Ref. Ares(2014)3625424 - 31/10/2014
European Commission
Date: 22.10.2014
Joint Research Centre - Ispra Site
Mission No: OM-14-971668
Mission Report
Name Institute/Unit/Project
IPSC/ GlobeSec/
EMM
Object of the mission
Give on-site introduction and tutorial to EMM OSINT Suite software for Lithuanian Customs
Demonstrate EMM Media Monitoring Suite and OSINT Desktop Suite at meeting organised by the
Lithuanian Cybercrime Centre of Excellence (L3CE) to law enforcement officers and university
researchers.
Place, date, organizations visited and contacted persons
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15.10.2014 LT Customs training
Information Analysis
centre, Vilnius
Division
16.10.2014 Mykolo Romerio
LT Cybercrime Centre of
Universit, Vilnius
Excellence (L3CE)
Other Participants
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Main Results of the mission:
Training at Lithuanian Customs Training Centre
Background
The JRC has developed based on its research in information extraction and mining a number of
software tools in collaboration with DG HOME and law enforcement authorities in the MS. Under an
Administrative Arrangement with DG HOME we are currently disseminating the software to law
enforcement and also specific customs authorities (e.g. customs criminal service). Part of this
disseminating strategy is to provide on-site trainings to teach customers to adopt the software for their
specific use cases.
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Tutorial and Discussion
I was invited by the Lithuanian Customs Criminal Service to give an on-site tutorial to ease the
adoption of the EMM OSINT Suite software for their specific purposes. The Lithuanian Customs
Criminal Service is one of the last MS authorities to have licensed the software for operational use.
As part of the tutorial we worked interactively through the course material we have developed for this
format of teaching. We noticed that the support for Lithuanian language is currently quite limited since
the needed language specific resources are not yet integrated or developed.
Follow-up Actions
Improve the support for Baltic Languages in the EMM OSINT Suite and the EMM processing
chain
Improve software based on direct feedback of the customer during the tutorial
Keep tutorial material up-to-date with new functions of the software
Talk at the LT Cybercrime Centre (L3CE)
Background
The Lithuanian Cyber Crime Centre of Excellence (L3CE) for Training Research and Education
intends to participate in a call from DG Justice together with the state security department of Lithuania
and partners from Latvia, Spain, Ireland, UK and Slovenia. The call JUST/2014/RRAC/AG1 grants
funding to projects to prevent and combat racism, xenophobia, homophobia and other forms of
intolerance.
The project idea to be submitted for the grant application is to construct and implement an automated
tool (IT solution based on OSINT technologies) that would detect, analyse, profile and report
appearances of Hate Speech in the cyber space. The tool set should be made operational on the national
level of all MS of the participating consortium partners. Currently, they are looking for already
developed OSINT tools to form a basis or to be integrated in the tool set.
The L3CE spoke to DG HOME about this project idea.
(policy officer HOME.A.2
organised crime) referred the L3CE to the JRC to evaluate the EMM OSINT tools which the JRC has
developed in collaboration with DG HOME and is sharing with the law enforcement authorities in the
MS
Presentation and Discussion
I demonstrated the EMM OSINT tools to the participants of the meeting. The meeting took place in a
meeting room at the Mykolo Romerio University. During the presentation I could answer a lot of
questions regarding the support of EU languages and especially the multi-language capability of the
tools. Especially the researchers taking part in the meeting were interested in our scientific publications
in the field and the different functional modules of the software.
The L3CE wishes the JRC to take part as partner in the project application to be able to further evaluate
JRC’s software and potentially use it as a basis for the project. In return the project partners from the
Baltic States would be willing to share language resources they have developed to improve the support
of the Baltic languages in JRC’s toolset.
I pointed out, subject to further discussions with my superiors; the JRC may not be able to take part as
a full partner due legal restrictions and also potentially a lack of personnel resources. However, we will
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discuss what kind of support the JRC can give to this project which is also politically supported by the
Lithuanian government.
After the presentation which took with Q&A almost three hours, the participants of the meeting were
given a short tour of the computer science department at Vilnius University. The CS department is
almost across the street of
University. The CS department features state of the art
computer labs and a super computer cluster (2000 CPU cores).
Follow-up actions
Refer on relevant JRC publications to language researchers
Discuss internally whether an associate project partnership is feasible for the JRC
Discuss internally, which kind of technical/scientific support can be provided to reuse parts of
our software tools
Customer observations
The Lithuanian Customs Criminal Service has licensed the EMM OSINT Suite software for operational
use. According to their deputy head of the information analysis division it is especially for newer MS
of the EU a great help to have a free software solution to get started with OSINT related investigations.
They are willing to use the tool in one of their future projects and give the JRC feedback on its use.
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