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The RiskTrack project aims to respond to one of the most recent and challenging priorities of the European Union on successfully eradicating terrorist radicalisation and recruitment. This overall goal will be facilitated during the 24 month duration of the project through the identification of radicalisation online and in social media platforms, in particular. In this line, the research undertaken by the project’s consortium will identify and tackle those factors or indicators that raise a red flag about which individuals or communities are being radicalised online and recruited in the view to commit violent acts of terrorism.

To effectively address the above mentioned overarching goal, the project aims to achieve the following objectives:
• To study indicators of radicalisation in terrorism in order to create a formal risk assessment methodology in this field;
• To develop a software tool with the ability to gather, represent, preprocess and analyse the information extracted from web sources;
• To enhance the cooperation, knowledge sharing and awareness raising among judges, prosecutors, LEAs and other actors in the fight against terrorism.