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Posted on February 2, 2023February 22, 2023 by ubitech

UBITECH participates at the kick-off meeting of the TENSOR Innovation Action on reliable biometric technologies for combating terrorism and organized crime

UBITECH participated at the kick-off meeting hosted by NETCOMPANY-INTRASOFT SA in Athens, Greece (February 1-2, 2023) of the TENSOR Innovation Action, officially started on January 1st, 2023. The project is funded by European Commission under Horizon Europe Programme (Grant Agreement No. 101073920) and spans on the period January 2023 – December 2025. TENSOR will provide Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) a platform that facilitates the biometric evidence extraction, sharing and storage in cross border environments allowing them to share best practices in an automated, robust, secure, privacy-preserving and scalable manner. In addition, the full potential of biometrics technologies will be exploited and their fusion in case of partial evidence gathered in the crime scenes by forensic institutes strengthening their acceptance in the court of justice.

Posted on February 1, 2023February 22, 2023 by ubitech

UBITECH undertakes the technical coordination of the INCODE Research & Innovation Actin on Intelligent Collaborative Deployments over Heterogeneous Edge-IoT Environments

UBITECH hosted the kick-off meeting, in Athens, Greece (February 1-2, 2023), of the INCODE Research and Innovation Action, that is funded by the European Commission under the Horizon Europe Programme (Grant Agreement No. 101093069), spanning the period January 2023 – December 2025. INCODE will design and develop an open platform for the deployment and dynamic management of end-user applications, over distributed, heterogeneous and trusted IoT-Edge node infrastructures, with enhanced programmability features and tools. The platform will do so by implementing innovative design approaches and will constitute a fully-integrated infrastructure under the cloud–managed INCODE architecture. INCODE will contribute to the wider scope of reinforcing Europe’s position in the market of next generation smart systems (sensors and devices) integrated in an evolving Internet of Things and cyber-physical ecosystems with strong capacities at the edge.

Posted on January 30, 2023February 1, 2023 by ubitech

QUBITECH participates, as associated partner, in ENTRUST, securing identity management and remote authentication of connected medical devices with PUF-based crypto primitives

Engaged as UBITECH’s Linked Third Party, QUBITECH participates in the ENTRUST Research and Innovation Action, funded by European Commission under Horizon Europe Programme (Grant Agreement No. 101095634), that aims to design, implement, and validate a comprehensive trust management architecture for medical devices that manage private patient information and sensitive healthcare functions, to strengthen trust and cybersecurity mechanisms within the entire medical ecosystem.

Posted on January 27, 2023 by ubitech

UBITECH participates at the kick-off meeting of the REEFLEX Innovation Action on demand side flexibility energy markets

UBITECH participated at the kick-off meeting hosted by CIRCE in Zaragoza, Spain (January 26-27, 2023) of the REEFLEX Innovation Action, officially started on January 1st, 2023. The project is funded by European Commission under Horizon Europe Programme (Grant Agreement No. 101096192) and spans on the period January 2023 – December 2026. REEFLEX aims to generate niches of opportunities for new cross-sector energy services provided by SMEs and start-ups in demand side flexibility markets and to increase participation of energy consumers in demand side flexibility markets.

Posted on January 26, 2023 by ubitech

UBITECH ENERGY undertakes the technical coordination of the SINNOGENES Innovation Action on Green Energy Systems Storage

UBITECH ENERGY co-hosts, with UniSystems, the kick-off meeting, in Brussels, Belgium, (January 26-27, 2023) of the SINNOGENES Innovation Action, officially started on January 1st, 2023. The project is funded by European Commission under Horizon Europe Programme (Grant Agreement No. 101096992), and spans on the period January 2023 – December 2026. SINNOGENES aims to develop the Storage INNOvations (SINNO) energy toolkit, a complete framework of methodologies, tools and technologies that will enable the grid integration of innovative storage solutions beyond the state-of-the art, while demonstrating sustainability, technical performance, lifetime, non-dependency on location geographical particularities and cost. It will develop successful energy storage business cases and systems and deploy them in innovative and ‘green’ energy systems at different scales and timeframes.

