The consortium includes partners from ten (10) European countries: France, Germany, Greece, Cyprus, Switzerland, Romania, Norway, the Netherlands, United Kingdom, and Israel.
Institut Mines-Télécom
IMT (Institut Mines-Télécom) is a major science and technology institute and a public institution dedicated to higher education and research. Always attentive to the economic world, IMT combines strong academic and scientific legitimacy with a concrete presence alongside companies. It offers training in engineering and management up to PhD level, and focuses on the major transformations of the 21st century: digital technologies, the environment and energy, industry and education. The IMT schools are ranked among the leading graduate schools in France.
The department involved in the project is the cybersecurity group at Télécom SudParis, one of the schools affiliated with IMT. The group is active in many aspects of cybersecurity, including privacy and protection of personal data, cybersecurity for critical infrastructures, networks and protocols security, and attack detection and mitigation. The group has participated in many collaborative projects at the French and EU level and coordinated several EU projects.
The Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH), established in 1983, is the largest Greek State R&D Centre. FORTH hosts six major Research Institutes. The Institute of Computer Science (ICS) has established an internationally acknowledged excellence in conducting basic and applied research, developing applications and products, and providing services.
AEGIS IT RESEARCH LTD (AEGIS)
AEGIS IT RESEARCH UG is a research and development company based in Germany developing and managing innovative IT solutions for numerous business sectors. It is based on a highly effective professional team consisting of talented researchers and top-class IT experts from all over the world. This team empowers the company with a strong, diverse skillset which helps AEGIS offer innovative products and high-tech business solutions to the market. AEGIS’ main areas of expertise include Forensic Digital Investigations, adaptive Big Data visualization systems, Geographical Information Systems, secure embedded platforms, access control and network security systems, privacy preserving systems, enterprise web applications and all the lifecycle of IT systems (design, development, deployment, optimisation and maintenance).
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FOR MARKET LEADERSHIP (ITML)
Founded in 2011, Internet of Things application and Multi-Layer development (ITML) provides novel, tailor-made software solutions based on a variety of technologies, such as big data analytics, advanced data mining and machine learning. ITML’s vision is to deliver products and services close to the real customers and market needs, ultimately improving the user experience and the access to technology. ITML solutions cover a very wide range of applications, including e-shops, e-learning, Business Process Management (BPM), or any other customized application. framework in HEIR project by leading the WP5 and the Tasks 6.2; Task 6.3 as well as will be involved in WP1 and WP2 activities.
Stelar Security Technology Law Research UG
Stelar Security Technology Law Research UG (haftungsbeschränkt) is an organisation established in Hamburg (Germany) that aims to promote education and research through the implementation of research projects and scientific courses and the award of research contracts. In particular, the organisation is specialised in the “privacy by design” approach to new security technologies and other ICT. STELAR was founded as a spin-off of an integrated project funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Science within its Framework Programme Research for Civil Security.
Sphynx Technology Solutions AG
Sphynx Technology Solutions AG is based at Zug, Switzerland and has also offices in Cyprus and London. The company offers products and solutions, and consulting services, in the areas of cyber intelligence, analytics, incident response, assurance and certification. The technologies offered by Sphynx include sophisticated event processing and analytics, security monitoring and testing, intrusion detection, fraud management, and incident response. Sphynx deploys off-the-shelf hardware components along with its custom software to provide tools such as its analytics engine, a threat-monitoring platform and a security audit and certification platform. Via its consulting services, Sphynx has expertise in providing customized solutions depending on client needs as well as more general training on analytics, security assessment and certification and cyber intelligence.
Bitdefender
Bucharest-based Bitdefender (BD), is a Romanian large company and the creator of one of the world’s fastest and most effective lines of internationally certified internet security software. The company is an industry pioneer, introducing and developing award-winning protection since 2001.
