An Integrated Cyber Security Risk & Resilience Management Platform, With Holistic Situational Awareness, Incident Response & Preparedness Capabilities (SYNAPSE)
Funding source: EU Horizon 2020 Programme: 1/11/2023 – 31/10/2026
Project website: (in progress)
SYNAPSE aims to design, develop & deliver an Integrated Cyber Security Risk & Resilience Management Platform, with holistic Situational Awareness, Incident Response & Preparedness capabilities. The proposed platform will encompass: (i) Incident Response through process automation and orchestration mechanisms, also covering organisational/business aspects (e.g. business continuity processes); (ii) AI-enhanced Situational Awareness, encompassing extraction & analytics of actionable and pertinent Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI), along with attack early warning & threat hunting systems; (iii) Preparedness through cybersecurity, privacy & business continuity training, covering different training delivery means, allowing it to tailor the delivery method to the content; (iv) Technical & economic risk management, integrating outputs of (i)-(iii) above and supporting risk-benefit analyses (including what-if scenarios) to inform decision-making and enable risk transfer schemes with Smart Contract-enabled cybersecurity insurance; (v) Continuous feedback between (i)-(iv) above, along with standards-based sharing, alerting & reporting (intra- & inter- Member State), based on outputs of (i)-(iii) above, thus enabling the establishment of shared situational awareness, coordinated response and joint preparedness.
Next Generation Integrated Sensing and Analytical System for Monitoring and Assessing Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Field Exposure and Health (NextGEM)
Funding source: EU Horizon 2020 Programme: 1/09/2023 – 31/08/2026
Project website: https://www.nextgem.eu/
Electromagnetic fields (EMFs) produced by man-made devices are all around us. Especially with the next generation of radiofrequency EMFs, further investigations regarding EMF and possible health risks are required. In this context, the EU-funded NextGEM project will generate relevant knowledge of EMF exposure in residential, public and occupational settings. The project will design a new framework for the generation of health-relevant scientific knowledge and data on new scenarios of exposure to EMF in multiple frequency bands. Its overall aim is to provide a healthy living and working environment, under safe EMF exposure conditions.
An innovative Virtual Reality based intrusion detection, incident investigation and response approach for enhancing the resilience, security, privacy and accountability of complex and heterogeneous digital systems and infrastructures (CyberSecDome)
Funding source: EU Horizon 2020 Programme: 1/09/2023 – 31/08/2026
Project website: (in progress)
Organisations across the sectors significantly benefit from digital transformation to support evolving business models, services and customer experience. Despite the benefits of digital infrastructure adoption, there are numerous security challenges that could pose any digital disruption and risks for the critical service delivery and overall business continuity. There is a need to understand the overall digital infrastructure context and analyse and predict the possible threats and incidents in real time so that quick and accurate responses can be taken into consideration for ensuring resilience of service delivery. Additionally, collaborative response and sharing of threat intelligence information is necessary to create overall awareness and increase the response capability of all stakeholders within the ecosystem. CyberSecDome will integrate advanced virtuality reality (VR) to extend the capability of the security solutions aiming to enhance security, privacy and resilience of the Digital Infrastructure. The project will consider AI-enabled security solutions to provide a better prediction of cybersecurity threats and related risks towards an efficient and dynamic incident management and optimise collaborative response among the stakeholders within the Digital Infrastructure ecosystem.
Revolutionised Enhanced Supply Chain Automation with Limited Threats Exposure (RESCALE)
Funding source: EU Horizon 2020 Programme: 1/10/2023 – 30/09/2026
Project website: (in progress)
RESCALE aims at designing, building, and demonstrating secure-by-design supply chains. To this end, RESCALE will (i) automate the evaluation processes of both software and hardware components, (ii) ensure that third-party segments are free from vulnerabilities, (iii) offer effective audit procedures for cybersecurity testing, and (iv) enable the construction of secure systems with the strongest possible guarantees. Overall, RESCALE will systematically analyse and extend, as necessary, every hardware and software layer in a computing system and apply novel tools and methodologies at every step of the entire supply chain.
