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Project kick-off meeting: FastPass
Border Guards must fulfil their obligation to secure the EUs borders against illegal immigration and other threats. Fastpass will serve both demands at the same time to keep security at the highest level while [...] From 30th of January to 1st of February the consortium members of the FastPass project met for the official project kick-off at AIT headquarters in TechGate Vienna. AIT coordinates the the EU-funded research [...] in the 7th Framework Security Programme, Markus Clabian (AIT Safety & Security Department) is head of the project. The consortium is comprised of 27 partners from 8 countries and will last for 4 years
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Europe lays Foundation for preserving digital heritage
is a four-year, €15 million project, co-funded by the European Commission to build and provide access to commercial software to preserve digital content. Members are: the national libraries of Great Britain [...] consortium known as the Open Planets Foundation (OPF) formed to tackle preservation challenge Covering everything from medical records to family photos, current estimates suggest that there are already [...] 100Gb of data for every individual person on the planet. With data creation set to double every 18 months, failure to adequately address the challenge of preserving this material therefore represents
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M2M World of Connected Services 2010
information and communications technologies today allows us to pursue totally new approaches for a modern health system. However, in addition to classical medical care, a new and fundamental importance is [...] This year’s conference from 14th to 15th of October follows last year’s successful networking event, which attracted attendees from nearly every European country, Japan and Hong Kong. The European population [...] and infirm comfort and security in their domestic environment. In this context Helmut Leopold, Head of Safety & Security Department / AIT Austrian Institute of Technology will give an insight into
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Cybersecurity Lecture Series 2014
must be able to manipulate, in order to remain undetected. This metric can be used as a benchmark for determining where security improvements should be made to make such attacks harder to implement. F [...] that form input to control algorithms, which are used to manage transmission systems in the power grid, could lead to instability. This research will be further explored, in relation to the control algorithms [...] attacker to manipulate the measurements that are taken in a power grid without being detected by the systems that perform bad data detection. He discussed a security metric that can be used to measure the
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Young European Associated Researchers (YEAR)
this last one is still to be decided, so don’t hesitate to send your inputs until 15 November to Caroline Lemeire, YEAR Chair at caroline.lemeire@vito.be.Looking further ahead to next year: In May 2014 [...] the next YEAR Workshop "from project idea to successful project proposal" will take place in Vienna. Once again, a YEAR Award will be given to the most promising participant. In September, in [...] successful YEAR workshop in Trondheim and a well-deserved Summer holiday, the YEAR Board is back on track to prepare the coming events. In November, there will be a seminar with the European Commission on Resource
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E-ARK gets £6M to save digital data
The European Commission has awarded £6M to archiving and digital preservation specialists to create E-ARK, a revolutionary method of archiving data that is set to become the gold standard across Europe [...] business opportunities for the access to and re-use of archival data by supporting Open Access to archival records and data mining of these records in order to find valuable trends and correlations [...] including ‘big data,’ are future-proofed. (Big data is data sets of such a size that it is difficult to manage with traditional software and databases.)Digital preservation specialists at the University
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EU SPARKS Stakeholder Workshop 2015
major goal of the workshop was to highlight to stakeholders the serious nature of the cybersecurity threat to smart grid. In addition, the consortium presented their response to this threat. The workshop concluded [...] cascading effects. The aim of this activity is to identify security gaps in current and future smart grid deployments. Security technologies will be developed to address these gaps, which will be evaluated [...] concluded with presentations from projects that are related to SPARKS: the EU-funded HyRiM project, coordinated by AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, is tasked with investigating novel risk metrics
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PRESS CONFERENCE ON SMART HOMES
the resident’s health condition to be monitored on a continuous basis. "New technologies enabling older people to live an independent life for longer hold the answer to one of the greatest challenges [...] focus is on enabling seniors to live safely, comfortably, and independently for as long as possible. Applications range from video chats and bathroom monitoring through to remote health monitoring. E-health [...] Austrians are over 60 years old. By 2030 this figure will have risen to 2.8 million. This makes it absolutely essential to create a modern living environment that meets the needs of older people,”
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Call for Participation: Industrial Surveillance Day
of surveillance. Additionally to submitting a paper to the industrial session of the conference, we encourage companies to demonstrate their products and/or prototypes to a broader scientific audience [...] will offer a demo/postersession and a panel discussion where companies will be given the opportunity to discuss technical challenges, application fields of end users and future trends with outstanding experts [...] audience. Date: Friday, September 2nd, 2011Venue: Klagenfurt (Austria), University Campus You are invited to submit a proposal of your showcase/poster by April 29th, 2011. The one page PDF document should contain
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Industrial Surveillance Day - Call for Participation
September 2011. Additionally to submitting a paper to this industrial session of the conference, we encourage companies to demonstrate their products and/or prototypes to a broader scientific audience [...] will offer a demo/poster session and a panel discussion where companies will be given the opportunity to discuss technical challenges, application fields of end users and future trends with outstanding [...] the field (Chief Technology Officers and leading engineers are the target audience). You are invited to submit a proposal of your showcase/poster by April 29th, 2011. The one page PDF document should contain
