The Octopus Project is a Council of Europe project based on voluntary contributions from States Parties and Observers to the Convention on Cybercrime and other public and private sector organisations, aiming to support the implementation of the Convention on Cybercrime (Budapest Convention), its Protocols and related standards, as well as to address additional challenges that came to the forefront in the course of 2020.

Results are expected in the following areas:

• Assistance of the criminal justice authorities from the countries willing to implement the Budapest Convention, its First Protocol on Xenophobia and Racism, its Second Additional Protocol to the Convention on Cybercrime on enhanced co-operation and disclosure of electronic evidence, as well as related standards;
• Support to the Cybercrime Convention Committee (T-CY);
• Organisation of the Octopus conferences on cooperation against cybercrime;
• Development of online tools for the delivery of capacity building activities on cybercrime and electronic evidence.

 Duration of the project: 1 January 2021 – 31 December 2027

   The Council of Europe gratefully acknowledges the contributions of the following donors to the Octopus Project:

Canada – France – Hungary – Iceland – Italy – Japan – Malta – Monaco – The Netherlands – The United Kingdom and the United States of America. 

  The Octopus Project is open to voluntary contributions. Consult the Octopus Project leaflet (version March 2026) and the flexible partnership opportunities leaflet (version May 2026)