UBITECH participated at the kick-off meeting hosted by NOVA in Athens, Greece (January 17-19, 2023) of the FIDAL SNS JU Innovation Action, officially started on January 1st, 2023. The project is funded by European Commission under Horizon Europe Programme (Grant Agreement No. 101096146), in the frame of the Smart Networks and Services (SNS) Joint Undertaking, and spans on the period January 2023 – December 2025. FIDAL targets the augmentation of human capabilities, allowing Media & PPDR vertical industry players to perform advanced technological and business validation in large-scale field trials of highly innovative and advanced applications, that exploit Evolved 5G technologies.

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UBITECH participated at the kick-off meeting hosted by Politecnico di Milano in Milan, Italy (January 16-17, 2023) of the AUTO-TWIN Research and Innovation Action, officially started on January 1st, 2023. The project is funded by European Commission under Horizon Europe Programme (Grant Agreement No. 101092021) and spans on the period January 2023 – December 2025. AUTO-TWIN addresses the technological shortcoming and economic liability of the current system engineering model by 1) introducing a breakthrough method for automated process-aware discovery towards autonomous Digital Twins generation, to support trustworthy business processes in circular economies; 2) adopting an (International Data Space) IDS-based common data space, to promote and facilitate the secure and seamless exchange of manufacturing/product/business data within value-networks in a circular-economy ecosystem; 3) integrating novel hardware technologies into the digital thread, to create smart Green Gateways, empowering companies to perform data and digital twin enabled green decisions, and to unleash their full potential for actual zero-waste Circular Economy and reduced dependency from raw materials.

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UBITECH participated at the virtual kick-off meeting hosted by NOVA (January 10-11, 2023) of the ACROSS SNS JU Research and Innovation Action, officially started on January 1st, 2023. The project is funded by European Commission under Horizon Europe Programme (Grant Agreement No. 101097122), in the frame of the Smart Networks and Services (SNS) Joint Undertaking, and spans on the period January 2023 – December 2025. ACROSS designs and implements an end-to-end service deployment and management platform for next-generation networks and services, aiming at unprecedented levels of automation, performance, scalability, and energy efficiency.

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UBITECH presents a regular scientific paper entitled “An Agri-Food Data Platform for Food Safety and Certification” at the 9th Annual Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence, which will be held in December 14-16, 2022  in Las Vegas, US – the paper will also be published in the IEEE CPS proceedings (acceptance rate 19%). 

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The final use-case of the Search and Rescue project, namely Use Case 7: Chemical substances spill, took place on the 14th and 15th of December in Madrid, closing a circle of successful field exercises designed to test innovative solutions across various lifelike scenarios using real-like conditions with outstanding results. In the frame of this use case, a strong earthquake hits Madrid, leaving the city with damages to several buildings and a chemical hazard incident,  in a residential building area, near a hospital.

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Looking ahead, UBITECH invests to research and technology transfer to the critical infrastructures’ domain and applications, focusing particularly on addressing future security challenges in the Smart Grid, as it is a de facto critical infrastructure, important for the well-functioning of the society and economy. Smart grids have become complex System of Systems (SoS), engaging several stakeholders in the energy supply chain being responsible for energy Generation, Transmission, Distribution, and Consumption. In this frame the threat landscape of the Smart Grids in constantly expanding and in order to safeguard the today’s systems and infrastructures we need to go beyond the simplistic consideration of the traditional security properties of Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability. UBITECH strongly believes that the road towards sustainable security in Smart Grids, passes through Trust Management and Operational Assurance. Dr Dimitris Papamartzivanos, member of the Digital Security & Trusted Computing Research Group of UBITECH, presented in the International Hybrid Event on Energy Crisis and Cybersecurity that held in Baku, Azerbaijan and organized by ELECTRON H2020 project (https://electron-project.eu/electron-international-event-baku/), UBITECH’s vision towards Sustainable Security in Smart Grids.

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Working in closed collaboration and under the direct guidelines of Novibet, UBITECH has implemented and launched a software as a service utility realizing the new Novileague Challenge that constitutes a weekly football predictor free-to-play game, available for all Novibet users, and is part of the betting offerings of Novibet. In particular, the game is based on the idea of correct predictions on the outcomes of specific events, providing existing customers the chance to win cash prizes or earn free bets.

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UBITECH, as coordinator, and UBITECH Energy, as technical coordinator of FARCROSS EC co-funded Innovation Action, participated in one of Europe’s most relevant smart energy fairs, ENLIT in Frankfurt between 29 November and 1 December. ENLIT is one of the hub events throughout the year for all the players of the energy sector, bringing together 15 000 visitors and more than 700 exhibitors, not only from Europe, but also from Asia, the US and Canada. At the booth of FARCROSS within the EU projects zone of the exhibition, the consortium partners presented to visitors how the project contributes to the enhancement of the cross-border electricity flows in the South-Eastern European region. Therefore, the presence of FARCROSS at the event greatly increased the visibility of the project and thus the impact of its future outcomes.

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UBITECH participates in the European Big Data Value Forum (EBDVF) which took place in Prague, Czech Republic on November 21-23, with a central theme of “At the Heart of the Ecosystem for Data and AI”. The European Big Data Value Forum brings together industry professionals, business developers, researchers and policy-makers from all over Europe and other regions of the world to advance policy actions, and industrial and research activities in the areas of Data and AI. The EBDVF 2022 is organised by the Big Data Value Association (BDVA), IT4Innovations (VSB – Technical University of Ostrava), Plan4all and Charles University in Prague in collaboration with the European Commission (DG CNECT). It has been granted with the Czech Republic Presidency Auspice.

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UBITECH’s Dimitris Ntalaperas proudly participated in the Open SSI Forum, an open event that brings together technology experts, policymakers, and senior leaders from the public, private and academic sector institutions from across Europe and beyond and is organised by the non-profit think-tank EEMA (https://www.eema.org/). The Open SSI Forum constitutes an unconference with a clear European angle that provides real insights into the current state of the identity world, having the ability to network and discuss the latest ideas and innovations. Dimitris Ntalaperas had the opportunity to present the achievements of the EC funded project GLASS, in a thought-provoking session that involved productive discussions and debates on identity. 

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