A Certification approach for dynamic, agile and reUSable assessmenT fOr composite systems of ICT proDucts, servicEs, and processeS (CUSTODES)
Funding source: EU Horizon 2020 Programme: 1/10/2023 – 30/09/2025
Project website: (in progress)
CUSTODES will develop and implement an innovative configurable, user-friendly, and cost-effective Composite Inspection and Certification (CIC) System which will facilitate the cybersecurity certification of ICT Products (software, hardware, ICT systems, ICT Services, ICT Processes) which will serve as Targets of Evaluation (ToE). CUSTODES will be validated in three pilots, a) one of two Class I composite products with digital elements, b) one of an ICT product with an embedded AI component, and c) a final one of the as-a-service functionality through EIT Digital extensive digital ecosystem.
Secure OPen source softwarE and hardwaRe Adaptable framework (SecOPERA)
Funding source: EU Horizon 2020 Programme: 1/01/2023 – 31/12/2025
Project website: https://secopera.eu/
SecOPERA stands for Secure OPen source softwarE and hardwaRe Adaptable framework. SecOPERA aims to provide a one-stop hub for complex OSS/OSH (Open-Source Software/Open-Source Hardware) solutions delivering to a connected device designer, implementer and operator as well as any open-source software/hardware developer, the means to analyse, assess, secure/harden and share open-source solutions as those are integrated in an overall complex product developed for a networked connected environment. SecOPERA achieves its tasks by taking any complex OSS/OSH solution and decomposing it into four distinct layers: cognitive, network, application, and device layers. The SecOPERA framework then makes use of state-of-the-art security testing tools and other specialized tools designed for operations such as code debloating, updating/patching on each layer, providing better and more accurate results. The SecOPERA hub offers to the open-source community a framework supporting the open-source DevSecOps lifecycle and generates secure open-source solutions along with an appropriate, verifiable security guarantee.
Next Generation Meta Operating System (NEMO)
Funding source: EU Horizon 2020 Programme: 1/09/2022 – 31/08/2025
Project website: https://meta-os.eu/
ΝΕΜΟ establishes itself as the gamechanger of the AIoT-edge-cloud continuum by introducing an open source, modular, and cybersecure meta-operating system, leveraging on existing technologies, and introducing novel concepts, methods, tools, testing and engagement campaigns. NEMO will bring intelligence closer to the data and make AI-as-a-Service an integral part of network self-organisation and micro-services execution orchestration. Its widespread penetration and massive acceptance will be achieved via new technology, pre-commercial exploitation components and liaison with open-source communities.
Energy-efficient AI-ready Data Spaces (Green.Dat.AI)
Funding source: EU Horizon 2020 Programme: 1/01/2023 – 31/12/2025
Project website: https://greendatai.eu/
The EU-funded Green.Dat.AI project will develop innovative energy-efficient large-scale data analytics services, ready to use in industrial AI-based systems, which will reduce the environmental impact of data management processes. The project will demonstrate the efficiencies of the new analytics services in the smart energy, smart agriculture/agri-food, smart mobility, and smart banking industries as well as six different application scenarios, exploiting the use of European data spaces.
Holistic, Omnipresent, Resilient Services for future 6G Wireless and Computing Ecosystems (HORSE)
Funding source: EU Horizon 2020 Programme: 1/01/2023 – 31/12/2025
Project website: https://www.horse-6g.eu/
HORSE proposes a novel human-centric, open source, green, sustainable, coordinated provisioning and protection evolutionary platform, which can inclusively yet seamlessly combine advancements in several domains, as they get added to the system (e.g., predictive threats detection, proactive business-wise threats, and breaches mitigation actions, programmable networking, semantic communications, Network Function Virtualisation (NFV), intent-based networking, AI-based techniques, cross-layer management of physical layer features, etc.).
