Seven organisations from three different countries joined forces in TESSERA, a new Internal Security Fund EU project, which aims to conduct the preparatory work needed to identify the conditions and requirements for the creation of high-quality large-scale trusted and shareable datasets supporting the European Security Data Space for Innovation. The project also aims to specify the low-level architecture of the data-related national components of the European Security Data Space, foster the involvement of stakeholders, organise technical workshops, and produce a report documenting its outcomes.
In particular, TESSERA will pave the path for the creation and evaluation of findable, accessible, interoperable, re-usable, and shareable datasets and/or data models in all modalities of interest for training, testing, and validating innovative tools and algorithms in the field of security taking into consideration relevant existing and emerging regulations. This will have significant impact, as it is an essential precondition for the development of high-quality trustworthy and transparent AI solutions for law enforcement that are subject to fundamental rights safeguards and adhere to the principles of human autonomy, prevention of harm, fairness, and explicability. TESSERA’s target groups involve Law Enforcement Agencies and relevant stakeholders (e.g., relevant EU Agencies, AI technology providers from academia, research, and industry, policy makers, security domain experts and practitioners) from the EU Member States with a particular interest in the European Security Data Space for Innovation and the use of datasets for disruptive technologies in the security domain.
The project kicked-off in March 2024 in a two-day meeting (06-07 Mar.) at the premises of CERTH in Thessaloniki, Greece, covering a comprehensive agenda and coming to a clear action plan for the upcoming months. At this meeting, more than 15 attendees who represented all the partners physically or remotely had the opportunity to set up the preliminary communications and rules that will facilitate the project implementation.
The kick-off meeting was also attended by the European Commission Project Officer who underlined the need for continuous collaboration and a multidisciplinary approach to effectively cover and promote all aspects governing the creation of high quality datasets for the European Security Data Space, whereas it also hosted a presentation of the popAI project summarising its results in terms of policy recommendations, best practices, ethical aspects, and foresighting regarding the use of AI in civil security.
TESSERA is being coordinated by M4D group together with the Visual Computing Lab (VCL), both groups of CERTH, and will last for 24 months. The project is funded by the European Union within the framework of the Internal Security Fund project grants with a total amount of about 1 Million Euros.
The Consortium
Coordinator: CERTH (EL), Partners: ESMIR (ES), NTTDES (ES), UMH (ES), LIF (BG), HPOL(EL), KEMEA (EL).
