Greece's Cyber Crime Division (Diefthynsi Dioxis Kyvernoegklimatos) of the Hellenic Police runs the Digital Cybercrime Academy, a free public education programme that teaches citizens to recognise and respond to online threats. It was developed with the institutionalised Advanced Educational Technologies and Mobile Applications Laboratory (AETMA Lab) in the Department of Informatics at Democritus University of Thrace, and is published from the Division's own awareness site alongside the CyberKid portal.
The academy is delivered as spatial content rather than a conventional e-learning course. The 2026 platform at cybercrimedivision.aetma.net serves a Unity WebGL build of roughly 600 MB that runs a real-time 3D scenario game in a desktop browser, where the learner makes decisions inside dramatised situations drawn from anonymised real police case files - online fraud, sextortion, grooming, cyberbullying, and theft of personal data and accounts. A companion Android augmented reality application places the animated 3D character Michail into the user's own room through the phone camera, activated by supplied target images, so the guidance is registered to the learner's physical space. The earlier module set, hosted on the CyberKid government portal, pairs an augmented reality tabletop board game for ages 8 to 12 with an immersion game for ages 13 to 18 built in VR and WebGL, which is offered both as a browser build and as a native application download for Meta Quest 2 headsets.
The September 2026 upgrade added two named artificial intelligence agents. Michail is a cyber-security adviser whose answers are drawn only from educational material approved by the Cyber Crime Division. Nemesis accompanies the learner through each scenario, analysing choices and behaviour patterns to personalise the experience and to show the learner which habits weaken their own digital safety. The academy is fully available in Greek and English, is aimed particularly at children aged twelve and over but open to any user, and the Division states that it does not collect, store or retain personal data and cannot identify the person using the service.
The upgraded academy was presented to the public at the Hellenic Police stand at the 90th Thessaloniki International Fair, which ran from 5 to 13 September 2026 under the theme "Modern Police - We innovate for Security", where the Cyber Crime Division exhibited alongside ten other police services. The Division reports that its wider awareness collaboration with AETMA Lab, which began in 2022, has delivered 1,325 awareness events and reached about 220,000 citizens in Greece and abroad. The earlier academy modules took a Silver Award at the Education Leaders Awards 2024 and reached the pan-European final of the Europol EC3 Cyber Innovation Forum in 2024. An iOS release of the augmented reality application is stated as planned for a later stage.
