NewControl will develop virtualized platforms for vehicular subsystems that are essential to highly automated driving (realizing functions such as perception, cognition and control), so as to enable mobility-as-a-service for next generation highly automated vehicles. Its overarching goal is to provide an industrially calibrated trajectory towards increased user-acceptance of automated control functions, through an approach that is centered on the premise of safety by design. Newcontrol will deliver: 1. Fail-operational platform for robust holistic perception through a combination of Lidar, Radar, and sensor fusion 2. Generalized virtual platform for stable and efficient control of propulsion systems 3. Cost- and power-efficient, high-performance embedded compute-platforms for in-vehicle perception, cognition, and control 4. Robust approaches for implementing, verifying, and certifying automated control for safety-critical applications Several (12) demonstrators will be built to showcase the project’s findings and their capability to facilitate perception, cognition and control of next generation highly automated vehicles. The developments in NewControl will facilitate significant cost reductions for essential modules necessary for future automated vehicles. Concomitantly, these developments will improve the safety and reliability of automated systems to levels necessary for mass-market deployment. These innovations will leverage the expertise of industrial (OEMs, Tier-1, Tier-2 and technology providers) and research partners along the complete semiconductor, automotive, and aviation value chains, providing Europe with a competitive edge in a growing market. Importantly, NewControl's innovations will improve the market penetration of safety-centric automation systems, contributing directly to the European goal of zero road fatalities by 2050.

Organisations across the sectors significantly benefit from digital transformation to support evolving business models, services and customer experience. Despite the benefits of digital infrastructure adoption, there are numerous security challenges that could pose any digital disruption and risks for the critical service delivery and overall business continuity. There is a need to understand the overall digital infrastructure context and analyse and predict the possible threats and incidents in real-time so that quick and accurate responses can be taken into consideration for ensuring resilience of service delivery. Additionally, collaborative response and sharing of threat intelligence information is necessary to create overall awareness and increase the response capability of all stakeholders within the ecosystem. CyberSecDome will integrate advanced virtuality reality (VR) to extend the capability of the security solutions aiming to enhance security, privacy and resilience of the Digital Infrastructure. The project will consider AI-enabled security solutions to provide a better prediction of cybersecurity threats and related risks towards an efficient and dynamic incident management and optimise collaborative response among the stakeholders within the Digital Infrastructure ecosystem. CyberSecDome project is built on a collaboration of 15 organisations from 6 EU member states (IT, DE, IE, SE, EL, CY) and 2 affiliated countries (UK, CH), which is composed by 5 industrial partners, 6 scientific partners and 5 SMEs. The project will be coordinate by MAGGIOLI SPA.

CONSENTIS is geared to alleviate the challenges posed by personal data sharing towards the implementation of EU regulations and strategic initiatives like eIDAS, EU Data Spaces and GDPR. It introduces a novel framework which offers Self-Sovereign Identity and user-centric consent management solutions that enables users to (a) have full control over their personal data collection and usage and (b) provide informed consent through user-friendly interfaces and notifications. The proposed framework is agnostic to existing services and formats and guarantees high levels of protection avoiding potential legal uncertainty, through a continuous assessment mechanism for security, risk and legal aspects. CONSENTIS is an industry-oriented project, with SMEs and large companies covering more than 80% of the consortium and is built on a collaboration of 12 organisations from 9 EU member states and associated countries. The Consortium includes: 2 academic institutions, 8 SMEs and 2 large industry partners that bear strong interest and relevance to the project objectives and are highly committed in the delivery of scientific excellence and innovation in the fields of identity management and SSI, consent management, blockchain and smart contracts, user interfaces/user experience, cybersecurity and PETs, business and market impact and EU laws, policies and regulations for human rights and technology.

The health sector is steadily becoming the de facto target for cyberattacks. Based on the most recent ENISA report at the end of 2018, cybersecurity incidents have shown that the healthcare sector is one of the most vulnerable. Focusing specifically on Electronic Medical Devices (EMD), they suffer from numerous and multi-layered vulnerabilities . Default, weak or no password authentication for remote connections, unencrypted traffic or obsolete and insecure cryptographic algorithms, unsupported operating systems, outdated, unmanaged and vulnerable software are among the most serious problems that jeopardise both their smooth operation and the data aggregated and stored. The vision of HEIR is to provide a thorough threat identification and cybersecurity knowledge base system addressing both local (in the hospital / medical centre) and global (including different stakeholders) levels, that comprises the following pillars: (i) Real time threat hunting services, facilitated by advanced machine learning technologies, supporting the identification of the most common threats in electronic medical systems based on widely accepted methodologies such as the OWASP Top 10 Security Risks and the ENISA Top 15 Threats; (ii) Sensitive data trustworthiness sharing facilitated by the HEIR privacy aware framework; (iii) Innovative Benchmarking based on the calculation of the Risk Assessment of Medical Applications (RAMA) score, that will measure the security status of every medical device and provide thorough vulnerability assessment of hospitals and medical centres; (iv) The delivery of an Observatory for the Security of Electronic Medical Devices; an intelligent knowledge base accessible by different stakeholders, providing advanced visualisations for each threat identified in RAMA and facilitating global awareness on EMD-related threats. Last, HEIR will set up a broad European network for establishing good security practice in all regulatory frameworks to reduce market access.

Technological advances in Information communication Technologies (ICT) as well as the digital transformation of complex systems have led to the development of novel networks, platforms and systems, which have, in turn, kick-started the realisation process for multi-faceted technological collaborations and data-driven workflows on a scale never seen before. Consequently, an integration process among the different layers of complex systems and services has been unfolding raising significant issues and challenges in its wake. Hence, the digital data and collaboration spaces are all predicated upon the realisation of what is known as the computing continuum, which is based on the integration of cloud, edge and Internet of Things (IoT). Nevertheless, this has given rise to significant security and privacy risks especially since it is about systems that involve a high number of entities and devices with different profiles, processing a vast amount of potentially sensitive info MEDIATE’s vision is to produce a robust technology, which will address the security and privacy attributes of the computing continuum. For this, it will put forth a complex architecture that is based on the concept of zero-trust and will assume a federated learning approach in order to perform security-based scrutinisation at all continuum levels. i.e. IoT, edge and cloud, using security models that can be updated, redistributed and reconfigured across it. The actual features of the MEDIATE framework will support major topic outcomes such as cybersecurity resilience through reconfiguration, vulnerabilities mitigation through cyber threat analysis, secure integration at the IoT level through software and hardware-based security sensors and trust and security for massive ecosystems through the use of federated learning-based orchestration. Moreover, it will feature AI-based tools for cyber threat intelligence that assist a decision support system and privacy policies for data and identity protection.