Joint Cybersecurity Operations Platform (JCOP)
Funding source: European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HaDEA): 1/08/2021 – 31/07/2024
Project website: https://jcop.eu/
JCOP will be deployed and validated through the creation of a Southeast Europe Coordinated Response Cluster including the national security authorities of Greece and Cyprus. This will demonstrate the capacity- and coordination-building impact of JCOP at the national and the EU level (CSIRT Network). In addition, the Norwegian National Security Authority – NSM will contribute to the validation of JCOP’s applicability. JCOP will be aligned with pertinent EU platforms and initiatives, such as the MeliCERTes platform, the Empowering EU ISACs project for information sharing between operators of essential services (OES), and the four pilots of the EU Cybersecurity Competence Network.
A European Cyber Resilience Framework with Artificial Intelligence-assisted orchestration & automation for business continuity, incident response & information exchange (PHOENI2X)
Funding source: EU Horizon 2020 Programme: 01/07/2022 – 30/06/2025
Project website: https://phoeni2x.eu/
Overview: PHOENI2X aims to design, develop, and deliver a Cyber Resilience Framework providing Artificial Intelligence (AI) – assisted orchestration, automation & response capabilities for business continuity and recovery, incident response, and information exchange, tailored to the needs of Operators of Essential Services (OES) and of the EU Member State (MS) National Authorities entrusted with cybersecurity. SPHYNX Analytics is the Technical Coordinator of PHOENI2X.
Context-aware adaptive visualizations for critical decision making (SYMBIOTIK)
Funding source: EU Horizon 2020 Programme: 01/10/2022 – 30/09/2026
Project website: https://symbiotik-infovis.eu/
Overview: Information overload is the by-product of information over-exposure and input abundance which, nowadays, has become an aggravated phenomenon. Simply put, when presented with a large array of options, users are at a higher risk of experiencing impeded cognitive functioning, which may reduce their capacity to perform effective decision-making, derive meanings, and gain insights, especially in situation- and time-sensitive contexts. The SYMBIOTIK project will lay the basis for an interaction dialogue between Human and InfoVis systems to support decision-making processes, inspired by known biological principles and guided by Artificial Intelligence. More concretely, it proposes a novel framework where both the human and the machine cooperate towards a common goal and evolve together. The framework will allow us to engineer more sophisticated intelligent systems, making them more resilient and more human-centric.
A Dynamic and Self-Organized Artificial Swarm Intelligence Solution for Security and Privacy Threats in Healthcare ICT Infrastructures (AI4HEALTHSEC)
Funding source: EU Horizon 2020 Programme: 1/10/2020 – 30/9/2023
Project website: https://www.ai4healthsec.eu/
Overview: AI4HEALTHSEC proposes a state of the art solution that improves the detection and analysis of cyber-attacks and threats on HCIIs, and increases the knowledge on the current cyber security and privacy risks. Additionally, AI4HEALTHSEC builds risk awareness, within the digital Healthcare ecosystem and among the involved Health operators, to enhance their insight into their Healthcare ICT infrastructures and provides them with capability to react in case of security and privacy breaches. Last but not least AI4HEALTHSEC fosters the exchange of reliable and trusted incident-related information, among ICT systems and entities composing the HCIIs without revealing sensitive corporate details.
A coordinated framework for cyber resilient supply chain systems over complex ICT infrastructures (FISHY)
Funding source: EU Horizon 2020 Programme: 1/9/2020 – 31/12/2023
Project website: https://fishy-project.eu/
Overview: FISHY aims at designing, developing, validating and demonstrating a coordinated framework for cyber resilience provisioning to guarantee a trusted supply chain of ICT systems, built upon distributed, dynamic, and often fundamentally insecure and heterogeneous ICT infrastructures. The platform is envisioned not only to facilitating adaptive system reconfigurations, but also reacting to and defying the effects of cyber attacks in real time of the ICT supply chain end-to-end, and in particular in the IoT domain. The FISHY proposes a comprehensive validation and demonstration strategy built upon three use cases from different sectors, including agriculture, manufacturing and transportation. The expected project outcome is a Proof-of-Concept (PoC) of the FISHY platform, along with the dissemination and ambitious exploitation strategies.
