UBITECH announces its participation in EURO-3C (“EUROpean 3C Networks for Secure Telco-Cloud-Edge”), a new Horizon Europe research and innovation action that officially kicked off on 7–9 July 2026 in Madrid, Spain. The kick-off meeting was hosted by Telefónica Innovación Digital SL, which coordinates the project consortium. EURO-3C is funded under Grant Agreement No. 101297599 and will run for 36 months, having commenced in July 2026. EURO-3C addresses the under-served needs of key EU vertical sectors for secure, sovereign, high-performance and competitive Telco-Cloud-Edge (3C) services. The project leverages large-scale, ubiquitous and production-grade infrastructures to build a sustainable, federated and open ecosystem for Telco-Edge-Cloud services, while establishing strategic industrial cooperation with vertical sectors and driving research and innovation in sovereign technologies.
The project’s technical ambition rests on six research and innovation pillars: Telco-Cloud Convergence, Multi-level Federation, Interoperable XaaS Services, AI-enabled Orchestration, Security by Design and Zero Trust, and Business Sustainability. Through a multi-vendor, multi-domain pilot infrastructure, EURO-3C will evolve more than 70 production edge nodes spanning over 13 countries and 15 providers, unlocking interoperable, high added-value telco-edge-cloud services and new economies of scale for all ecosystem players.
Within EURO-3C, UBITECH is responsible for implementing the mechanisms that complement the project’s service orchestration plane with a comprehensive, fully programmable Security-as-a-Service layer. UBITECH will deliver the interfaces and APIs required to secure all EURO-3C endpoints through a custom Trusted Computing Base (TCB), equipped with runtime attestation mechanisms, identity management primitives, and data-related privacy and trust services. These capabilities will be orchestrated through an AI-assisted, federated security abstraction layer capable of exposing security functions consistently across multi-operator domains.
UBITECH’s contributions to EURO-3C are led jointly by its Networked Systems & Software (NSS) Research Group and its Secure Systems & Trusted Computing (SST) Research Group, combining expertise in intelligent network orchestration with deep specialization in trusted computing and applied security.
“EURO-3C brings together the scale of pan-European telco-edge-cloud infrastructure with the rigor of security-by-design, and that combination is exactly where UBITECH’s research agenda lives. Our teams are building a security abstraction layer that doesn’t just protect endpoints in isolation, but makes trust, attestation and identity portable across federated, multi-operator domains — which is the real bottleneck standing between today’s fragmented edge deployments and tomorrow’s sovereign, interoperable 3C services. We are proud to bring the combined expertise of our Networked Systems & Software and Secure Systems & Trusted Computing groups to a consortium of this ambition, and we look forward to working alongside Telefónica Innovación Digital and our fellow partners over the next 36 months,” said Dr Dimitris Klonidis, Head of the Networked Systems & Software (NSS) Research Group at UBITECH.
