DIGITbrain is a new European initiative to provide digital twins for bringing agility and innovation to manufacturing SMEs, by empowering a network of Digital Innovation Hubs with an integrated digital platform that enables Manufacturing as a Service.
The DIGITbrain project aims to enable customised industrial products and to facilitate cost-effective distributed and localised production for manufacturing SMEs. This will be done by recording the provenance and boosting the cognition of the industrial product over its full lifecycle and empowering the network of Digital Innovation Hubs to implement the smart business model “Manufacturing as a Service”. The manufacturing industry is in constant evolution and this causes an increasing pressure that the manufacturing industry needs to master in the most efficient and innovative way possible. Especially manufacturing SMEs are challenged by the constant changes, because of the limited resources and the difficulty in accessing digital technologies and advanced manufacturing hardware tailored to their needs. PNO will coordinate this project that involves 36 European partners and that will be launched in July 2020.
Through this project two Open Calls for manufacturing SMEs will be launched for application experiments to validate the use of the Digital Twins of the project. DIGITbrain will thereby engage with manufacturing end users and technology providers to define innovative use cases that will benefit from the Digital Brain concept, strengthen the competitiveness of the experiment partners, and ease the experimentation with advanced digital and manufacturing technologies.

EU Critical Infrastructures (CIs) are increasingly at risk from cyber-physical attacks and natural hazards. Research and emerging solutions focus on the protection of individual CIs, however, the interrelationships between Cis has become more complex for example in smart cities and managing the impacts of cascading effects and enabling rapid recovery is becoming more pertinent and highly challenging.

PRECINCT aims to connect private and public CI stakeholders in a geographical area to a common cyber-physical security management approach which will yield a protected territory for citizens and infrastructures, a ‘PRECINCT’ that can be replicated efficiently for a safer Europe and will deliver:

1. A PRECINCT Framework Specification for systematic CIs security and resilience management fulfilling industry requirements.

2. A Cross-Facility collaborative cyber-physical Security and Resilience management Infrastructure enabling CI stakeholder communities to create AI-enabled PRECINCT Ecosystems and enhanced resilience support services.

3. A vulnerability assessment tool that uses Serious Games to identify potential vulnerabilities to cascading effects and to quantify resilience enhancement measures.

4. PRECINCT’s Digital Twins to represent the CIs network topology and metadata profiles, applying closed-loop Machine Learning techniques to detect violations and provide optimised response and mitigation measures and automated forensics.

5. Smart PRECINCT Ecosystems, deployed in four large-scale Living Labs and Transferability Validation Demonstrators, will provide measurement-based evidence of the targeted advantages and will realize Digital Twins corresponding to the CIs located therein, include active participation of emergency services and city administrations with results feeding back to the Digital Twins developments.

6. Sustainability related outputs including Capacity Building, Dissemination, Exploitation, Resilience Strategy, Policy/ Standardisation recommendations

ENACT is a project funded by the European Union under the H2020 Programme - Objective IOT-03-2017: R&D on IoT integration and platforms. The project consortium is made up of 12 partners from six countries and is coordinated by SINTEF. The overall goal of the ENACT project is to enable DevOps in the realm of trustworthy smart IoT systems. To approach this goal, ENACT has gathered a highly skilled consortium of complementary expertise including: Three use case providers (INDRA, TellU, and Tecnalia) delivering industrial level case studies in the intelligent transport system, smart building and smart city and eHealth domains, accompanied by three application domain experts (ISRAA, BOSC and EDI) that will provide requirements, infrastructures for experimentation and take part in validating the ENACT achievements. Five technology providers (CA, Evidian, TellU, BAW and MI), providing products for agile, DevOps, risk-driven decision support, IoT security and privacy and IoT platforms. Four research partners (SINTEF, UDE, CNRS, Tecnalia) providing leading expertise in Software Engineering and DevOps, IoT, trustworthiness, security and privacy.

Fed4FIRE+ is a project under the European Union’s Programme Horizon 2020, offering the largest federation worldwide of Next Generation Internet (NGI) testbeds, which provide open, accessible and reliable facilities supporting a wide variety of different research and innovation communities and initiatives in Europe, including the 5G PPP projects and initiatives. It started in January 2017 and will run for 60 months, until the end of December 2021. The Fed4FIRE+ project is the successor of the Fed4FIRE project.

The main objective of the ANASTACIA project is to address cyber-security concerns by researching, developing and demonstrating a holistic solution enabling trust and security by-design for Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) based on IoT and Cloud architectures. The heterogeneous, distributed, and dynamically evolving nature of Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) based on Internet of Things (IoT) and virtualised cloud architectures introduces new and unexpected risks that cannot be solved by current state-of-the-art security solutions.
For this, new paradigms and methods are required in order i) to build security into the ICT system at the outset, ii) to adapt to changing security conditions, iii) to reduce the need to fix flaws after deploying the system, and iv) to provide the assurance that the ICT system is secure and trustworthy at all times.