A practitioner-driven, child-centered approach to advancing European standards in digital evidence collection and undercover investigation.
Project Summary
SALVUS Project
Ensuring SAfer justice outcomes in onLine and undercoVer child sexUal abuse inveStigations (SALVUS).
SALVUS is a 36-month Horizon Europe project (June 2025 – May 2028) dedicated to addressing critical gaps in knowledge, best practice, and legislative frameworks for online and undercover CSA investigations.
Commitment
Key Objectives
Our mission is to provide research-based knowledge and European guidance that remedies national shortcomings, ensuring that evidence collection is both effective and legally sound across borders.
Develop Guidance
Creating research-based training and recommendations rooted in child rights.
Legal Harmonisation
Supporting the uniformity of practice for evidence collection across European Law.
Strengthen Prosecution
Enhancing the EU's ability to challenge and prosecute CSA crimes effectively.
The Practitioner's Network
We are recruiting 200 global stakeholders to help co-create and validate our findings.
We are looking for LEA officers, forensic experts, legal professionals, and child advocates. Members shape critical research, gain access to cutting-edge tools, and network with leading European experts.
The Consortium
12 partner organisations across 8 countries.
- The International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC CH)
- NGO
- Switzerland
- Network for Children's Rights (NCR)
- NGO
- Greece
- Police Federale Belge (PFB)
- LEA
- Belgium
- University of Criminal Investigation and Police Studies (UCIPS)
- Forensic Institute
- Serbia
- Ministerio da Justica (MdJ)
- Forensic Institute
- Portugal
- Police Foundation (PF)
- NGO
- UK
- Finnish Ministry of Interior (FMOI)
- LEA/Govt
- Finland
- Universiteit Gent (UGent)
- University
- Belgium
- Vrije Universiteit Brussels (VUB)
- University
- Belgium
- Aston University (AU)
- University
- UK
- Gradiant (Grad)
- RTO
- Spain
- Trilateral Research Ltd. UK (TRI UK)
- SME
- UK
Recent Posts
Here we share all the updates regarding SALVUS
Towards Child-Centred and Effective Online Child Sexual Abuse Investigations:
Key Findings from the SALVUS Project D2.1 Report By dr. Ingrida Milkaite, Birte Lenaers, dr. Rosamunde Van Brakel (VUB)Crime &
21/10/2026
Introducing SALVUS: Working to Make Justice Safer for Children
Child sexual abuse (CSA) is one of the most serious violations of children’s rights. Today, much of this abuse is
23/04/2026