Multimodal Extreme Scale Data Analytics for Smart Cities Environments (MARVEL)
Funding source: EU Horizon 2020 Programme: 01/01/2021 – 31/12/2023
Project website: https://www.marvel-project.eu/
Overview: Handling, processing and delivering data from millions of devices around the world is a complex and remarkable feat that hinges on edge computing systems. While edge computing brings computation and data storage closer, fog computing is what brings analytic services to the edge of the network. It’s an alternative to cloud computing. The EU-funded MARVEL project will develop an Edge-to-Fog-to-Cloud ubiquitous computing framework to enable multimodal perception and intelligence for audio-visual scene recognition, event detection, and situational awareness in a Smart City Environment. It will collect, analyse and data-mine multimodal audio-visual streaming data to improve the quality of life and services to citizens within the smart city paradigm, without violating ethical and privacy limits, in an AI-responsible manner.
Multi-Pillar Framework for children Anti-Obesity Behavior building on an EU biobank, Micro Moments and Mobile Recommendation Systems (Bio-Streams)
Funding source: EU Horizon 2020 Programme: 1/5/2023 – 30/4/2027
Project website: (in progress)
Overview: Bio-Streams aims on supporting the optimal use (and re-use) of health data (e.g. biological, demographic, epigenetic, etc.) to generate metadata/knowledge and provide new evidence, methodologies & tools for: a) creating and deploying the Bio-Streams Biobank that will act as a scientific platform for research in obesity and better diagnostic and therapeutic approaches;b) understanding the transition from metabolically healthy to unhealthy, preventing under-age obesity; c) designing better strategies to educate & empower young citizens for weight self-management; d) coordinating authorities & policymakers to develop cross-sectoral solutions for health promotion & under-age obesity prevention.
A Secure Healthcare Environment for Informatics Resilience (HEIR)
Funding source: EU Horizon 2020 Programme: 1/9/2020 – 31/8/2023
Project website: https://heir2020.eu/
Overview: HEIR is to provide thorough threat identification and cybersecurity knowledge base system addressing both local (in the hospital / medical centre) and global (including different stakeholders) levels, that comprises the following pillars: (i) Real time threat hunting services, facilitated by advanced machine learning technologies, supporting the identification of the most common threats in electronic medical systems based on widely accepted methodologies such as the OWASP Top 10 Security Risks and the ENISA Top 15 Threats; (ii) Sensitive data trustworthiness sharing facilitated by the HEIR privacy aware framework; (iii) Innovative Benchmarking based on the calculation of the Risk Assessment of Medical Applications (RAMA) score, that will measure the security status of every medical device and provide thorough vulnerability assessment of hospitals and medical centres; (iv) The delivery of an Observatory for the Security of Electronic Medical Devices; an intelligent knowledge base accessible by different stakeholders, providing advanced visualisations for each threat identified in RAMA and facilitating global awareness on EMD-related threats.
Smart Big Data Platform to Offer Evidence-based Personalised Support for Healthy and Independent Living at Home (SMART BEAR)
Funding source: EU Horizon 2020 Programme: 1/7/2019 – 30/6/2023
Project website: https://www.smart-bear.eu/
Overview: SMART BEAR will develop an innovative platform with off-the-shelf smart and medical devices, at TRL9, to support the healthy and independent living of elderly people with five prevalent health-related conditions; Hearing Loss, Cardio Vascular Diseases, Cognitive Impairments, Mental Health Issues, and Balance Disorders, as well as Frailty. This will be achieved through intelligent, evidenced-based interventions on lifestyle, medically-significant risk factors, and chronic disease management, enabled by the utilisation of continuous and objective medical and environment sensing, assistive technologies, and big data analytics. The platform will be validated through five large-scale pilots, involving five countries and 5.000 individuals.