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Cybersecurity Lecture Series 2014
largely due to the fact that regulatory constraints have been overlooked in these works, and summarised the main paradigms and preconditions from European regulation, referring in particular to the conditions [...] talk by sharing advice that any well-founded approach to smart grid information security and privacy should consider these constraints in order to be actually applicable. The first Cybersecurity Lecture [...] largely due to the fact that regulatory constraints have been overlooked in these works, and summarised the main paradigms and preconditions from European regulation, referring in particular to the conditions
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eHealth 2016 - Call for Papers
from prediction to prevention”. Future ICT systems need to include methods of machine learning and predictive analytics in order to provide actionable information to health carers and to support preventive [...] platform for researchers, practitioners, decision makers and vendors to discuss innovative health informatics and eHealth solutions so as to improve the quality and efficiency of health care. A special topic
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AIT Keynote at GameDays 2014
and thus help to improve the effectiveness of the intervention. TV-based games are often oriented along traditional video games. External sensors like video cameras can be incorporated to provide direct [...] also be utilized to reassess the status of the user and monitor his/her training progress. Mobile devices and the large range of available body worn sensors offer the opportunity to design games around [...] daily and outdoor activities. By adding a social level to the games, competition and group efforts can be initiated, giving further motivation to reach a certain goal. Further information: http:
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PRISMACLOUD Video
methods to improve the security and privacy of cloud based services in a usable and accessible way. The main idea and ambition of PRISMACLOUD is to enable end-to-end security for cloud users and to provide [...] describing in simple words one of its innovations to improve people’s privacy when using cloud services. Specifically, in the video below is a new method to safeguard people’s data when stored in the cloud [...] provide tools to protect user privacy with the best technical means possible - by cryptography. To make this vision come true, PRISMACLOUD innovates in the fields of verifiable data processing and infrastructure
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Second European expert meeting for Patient Blood Management (PBM) in Lisbon
adverse outcome due to anaemia, blood loss and transfusion, change is warranted. To close the gap between theory and clinical practice in the appropriate management of patients and to reduce the use of scarce [...] Project, launched by the Consumers, Health, Agriculture and Food Executive Agency (Chafea) to provide service to the European Commission DG SANTE. The Meeting was organized by Peter Kastner and Helga Peinsold [...] le investments and administrative efforts have been made to improve the safety of donor blood. However, measures and structural adjustments to broadly pre-empt and minimize blood usage have fallen short
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The digital city of tomorrow
time the participants pointed out the need to address the vulnerability of connected services e.g. smart meters and to consider the privacy of customers and to take into account the threats post by dec [...] There are many open issues and research questions related to this development, from urban development, transportation and economic development to social services, healthcare, energy, public safety, education [...] ral datasemantic interoperability of the various data sources to allow a standardized processingopen data policies enabling communities to create low-cost services real-time systems for managing and monitoring
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YEAR Awards Go to Healthcare and Industrial Waste Upcycling Projects
practices to set up a European research consortium and to build up a valorisation plan were conducted by experts in the field from research organisations and industries. The second day was dedicated to the workshop [...] project ideas were presented by young researchers to win one of the two YEAR Awards of 5000€ each to establish their pre-project with other European partners and to attend an European Project Management training [...] ed by the participants were further developed in teams for a couple of hours and finally presented to the jury for the final selection of the two winning project ideas. Antti Iivari, VTT in collaboration
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TELEMEDICINE CARE AFTER HEART ATTACK FOR SUSTAINABLE THERAPEUTIC SUCCESS
e-medication. “The main future challenge will be to cope with an increasing number of chronically ill patients due to demographic developments. We are ready to accept this challenge and set the right course [...] transmitted to the clinic via a mobile phone app. The technology enables contactless data transfer, for example from the blood pressure monitor to the mobile phone without the patient needing to do anything [...] University Clinic on Wednesday, 4th of September. The project aims to improve the health condition of patients after a heart attack and to reduce the risk of recurrence and secondary complications. Persons
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Award for Digital Preservation Project
services and tools to help ensure long-term access to digital cultural and scientific assets. It established the not-for-profit Open Planets Foundation to provide the digital preservation community with [...] Executive of JISC to the PLANETS project. PLANETS brought together memory institutions, small businesses, major technology providers, and research institutions from across Europe to build practical services [...] recognising initiatives and individuals from around the world that have made an outstanding contribution to safeguard digital resources for the future. At the DPC’s Digital Preservation Awards, which took place
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CREDENTIAL kick-off meeting
meeting took place in Vienna, Austria where all partners got together in order to discuss about the implementation of the action and to define next steps and goals. CREDENTIAL is a EU Horizon 2020 funded research [...] level of security than other current solutions. The main idea and ambition of CREDENTIAL is to enable end-to-end security and improved privacy in cloud identity management services for managing secure [...] these services relies on the combination of strong hardware-based multi-factor authentication with end-to-end encryption representing a significant advantage over current password-based authentication schemes