CEDAR

Merging research, tech, and public efforts to combat corruption in Europe through advanced data analytics.

 

 

 

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The world is currently confronting unprecedented challenges, encompassing a global pandemic, ongoing conflicts, and environmental and energy crises. In response to these crises, there has been a significant surge in emergency public spending, accompanied by a relaxation of due diligence checks and oversight. Consequently, this has given rise to patterns of corruption and fraudulent activities, exerting profound and detrimental impacts on the European economy, society, environment, and politics.

As an example, corruption and fraud have the potential to undermine the volume of aid reaching targeted organizations, introducing inefficiencies in resource distribution and creating an uneven business landscape. Such circumstances can extend the duration of recovery efforts and intensify economic crises. Within civil society, the diversion of resources away from their intended purposes due to corruption and fraud can result in a decline in the quality of essential services, such as healthcare, fostering a lack of trust in public institutions and undermining social cohesion. In the environmental realm, corruption may lead to the unjust allocation of natural resources and environmentally dangerous practices. Lastly, corruption poses a direct threat to democracy by endangering institutions and eroding public trust in government and the rule of law, making it increasingly challenging to establish and keep stable political systems.

CEDAR sees these challenges as catalysts for research, innovation, and collaboration. The initiative establishes ambitious objectives aimed at pushing the boundaries of current practices by incorporating novel, multi-dimensional concepts, leveraging rich datasets, developing efficient algorithms, creating scalable tools, and implementing comprehensive, forward-thinking strategies.

Drawing on the expertise gained from prior and ongoing EU-funded projects, CEDAR will create an inclusive, federated, and privacy-preserving Data Commons space, to establish a secure and reliable space for sharing information among stakeholders across multiple domains. CEDAR will ensure that more data becomes available in the economy and society while keeping companies and individuals who generate the data in full control in a trusted, secure, and transparent manner.

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