PREVENT is a multi-country project focusing on prevention and fighting high-risk criminal networks in Europe. PREVENT’s consortium comprises of nine partners, including universities, public institutions, and civil society organisations from six EU member states. The consortium is supported by 13 associated partners – law enforcement agencies, asset recovery offices and local authorities. PREVENT aims to:
1)        Improve the intelligence picture of high-risk criminal networks and their infiltration into the legal economy by fostering academic and institutional data collection, analysis and foresight collaboration.
2)        Advance the application of an administrative approach against high-risk criminal networks by identifying and promoting promising administrative measures both among Member States and at the EU level.
3)        Boost the implementation of social reuse of confiscated assets in different EU countries as an innovative tool to fight organised crime, prevent criminal action, and remedy the harmful effects on society, the economy and the environment.
4)        Expand the impact of social enterprises and their projects related to asset confiscation, specifically collaborations among local, national, and European stakeholders.
To achieve the objectives, the consortium will conduct research on high-risk criminal networks and their infiltration into the legal economy on a local level in 8 EU countries, organise ten workshops and events with organised crime experts, police officers, asset management offices' and local authorities’ experts, and civil society representatives and develop five different practical tools and handbooks. Additionally, the project will foster closer public-private cooperation and building of mutual trust between all these stakeholders to boost broader and more effective implementation of administrative approaches and social reuse of confiscated assets against high-risk criminal networks. The project activities are designed to support and complement ongoing and forthcoming activities under The Roadmap to fight drug trafficking and organised crime, the European Pillar for Social Rights, and its 2021 Action Plan.