South-East European Research Centre (SEERC)

J-WeB (Contract number: IST-2005-045331) aims at designing and developing an innovative judicial cooperation environment to enable an effective judicial cooperation specifically in the cross-boarder criminal matters investigation phase carried out between EU and Countries of enlarging Europe.

The project focus is on the development of a designed to support the Judicial operators in their daily duties on the two main procedures preceding the request for warrant of arrest. J-Web will be built on Web-based groupware tools supporting a more realistic collaboration and knowledge sharing and transferring also among geographically distributed workforces, within and between law organizations.

It will represent the convergence of technologies such as multimedia document/image management, videoconferencing, in compliance with security requirements needs, helping public administrations transcend all sorts of boundaries (geography, time and organizational structure) by making available the right information to the right actor at the right place and at the right time.

• The analysis of the judicial communication process and the security constraints to enter some procedures/services.
• The implementation of intelligent environments enabling judges, public employees, law enforcement authorities to access one-stop-shop knowledge transfer, sharing and management.
• The strengthening of networking and co-operation on subjects of common interest among Member States and Countries of the enlarging Europe.