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AMBER Alert Europe foundation
Amber Alert Europe Foundation
AMBER Alert Europe, the European Centre for Missing Children, is a pan-European foundation uniting 85 organisations across 29 countries in the mission towards zero missing children in Europe. We connect law enforcement and justice authorities, interior ministries, civil society organisations, universities, and police academies to protect children from going missing, improve the search for those who do, and address root causes through evidence-based research and best practices.
One goal drives everything we do: #ZeroMissingKids.
We train law enforcement, conduct research, advise on child alert systems, reopen cold cases, run public prevention campaigns, and shape EU policy on missing children.
In 2014, we initiated the Police Expert Network on Missing Persons (PEN-MP). Today it is officially recognised by the Council of the European Union and connects 80+ law enforcement experts across 34 countries.
Our policy work helped shape Prüm II, the SIS Recast, the AI Act, and the Council Conclusions on Missing Persons. We are also proud members of the European Commission’s AI Alliance and the FRA Fundamental Rights Agency’s Platform.
As official CEPOL Framework Partner, we have trained over 1,500 law enforcement professionals across Europe. Our prevention campaigns have reached millions of families in 23 countries. We advise Member States on building AMBER Alert systems that mobilise entire populations within minutes when a child is in danger.
ICCAP, world’s largest cold-case project, brings together 1,000+ students from 54 universities and police academies across 12 countries to re-examine unsolved missing persons and murder cases—work that has generated new leads, triggered investigations, and been featured on national television.
Our beginnings
As a response to missing children cases exceeding geographical borders, the AMBER Alert Europe Foundation was founded in 2013 to contribute to better cross-border coordination and cooperation in the search for missing children.
Since then, our network has expanded and now encompasses different experts from a variety of backgrounds who make their know-how and expertise available to improve existing practices and procedures for a fast and safe recovery of missing children and safeguarding of children against going missing or an abduction.
Supervisory Board
Henk Jansen
Maurice Lenferink
Board of Directors
Petra Binkova
Carlo Schippers
Frank Hoen
Scientific Advisory Board
Mark Greenhalgh
Fiona Gabbert
Koen Lemmens
Gijs van Dijck
Anja Schiemann
Advisory Board
Charlie Hedges
Christian Mader
Alan Rhees-Cooper
Karsten Bettels
Lars Bruhns
Caroline Humer
Victor Reuter
Patrícia Cipriano
With your help
towards #ZeroMissingKids
Contributions to the AMBER Alert Europe foundation make a significant difference in the search for and protection of missing children. With your help, we can continue our ongoing efforts towards #ZeroMissingKids.
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The Netherlands Fundraising Regulator
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Public Benefit Organisation
The AMBER Alert Europe foundation is a ‘Public Benefit Organisation’ (Dutch: Algemeen Nut Beogende Instelling, ANBI). We were awarded this status because at least 90 percent of our efforts are focused on the general good.