About

STARLIGHT aims to create a community that brings together LEAs, researchers, industry, and practitioners in the security ecosystem under a coordinated and strategic effort to bring AI into operational practices.

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Understand

Improve the widespread understanding of AI across LEAs to reinforce their investigative and cybersecurity operations and the need to uphold legal, ethical and societal values

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Exploit

Provide opportunities to LEAs to exploit AI tools and solutions in their operational work that are trustworthy, transparent and human-centric

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Protect

Ensure that LEAs can protect their own AI systems through privacy- and security-by-design approaches, better cybersecurity tools and knowledge

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Combat

Raise LEAs’ expertise and capacity to combat the misuse of AI-supported crime and terrorism

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Boost

Boost AI for LEAs in Europe delivering long-term sustainability through an AI hub that supports a strong security industry and enhances LEA strategic autonomy in AI.

Project Spotlight

Get to know our project through more engaging videos. Dive into our story and explore our vision for a brighter future.

STARLIGHT at the CERIS Event on Foresight and Key Enabling Technologies

On March 5, 2024, the STARLIGHT project was presented at the CERIS event focuse

STARLIGHT General Assembly in Utrecht

From February 7th to 9th, 2024, the STARLIGHT consortium gathered for its 4th General Assembly hosted by NPN and EUROPOL in Utrecht.

STARLIGHT at the CERIS FCT/INFRA Annual Event

On December 14–15, STARLIGHT attended the CERIS FCT/INFRA annual event in Brussels, Belgium.

STARLIGHT at GRACE's Final Event

STARLIGHT participated in the GRACE final event on November 29th and 30th at the Spanish National Police headquarters in Madrid.

Project Details

Coordinator CEA, France
Partners 50
Duration Oct 2021 – Sep 2025
Budget €18.8m

STARLIGHT was funded as an innovation action under the H2020-SU-AI02 call - ‘Secure and resilient Artificial Intelligence technologies, tools and solutions in support of Law Enforcement and citizen protection, cybersecurity operations and prevention and protection against adversarial Artificial Intelligence’. The project began in October 2021 and will last 48 months. STARLIGHT brings together 50 partners from across 18 different European countries with 15 law enforcement agencies.

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