UBITECH participated and submitted a proposal in the FI-STAR Open Call for additional Project Partners that has been launched in September 2013 with deadline on 20 November 2013. After the evaluation of the 83 proposals received (from 21 countries and 115 proposing organizations) by independent experts, which included off-line evaluations and physical consensus meetings, UBITECH has been invited for negotiations and inclusion in the FI-STAR project consortium.
Standing for “Future Internet Social and Technological Alignment Research” and receiving funding from the European Union’s Seventh Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under Grant Agreement No 318389, FI-STAR will establish early trials in the Health Care domain building on Future Internet (FI) technology leveraging on the outcomes of FI-PPP Phase 1. A sustainable value chain following the life cycle of the Generic Enablers (GEs) will enable FI-STAR to grow beyond the lifetime of the project. FI-STAR will build a vertical community in order to create a sustainable ecosystem for all user groups in the global Health care and adjacent markets based on FI-PPP specifications. In particular, FI-STAR will deploy and execute 7 early trials across Europe, serving more than 4 million people. Through the trials, FI-STAR will validate the FI-PPP core platform concept by using GEs to build its framework and will introduce ultra-light interactive applications for user functionality.
In this context and as presented in the first (after the new partners inclusion) plenary meeting of FI-STAR that took place at San Sebastian (Spain) on the beginning of May 2014, UBITECH has been selected to realize the SHIELD Specific Enabler that will promote, leverage and enforce the notion of pseudo-anonymization of end-users in the course of their interaction with the FI-STAR platform, services, applications and generic enablers. In particular, the FI-STAR SHIELD Specific Enabler will incorporate a methodology, network architecture and software infrastructure by which the end-user will adopt a new artificial identity, called pseudonym, pseudo-identity or pseudo-profile, provided by the proposed trusted and secure mechanism, inheriting and including all features and credentials needed by the existing Identity Management Generic Enabler of FI-WARE. By combining and integrating state-of-the-art technologies, and coupling them with properly designed testing pilots, business planning and targeted dissemination, UBITECH will provide end-users with value-added pseudo-anonymization services, preventing non-authorized third-parties to intercept their personal data and trace their real identity, while preserving application and context coherence as well as meeting the non-repudiation security requirement.
Source: https://www.fi-star.eu/open-call/full-call-text.html
