The inGOV Research and Innovation Action aims to provide innovative ICT-supported governance models which will enable stakeholders’ collaboration in co-producing inclusive and accessible IPS. With that in mind and following the contractual obligations, UBITECH releases the 2nd version of the Reference Architecture developed the architectures and ICT platforms and tools, as well as emerging technologies for open data storage and access to support IPS co-creation and governance models and enable stakeholders’ collaboration in co-producing inclusive and accessible IPS.

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The second review of the STAR project (https://star-ai.eu/), funded under the Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Framework of the European Commission (Grant Agreement Nr 956573), was successfully held by the European Commission on the 14th of November 2022, assessing project’s goal towards Safe and Trusted Human Centric Artificial Intelligence in Future Manufacturing Lines. The STAR consortium successfully presented the outcomes, composed of tools aiming to deliver leading-edge AI technologies including explainable AI, active learning systems, simulated reality systems, human-centric digital twins, advanced reinforcement learning techniques and cyber-defense mechanisms.

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Another exciting pilot for the EC funded project Search and Rescue (SnR) took place on the 11^th and 12^th of November, this time, in the area of Thessaloniki. More than 70 participants joined for the project’s “plane crash and mountain rescue” use case in the area of mountain Chortiatis, according to which the four passengers of a single engine plane that crashed in an unknown area of Mount Hortiatis were successfully rescued and treated with medical care by the experienced rescue teams of #HRT and other first responders

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When novel technologies are implemented for the sake of search and rescue (SAR) operations, exciting things can happen in the field. The Consortium of the EC funded Search and Rescue (SnR) action joined together on the 4th and 5th of November for the project’s Use Case 4: Forest fire expanded and threat to industrial zone near the city of Corinth. 

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Dr Thanassis Giannetsos, Head of UBITECH’s Digital Security & Trusted Computing Research Group, has been invited by Huawei Germany to give a talk about the “Roadmap Towards Adoption of Dynamic Trust Assurances for Sustainability in CCAM” at the 2022 Security & Trust Summit organized by the multinational technology corporation Huawei. The 2022 Security & Trust Summit along with the co-located System Security Workshop will be held hybrid on 2 to 4 November 2022. The event aims to bring professors and experts from top universities, research institutions and corporations in Europe together to exchange and discuss the latest research in various security domains. Together, we will explore how we can counter current and future security challenges and apply the best security measures available.

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Dr Thanassis Giannetsos, Head of UBITECH’s Digital Security & Trusted Computing Research Group, gives an interview about the CONNECT Horizon Europe project and its challenges. CONNECT addresses the convergence of security and safety in CCAM (Cooperative, connected and automated mobility) by assessing dynamic trust relationships and defining a trust reasoning framework based on which involved entities can establish trust for cooperatively executing safety-critical functions.

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The paper entitled “Combining ID’s, Attributes, and Policies in Hyperledger Fabric” has been accepted for presentation at the 2nd EAI International Conference on Blockchain Technology and Emerging Applications (EAI BlockTEA 2022), that will be held in October 20-21, 2022 in Copenhagen, Denmark. In this work, UBITECH’s Dr Thanassis Giannetsos (Head, Digital Security & Trusted Computing Research Group) and his co-authors from Delft University of Technology proposes a more secure access control in Hyperledger Fabric blockchain by combining multiple ID’s, attributes, and policies with the components that regulate access control.

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The paper entitled “ID-based self-encryption via Hyperledger Fabric based smart contract” has been accepted for presentation at the 2nd EAI International Conference on Blockchain Technology and Emerging Applications (EAI BlockTEA 2022), that will be held in October 20-21, 2022 in Copenhagen, Denmark. In this work, UBITECH’s Dr Thanassis Giannetsos (Head, Digital Security & Trusted Computing Research Group) and his co-authors from Delft University of Technology presents a prototype of a Hyperledger Fabric-IPFS based network architecture including a smart contract based encryption scheme that meant to improve the security of user’s data that is being up[1]loaded to the distributed ledger. A new extension to the self-encryption scheme was deployed by integrating data owner’s identity into the encryption process. Such integration allows to permanently preserve ownership of the original file and link it to the person/entity who originally uploaded it. Moreover, self-encryption provides strong security guarantees that decryption of a file is computationally not feasible under the condition that the encrypted file and the key are safely stored.

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The first review of the ELECTRON H2020-101021936 project (https://electron-project.eu/) was successfully held by the European Commission on the 17th of October 2022, assessing project’s goal towards empowering resilience of energy systems. The project has successfully completed the first reporting period that included the activities of the initial 12 months of the project (out of its 36-month total duration).

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Konstantinos Oikonomou, Software Engineer and Research at the Computing Systems, Software and Services Research Group of UBITECH, was invited to participate in the “SWForum.eu Webinar: Leveraging OS technologies for better services in the European software ecosystem”, which will be held online on the 10th of October 2022. Leveraging existing technologies and services, the SWForum.eu aims to raise awareness and strengthen the competitiveness of the European Software Industry by facilitating a sustainable European forum that encourages both researchers and practitioners, as well as projects in software, digital infrastructure, and cybersecurity to create intersections of expertise and a multidisciplinary approach to research and innovation.

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