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Participating at the General Assembly of the EC co-funded TRICK H2020 project, UBITECH initiates its engagement in the action, officially started on May 1st, 2021. The project is funded by European Commission under Horizon 2020 Programme (Grant Agreement No. 958352) and spans on the period May 2021 – October 2024. The TRICK project aims to provide a complete, SME affordable and standardised platform to support the adoption of sustainable and circular approaches, enabling enterprises to collect product data and to access to the necessary services on a dedicated marketplace, open to third party solutions.

Continue reading UBITECH enters into TRICK Innovation Action on Product Data Traceability

The second contractual review meeting for the InteropEHRate H2020 co-funded research project (https://www.interopehrate.eu/) was held virtually on September 21, 2021. InteropEHRate aims to support peoples’ health by opening them up new ways to make health data available where needed. To make this possible, key health data is managed in “patients’ hands”, i.e. through Smart EHRs (S-EHR) on mobile devices. Data is always transferred via highly secure channels including a direct device-to-device. The InteropEHRate consortium successfully presented the results of the work of the project during the second period.

Continue reading Successful second review for the InteropEHRate Research and Innovation Action

The first, interim review of the DataVaults Innovation Action was virtually held today (September 17, 2021), wherein the consortium successfully presented the results of the work of the project during the first half of the project. DataVaults aims to deliver a novel framework and architecture that leverages personal data, coming from diverse sources to help Individuals construct their unified personal data hub, collect at a single point all of their personal data in a secure and trusted manner, and retain ownership and control on what to share and with whom, also receiving compensation for the artefacts they place at the disposal of other third parties.

Continue reading Successful review for the DataVaults H2020 project

UBITECH has participated at the competitive infrastructure-oriented open call of the EC funded eSSIF-Lab H2020 project (https://essif-lab.eu/), that targets the provision of open source components, for example the SSI-Roles layer, the SSI Protocols or the Crypto layer, and was awarded with a cascading grant for implementing the DOOR project on hardware roots of trust. In particular, DOOR aims to extend the ESSIF-Framework by building a new component on the Holder side that enables the use of hardware-based keys and offers the possibility to bind Verifiable Credentials (VCs) to the wallet of the holder.

Continue reading UBITECH is awarded the DOOR cascading grant contract from NGI eSSIF-LAB

The final review of the ASTRID H2020 project, held virtually on the September 15th, 2021, was completed with success, marking the end of the three-year action. UBITECH successfully demonstrated its use case on secure Voice-over-IP (VoIP) communications using the Kubernetes enabled MAESTRO orchestrator. During the project, UBITECH extended MAESTRO to utilize the community wide accepted Kubernetes orchestration engine, manage it through its dashboard and integrate the Security related plugins of MAESTRO with Kubernetes. Such Security related plugins are BPF, Vulnerability check, Traffic Monitoring, Packet interception, and System auditing.

Continue reading Mission accomplished: ASTRID Research and Innovation Action finally delivered

On the 14th of September, the Consortium of the Search & Rescue H2020 project gathered for their first review meeting that was held virtually. During the meeting, the progress of the project  and the outstanding work carried out during the first 12 months was presented by the WP leaders and relevant Task leaders in a collaborative atmosphere. In the same spirit,  the EU Project  Officer together with 2 experts from the field provided their constructive feedback about the ongoing activities and expressed their enthusiasm about the outcomes and the project’s potential in the area of crisis management. 

Continue reading Successful Interim Review for Search & Rescue Research and Innovation Action

The European Commission’s proposal for tackling climate and environmental-related challenges as set in the 2019 communication for a European Green Deal resets the Commission’s commitment to achieving zero emissions of greenhouse gases in 2050 and stresses the importance of a resource-efficient economy where economic growth is decoupled from resource use. In this context, a sustainable ‘blue’ economy will compensate for the demands in land resources for energy production. Renewable energy sources are expected to play a key role towards a clean energy transition. Offshore facilities for renewable energy production are expected to expand, thus affecting marine activities such as fishing and shipping. Planning for this transition requires improving knowledge of the current status of the European waters.

Continue reading UBITECH and MarineTraffic join forces and win EASME tender on vessel density in European waters

The first, interim review of the SYNERGY Innovation Action with the Project Officer from the European Commission and the external reviewers was virtually held on the 9^th of September 2021. During the meeting, the WP leaders and relevant Task leaders presented the progress of the project and the key outcomes of the first 18 months of project. The consortium received constructive feedback from both the Project Officer and the external reviewers that acknowledged the project’s advancements and the outstanding work carried out during this first period of the project.

Continue reading Successful interim review for the SYNERGY Innovation Action

With current pressure on the availability of freshwater on the planet, as well as the increasing  demands for water resources, there is a need for fully integrated wastewater solutions that yield more sustainable and resilient systems. In light of the above, UBITECH in collaboration with Greener than Green Technologies (GtG) have entered the DigiCirc accelerator, a programme that promotes new digital technologies as useful tools to address the need for a more environmentally friendly and sustainable economy. The iReCirc team proposes an innovative mobile wastewater treatment unit, designed for the food processing sector, that integrates a multitude of highly adaptive and modular treatment techniques, that can selectively extract and subsequently isolate and purify, dissolved material of high value, and treat the remaining wastewater with a hybrid technology combining physicochemical and biological treatment methods, ready to be operated even by non-experts, with minimum human involvement.

Continue reading UBITECH joins forces with Greener than Green Technologies for a good cause!

The paper “Towards Efficient Control-Flow Attestation with Software-Assisted Multi-level Execution Tracing” has been accepted for presentation at the Special Session “Securing Future Networks” of the “IEEE International Mediterranean Conference on Communications and Networking” (IEEE MeditCom 2021) that takes place 7-10 September 2021 in Athens, Greece. The UBITECH’s Digital Security and Trusted Computing research group proposes a multi-level execution tracing framework capitalizing on recent software features, namely the extended Berkeley Packet Filter and Intel Processor Trace technologies, that can efficiently capture the entire platform configuration and control-flow stacks, thus, enabling wide attestation coverage capabilities that can be applied on both resource-constrained devices and cloud services.

Continue reading UBITECH presents a scientific paper on efficient control-flow attestation at IEEE MeditCom Special Session Securing Future Networks