TREBE Language Technologies is a spin-off from Vicomtech, located in San Sebastian (SPAIN), working with and researching speech and language technologies. Our main focuses are neural machine translation, automatic speech recognition, and text-to-speech transcription. Our modular solutions and services are based on proprietary technology and can therefore be adapted to different (and custom) use cases. All of our solutions can be deployed either on premise or accessed on cloud, and can work both on GPU and CPU (Green AI).

Role in the project:

TREBE will be using automatic speech recognition technologies to detect fake content in order to prevent fraud and corruption. More specifically, TREBE will focus on speech enhancement, denoising, and voice isolation technologies (all language agnostic technologies), with the goal of improving the transcription quality.

Vicomtech

Vicomtech is a private non-profit research centre based in San Sebastian and Bilbao, Spain, specializing in Artificial Intelligence, Visual Computing, and Interaction. Established as a foundation, its primary mission is to address the Applied Research, Development, and Innovation needs of businesses and institutions. The centre aims to help organizations tackle new financial and social challenges and improve their competitiveness in the global marketplace.

Role in the project:

Vicomtech will lead the integration of WP4 technologies to detect and correlate fraud/corruption operations using cross-modal retrieval for contextualizing information. They will also enhance their Kriptosare solution for detecting crypto fraud by creating a transparent system based on graph analysis and AI to identify patterns and anomalies indicating illicit activities, including corruption and money laundering.

CENTAI

CENTAI’s mission is to push the boundaries of applied and foundational research in domains related to Artificial Intelligence and Complex Systems sciences. We aim at innovating beyond the state of the art in these fields, pursuing blue-sky research and developing trustworthy, fair, green, and sustainable methodologies. Our theoretical endeavors are flanked by applied research projects, targeting some of today's most pressing societal challenges.

Role in the project:

CENTAI will lead activities related to data protection and trustworthy AI. CENTAI will coordinate the definition of a methodology and the provision of technology and organisational measures to protect the personal data identified in WP2.

French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission

The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) is a key player in research, development and innovation in four main areas: defence and security, low carbon energies (nuclear and renewable energies), technological research for industry, fundamental research in the physical sciences and life sciences.

Role in the project:

CEA will provide its expertise in data management including collection, pre-processing, analytics, and visualisation both in scientific research and technology development, as well as end users and impact facilitators with deep domain knowledge.

Centre for Research and Technology Hellas

The Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH) is one of the largest research centres in Greece, founded in 2000 in Thessaloniki, Greece. The mission of CERTH is to promote the triplet Research – Development – Innovation by conducting high quality scientific research and developing innovative products and services while building strong partnerships with industry (national and international) and strong collaborations with research centres and universities in Greece and abroad.

Role in the project:

The Visual Computing Lab (VCL) of CERTH’s Information Technologies Institute is the coordinator of the project and leader of the technical Workpackage WP4. CERTH contributes to all WPs acting both as a research and technology provider and a coordinator.

The Lisbon Council for Economic Competitiveness asbl

The Lisbon Council for Economic Competitiveness and Social Renewal asbl is a Brussels-based think tank and policy network. Established in 2003 in Belgium as a non-profit, non-partisan association, the group is dedicated to making a positive contribution through cutting-edge research and by engaging political leaders and the public at large in a constructive exchange about the economic and social challenges of the 21st century.

Role in the project:

The Lisbon Council leads the Work Package 6 as main vehicle for the CEDAR impact generation as well as to maximise the promotion and exploitation of the projects' Science and Innovation key results. This effort will also result in the realisation of an exploitation and sustainability plan, as well as a thorough assessment to evaluate the overall impact.

WP7 - MANAGEMENT: Project Management

Work Package 7 (WP7) guarantees the high-quality coordination, financial and legal administration, internal project communication, as well as the execution and progress of the project are accomplished within the allocated time and budget. The responsibility for all management-related activities (inclusive of a rigorous scientific, technical, and data coordination) will be carried by the Project Coordinator (CERTH) with the assistance of the General Assembly and experienced Ethics and Legal partners ensure compliance with EU legal frameworks and the development of a data management plan.

WP6 - IMPACT: Promotion and Exploitation of CEDAR Science and Innovation

Work Package 6 (WP6) will serve as the primary team for generating impact within CEDAR. It will strategize and execute all necessary techniques and activities to ensure effective dissemination and communication of CEDAR results to academic and industrial forums, as well as the broader public. Additionally, WP6 will explore the business perspectives of the CEDAR solutions and the exploitation and sustainability over the long run.

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