IT-Security

Innovative collaborative initiative among three leading Spanish technological centres in the field of quantum computing. The ARQA project advances research and development of quantum applications for the business sector, thereby tackling challenges that traditional computing cannot currently resolve. The Cervera ARQA Network, formed by the Technological Center for Information and Communication Foundation (CTIC), Eurecat, and ITG, constitutes a joint effort to boost the transfer of quantum technologies to businesses, fostering a national level collaboration that facilitates the integration of these advanced technologies into the business fabric, and thereby, into society. This project not only seeks to [...]

Addressing sustainable city logistics by tackling the negative externalities caused by freight distribution. The NIMBLE project addresses the lack of logistics solutions oriented towards small stores (comprising 20% of all goods distributed in a city like Barcelona) by defining a new, more efficient and seamless model of urban goods distribution. NIMBLE’s model is based on: Simplifying last-mile distribution by centralising deliveries at smart lockers, thereby reducing route complexity, operating time and, the impact of delivery vehicles on urban traffic. Redistributing delivery times to off-peak hours and night times to ease traffic congestion. Deploying a last-mile distribution [...]

Web portal to boost shift to rail in freight transport. The ESEP4Freight project provides freight customers with an overview of the available rail freight services in Europe via a web platform. This platform is built on an interactive map and makes it possible to identify the flows of goods with a higher potential for using the train as a mode of transport. On this interactive map, the platform offers different modules, such as an external costs calculator (CO2 consumption, noise costs, congestion...), a schedule viewer offered by the main European operators, calculation of multimodal routes being [...]

More transparent and fair financing system. The Belender project brings greater transparency and equity to the financing system, with the goal of improving overall financial stability. This is essential in times of economic uncertainty, where opacity in financial data can generate risks and imbalances in the system. Eurecat's IT&OT Security Unit focuses on identifying the most promising blockchain technologies and existing SSI identity wallet solutions that can be adapted to the project's needs. Additionally, it investigates critical aspects of cybersecurity related to the selected blockchain technology, such as the security of smart contracts and vulnerabilities of [...]

Analysis of the exposition on the foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI). The ATHENA project contributes to Europe’s defence against foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI) by examining at least 30 manifestations in case studies, including the tactics, techniques and procedures (TTP) used by attackers. ATHENA analyses the behavioural and societal effects of FIMI and assesses and develops countermeasures against the TTP. Moreover, the initiative collects and processes FIMI data and develops a knowledge graph, a disinformation analysis toolbox and dashboard showing the prevalence of FIMI and the countermeasures in action. Throughout the project, ATHENA conducts [...]

Experimental development of a novel collective intelligence platform for cybersecurity. The CybersecBRAIN project addresses the experimental development of the application of algorithms, techniques and technologies based on artificial intelligence for security management. CybersecBRAIN focuses on two areas of innovation through the application of solutions based on artificial intelligence: automatic learning in certain tasks of a SOC (Security Operations Center) and the application of collective intelligence through federated learning algorithms or swarm learning. Currently, the management of SOC activity is a question that MSSPs (Managed Security Service Providers, systems that can collect cybersecurity data from different organizations) [...]

Smart mobility and traffic analysis and control system. The Smart City Manager responds to the current mobility and sustainability challenges of smart cities. The goal is for smart cities to have the most advanced tools with big data technology, blockchain and artificial intelligence algorithms to predict the mobility of vehicles, detect anomalous situations, make decisions and evaluate their impact within 'a secure environment and aligned with data protection law. To do this, Internet of Things data from traffic cameras will be anonymized, mined and enriched with other context information. Eurecat participates in the Smart City Manager [...]

High-performance sensor for an industry 4.0 with zero manufacturing defects. The VISIRIA4.0 project develops vision technology to establish a constant line of information that allows any industry to improve its production processes, thus reaching manufacturing with zero defects. VISIRIA4.0 develops a new high-performance sensor that works in the spectrum range 400 – 1700 nm. In this sense, the application of photonic technology will facilitate the automation of error detection in a non-intrusive and continuous way. This technology will be validated in two relevant industries such as textile knitting and plastic injection by silicone moulds. VISIRIA 4.0 [...]

