UBITECH participates at the kick-off meeting hosted by GFT ITALIA SRL (November 6 & 7, 2023) in Milan, Italy of the HumAIne Research and Innovation Action, officially started on October 1st, 2023. The project is funded by the European Commission (Grant Agreement No. 101120218) and spans on the period October 2023 – September 2026. The HumAIne project will research, develop, validate and promote a novel operating system for Human-AI collaboration, which will enable the development of advanced decision-making applications in dynamic, unstructured environments in different industrial sectors.

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UBITECH participated at the kick-off meeting hosted by PLURIBUS ONE in Cagliari, Italy (October 5-6, 2023) of the APPTake Digital Europe project, officially started on October 1st, 2023. The project is funded by European Commission under Digital Europe Programme (Grant Agreement No. 101128082) and spans on the period October 2023 – September 2026. The APPTake project aims to secure the operation and business sustainability of European SMEs, building a portfolio of sustainable application security solutions to foster the adoption of DevSecOps practices by the European SMEs, increasing their cybersecurity capabilities.

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UBITECH participates at the NANCY SNS JU Research and Innovation Action, officially started on January 1st, 2023. The NANCY project has received funding from the Smart Networks and Services Joint Undertaking (SNS JU) under the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No 101096456. The project spans a period of 3 years, from January 2023 to December 2025. The overall aim of NANCY is to introduce a secure and intelligent architecture for the beyond the fifth generation (B5G) wireless network.

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UBITECH Energy hosts the kick-off meeting (September 21 & 22, 2023) in Brussels, Belgium of the D-HYDROFLEX Innovation Action, officially started on September 1st, 2023. The project is funded by the European Commission (Grant Agreement No. 101122357) and spans on the period September 2023 – August 2026. The D-HYDROFLEX project will advance excellence in research on digital technology for hydropower paving the way towards more efficient, more sustainable, and more competitive hydropower plants in modern power markets.

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The ECOEMPOWER consortium inaugurated its project activities on September 19th and 20th, gathering in Trento, Italy, for the official project kick-off. This pivotal event brought together more than 20 representatives hailing from 10 project partners, spanning several European countries including Belgium, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, and Italy. In this initial meeting, the consortium solidified the formal commencement of their ambitious endeavor.

Continue reading UBITECH ENERGY participates in the kick off meeting of ECOEMPOWER action on empowering ecosystems at regional and local scale supporting energy communities

UBITECH participates at the kick-off meeting hosted by TECNALIA (September 6 & 7, 2023) in Bilbao, Spain of the CERTIFAI Innovation Action, officially started on September 1st, 2021. The project is funded by the European Commission (Grant Agreement No. 101120606) and spans on the period September 2023 – August 2026. The CERTIFAI project will develop an open software framework for cost-effective AI-driven continuous assessment and (re-)certification of ICT products and services, paving the way for a more secure and trustworthy EU’s digital world. Building on the EU Cybersecurity Act, CERTIFAI will leverage the established cybersecurity requirements, standards, and technical specifications to deliver an efficient approach for ensuring that a product, once certified, will continue to be compliant with relevant standards throughout its life cycle.

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The BRIDGE Regulatory working group was established at the origin of the BRIDGE initiative with the objective of fostering knowledge sharing among H2020 projects affected or addressing by different regulatory aspects in the Energy domain. The Regulatory WG, as the entire BRIDGE initiative, structures its activities on a yearly basis. In 2022, the work of the BRIDGE Regulatory working group was structured upon 4 actions: (i) improving market access for consumers to value their flexibility; (ii) examining options for service provision by energy communities; (iii) facilitating flexibility market coordination and integration; and (iv) supporting the potential synergies coming from increased sector coupling/sector integration/system integration. UBITECH ENERGY led the work related to the 4^th action focusing on the identification of existing barriers hindering cross-sector integration.

Continue reading BRIDGE’s report on Energy Market Design and Flexibility published with the support of UBITECH ENERGY

Dr Thanassis Giannetsos, Head of UBITECH’s Digital Security & Trusted Computing Research Group, and his co-author introduce RETRACT, an innovative and comprehensive anonymous credential scheme, at the 18th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2023), that is held August 29 – September 1, 2023 in Benevento, Italy. In particular, RETRACT enables credential holders to demonstrate their possession of satisfying credentials for any given predicate, while ensuring that only the intended verifier can validate them.

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After a peer review process, the scientific publication entitled “ZEKRA: Zero-Knowledge Control-Flow Attestation” has been accepted for presentation at the 18th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM ASIACCS 2023) that is held in Melbourne Australia from July 10th to July 14th, 2023. In this work, UBITECH’s Dr Thanassis Giannetsos (Head, Digital Security & Trusted Computing Research Group) and his co-authors propose a novel method of encasing a program-agnostic execution path verification task inside an arithmetic circuit whose correct execution can be verified by untrusted verifiers using a zero-knowledge proof system without the verifiers learning any secret inputs.

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UBITECH has participated at the competitive open call on Decentralised Digital Identity of the EC funded TRUSTCHAIN Horizon Europe project (https://trustchain.ngi.eu/), that focuses on trustworthy digital identities and data, and was awarded with a cascading grant for implementing the PRIVÈ project that will result in a Privacy Respecting Identity Verification Enabler for Digital Identity Wallets, extending the decentralized user-centric identity management framework by building an open source library that can be added as an extension to any SSI wallet on the Holder side to enable the use of hardware-based keys.

Continue reading UBITECH is awarded the PRIVE cascading grant contract from TRUSTCHAIN