EU Security Research Projects Awarded (17/11/2016)

CAR – Context-Active Resilience in Cyber Physical Systems
Context-active resilience is a novel concept of CPS resilience proposed in this action, which emphasises active and even proactive response to the dynamic state of CPS and its users in real-time. CAR Patterns will be identified via the empirical analysis of practical CPS systems, and specified with the developed Meta-Intelligence and populated into a semantic repository.

Due to the wide and critical roles of CPS in industry and society and the novelty of context-active resilience, the proposal is both timely and significant. Acting as a bridge, the project will simultaneously advance the theoretic approach and art of practice of this emerging topic, improve the competency and career of the fellow, enhance and complement the host’s research profile and infrastructure, and benefit the society, living, economy and related research communities significantly.

Start date: 2016-11-01
End date: 2018-10-31
Total cost: EUR 195.454
EU Contribution: EUR 195.454
Project Coordinator: Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland

COFFERS – Combating Fiscal Fraud and Empowering Regulators
Since 2008 ‘fiscal leaks’ have become an immediate policy challenge for EU governments, partly as a result of tax abuse. The COFFERS project unfolds as EU tax authorities transition to a new era in tackling tax abuse based upon policy innovation at the OECD, EU and national levels.

COFFERS benchmarks current understanding of these issues, undertakes comparative analysis of approaches taken to tackle them across EU Member States, and assesses resources being allocated to the task of closing the tax gap. The mechanisms undermining the expected effectiveness of tax systems will be appraised, especially with regard to responses to regulatory changes taking place.

Deliverables of use to EU tax authorities include new tax gap analyses by state, tax risk maps identifying risk by jurisdiction, a new anatomy of money laundering risk, and tools to help tax authorities understand the risks that they face domestically and internationally.

Start date: 2016-11-01
End date: 2019-10-31
Total cost: EUR 4.986.989
EU Contribution: EUR 4.986.989
Project Coordinator: Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands

Platforms4CPS – Creating the CPS Vision, Strategy, Technology Building Blocks and Supporting Ecosystem for Future CPS Platforms
Support for the development and integration of Cyber-Physical Systems is seen as essential for the future. As the embedded world meets the Internet world there will be an increasing number of interacting systems with strong connectivity utilised in both society and in industry. Platforms4CPS targets the transport, manufacturing, energy and health sectors.

Platforms4CPS aims to “create the vision, strategy, technology building blocks and supporting ecosystem for future CPS applications” with three key objectives to:

• Create a vision and strategy for future European CPS by analysing the ecosystem and market perspective and strategically updating and validating existing CPS roadmaps across multiple domains
• Promote platform building, bringing together industry and academic experts and create a repository of CPS technology building blocks
• Build an ecosystem by creating a constituency and through cooperating with ECSEL, ITEA, and ARTEMIS projects on the foundations of CPS engineering, and consensus-building on societal and legal issues related to the deployment of CPS.

Start date: 2016-11-01
End date: 2018-10-31
Total cost: EUR 998.900
EU Contribution: EUR 998.900
Project Coordinator: Thales SA, France

LIGHTKEY – Providing Secured Mobile Access Solutions Through Visible Light Communication
Mobile access is becoming commonplace: the user gets access to a facility by sending a request to an electronic lock. The lock recognises the request, verifies the provided access code and opens up. Current radio frequency-based communication technologies such as Wi-Fi, near-field communication (NFC), and Bluetooth are applied in a large variety of applications. However, they have serious security drawbacks: the data can be picked up by devices within a 10 metre radius, they are susceptible to hackers, consume large amounts of power, are not interoperable with all operators and platforms and usually require costly hardware.

Our Visible Light Communication solution LightKey will provide secure mobile access through photonics without any of the drawbacks of currently available mobile access solutions. It can be used on any mobile device as mobile phones already have the required hardware component (LED in the mobile´s flashlight). There are three steps: 1) download and activate LightKey to mobile phone, 2) introduce personal code and 3) LightKey triggers the camera flash or screen light and modulates and optical custom code.

Start date: 2016-11-01
End date: 2018-10-31
Total cost: EUR 1.275.342
EU Contribution: EUR 892.739
Project Coordinator: LIGHTBEE SL, Spain

PJ14 EECNS – Essential and Efficient Communication Navigation and Surveillance Integrated System
The PJ 14 CNS aims to specify and develop the future technologies coming from the communication, navigation and surveillance domains in order to support and manage the operational services, like the 4D trajectory management, in the future ATM system.

All the activities performed in the PJ 14 CNS will be developed at European Level in order to avoid a fragmented approach and to ensure the interoperability as depicted in the ICAO Global Air Navigation Plan (GANP). The CNS technologies support the GANP in terms of:

• Airport Operations
• Globally Interoperable System Data
• Optimum capacity and flexible flights

The PJ 14 aims to develop and improve solution, not already available, from the technological point of view to support the future ATM global system.

Start date: 2016-11-01
End date: 2019-12-31
Total cost: EUR 45.287.319
EU Contribution: EUR 4.708.284
Project Coordinator: LEONARDO – FINMECCANICA SPA, Italy