Rayuela Consortium reached its milestone - 18 months of project duration! With reviewers and experts, including the EC project officer, we discussed the results and future activities. It was engaging knowledge sharing in a friendly and professional environment.
The Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI), in collaboration with the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation and the European Commission, organized on April 6th in València the 11th Conference of the European Union's Framework Programme for Research and Innovation in Spain, under the slogan "Th...
Most of the Rayuela team were able to gather for the 4th Consortium meeting, which took place in Bilbao. This meeting was special to our team as we were successfully finishing two working packages, specifically WP1 (BUILDING A KNOWLEDGE BASE ON CYBERCRIME DRIVERS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS) led by Comillas and WP2 (...
The Internet is the most innovative element of the last decades but is also a mine of crime and hate. Since the origins of the virtual world, illegal online activities have not stopped rising. An offline virus made us shelter in digital, but the newest threats find their victims there. Children and teenagers are especi...
It is a popular belief, both in media and politics, that the victims of human trafficking are a specific group of especially vulnerable and defenceless girls (e.g. Snajdr, 2013; Weitzer, 2007; 2013). However, both literature and our own investigation at the very least nuanced this view on victims of human trafficking f...
Cyberbullying is a type of aggression that takes place intentionally through different technological devices, specifically through cell phones and the Internet (Slonje & Smith, 2008). Bullying, on the other hand, is an aggressive act carried out deliberately by one or more persons against a victim who is less able ...
The first thing to consider when discussing online grooming is that there is nothing such a victim profile. We may find some precipitant factors, but in words of most of the experts in the field: Any kid can become a victim. Nevertheless, risk and protective factors that have emerged through the research will be discus...
Present the Project progress andshare our excitement with the upcoming events and activities.
On the level of definitions of human trafficking, there is considerable disagreement between how various governments, NGO’s, and academics define human trafficking for the purpose of sex work (see further). The definition adhered to by Europe in the CoE Convention against trafficking in human beings is: Trafficking i...
Online grooming (OG) is a process through which an adult uses new technologies to establish a dynamic of sexual persuasion and victimization through online contacts in order to obtain sexual content from the child (Webster et al., 2012, see Barber & Bettez, 2020 for a review on OG definitions). This phenomenon is a...