THE CONSORTIUM

As engineering partner of leading OEMs throughout the world, AVL is constantly seeking for new capabilities and their exploitation. AVL is continuously carrying out research and technical development in the field of advanced automotive powertrains. AVL is active in many European interest groups like ARTEMIS Joint Undertaking (member of the Steering Board), ERTRAC, EARPA, EGVI, European Green Cars Initiative, EUCAR etc. Since Framework Program 3 AVL has been participating in more than 140 European RTD projects as partner and coordinator.

FHOOE is one of the strongest Universities of Applied Sciences in terms or research in the German-speaking world. FHOOE targets application-oriented and innovative research in 17 thematic areas with 630 partners from business to society. More than 440 researchers focus in their research on the benefit of national and European industry. As stated in the company register UASUA is a non-profit- organization and does not generate any profit from its activities.

With 409 research projects, 433 publications, 3 approved Josef Ressel centres and a record industrial income of € 5.74 million as well as a contract value of € 37.3 million, the university has achieved a remarkable performance in 2017. For the management of these research, development and innovation (RDI) actions FHOOE established a “FH OÖ F&E GmbH” in 2003 as an own legal entity only for RDI activities. Since then all national, European and international RDI projects are handled through a central coordination to easier manage financial and organizational aspects of RDI projects. Furthermore, at each of the four campuses an own Research Center is installed which provides support for researchers on site. Last year in addition six centers of excellence on upcoming interdisciplinary research topics have been founded on the following topics: “Smart Production / Industry 4.0“, “Energy”, “Medical Engineering and Health”, “Food and Nutrition“, “Mobility / Automotive” and “Logistics”.

FHOOE participated in 12 FP7 projects as beneficiary and in one as linked third party. In five of these 13 FP7 projects, FHOOE had the function of the coordinator. Regarding the running framework programme Horizon 2020, FHOOE participates in two H2020 project and in one project under the EMPIR-programme, also financed by H2020. FHOOE leads one project within the EACEA – Europe for Citizens funding programme. One of these H2020 projects is an Innovative Training Networks in the call MSCA-ITN-2017: Innovative Training Networks. FHOOE also leads a project within the EACEA – Europe for Citizens funding programme. Regarding international projects, FHOOE participates in more than 60 projects funded by EFRE-INTERREG, EFRE-Regio13, EFREIWB2020, SEE, CEE, other European-funded activities such as JTI, ERA-Net, ERA-Net+, JPI and EUREKA or international projects funded by national funding agencies such as FFG Bridge Early Stage or FWF Joint Projects.

The Research Group “Smart Mechatronics Engineering” at the School of Engineering, Campus Wels chaired by Dr. Peter Hehenberger focuses on methods and tools for “Model-based Mechatronic System Design”. This research area includes mechatronic design, eco-design, systems engineering, agile design processes, model-based design methods, complex systems design (CPS, PSS, SoS, etc).

ITML particularly delivers solutions through (a) bilateral projects with private industry, (b) Public-Private Partnerships (PPP), (c) EU and beyond-EU funded projects, and nationally-funded projects. It has active participation in numerous H2020 projects as technology provider and system integrator. The primary competence of ITML relies in the design and development of software prototypes based on technologies that include machine learning algorithms, advanced data mining techniques, data aggregation and data analytics in IoT systems, as well as visualisation tools; all of which are applied in different operational domains, such as energy, logistics, health, education, maritime, and security.

ITML comprises numerous selected, internationally recognized and multi-experienced electrical and computer engineers, who have been conducting research, at worldwide level, for several years in areas related to the design, management and performance evaluation of high-speed telecommunication networks and services, security and transportation, energy efficiency, service-oriented architectures, business process management, e-government, ecommerce applications, and software engineering. Moreover, ITML has a team of technical project managers and software engineers who are experts in the software development process and in the validation of the scientific results produced in the context of R&I.

The KIOS Research and Innovation Center of Excellence (KIOS CoE) is the largest research center within the UCY, established in 2008. The KIOS CoE addresses some of the most important research and technological challenges of monitoring, control, management and security of Critical Infrastructure Systems, by advancing ICT research towards intelligent systems and networks, able to produce smart decisions from large volumes of data. KIOS CoE concentrates on research and developing technologies for monitoring, control and security of water, power, telecommunication and transportation systems, and addresses emergency response challenges in a horizonal way. Its research team specializes in a wide range of areas, such as systems and control, distributed systems and algorithms, graph theory and optimization, computational intelligence, fault diagnosis and fault tolerance, and embedded systems, in an attempt to provide holistic and viable solutions for a variety of critical systems and applications. With more than 100 researchers, KIOS CoE boasts a critical mass of researchers with expertise in applied and industrial-geared research and innovation.

