Consortium

Organisation Description

Atos Re­search & In­no­va­tion (ARI), node of R&D at Atos Ori­gin S.a.e, is an in­no­va­tion ref­er­ence point for the whole Atos Ori­gin group. It fo­cus­es on pro­jects com­bin­ing re­search and de­vel­op­ment with busi­ness ex­ploita­tion of the re­sults. With­in the Con­sult­ing and Pub­lic Sec­tor busi­ness unit, the Atos Re­search and In­no­va­tion group con­cen­trates on in­ter­na­tion­al pro­jects that com­bine the lat­est tech­no­log­i­cal de­vel­op­ments with high aware­ness of hu­man fac­tors (ed­u­ca­tion sci­ences, dis­abil­i­ty-​re­lat­ed is­sues, cul­tur­al di­ver­si­ty, and mul­ti­lin­gual­i­ty).

AeroSpace and Defense Industries (ASD) is the out­growth of a merg­er be­tween AEC­MA, EDIG and EU­ROSPACE rep­re­sent­ing 32 as­so­ci­a­tions from 20 coun­tries across Eu­rope and more than 800 com­pa­nies that em­ploy near­ly 600,000 high­ly qual­i­fied peo­ple. Thus ASD rep­re­sents a sig­nif­i­cant share of EU in­dus­tries at the fore­front of tech­nol­o­gy, in­clud­ing the se­cu­ri­ty s. ASD is re­in­forc­ing its piv­otal role on se­cu­ri­ty is­sues, with re­gard to ES­RP and oth­er Se­cu­ri­ty ac­tiv­i­ties at the Eu­ro­pean lev­el, propos­ing the cre­ation and its di­rect par­tic­i­pa­tion to EOS (Eu­ro­pean Or­gan­i­sa­tion on Se­cu­ri­ty).

The Se­cu­ri­ty So­lu­tions and Ser­vices di­vi­sion has cre­at­ed There­SIS, a re­search lab­o­ra­to­ry ded­i­cat­ed to de­vel­op­ing se­cu­ri­ty tech­nolo­gies to pro­tect peo­ple, prop­er­ty and crit­i­cal in­for­ma­tion sys­tems. By play­ing a ma­jor role in the na­tion­al pro­grams launched by French au­thor­i­ties to mod­ern­ize the state, specif­i­cal­ly the tax por­tal and elec­tron­ic med­i­cal record sys­tem, Thales has ac­quired un­ri­valled ex­pe­ri­ence, mak­ing it one of Eu­rope’s fore­most providers of e-​gov­ern­ment so­lu­tions. There­SIS aims to con­sol­i­date and ex­pand this ca­pac­i­ty to man­age com­plex elec­tron­ic sys­tems used by mil­lions of cit­i­zens. There­SIS fo­cus in­to a num­ber of key ar­eas, start­ing with ar­chi­tec­tures for Web-​​based ser­vices (SOA, Peer2Peer, Grid, ICT con­ver­gence, etc.).

Stif­telsen SIN­TEF is an in­de­pen­dent re­search foun­da­tion based in Trond­heim and Oslo (Nor­way) em­ploy­ing around 1900 peo­ple. Con­tract re­search car­ried out by SIN­TEF cov­ers all sci­en­tif­ic and tech­ni­cal ar­eas, and ranges from ba­sic re­search through ap­plied re­search to com­mer­cial­i­sa­tion of re­sults in­to new prod­ucts and busi­ness ideas, for both the do­mes­tic and in­ter­na­tion­al mar­kets. SIN­TEF is rep­re­sent­ed in this con­sor­tium by SIN­TEF ICT, the de­part­ment spe­cial­is­ing in in­for­ma­tion and com­mu­ni­ca­tions tech­nol­o­gy. SIN­TEF ICT has ex­ten­sive ex­pe­ri­ence in in­for­ma­tion se­cu­ri­ty, and host­ed the Nor­we­gian Na­tion­al Cen­tre for In­for­ma­tion Se­cu­ri­ty (SIS) from its in­cep­tion in 2002 un­til the end of 2005.

