Weaponizing Migration: The Case of Italy
The Italian island of Lampedusa, located 113 kilometres from the coast of Tunisia, recently witnessed a huge influx of undocumented migrants. Today, the island’s 6,500 inhabitants are neighbours with some…
Crossing the Mediterranean Sea
According to the United Nations Refugee Agency, more than 2,500 irregular migrants have either lost their life or gone missing in the Mediterranean Sea in the first three quarters of…
From Raw Data to Actionable Insights
"In God we trust; all others must bring data". This famous quote, widely attributed to the US statistician W. Edwards Deming, refers mainly to the importance of data for any…
Towards Factuality Assessment
The generation of news around the world is growing at a fast speed, even faster with continuously improved versions of AI content generators like GPT. Such text generators (for example:…
Dangerous Migration Routes
In mid-June 2023, some 500 migrants – including women and children – lost their lives when their fishing boat capsized off the coast of southern Greece, prompting Jonas Grimheden, Frontex’s…
The CRiTERIA Visual Analytics Dashboard
CRiTERIA is an innovative, EU-funded research project that uses semantic technologies in conjunction with interactive visualisation techniques to empower European border agencies and other stakeholders within the European Union. Its…
Free-Text Video Search
Predicting Information Needs Predicting the information needs of a user is not always possible. While in some cases the information needs may be known in advance, e.g. in the form…
The Benefits of the CRiTERIA Project for the Malta Police Force
The CRiTERIA project offers a wide range of benefits that are specifically designed to assist the Malta Police Force in carrying out its mission to maintain law and order. By…
Security-related Threat: Migration of Ideas
CRiTERIA stands for Comprehensive data-driven Risk and Threat Assessment Methods for the Early and Reliable Identification, Validation and Analysis of migration-related risks.What most likely first comes to mind regarding migration-related…
Events Detection in Media Reports
EU borders are constantly faced with a multiplicity of challenges, including human trafficking, smuggling, document fraud and illegal migration. Risk analysis and vulnerability assessment methodologies, e.g., CIRAM have several limitations,…