The project is about the implementation of 157 mobilities of students and staff of the University of Piraeus in a timeline of 16 months, for the academic year of 2016-2017. During the project we organizes student mobilities for studies and traineeship and staff mobilities for teaching and training, in accordance with the rules of the Erasmus+ Programme and the values of equality, transparency, integrity, multiculturalism and social cohesion. The project achieved its goals at a very high extend as far as the quantitive measures are concernef, while at the same time it ensured high quality standards for the beneficiaries, as it is proven by the reports submitted by them.We could identify issues that need to be addressed and the International Relations Office of the University of Piraeus is currently working on these, in order to improve our services, as the responsible office for the implementation of the Erasmus+ Programme in the University of Piraeus.The activities that were undertaken have set the basis for the structure, the culture and the staff competences in order to serve the internationalization strategy of the University, develop international cooperations and connect the program with more opportunities of the Erasmus+ project and other EU grants, organize european and international projects, develop in terms of quality and innovation.In the long term the project helped in the development of more attractive study programmes, development of the qualifications of our personnel, the adoption of modern academic and administrative practices through the exchange of practices with Academic Institutions in different EU countries.For the implementation of the project the implementation of the Bologna System has been a critical factor of success. The University of Piraeus is among the first Greek Universities that has implemented this System and aims at improving it every year according to the Programme.

System on Chip (SoC) and Internet of Things (IoT) hardware accelerators are increasingly used in secure and critical applications, such as medical and automotive. For this reason, they need to have high levels of security and reliability at the same time. Hardware attacks are a serious threat for the security of hardware accelerators. Among them, Fault Attacks and Side Channel Attacks can breach even protected devices. Furthermore, injection of errors due to harsh environments may even lead to catastrophic failures of such accelerators. These threats are usually not concurrently addressed since their corresponding protections are not always compatible to each other. In a context, where designers use High Level Synthesis (HLS) flows to increase the productivity of designing hardware accelerators they must also ensure that security and reliability protections are taken into account by the HLS tools. In order to enable HLS flows to be the flow of choice for secure and reliable devices, we propose to provide to SoC and IoT designers, Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools, capable to evaluate, improve and automate the insertion of protections during an HLS flow. Initially we will study the effects of HLS flows on the synthesis of manually protected high level descriptions. Afterwards, we will address concurrently security and reliability by automating the integration of compatible, countermeasures and mitigation techniques, inside the HLS flow, so as to automatically obtain secure and reliable RTL descriptions. Such tools and methodologies will help to minimize the corresponding overheads for protecting against each threat, while at the same time they will maintain the productivity of the HLS flow at high levels during the design of secure and reliable hardware accelerators.

This KA103 project is of total duration of 16 months, which covered for the mobility of 208 people in total. During this project, mobility activities of students for studies and placement (incoming & outgoing), as well as of staff for teaching and training (incoming & outgoing) were implemented. The participants were all complying with the Erasmus+ rules, since they were students of all study cycles and staff and during their selection the rules of equality, transparency, social cohesion and multiculturism were respected.The implementation of the project is considered highly successful based on the targets set at the submitted proposal of the project. At the same time the quality of the project was ensured, as shown in the participants reports. Additional steps for further development have been taken by the International Relations Office of the University of Piraeus, in order to ensure that any issues that came up during the lifetime of the project, won't be repeated. All of the activities that were implemented have set the foundations at the University of Piraeus in order to acquire the culture and to develop its skills in terms of the internationalization strategy, the international cooperation and the connection of the program to the local society and other EU projects. At the same time there have been long-term benefits for the University, such as the creation of more attractive and modern study programs, the development of the skills of the academic and administrative personnel, the adoption of good practices and methods. The full implementation of the Bologna process had as well a key role in the successful implementation of the project. The University of Piraeus is among the first Universities to implement the Bologna process and each year there is an effort to renew the processes based on the changes of the program. There is also a Bologna Center operating in the University of Piraeus, responsible to assist and train the personnel of the University to the implementation of the process.

This action supports physical and blended mobility of higher education students and staff from EU Member States and third countries associated to Erasmus+ to any country in the world. Students in all study fields and cycles can take part in a study period or traineeship abroad. Higher education teaching and administrative staff can take part in professional development activities abroad, as well as staff from the field of work in order to teach and train students or staff at higher education institutions.