More than 160 participants from 20 countries from all around the world met in Bucharest, on 14 December, on the margins of the Octopus Conference 2023, to mark the transition between GLACY+ and GLACY-e, the two joint global projects of the European Union and of the Council of Europe.
Gradually, since its launch in October 2016, the GLACY+ project served 20 priority countries and reached an additional number of 109 countries, due to the implementation of more than 1000 activities. It benefitted from the support and co-operation of more than 20 partners. With the project’s support, its priority countries put in place legislation and strategies on cybercrime, created pools of national police and judicial trainers and developed their cybercrime units. A factsheet of the results and impact of the project can be found on the project page.
The event also marked the launch of the new GLACY-e project on Global Action on Cybercrime Enhanced. GLACY-e will lead capacity-building initiatives in countries across Africa, Asia/Pacific and Latin America that are either Parties to the Convention on Cybercrime or that have requested accession and have been invited to accede.
The project will start with 8 hub countries (Chile, Dominican Republic, Ghana, Senegal, Mauritius, Sri Lanka, the Philippines and Tonga) and more than 20 selected countries. It will help to consolidate the GLACY+ achievements and put a stronger focus on the hub function, including through dedicated activities to strengthen countries’ capacities to act as regional hubs and support increased south-south cooperation.
Convention on Cybercrime (Budapest Convention)
Octopus Conference 2023