The Fraun­hofer-​Gesellschaft (FHG) is Ger­many’s lead­ing or­ga­ni­za­tion for ap­plied re­search and un­der­takes con­tract re­search on be­half of in­dus­try, the ser­vice sec­tor and gov­ern­ment. Con­tract­ed by in­dus­try clients, it pro­vides rapid, cost ef­fec­tive and im­me­di­ate­ly ap­pli­ca­ble so­lu­tions to tech­ni­cal and or­ga­ni­za­tion­al prob­lems. With­in the frame­work of the Eu­ro­pean Union's tech­nol­o­gy pro­grams, the Fraun­hofer-​Gesellschaft is ac­tive­ly in­volved in in­dus­tri­al con­sor­tiums pur­su­ing tech­ni­cal so­lu­tions to im­prove Eu­ro­pean in­dus­try’s com­pet­i­tive­ness.

The Na­tion­al In­sti­tute of Aerospace Tech­nol­o­gy (IN­TA) is a non-​​prof­it or­ga­ni­za­tion spe­cial­ized in aerospace re­search and tech­no­log­i­cal de­vel­op­ment. The in­sti­tute pro­vides tech­ni­cal as­sess­ments to au­thor­i­ties and na­tion­al in­dus­try. Its aerospace ac­tiv­i­ties pur­sue three main di­rec­tions: R&D ac­tiv­i­ties of de­fense in­ter­est; R&D ac­tiv­i­ties in the civil­ian sec­tor, specif­i­cal­ly tech­nolo­gies un­der the am­bit of the Min­istry of De­fense’s R&D plan, the na­tion­al RD&I plan and the Eu­ro­pean Union’s frame­work pro­grams; and Na­tion­al and in­ter­na­tion­al test­ing, ex­per­i­men­ta­tion, cer­ti­fi­ca­tion and tech­ni­cal sup­port ac­tiv­i­ties.

El­sag Data­mat is the new busi­ness con­cern es­tab­lished to act as a cen­tre of ex­cel­lence for the de­sign and pro­duc­tion of sys­tems, ser­vices and so­lu­tions in au­toma­tion, se­cu­ri­ty, trans­port, de­fence & space, in­for­ma­tion tech­nol­o­gy. Re­sult­ing from the in­te­gra­tion of El­sag and Data­mat in 2007, El­sag Data­mat is a com­pa­ny in Fin­mec­ca­ni­ca group, one of the world's lead­ing in­dus­tri­al con­glom­er­ates.
The pro­fes­sion­al skills of 4,000 em­ploy­ees, tech­nol­o­gy, know-​​how, the ca­pac­i­ty to op­er­ate in crit­i­cal con­texts, and an in­no­va­tive ap­proach demon­strat­ed by con­stant in­vest­ment in Re­search & De­vel­op­ment, are just some of the dis­tinc­tive fea­tures de­vel­oped over more than a cen­tu­ry in busi­ness. The abil­i­ty to iden­ti­fy prob­lems and de­sign so­lu­tions, com­bined with skills and ex­pe­ri­ence in me­chan­i­cal and in­for­ma­tion tech­nol­o­gy, put El­sag Data­mat in the ide­al po­si­tion to de­vel­op new prod­ucts and sys­tems as it works to achieve its goal of Ital­ian lead­er­ship and glob­al recog­ni­tion on ref­er­ence mar­kets.
El­sag Data­mat has many years' ex­pe­ri­ence work­ing in De­fence and Se­cu­ri­ty sec­tors on the de­vel­op­ment of com­plex sys­tems for Ital­ian and in­ter­na­tion­al pro­grammes, as part of lead­ing in­dus­tri­al con­sor­tia and in the frame­work of co­op­er­a­tion agree­ments with Ital­ian and in­ter­na­tion­al in­sti­tu­tions, in­clud­ing the Ital­ian Min­istry of De­fence, Na­tion­al Po­lice Forces and the Eu­ro­pean Com­mis­sion.
El­sag Data­mat works in all De­fence sec­tors in which in­for­ma­tion tech­nol­o­gy is a strate­gic, em­pow­er­ing fac­tor: com­bat man­age­ment, mis­sion plan­ning, lo­gis­tics, sim­u­la­tion and train­ing. On the Se­cu­ri­ty side, the com­pa­ny can sat­is­fy the spe­cial pro­tec­tion needs of large-​​scale crit­i­cal in­fras­truc­ture sys­tems in Pub­lic Ad­min­is­tra­tion, Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Agen­cies, Po­lice Forces, Trans­port.