KIOS CoE has secured more than 75 research funded programs, totalling over €45 million Euros from EU funding. This includes an ERC Advanced Grant and 2 ERC Proof-of-Concept, several H2020 and FP7 projects, as well as projects funded by the European Structural Fund Programmes, DG Home, Interreg and the Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation. The Center received funding from the European Union to advance into a flagship research and innovation center of excellence —the first such Center in Cyprus. This success is the result of a lengthy and extremely competitive proposal process coordinated by the Europe Commission as part of the EU’s strategic programme “Spreading Excellence and Widening Participation – Teaming”. In this endeavor, KIOS is collaborating with Imperial College London, one of the most respected universities in the world consistently ranked in the list of top-10 universities worldwide.

Experience in Project Management and Participation: The KIOS CoE also has particular expertise in coordinating significant international and multidisciplinary networks of various sizes and subjects. KIOS was the first Cyprusbased organisation to coordinate an ESF COST Action in the area of Critical Infrastructures, with more than 30 partners. It was also the first entity in Cyprus to coordinate an FP7 project, in 2011. For reference, some of the projects coordinated by KIOS include: iSense, FAULT-ADAPTIVE, SHIELD, SmartTap, DOMOGNOSTICS, PREDICATE, GLADIATOR, SWIFTERS and others. In addition, KIOS will be coordinating the recently awarded H2020 PathoCERT project (SU-DRS02-2019). KIOS CoE has been also involved in various other FP7 and H2020 research and innovation projects, including SafeMetal, WaterBee, SkyFlash, EFFINET, CIPRNet, CONCORDE, CY CISE, FACIES, CUREX, CARAMEL, LEAPFROG, FLEXITRANSTORE and CERETAB, among others.

AEGIS’ main areas of expertise include Forensic Digital Investigations, adaptive Big Data visualization systems, Geographical Information Systems, secure embedded platforms, access control and network security systems, privacy preserving systems, enterprise web applications and all the lifecycle of IT systems (design, development, deployment, optimisation and maintenance).

AEGIS has a long-term involvement in security and data management solutions, offering:

• Digital forensics investigation and security-related situational awareness for the decision makers, (e.g. consultation, collection and analysis of digital evidence; analysis of Critical Infrastructures).
• AEGIS Advanced Visualization Toolkit, that has already been operated for digital forensics analysis and investigations (Forensics Visualization Toolkit – FVT), and big data advanced visualizations (AVT).
• Physical forensics services that support a post-mortem digital forensics investigation for IT and non-IT cybersecurity experts, including but not limited to basic forensics activities like forensics analysis of physical assets/objects and complementary ones like consultation, and training.
• Cyber forensics services, empowered with correlation algorithms and innovative capabilities, for almost realtime mitigation actions (e.g. threat-hunting: automatic digital forensics investigation and recommendation/identification of potential threats).
• A collection of forensics services (e.g. Preconfigured views and Timeline analysis), that are based on AEGIS backend framework empowered with correlation algorithms. Forensics Services offer a complete solution on the forensic investigation of digital and physical assets. They include post -mortem analysis and robust processing capabilities of physical media, advanced reporting features and complementary training and consultation offerings for both IT and non-IT cybersecurity experts.
• Visualisation and monitoring tools and services for both historical and real-time Big Data analytics, that include: (i) intuitive and informative mechanisms; (ii) business-style dashboards; (iii) analytical reasoning, which comprises the calculation of indicators for content characterisation, grouping and clustering; (iv) data representation and transformation (dimensionality reduction of high-dimensional data structures); (v) entailing data structures that can be processed and visualised and (vi) interactive and multi -purpose user interfaces (providing different levels of abstraction, tailored for the different categories of user expertise), that allow users to explore and understand data in an interactive manner.
• Consulting services, (e.g. penetration testing, design and implementation of secure network solutions, etc.) and Security Systems, such as the virtual firewall and the secure gateway.
• AEGIS’ main areas of expertise include Forensic Digital Investigations, adaptive Big Data visualization systems, Geographical Information Systems, secure embedded platforms, access control and network security systems, privacy preserving systems, enterprise web applications and all the lifecycle of IT systems (design, development, deployment, optimisation and maintenance).
• AEGIS has a long-term involvement in security and data management solutions, offering:

Infineon designs, develops, manufactures and markets a broad range of semiconductors and system solutions. The focus of its activities is on automotive electronics, industrial electronics, communication and information technologies, and hardware-based security. The product range comprises standard components, customer-specific solutions for devices and systems, as well as specific components for digital, analogue, and mixed-signal applications. Over 60 percent of Infineon’s revenue is generated by power semiconductors, almost 20 percent by embedded control products (microcontrollers for automotive, industrial as well as security applications), and the remainder by radio-frequency components and sensors. Infineon generates 32 percent of its revenue in Europe, 56 percent in Asia and 12 percent in the Americas.

