Octopus Project - Voluntary Contributions from Canada
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.
The Council of Europe gratefully acknowledges the contributions of Canada to the Octopus Project.
The project is open to voluntary contributions. Consult the Octopus Project leaflet here (version March 2026). 
Canada support to the Octopus Project for capacity building on cybercrime
The Government of Canada has made a voluntary contribution of CAD 975,000 to the Octopus Project of the Council of Europe in order to promote a global criminal justice response to cybercrime that is both effective and in line with human rights and rule of law requirements. This new funding will...
Canada makes a voluntary contribution to support the global Octopus Project
The Government of Canada made a voluntary contribution of CAN$ 250,000 (ca. EUR 161,000) to the current Cybercrime@Octopus project and the follow-up global Octopus project. With this first voluntary contribution, Canada joins the State Parties, Observers to the Convention on Cybercrime and other...