IBM ISRAEL - SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LTD (IBM)
The IBM Haifa Research Lab (IBM) is IBM's largest research laboratory outside of the United States, employing almost 500 researchers. Since its founding in 1972, HRL has conducted world class research vital to IBM's success. R&D projects are being executed today in areas such as Cognitive computing, Healthcare and Life Sciences, Verification Technologies, Telco, Machine Learning, Cloud Computing, Multimedia, Active Management, Information Retrieval, Programming Environments and Information and Cyber Security. The Cloud Security and Quality Department of the IBM Research Haifa includes researchers in the fields of cyber security and privacy. The Computing as a Service Department develops advanced tools and technologies spanning the entire spectrum of Cloud infrastructure, Functional Verification, Code Analysis, Cyber Security and Compliance.
IASO PRIVATE GENERAL
IASO is the leading Maternity Clinic in Greece and one of the most modern in Europe, with more than 9000 childbirths, thousands of OBGYN operations, millions of diagnostic tests per year. Established in 1996, It is a state-of-the-art Gynecological Center working consciously on women’s health. It represents one of the biggest Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICU) in Europe, with four sections and 80 beds with modern infrastructure. IASO is staffed by experienced, world-renowned clinicians and highly trained nursing staff Infrastructure is set up of cutting-edge medical devices.
WELLICS ltd
Wellics Limited sparked as an initiative in 2016, when our data analytics and technology backgrounds met our passion for driving balanced lifestyles in the search for wellness. Improving people’s lives through the seamless interaction with technology and data science is what drives us. We make things simple and meaningful to create value.
Our expertise is a blend of software engineering, data analytics, health services and product innovation. Our activities are supported by an extensive network of wellness and health experts and leverages tens of experience-years both in industry and academia. Our products are simple and smart. They provide actionable, personalized insights by integrating data and profiling information through data analytics, mobile applications and a digital marketplace that seamlessly interact to generate value. We serve corporates, researchers, wellness and health experts. Most importantly we serve everyone who takes self-improvement and quality of life seriously and wants a personal digital coach with them at all times.
Croydon Health Services NHS Trust
Croydon Health Services NHS Trust is a large organization within the NHS in the UK. It is based in South West London and covers the borough of Croydon. It is unique in forwards thinking: not only did it become an integrated organization, merging community and acute services, but it is moving to becoming an ecosystem covering all the borough. In this regard the appointment of a joint Chief Executive for acute commissioning Group, as well as for the Trust, means that the organization is responsible for both provision and purchasing of services for the local population of Croydon – some 380,000 individuals.
Also, as part of the One Croydon Alliance, it now works closely with social care within Croydon: to provide a more holistic approach to overall patient care. As part of the NHS mandate to improve patient care, the Trust is involved in large number of research projects, both self-funding as well as grant supported. There is an active R&D office that helps to oversee over 50 open research projects on site. Majority form part of the NHS Clinical Research Portfolio of projects, managed by the clinical research network of south London: Croydon is a member of that network. Furthermore, the Trust has been involved in several high profile Grants: (Welcome as part of the EU FY7 programme, Aegle as part of Horizon 2020 programme; FIT study from Cancer Alliance; Optimal from Innovate UK to name but a few.) The Trust has an active IT department and have, within the previous projects, been involved in the transfer of electronic patient data, as well as Big data analytics.
PANEPISTIMIAKO GENIKO NOSOKOMEIO IRAKLEIOU
Panepistimiako Geniko Nosokomeio Irakleiou - PAGNI (University General Hospital of Heraklion) is the largest hospital facility in Crete and one of the largest public hospitals in the country, with 760 beds and more than 1900 employees. It provides secondary and tertiary health care in the prefecture of Heraklion and also takes referrals from the other prefectures of Crete (Small health centers in the region) and the Aegean Islands including Santorini and the Dodecanese. Due to its geopolitical position PAGNI is the leading provider of highly specialized healthcare services in southern Greece treating more than 430,00 patients in 2017 in its 33 departments and units, many of which are highly acknowledged centers.
