The first Work Programme of Horizon 2020 invited proposals for Research and Innovation projects in the areas of cloud computing (ICT-07) and software technologies (ICT-09). In addition, innovation and entrepreneurship support in the context of cloud computing was addressed in ICT- 35f through the creation of a network of procurers that will define an innovation procurement roadmap. Finally, a coordinated call with Japan (EUJ-1) focused on technologies combining big data and the Internet of Things in the cloud. Altogether, the selected projects represent a critical mass of research and innovation activities to keep Europe at the forefront of the developments in cloud computing and software technologies.
Towards this vision, UBITECH participates and contributes with three projects, namely ARCADIA, INPUT and PaaSword. ARCADIA constitutes the only EC funded project that addresses exclusively theme 2 of the ICT-09 topic (i.e. software architectures and tools for highly distributed applications) and aims at designing and validating a framework for development and management of reconfigurable, highly distributed applications and infrastructures. PaaSword has a strong focus on Cloud security and introduces a holistic data privacy and security by design framework enhanced by sophisticated context-aware policy access models and robust policy access, decision, enforcement and governance mechanisms, which will enable the implementation of secure and transparent Cloud-based applications and services that will maintain a fully distributed and totally encrypted data persistence layer, and, thus, will foster customers’ data protection, integrity and confidentiality. Finally, INPUT aims at designing a novel infrastructure and paradigm to support Future Internet personal cloud services in a more scalable and sustainable way and with innovative added-value capabilities. For more information, you can download the Software & Services, Cloud Computing H2020 Project Portfolio here.