Infineon organizes its operations in four segments: Automotive, Industrial Power Control, Power Management & Multimarket and Digital Security Solutions.

With 35 research and development locations, 17 manufacturing sites and 44 sales offices, the company is active worldwide. In 2018, the total revenues amounted to €7.5 billion with approx. 40.100 employees.

As a leading semiconductor manufacturer for embedded real-time systems in Automotive, Industry and Security Infineon develops innovative and sustainable concepts and architectures for heterogenous Multi -Core microcontroller. Infineon contributed to various public funded research projects at European and national level often as coordinator. IFAG was the co-ordinator of the European project EMC2 –‘Embedded multi-core systems for mixed criticality applications in dynamic and changeable real-time environments’; a research project with 100 partners from 15 countries and a total budget of 93Mio, as well as Productive4.0, a lighthouse ECSEL initiative with over 100 partners and over 100Mio of budget, on the digitalisation of the European industry. Infineon is directly involved in several national and European funding organizations like ETP4HC, HIPEAC, ECSEL, ARTEMIS-IA, PENTA, ITEA3 or EPOSS often as steering board member like in ETP4HPC, ARTEMIS-IA, EPOSS and AENEAS.

SimPlan has a long record of research and application of simulations, integrating energy consumption into simulation models, and digital twinning. Besides the participation in various national and EU research projects, SimPlan has developed trend-setting applications within its commercial projects which have become standards in the area of simulation today. This concerns, among other things, module libraries for different industrial sectors or interface technologies for the communication of simulation models with other applications.

Our mission is to empower our customers and influence our leadership, by offering state of the art, advanced manufacturing solutions, expert judgement and education, to deliver a world’s leading agile supply chain. The key activities of Applied Innovation within the global supply chain of J&J include:

• Leverage technology expertise across J&J across the full supply chain.
• Crisis management through agile, cross-functional teams to solve the crisis quickly and efficiently by Applied Innovation’s global capabilities.
• Systematic investigation of novel manufacturing technologies and materials using advanced innovation tools.
• Strategy leadership for the implementation of key enabling technologies for Industry 4 within J&J.
• Applied Innovation’s key areas of focus for innovation are:
• Transformational manufacturing technologies and sustainability
• Focusing on our J&J Internal Labs in collaboration with academic and strategic partners, Applied Innovation develops disruptive materials with the objective of understanding what significant advances in materials are likely to come about which are likely to be disruptive to J&J
• Advanced sensing solutions: The convergence of cheap ubiquitous sensing, computing, and communications has ushered in the sensing era. Strategy addresses trends and key investment areas for J&J

The Sensing and IOT team has highly skilled personnel with over 45+ years’ experience in sensing and sustainability. J&J has an active program in sustainability with subject matter experts that will support this project. As shown below, J&J has multiple sustainability programs ongoing, from renewable energy sources (wind turbines) to energy optimisation programs currently ongoing.

SPHYNX offers customised services for enterprise security assurance. These enable its clients to set up security assessments, based on industrial and international standards (e.g., cloud, network, smart metering standards). The assessments are based and leverage on outcomes of the built-in analytic capabilities of the Sphynx’s security and privacy assurance platform as well as external tools, including threat analysis; vulnerability and penetration testing; continuous monitoring at all levels of the enterprise system implementation stack; sophisticated event processing and anomaly pattern detection. The solutions offered by SPHYNX enable the configuration of security assessment, reporting and certification to the needs of different stakeholders ranging from senior management to external auditors and regulators. SPHYNX’s security consultants support organisations in: (a) setting up a security and privacy assurance program covering their specific needs; (b) establishing the connectivity required with their ICT systems in order to obtain the evidence required for the different types of assessment; (c) configuring the reporting of the assurance platform to their needs; and (d) training their personnel in overseeing the assurance program using SPHYNX’s assurance platform.