European Projects.

European Digital Innovation Hub Cyprus - DiGiNN

DiGiNN is a one-stop-shop for all companies and public sector organisations, providing them an end-to-end experience in their digitisation journey; from coaching and mentoring by reputable experts, access to the most advanced infrastructure and facilities, support to find investments, to networking and access to innovation ecosystems. To achieve this, we gather the local champions in digital technologies, including all relevant Centres of Excellence, and partner them with both National industrial representation bodies and sectoral associations, establishing the direct interface between state-of-the-art offer and broad demand. Blending in are the most active incubators, whose mission is to nurture innovative start-ups in the early stages of commercialisation and support them in terms of upskilling, networking and accessing funds for further development.

DiGiNN brings together under one roof in a structured service framework, Cyprus’ leading expertise in Artificial Intelligence, High Performance Computing, Cybersecurity and other advanced digital technologies by engaging the country’s Centres of Excellence and organizations addressing the twin European Transformation having excellence at their core. DiGiNN is the only joint service provision platform of:

  • the national HPC facility and Coordinating Organization of the regional Teaming Centre of Excellence (CoE) for climate

  • both national ICT Teaming CoEs

  • the two big public Universities and the major Research Centre in biology and medicine

  • both country-wide business and industrial representation bodies, including all the national sectoral associations,

  • the most active inclusive innovation start-up ecosystem representatives and

  • the largest amongst the “big four” business and technology consulting firms driven by their Corporate Social Responsibility “New World, New Skills” commitment

  • complemented by six external partners bringing unique characteristics, value and specialisation to the DiGiNN community including the local business angels network

DiGiNN supports the whole digital transformation chain from awareness, ideation, proof of principle, and solution road-mapping, to prototyping, business start-up, pilot production, go-to-market and scale-up.

High-level objectives

  • Increase the SMEs’ digital maturity

  • Innovations with high market creation potential

  • Mobilisation of investment for digital transformation projects

  • More market-ready innovations

  • Increase in the uptake of advanced digital technologies by SMEs

  • The public administration – a catalyst for elevating productivity and competitiveness

Being a member of the DiGiNN Project Team of PwC Cyprus which is a member partner of the project’s consortium, aiming at providing Cybersecurity services.

January 2023 - June 2023

Bio Phoenix.

BIO-PHOENIX (Biologically Inspired omplex Software System Reconstruction at Near Extinction States) is a EU H2020 project funded by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie RISE action, has a budget of 1,324,800€ and a duration of four years, from July 2019 to June 2023.

BIO-PHOENIX aims to develop a fundamentally novel computational model for reconstructing complex software systems, following some massive internal failure or external infrastructure damage. Recovering system operations is a challenging problem as it may require excessive system reconstruction using a different infrastructure (i.e., computational and communication devices named system cells) from the one that the system was originally designed for. Thus, software functionality may have to be remodularised and allocated onto devices with very different characteristics than the ones originally used but with some generic capabilities.

BIO-PHOENIX aims to develop a bio-inspired paradigm for reconstructing nearly extinct complex software systems based on a novel computational DNA (co-DNA) oriented systems modelling approach. The co-DNA will encapsulate logic and program code and will enable the use of analogues of biological processes for ransmitting, transforming, combining, activating and deactivating it across computational and communication devices. The purpose of encoding the co-DNA of a system, and computational analogues of biological processes using it, is to enable other computational devices receiving the co-DNA to act as parts of the system that needs to be reconstructed, realise chunks of its functionality, and spread further the system reconstruction process.

The BIO-PHOENIX approach will bring a breakthrough in the current software system design and engineering paradigm. This will be through, not only a fundamentally new way of engineering mechanisms to support the resilience, continuity and recovery of software systems, but also the initiation of a new paradigm of designing and implementing software systems, based on the encoding of a system co-DNA that can trigger processes of selfregulated and incrementally expanding system functionality.

Being a Champion Member of the European Projects Team of Cablenet Communication Systems PLC which was a member partner of the project’s consortium.

July 2019 - March 2020

CE-IoT.

CE-IoT (A Framework for Pairing Circular Economy and Internet of Things) is a EU H2020 project funded by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie RISE action. The overall aim of  CE-IoT is to develop an innovative framework of interplay between Circular Economy and IoT. CE-IoT has a budget of 1,692,000€ and a duration of four years, from July 2018 to June 2022.

Our vision blends the paradigm of Circular Economy and Internet of Things to explore novel ways in which this interaction can drastically change the nature of products, services, business models and ecosystems.

The following figure illustrates the Value Creation as a result of new Business models and Supply Chains driven by CE and IoT.

Being a Champion Member of the European Projects Team of Cablenet Communication Systems PLC which was a member partner of the project’s consortium.

July 2018 - March 2020

IDEAL-CITIES.

AN ENABLER OF TRUSTWORTHY AND SUSTAINABLE APPLICATIONS FOR CIRCULAR SMART CITIES.

IDEAL-CITIES is an EU H2020 project funded by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie RISE action, with a budget of 1,611,000€ and a duration of four years, from July 2018 to June 2022.

The aim of  IDEAL-CITIES is to provide a novel, open and extensible platform to enable secure, resilient acquisition and sharing of information with the goal to improve the well-being and inclusivity of citizens, produce a more effective response to crime or other emergencies, and make Smart Cities feel more secure and safe to the citizens living in them.

Being a Champion Member of the European Projects Team of Cablenet Communication Systems PLC which was a member partner of the project’s consortium.

July 2018 - March 2020

On the basis of a market analysis, IDEAL-CITIES will form an exploitation plan assessing the potential availability and a strategic conclusion for each of the business imperatives of the Smart City Value Chain as depicted in the following figure.

CYBERSURE.

CyberSure (Cyber Security Insurance - A Framework for Liability Based Trust) is a programme of collaborations and exchanges between researchers aimed at developing a framework for creating and managing cyber insurance policy for cyber systems. The purpose of creating such policies will be to enhance the trustworthiness of cyber systems and provide a sound basis for liability in cases of security and privacy breaches in them. The framework will be supported by a platform of tools enabling an integrated risk cyber system security risk analysis, certification and cyber insurance, based on the analysis of objective evidence during the operation of such systems. CyberSure will develop its cyber insurance platform at TRL-7 by building upon and integrating state of the art tools, methods and techniques. These will include:

  1. the state of the art continuous certification infrastructure (tools) for cloud services developed by the EU project CUMULUS;

  2. the risk management tool of NIS enhanced by the NESSOS risk management methodology; and

  3. insurance management tools of HELLAS.

The development of the CyberSure platform will be driven by certification, risk analysis and cyber insurance scenarios for cyber system pilots providing cloud and e-health services. Through these, CyberSure will address the conditions required for offering effective cyber insurance for interoperable service chains cutting across application domains and jurisdictions.

Being a Champion Member of the European Projects Team of Cablenet Communication Systems PLC which was a member partner of the project’s consortium.

July 2018 - March 2020