The SECREDAS partners individually and collectively attend many conferences and fairs in which the SECREDAS project and its intermediate results are presented. Currently more than 100 such events have been registered and the number is increasing fast. Below is a brief overview of the main consortium activities.
The EFECS conference in Helsinki was used to build up closer ties to several other ECSEL projects and to establish closer collaboration with the Lighthouse Mobility.E initiative. We also organised our first stakeholder session to collect input what the major Security and Privacy concerns are from both users and developers of high-tech automated systems as they become more and more interconnected. The key-note speaker was Gerard Doll, the director of vehicle regulation and admission for the RDW (The Dutch Vehicle Authority). The interactive workshop collected concerns from different stakeholders such as certification bodies, governments, end-users, manufacturers, tier-1 suppliers and discussed directions for future solutions. The results feed directly into the work done by the different work packages.
The November consortium meeting in Munich (4/12/2019) focussed mainly on confirming and aligning the cross-work package groups to ensure a smooth transitioning of technical results. The partners also received detailed information on the technical requirements for inclusion of individual components and systems into the three main field tests. Overall we witnessed a further increase in the
SECREDAS was presented at the upcoming EFECS Conference in Bucharest. This time not with its own booth, as focus was on the project’s own annual consortium meeting in June, but several partners were present to represent the project. A poster was shown in the exhibition hall.
The first SECREDAS Newsletter came out in May. The newsletter is published every 3 months and sent to all project participants. A copy of each newsletter will also be placed on the website.
With a consortium of – now – 73 partners, the completion of the project Consortium Agreement was always bound to take a while. However, we did it! Congratulations to all partners who did excellent work and showed real commitment and constructive thinking!
SECREDAS was well-represented at the 2nd exhibition stage of the European Forum for Electronic Components and Systems 2018 (EFECS 2018) conference in Lisbon. The conference was held from 19-21 November and focussed on digital transformation by supporting the development of technology solutions along the entire Electronic Components and Systems (ECS) value chain.
The SECREDAS booth, located right at the entrance of the project exhibition hall, attracted significant attention, even though it was too soon for the project to be able to show any demonstrators. Many of the SECREDAS partners also attended the conference and used the booth as a convenient meeting point to establish interesting contacts.
A very successful second SECREDAS consortium meeting took place at IMEC in Leuven. Through plenary sessions and specific outbreak sessions, the activities of the 69 partner organisations across the 11 work packages was aligned. The summer break initially caused a delay in the start of some work packages; the consortium meeting was there to mitigate any potential knock-on effects and to confirm a new timetable that will allow the project as a whole to remain on track. Other points of discussion concerned some changes to the WorkPlan following the departure of german partner CommSolid (due to lack of national co-funding). The General Assembly gave its approval to the accession of two new partners, Stackforce and Exelonix, who have agreed to take over most of Commsolid’s activities, with existing partner Senetics covering the rest.
The ECSEL SECREDAS project has been launched! Following successful contract negotiations with the ECSEL Office, the consortium of 69 partner organisations met in Munich on 16-17 May 2018 to discuss the project work plan and assign specific tasks and responsibilities. Over €51 Million will be spent in three years to develop reference architecture for Secure and Safe Automated systems compliant with the new GDPR Regulation.
In addition, on the 19th June the project was presented in Brussels. At this occasion, Bert De Colvenaer, Executive Director of the ECSEL JU said that “SECREDAS is one of the first ECSEL JU funded projects which looks at security, safety and privacy across multiple application domains. The new European GDPR- regulation provides the opportunity to develop future technologies able to answer to urgent safety, security and privacy concerns. The ECSEL JU programme demonstrates once again its flexibility to take up new challenges”.
