Certification for Cybersecurity in EU ICT using Decentralized Digital Twinningcore
COBALT · Horizon Europe grant · 2023-11-01–2026-10-31
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About the data
Source: CORDIS (official EU open data), Horizon Europe. Framework HORIZON · call HORIZON-CL3-2022-CS-01 · scheme HORIZON-IA · topic HORIZON-CL3-2022-CS-01-04. CORDIS record →
Objective
COBALT proposes the introduction of a Common Certification Model (CCM) for European industries, leveraging existing standards and composing a unified cybersecurity namespace for ICT processes. The proposal will uphold the paradigm of Digital Twinning (DT) via the creation of Digital Threads and extend it in a vertical agnostic approach across different industries, including Quantum computing (involving FHG’s Quantum Computer) and I4.0. The COBALT DT will explore technology disruption mainly focusing on AI and High-Performance Computing (HPC) via the analysis and certification of Quantum Processing Oracles (a Quantum Computer exposure operation that is used as input to another algorithm), and how different enablers of these paradigms can be certified in a vertical agnostic manner. Quantum is destined to play a pivotal role in Europe’s AI and Computing sovereignty, thus protecting such infrastructure and its relevant processes (Quantum Oracles), should be of top priority.Along with common information models, COBALT acknowledges the importance of trusted information exchange a critical feature for an effective certification process across different industries, especially regarding cybersecurity. Therefore, COBALT will focus on the integration of International Data Spaces (IDS) primitives as a basis for the data sharing platform across different stakeholders. IDS currently proposes different models and procedures to share information and data across different spaces in a trusted manner between two parties, this can facilitate the process to build a trusted end-to-end certification framework across different industry stakeholders.Finally, COBALT aims to build a decentralized solution to further accelerate technology adoption and harmonization for the different use cases to be adopted. For the proposed CCM to function as a long term and sustainable European solution for certification, it needs to adapt and flex according to different environment conditions.
Beneficiaries (14)
| Organisation | Country | Role | EC contribution | SME |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NATIONAL CENTER FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ""DEMOKRITOS"""" | EL | coordinator | €504,375 | |
| FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG EV | DE | participant | €715,875 | |
| TUV SUD PRODUCT SERVICE GMBH | DE | participant | €547,575 | |
| BOSCH GLOBAL SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGIES GMBH | DE | participant | €460,893 | |
| UNIVERSIDAD DE MURCIA | ES | participant | €385,000 | |
| CENTRE TECNOLOGIC DE TELECOMUNICACIONS DE CATALUNYA | ES | participant | €349,000 | |
| EBOS TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED | CY | participant | €337,750 | Yes |
| UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE CATALUNYA | ES | participant | €325,000 | |
| ROBERT BOSCH GMBH | DE | participant | €302,750 | |
| RED ALERT LABS | FR | participant | €244,125 | Yes |
| ELLINIKO MESOGEIAKO PANEPISTIMIO | EL | participant | €230,625 | |
| INQBIT INNOVATIONS SRL | RO | participant | €209,125 | Yes |
| PRACTIN IKE | EL | participant | €201,688 | Yes |
| EUROPEAN CYBER SECURITY ORGANISATION | BE | participant | €182,625 | Yes |
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