UNIVERSITETSSYKEHUSET NORDNORGE HF
The Norwegian Centre for E-health Research (NSE) is a Centre at the University Hospital of Northern Norway. The Norwegian competence centre for telemedicine (NST) changed in January 2016 into a national research centre, the Norwegian Centre for E-health Research and was created 1st January 2016, with the objective of contributing to a common national ICT solution for health and care services. Building upon the experiences and achievements of NST through more than two decades, the new research and assessment centre will collect, produce and communicate knowledge required by the authorities to develop a knowledge-based policy on e-health. The Norwegian Centre for E-health Research work with the Norwegian Directorate of E-health and other stakeholders nationally and internationally to find the best e-health solutions for the sector. NSE is a WHO Collaborating Centre. The Centre has an agreement on an action plan (2018-2019) with WHO Euro and this project is relevant for several of the action points in this plan. The research spans these strategic areas: The future of patient records Personal health systems and welfare technology Health data analysis Patient pathways and cooperation models
Haraldsplass Deaconess Hospital
Haraldsplass Deaconess Hospital is the second largest hospital in Bergen and treats approximately 14,500 inpatients and 15,800 outpatients annually. One of the departments at Haraldsplass is the Norwegian Quality Improvement of laboratory examinations (Noklus). The key personell in this prosject works in this department. NOKLUS is a national non-profit organization. We aim to ensure that all laboratory examinations that are ordered, performed and interpreted will safeguard the patients’ needs for investigation, treatment and follow-up.
Noklus offers services to all Norwegian GP surgeries, hospital laboratories, nursing homes and other health care institutions. Noklus is also responsible for the development and day-to-day running of the Norwegian Diabetes Register for Adults. The Norwegian Diabetes Register for Adults is a Medical National Quality Register. Its main aim is to improve the quality of treatment for people with diabetes. The Register also provides data for research on diabetes and diabetes-related conditions. The Register collects data from general practitioners, specialists and hospital outpatient departments.
Siemens SRL SIEMENS is a global powerhouse in electric and electronic industry, a world leader in complex infrastructures solutions and an active provider of sustainable green technologies. Siemens Corporate Technology (CT) develop hardware and software systems and solutions, and a broad range of services for the entire field of information and communication technologies, acting as main driver of innovation inside Siemens.
SIEMENS CT Romania is a Romanian branch of these activities. CT has an extensive expertise and experience in all areas of software development, working for a large variety of sectors like energy, mobility and industrial manufacturing or services to mention but a few. Current research capacity and expertise of the department in Brasov (acting inside Siemens SRL, Romanian house company of Siemens) encompasses fields like Data Analytics and Monitoring, Constraint Based Configurations and Schedulers, Complex Event Processing, Remote Diagnostics Systems, Data Acquisition Architectures and Future Internet Technologies. The department acts at the global scale in Siemens Corporate Technology division, core technological house of the corporation. Due to this unique position, the group contributes in the large mesh of knowledge of CT experts, with large access to the EU funded projects where Siemens CT already contributes. From the local group perspective, the expertise offered is centered around some main research cores: Knowledge based systems (with a strong focus on Constraints Based Systems and the mix with Semantic technologies), Event Processing and Event Driven Architectures, Internet of Things in complete stack from device enablement and security, middleware up to predictive analytics, Multi-Agent Systems, Big Data analytics, Cloud Computing and Networking technologies, embedded systems, Intelligent Energy Grid Management or Cities Infrastructures.
Maastricht University
Maastricht University (UM), founded in 1976, is the youngest university in the Netherlands. It is rapidly expanding and has developed a strong international presence. UM is renowned for its unique, innovative, problem-based learning system, which is characterised by a small-scale and student-oriented approach. In 2013 UM entered the top 100 of the Times Higher Education’s (THE) World University Rankings (2013/14). UM participation will be through the Department of Data Science and Knowledge Engineering (DKE). DKE has been top-ranked in the demanding Keuzegids and Elsevier ratings over the previous years. With respect to both research and teaching, DKE is engaged in various national and international collaborations. DKE has its main focus on computer vision, machine learning, human-machine interaction, robotic applications, and cybersecurity.