This work package focuses on developing various tools to combat disinformation and its associated offline crimes, as well as building a model to increase community resilience. The FERMI disinformation & fake news induced and-nabled offline crimes analysis and prediction tool will use micro-level data and AI-based predictions to identify and deploy relevant security measures. The Disinformation Sources & Spread Analysis and Impact Assessment tool will trace and map news to their creators and accounts responsible for their spread, and classify them as physical persons or bots. The community resilience management modeler will be developed using participatory techniques and ISO standards, and will be available in the cloud. A Swarm Learning framework will be developed to train Machine Learning models near data sources, and a permissioned blockchain network will be used for onboarding and sharing. Finally, a sentiment analysis module will use the BERT model with NLP tasks to further analyze posts from social media accounts. All of these tools will be included in the FERMI technology facilitators and behaviour analyses and community resilience facilitators packages.

Work package 2 is focused on gaining insight into the LEA specificities for the realization of the FERMI framework and synthesizing and presenting the progress of available tools and technologies. In order to do that, the tasks that will be undertaken include: Updating and finetuning end users' needs in order to understand their needs; setting the baseline of societal readiness and digital trust; translating the functional requirements into technical specifications and a refined architectural design; use cases' refinement and pathway towards FERMI validation. The outputs of these tasks will include the FERMI updated and finetuned needs of LEAs, the project's societal landscape and baseline towards digital trust, the updated FERMI conceptual architecture and refined technological and functional requirements, and the FERMI experimentation protocol. This will ensure the successful development of the FERMI framework for the protection of fundamental rights and democratic values.

The FERMI project will be managed by a broad and effective management structure, facilitated by an appointed Project Coordinator (PC) and Steering Committee (SC). Technical and Innovation strategic steering will be provided to define the project's overall strategy and roadmap by the Technical Manager. Quality Control, Risk Management and Contingency Planning will be in line with ISO 9004:2018 and 27001 regulations, while Data management and legal compliance will ensure compliance with EU legal frameworks and the development of a data management plan. Finally, monitoring of research ethics will provide an internal protocol for ethical procedures, with internal monitoring and evaluation reported during the project's interim and final reports.