Hawk is on the board of the EUROSINT Forum and have been involved with their activities since its inception. Hawk and the EUROSINT Forum have been instrumental in affecting change within the European Union regarding policy related to Open Source Intelligence.
European and action-oriented, the EUROSINT FORUM is a not-for-profit association dedicated to European cooperation and use of Open Source Intelligence that prevent risks and threats to peace and security.
The EUROSINT FORUM acts to:
- Identify needs in process, methodology and tools
- Study best practices
- Encourage pre-competitive research projects
- Bring together specialists and users
- Increase opportunities for cross-fertilisation
- Help promote relevant Scientific and Technical Development
The EUROSINT FORUM goals are to:
- Facilitate the activities of its members in the area of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) and to contribute to a better communication between them on this subject;
- Promote thinking on the development of the European Union's policies, in particular in the use of OSINT in the field of security in its broadest sense, (crisis management, humanitarian aid, civil protection...) and with regard to external relations;
- Gather private sector actors dealing with security and intelligence issues in a European association which is thus able to talk with one voice to the public authorities (European institutions and other organisms on the European level or actors from Member States) and thus to contribute to building a positive image for OSINT in the EU, as well as raising interest in the EU institutions and Member States in participating in the Forum;
- Pool activities of research and development through networking of clusters of actors at the EU level;
- Encourage the creation of partnerships between private companies and/or public organisms, to create European consortiums that can bring forward new projects.
"... EUROSINT, the European Open Source Intelligence forum, attracted an audience that one rarely sees in the same room in this city: intelligence specialists from national defence and interior ministers; the European Defence Agency the European Commission prime ministerial cabinets; the EU Military Staff and Situation Awareness Center; Europol, the pan-EU police network; Interpol and a scattering of defence companies, nongovernmental organizations and think tanks."
Source: "Open-Source Intel Suppliers Join in Terror Fight" in "Defence News" by Brooks TIGNER