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:

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


 

Project documentation
Activities

Japan makes a voluntary contribution

2 February 2024 Strasbourg, France

The Government of Japan has made a voluntary contribution of €120,000 to support the Council of Europe action against cybercrime. The agreement was signed on 2 February 2024 by Ambassador Hiroyuki Uchida, Permanent Observer of Japan to the Council of Europe, and Mr Bjørn Berge, Deputy Secretary...

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C-PROC: Over 500 professionals from around 130 countries attend the Octopus Conference 2023

13-15 December 2023 Bucharest, Romania

On 13-15 December 2023 the Cybercrime Programme Office of the Council of Europe organised its flagship event, the Octopus Conference, which brought together over 500 professionals from around 130 countries. In their opening remarks, Alexander Seger, Head of the Cybercrime Division of the...

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C-PROC: Meeting of the International Network of the National Judicial Trainers on Cybercrime and Electronic Evidence

12 December 2023 Bucharest, Romania

The plenary meeting of the International Network of the National Judicial Trainers (the Network) on Cybercrime and Electronic Evidence was held on 12 December 2023 in Bucharest, Romania, with the participation of the priority countries where the Cybercrime Programme Office of the Council of...

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