Octopus Project - Voluntary Contributions from the United States of America
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 the United States of America to the Octopus Project.
The project is open to voluntary contributions. Consult the Octopus Project leaflet here (version March 2026). 
US makes a further voluntary contribution to the Octopus Project
The Government of the United States of America has made a voluntary contribution of €2 036 671.06 to support the Council of Europe action against cybercrime. The US Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs has supported the Octopus Project since its launch and this additional...
Octopus Project: voluntary contributions by the United States
The Government of the United States has made voluntary contributions of more than US$ 1.3 million to the Octopus Project of the Council of Europe in order to support countries worldwide in the implementation of the Convention on Cybercrime and its Second Protocol on electronic evidence. One of...
US makes a further voluntary contribution to the Octopus Project
The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, made a further voluntary contribution to the Octopus Project implemented by the Council of Europe. The contribution amounts to USD 508,371.23 and is dedicated to...
US makes a voluntary contribution to the Octopus Project: CYBERKOP
The Government of the United States of America has made a voluntary contribution in the amount of USD 799,110 to the Council of Europe action on cybercrime through the Octopus Project. While the Octopus Project has a global geographical scope, the present action is specifically designed to...
US makes a voluntary contribution to the Octopus Project
The Government of the United States of America has made a voluntary contribution in the amount of 250,000 USD to the Council of Europe action on cybercrime through the Octopus Project. On this occasion, Ms Darragh Paradiso, Consul General of the United States of America met Council of Europe...
US Department of State’s Bureau of International and Law Enforcement Affairs makes voluntary contribution to Octopus Project
Ms Darragh Paradiso, Chargé d'Affaires a.i., Deputy Permanent Observer and Consul General of the United States of America in Strasbourg, met Council of Europe Deputy Secretary General Björn Berge today on the occasion of a voluntary contribution of EUR 1.3 million made to the Octopus Project. The...