Unification of treatments and Interventions for Tinnitus patients (UNITI)
Funding source: EU Horizon 2020 Programme: 1/1/2020 – 31/12/2022
Project website: http://uniti.tinnitusresearch.net/
Overview: UNITI’s overall aim is to deliver a predictive computational model based on existing and longitudinal data attempting to address the question which treatment approach is optimal for a Tinnitus patient based on specific parameters. Clinical, epidemiological, medical, genetic and audiological data, including signals reflecting ear-brain communication, will be analysed from existing databases. Predictive factors for different patient groups will be extracted and their prognostic relevance will be tested in a randomized controlled trial (RCT) in which different groups of patients will undergo a combination of therapies targeting the auditory and central nervous systems. Sphynx’s role in the project will be to support the integration of heterogeneous databases in a federated (big) data repository and the provision of security assurance for the system to be developed to provide data analytics in the project.
heaRt failurE paTient managEment and iNTerventIOns usiNg continuous patient monitoring outside hospitals and real world data (RETENTION)
Funding source: EU Horizon 2020 Programme: 01/01/2021 – 30/04/2025
Project website: https://www.retention-project.eu/
Overview: Heart failure (HF) is one of the chronic diseases that medicine struggles to effectively prevent, diagnose and treat. Yet, it remains the leading global cause of disability and premature death. A significant reduction of hospitalisations is a crucial step for the maintenance of patients’ life quality as well as for its burdening impact on the entire healthcare system’s efficiency. The EU-funded RETENTION project aims to develop an innovative platform supporting clinical decision-making and evidenced-based personalised interventions for HF patients. Through an automatised collection and analysis of patient data, the innovative solution will focus on reducing patients’ mortality and enhancing their quality of life.
Bridging the security, privacy and data protection gap for smaller enterprises in Europe (SENTINEL)
Funding source: EU Horizon 2020 Programme: 01/06/2021 – 31/05/2024
Project website: https://www.sentinel-project.eu/
Overview: Over 25 million European SMEs/MEs, central within EU enterprise policy, face multiple challenges related to personal data protection; ranging from awareness to a clear and practical roadmap to compliance, the most prominent one is the fact that, unlike larger enterprises, SMEs/MEs lack access to enterprise-grade cybersecurity technology and capacity-building for compliance, making them increasingly often victims of costly data breaches. Although according to studies, small and micro businesses declare openness to invest in regulatory compliance, including for consultants and technology, millions of European SMEs/MEs still fail to comply with GDPR while their managers are confused about basic data security concepts, like data stewardship, encryption, and secure communication. This presents a clear gap between cybersecurity- and privacy-related spending and its actual effect on personal data protection compliance.
SENTINEL aspires to bridge this gap by boosting SMEs/MEs capabilities in this domain through innovation, at a cost-effective level. SENTINEL will integrate tried-and-tested modular cybersecurity technologies with fresh, ambitious ones, such as a novel Identity Management System for human-centric data portability, enabling a unified “European Data Space” and an end-to-end digital personal data protection compliance self-assessment framework for SMEs, into a unified digital architecture. The data from these modules will then undergo disruptive Intelligence for Compliance through SENTINEL’s digital core, featuring machine learning-powered recommendations, policy drafting & enforcement for compliance, and a ‘one-stop-shop incident response center. Combined with a well-researched methodology for application, an open knowledge-sharing hub, and a wide-reaching plan for experimentation, SENTINEL will catalyze the adoption of market-leading security tech among SMEs/MEs and help safeguard their and their customers’ assets.
Early Dynamic Screening for Colorectal Cancer via Novel Protein Biomarkers Reflecting Biological Initiation Mechanisms (DIOPTRA)
Funding source: EU Horizon 2021 Programme: 01/01/2023 – 31/12/2026
Project website: http://www.dioptra-project.eu/
Overview: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common cancer in men and second most common in women, accounting for 10% of all tumors worldwide, whereas it is the second most common cause of death-related cancers. DIOPTRA aims to introduce a front-line screening tool that will consider risk factors and protein biomarkers for pinpointing individuals at high risk for CRC incidence. Tissue & blood samples will be examined towards a discriminative set of prognostic proteins that are detectable via standard bloodwork and can indicate a need for further evaluation (i.e. colonoscopy). Other data (e.g. medical, behavioural) will also be considered as potential risk factors. Artificial intelligence (AI) will be leveraged for assessing prognostic power, while personalised behavioural change will be promoted based on modifiable risk factors. Given the low citizen participation in CRC screening across the European Union, DIOPTRA seeks to broaden the evaluated population, boosting participation rates and bypassing age screening thresholds.