Aso­ciación de Em­pre­sas de Elec­trónica, Tec­nologías de la In­for­ma­ción y Tele­co­mu­ni­ca­ciones de Es­paña (AET­IC) is com­posed of more than 1,000 as­so­ci­at­ed com­pa­nies from the sec­tor, which con­duct in­dus­tri­al ac­tiv­i­ty or pro­vide elec­tron­ics and telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions ser­vices with­in Spain or oth­er EC coun­tries. Be­tween 70 and 80% of these com­pa­nies are SME. AET­IC main­ly con­cen­trates of net­work­ing, gath­er­ing in­for­ma­tion and dis­sem­i­na­tion.
AET­IC has ex­ten­sive ex­pe­ri­ence with tech­no­log­i­cal plat­forms. In 2005 it launched four na­tion­al tech­no­log­i­cal plat­forms: eN­EM, eMOV, eISI and eS­EC, suc­cess­ful­ly or­ga­niz­ing the con­cert­ed col­lab­o­ra­tion of all the Span­ish en­ti­ties work­ing in each of these fields. So far, over one hun­dred na­tion­al or­ga­ni­za­tions have joined each of the plat­forms. eS­EC now con­sists of more than 140 en­ti­ties or­ga­nized in six work­ing groups. AET­IC al­so rep­re­sents some 700 SMEs al­ways bear­ing their needs in mind and striv­ing to im­prove them.

The Fon­dazione Rossel­li’s pri­ma­ry ob­jec­tive is to con­duct fun­da­men­tal and ap­plied re­search ac­tiv­i­ties in fields re­lat­ed to eco­nomics, so­ci­ety and pol­i­tics and in par­tic­u­lar na­tion­al and Eu­ro­pean pub­lic poli­cies. In ad­di­tion to its aca­dem­ic ob­jec­tives, the Fon­dazione has long played a role as a think tank for the prin­ci­pal Ital­ian and Eu­ro­pean gov­ern­men­tal in­sti­tu­tions for which shares its knowl­edge and pro­vides anal­y­ses. Pub­lic ad­min­is­tra­tion and pub­lic ser­vices, com­mu­ni­ca­tions and me­dia, tech­no­log­i­cal in­no­va­tion and com­pet­i­tive­ness, re­search and ed­u­ca­tion, fi­nance and cul­tur­al as­sets are the ar­eas of anal­y­sis at the Fon­dazione Rossel­li.

The Eu­ro­pean Or­ga­ni­za­tion for Se­cu­ri­ty (EOS) is run as a non-​​ prof­it or­ga­ni­za­tion and mem­bers have one share each with equal vot­ing rights. EOS al­ready rep­re­sents 25 Mem­bers from 11 Eu­ro­pean Coun­tries in dif­fer­ent sec­tors of rel­e­vance for the se­cu­ri­ty mar­ket. Mem­ber­ship is be­ing en­larged to in­crease us­er and op­er­a­tor rep­re­sen­ta­tive­ness and add SME as well as a wider num­ber of Eu­ro­pean Mem­ber States and As­so­ci­ate Coun­tries.
It en­cour­ages the cre­ation of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Plat­forms and es­tab­lish­ment of a Eu­ro­pean Net­work of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Plat­forms ad­junct to EOS to link­ing dif­fer­ent lo­cal/na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty needs and so­lu­tions in a wider Eu­ro­pean ap­proach. EOS al­so sup­ports its mem­bers and the Eu­ro­pean Com­mis­sion in the work of Eu­ro­pean Se­cu­ri­ty Re­search and In­no­va­tion Fo­rum ES­RIF by link­ing the de­mand side with the sup­ply chain and by sup­port­ing its ac­tiv­i­ty across sec­tors.