Study, development and validation of a hybrid payment platform for the world’s leading clubs. The Aurea 4.0 project proposes a solution based on blockchain to guarantee the authenticity of all economic transactions generated by the world’s leading clubs, their immutability, privacy and scalability, as well as the number of transactions per second and minimising the cost per transaction. This payment platform guarantees that data cannot be falsified and that the custody and management services are secure, encouraging the generation of new services and markets for its customers, such as the introduction of NFT assets. Eurecat participates in the [...]

Development of the next generation of higher-level meta operating systems for the smart Internet of Things. The NebulOus project has the objective to transparently manage all the layers of the cloud continuum stack, in an equivalent manner to an Operating System, managing the available computing capacity to facilitate an adaptive application hosting environment, driven by the processing proximity to data sources and optimised based on the data involved, the defined quality of service (QoS) requirements and the regulatory, security or privacy constraints. Therefore, NebulOus will develop a novel Meta Operating System and platform for enabling transient [...]

Self-assessment, protection and healing tools to improve the resilience of Cooperative Automated Mobility (CCAM) systems against potential cyber threats. The SELFY project, coordinated by Eurecat, is developing a toolbox made of collaborative tools with the aim of increasing the security, protection and resilience of the CCAM ecosystem against cyber-attacks or malicious actions. The main pillars and objectives of the project are: Situational awareness: addressing which type of data must be generated and collected, and how it is used for monitoring any given CCAM ecosystem. Data sharing: addressing advanced processing for detection of malicious events and decision-making. Resilience: [...]

Network of excellence in data-based enabling technologies. The AI4ES project is born with the vision of becoming the Spanish benchmark in research, development and transfer of those digital technologies that allow intelligent data processing and analysis. The objective of AI4ES is to promote the economy based on data and artificial intelligence at a national level, facilitating the transfer of capacities, results and technologies to the productive fabric, providing innovative solutions and services that require secure and reliable access to data, efficient processing, analysis advanced, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. These technologies range from the storage and [...]

Development of an innovative AI-empowered Personalised Medicine system that bring medical “AI-empowered knowledge” to the tips of the fingers of clinicians and clinical researchers. The KATY project aims to develop an AI-empowered personalised medicine system built around two main components: a distributed knowledge graph that connects sources of medical knowledge, and a pool of “explainable predictors” which allows the AI to model patient outcomes. The AI-empowered knowledge is a human interpretable knowledge that clinicians and researchers can understand, trust and effectively use in their daily working routines. In this sense, the system developed relates the information [...]

The RIS3CAT Media Community is a group of 34 companies and agents from the cultural and creative industries (ICC) working and collaborating to promote and enhance an R+D+I action plan, with the aim to promote Catalonia as an international reference in the development of strategies that boost innovation, based on the intersection of science, technology and society. The Community, coordinated by Eurecat, will carry out 8 innovative projects in the Catalan cultural and creative sector during the 2020-2023 triennium: PICAE, ViVIM, MIRONINS, nanoMOOCs,  IDENTI@RT, ENGAGEMENT, EDvidence ZINKCAT. As a result of these projects, different transversal impacts [...]

Development of novel materials and manufacturing processes for a high-volume production of OLAE devices. The MADRAS project, coordinated by Eurecat, has the objective to develop new materials and  manufacturing processes for a scalable production in an industrial level of OLAE devices. The project addresses the use of conventional and established industrial manufacturing techniques and adapted processing tools to deliver this innovative technology closer to market. The use of organic and large area-electronics (OLAE) technologies and components have experienced a remarkable increase in recent years thanks to printed electronics technologies progress which offers solutions to develop OLAE thinner, [...]