| EU-Australia Inco-Trust Workshop held 20-21 May 2009 |
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On 20 – 21st May 2009, the next in the series of INCO-TRUST International Co-operation Workshops was held in Sydney, Australia. The workshop theme was Privacy, Trust and Security “On the path to European engagement”. The workshop’s Australian sponsors included National ICT Australia (NICTA ), Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO ) and Information Integrity Solutions (IIS ) with strong participation from multiple Australian universities as detailed later. The agenda of the workshop can be found here. The workshop was a dedicated opportunity for the EU to present the future work program in ICT Trust and Security (Call 5) and, in particular, the directly relevant international co-operation IN-CO Objective 9.2 : “Supplements to support International Cooperation between Ongoing Projects in Trust and Security”. This objective is aimed at supplementing international cooperation between running FP7 ICT projects (applicable to running Integrated Projects (IPs) and Specific Targeted Research Projects (STREPS) within ICT WP 2007-08 along with 'partner projects' funded by agencies in other industrialised countries including Australia that has an appropriate S&T Agreement with the EU. In order to fast-track the process of bringing together the projects between the countries, the ongoing ICT-FP7 IPs and STREPs were presented to the Australian researchers engaged in ICT Trust and Security research and the INCO-TRUST project will act as a “bridge” to further mutual cooperation between the countries. Likewise, during a round table session, the Australian researchers presented the projects that they are engaged including Trust and Security for Spatial environments and Peer to Peer, intelligent transport systems (vehicular and maritime), grid energy systems, resource frugal environments e.g., sensors, public safety recovery systems, content distribution, performance evaluation, formal methods for protocol verification, collaborative service and dynamic coalitions, amongst others. The well attended workshop included Australian researchers and program management from NICTA, CSIRO, IIS, Macquarie University, University New South Wales, University of Sydney, University of Melbourne, amongst others. Given the existing S&T agreement across EC & Australia, the meeting also resulted in the Australian researchers defining a consolidated approach to the Australian funding organizations such as ARC (Australian Research Council) to tangibly help facilitate EU-Australian projects. The follow up to the event will be the Australian researchers are to provide the project with a short summary of their profiles and project descriptions and these will be mapped and promoted to the relevant EU ICT-FP7 projects interested in availing of the supplemental Objective 9.2. |
