CONCORDIA – Cyber security cOmpeteNce fOr Research anD Innovation

Description: Europe needs to step up its efforts and strengthen its very own security capacities to secure its digital society, economy, and democracy. It is time to reconquer Europe’s digital sovereignty. The vision for Europe can only be to join forces across Europe’s research, industry and public sector and to include all talents not just those that have representation in the EU mainstream or are within big organizations. Diversity and inclusion are keys for success. Europe has incredible coverage and talent in the area of IT and cybersecurity. The area of cybersecurity is geographically fragmented across Europe for competences, and often also technically fragmented with problem-specific development of security solutions. There is no doubt that excellent research exists in Europe. Nevertheless, it is a fact that this research does not result in IT products and solutions that contribute to the European Single Digital Market. On contrary, a lot of research, also financed by EU ERC grants, is tested on real data in large US companies that cooperate with them. Europe has to and is already rethinking this strategy. CONCORDIA addresses the current fragmentation of security competence by networking diverse competences into a leadership role via a synergistic agglomeration of a pan-European Cybersecurity Center. The vision of CONCORDIA is to build a community a strong cooperation between all stakeholders, understanding that all stakeholders have their KPIs, bridging among them, and fostering the development of IT products and solutions along the whole supply chain. Technologically, it projects a broad and evolvable data-driven and cognitive E2E Security approach for the ever-complex ever-interconnected compositions of emergent data-driven cloud, IoT and edge-assisted ICT ecosystems.

Funded: Horizon

Duration: 48 months ( 01/01/2019-31/12/2022 )

Partners: UNIVERSITAET DER BUNDESWEHR MUENCHEN, IDRYMA TECHNOLOGIAS KAI EREVNAS, UNIVERSITEIT TWENTE, UNIVERSITE DU LUXEMBOURG, UNIVERSITE DE LORRAINE, UNIVERZA V MARIBORU, UNIVERSITAT ZURICH, JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN GGMBH, UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DELL’INSUBRIA, TECHNOLOGIKO PANEPISTIMIO KYPROU, PANEPISTIMIO PATRON, TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET BRAUNSCHWEIG, TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT DARMSTADT, Masarykova univerzita, BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV, OSLOMET – STORBYUNIVERSITETET, IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE, UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO, BAYERISCHE AKADEMIE DER WISSENSCHAFTEN, EIT DIGITAL, TELENOR ASA, AIRBUS CYBERSECURITY GMBH, SECUNET SECURITY NETWORKS AG, INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG, STICHTING INTERNET DOMEINREGISTRATIE NEDERLAND, SURFnet bv, CYBER-DETECT, TELEFONICA INVESTIGACION Y DESARROLLO SA, RUAG Schweiz AG, BITDEFENDER SRL, ATOS SPAIN SA, SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT, FLOWMON NETWORKS AS,TUV TRUST IT GMBH UNTERNEHMENSGRUPPE TUV AUSTRIA, TELECOM ITALIA SPA, EFACEC ENERGIA – MAQUINAS E EQUIPAMENTOS ELECTRICOS SA, ARTHUR’S LEGAL BV, EESY-INNOVATION GMBH, DFN-CERT SERVICES GMBH, CAIXABANK SA, BAYERISCHE MOTOREN WERKE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT, MINISTRY OF DIGITAL GOVERNANCE, RISE RESEARCH INSTITUTES OF SWEDEN AB, ERICSSON AB, SBA RESEARCH GEMEINNUTZIGE GMBH, INSTITUT JOZEF STEFAN

Budget: 15998000

CUT Budget: 256,250.00