Posted on January 25, 2023 by ubitech

UBITECH participates at the kick-off meeting of the PISTIS Innovation Action on federated, trusted and fair sharing and trading of interoperable data assets

UBITECH participated at the kick-off meeting hosted by Fraunhofer FOKUS in Berlin, Germany (January 24-25, 2023) of the PISTIS Innovation Action, officially started on January 1st, 2023. The project is funded by European Commission under Horizon Europe Programme (Grant Agreement No. 101093016) and spans on the period January 2023 – June 2026. PISTIS brings forward a reference federated data sharing/trading and monetisation platform for secure, trusted and controlled exchange and usage of proprietary data assets and data-driven intelligence. PISTIS will advance the available techniques and technologies, such as federated data discovery and sharing, DLTs, data non-fungible tokens (NFTs), AI-driven data quality assessment and monetisation, to build trust among stakeholders and assuage their concerns. Such stakeholders will formulate a distributed network of existing and new data spaces with built-in governance brought by PISTIS to eliminate silos while accruing the actual data value and multiplying it through derivative assets in a fair and transparent manner.

Posted on January 24, 2023January 25, 2023 by ubitech

UBITECH participates at the kick-off meeting of the LivAI Action on making Adult Education lively through Artificial Intelligence

UBITECH participated at the kick-off meeting hosted by Universitat Jaume I de Castellón (UJI) in Castellon de la Plana, Spain (January 16-17, 2023) of the LivAI “Cooperation Partnerships in Adult Education” Action (KA220-ADU), officially started on November 1st, 2022. The project is funded by European Commission under Erasmus+ programme (Grant Agreement No. KA220-ADU-D54476C0) and spans on the period November 2022 – October 2024. LivAI provides knowledge and skills as well as a certification framework that will standardise those obtained competences and reaching a small but meaningful progress towards enhancing the quality assurance in adult education, constructing a digital platform that allows the monitoring and evaluation (award certification scheme) of the three main target groups: adult educators, adult education institutions and adult learners. The complete framework provides practical guidance for digital transformation of the adult learning centres, training framework for high quality digital learning pathways and a certification mechanism that will ensure high quality standards in a digital era, incorporating the notion of ethical AI and Big Data into the level of adult education.

Posted on January 24, 2023January 25, 2023 by ubitech

UBITECH participates at the kick-off meeting of the AERO Research and Innovation Action on Accelerated European Cloud

UBITECH participated at the kick-off meeting hosted by ICCS in Athens, Greece (January 23-24, 2023) of the AERO Research and Innovation Action, officially started on January 1st, 2023. The project is funded by European Commission under Horizon Europe Programme (Grant Agreement No. 101092850) and spans on the period January 2023 – December 2025. AERO aims to upbring and optimize an open-source software ecosystem that encompasses a wide range of software components ranging from operating systems to compilers, runtimes, system software and auxiliary software deployment services for cloud computing.

Posted on January 20, 2023February 22, 2023 by ubitech

UBITECH participates at the kick-off meeting of the MARS Research and Innovation Action on resilient and sustainable manufacturing

UBITECH participated at the kick-off meeting hosted by Ecole Nationale Superieure D’arts Et Metiers in Arts et Métiers in Aix-en-Provence (Paris, France), on January 19-20, 2023, of the MARS Research and Innovation Action, officially started on January 1st, 2023. The project is funded by European Commission under Horizon Europe Programme (Grant Agreement No. 101091783) and spans on the period January 2023 – December 2026. MARS aims to enable SMEs to access advanced European breakthrough innovations in the field of AI-driven digital manufacturing processes and enter into process chains that are geographically distributed.

Posted on January 20, 2023January 26, 2023 by ubitech

UBITECH ENERGY participates at the kick-off meeting of the THUMBS UP Innovation Action on thermal energy storage solutions unlocking grid balancing and flexibility for optimal buildings management

UBITECH ENERGY participated in the kick-off meeting of the THUMBS UP project, which was hosted by VEOLIA in Volladolid, Spain (January 19-20, 2023) and officially started on January 1st, 2023. The project is funded by European Commission under Horizon Europe Programme (Grant Agreement No. 101096921) and the project duration is 48 months. THUMBS UP aims to develop and demonstrate thermal energy storage (TES) at daily (based on environmental friendly PCM) and weekly level (based on TCM sorption technology) solutions to be easily integrated in EU buildings (both connected and not-connected to DHN) to increase their energy efficiency as well as to exploit Power-to-Heat (PtH) approaches also to make EU Buildings as grid flexibility actors.