International Co-operation in Trustworthy,
Secure and Dependable ICT infrastructures

For those attending FIA Prague, please note another highly relevant and interesting event immediately following the FIA Prague event called Fair for Trustworthy ICT Research on 14 May 2009 in Olomouc (CZ), which is accessible via a high speed train from Prague. This event aims at bringing together people interested in ICT Trust an Security Research to discuss research issues, meet prospective partners and develop ideas for possible project proposals in view of the upcoming call for proposals.

The European Commission will be present to give the necessary support and explanation to prospective proposers.

Please find attached a leaflet about the event. Please visit the event website for more information, including agenda and registration details.

The FIA '09 Conference and Workshop of the Future Internet Assembly will be held in Prague on 11-13 May, 2009. One year after the "Bled Declaration" launching a European approach to the Future of the Internet, and the conference in Bled establishing the Future Internet Assembly, this conference in Prague aims to review the strategic orientations and trends governing the future societal and economic developments of on-line Internet and Mobile societies.

For the latest ongoing preparatory work by the FIA community, check out this workspace.  The conference on 11 May is open to everyone and free of charge! The FIA workshop on 12-13 May is by invitation only and will bring together the 94 projects which agreed to work jointly on the Future Internet under the framework of FIA.

If you are one of the invited projects, you can circulate this invitation widely within your project. However please note, that the conference organisers, CESNET, has made arrangements to welcome up to 3 representatives per project. They must be duly registered prior to the event at the conference website.

For those attending FIA Prague, please note another highly relevant and interesting event immediately following the FIA Prague event called Fair for Trustworthy ICT Research on 14 May 2009 in Olomouc (CZ), which is accessible via a high speed train from Prague. This event aims at bringing together people interested in ICT Trust an Security Research to discuss research issues, meet prospective partners and develop ideas for possible project proposals in view of the upcoming call for proposals.

The European Commission will be present to give the necessary support and explanation to prospective proposers.

Please find attached a leaflet about the event. Please visit the event website for more information, including agenda and registration details.

 An ITU-T Workshop on "New challenges for Telecommunication Security Standardizations" was held in Geneva, Switzerland on the 9 - 10th of February 2009. One of the sessions dealt with Secure applications (Session 4) and dealt with many topics of Security and the Future Internet. Session 4 was chaired by Dr. Heung-Youl Youm, Professor, Soonchunhyang University. Korea.

Professor Michel Riguidel represented the INCO-TRUST project during this session and his presentation can be found here. 

A link to ITU-T security workshop containing the all the presentations can be found here. 

A link to a side event on Information Security in WTSA'08 can be found here. 

The first International Workshop of the project is being held in Madrid, Spain on 31st March 2009 - 1st April 2009.

The workshop is an invitation only workshop whose overall theme will be International Co-operation in Trustworthy ICT Systems: Security, Privacy and Trust in Large-Scale Global Networks & Services. The Terms of Reference and the Draft program are available by clicking on Workshops in the left side main menu.

The “2nd EU-Korea Cooperation Forum on ICT Research” was held on Dec. 1-2, 2008 in Brussels, Belgium. It was co-organised by the European Commission (EC) (Directorate-General Information Society and Media; DG INFSO) and the Ministry of Knowledge Economy (MKE) of the Republic of Korea (ROK) with the support of the COJAK FP7/ICT project. An event report can be found here .

The Inco-Trust project was represented in a session on the Security and Trust in Networks and Services by Professor Michel Riguidel. A presentation made by Prof. Riguidel can be found here . 

Within Call 4 and Call 5 of the ICT work program (WP) 2009-2010, there is a new research Objective titled: "Objective ICT-2009.9.2: Supplements to Support International Cooperation between Ongoing Projects".

This objective is aiming at International cooperation between running FP7 ICT projects (applicable to certain instrument/projects within Trustworthy ICTs Work Programme Objectives: ICT-2007.1.4, 1.7) along with 'partner projects' funded by agencies in other industrialised countries that have an appropriate S&T Agreement with the EU or are member countries in the Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (IMS) initiative.

This objective provides you and/or your partners with an opportunity to engage in International collaboration activities by carrying out, in some of the technical areas of your project, joint R&D work with partners from other industrialised countries of the world. For this to happen, you would first need to submit a supplementary proposal that qualifies under ICT Objective 9.2.

DG INFSO Unit F5 Trust and Security has put together an Information package on Objective 9.2 consisting of the following:

1. Excerpts from the ICT WP text describing Objective 9.2 and from the Guide of Applicants on "Completion of Proposal Part B for Objective 9.2".
2. A number of slides briefly presenting Objective 9.2 and the instructions for preparing Part B of a proposal can be found here. Most importantly, this enclosure comprises some information on running projects and initial contact points in some other industrialised countries like the USA, Australia, Canada, Japan or Korea. The contact points from these countries in this enclosure are well aware of the Objective 9.2 and of the possibilities of cooperation with the EU.
3. Two EXCEL files with some more information on Security and Trust projects running in Canada and in Japan.

 ICT 2008 , Europe's largest research event for information and communication technologies takes place over 25 – 27th November 2008 in Lyon, France. The title of the event is „I“s TO THE FUTURE: invention - innovation – impact. The principle objective of the event is setting the ICT research agenda for the next ten years and addressing cutting edge topics as diverse as Europe's role in shaping the future internet, ICT's contribution to advancing the sustainability agenda and alternative research paths for future ICT components and systems. There are three types of opportunities to participate:

1. Conference;

2. Exhibition;

3. Networking Sessions.

If anyone would like to discuss INCO-TRUST during ICT 2008, please send an email to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it  

 During 6-7th October 2008 in Brussels, the 2008 Euro-Southeast Asia Cooperation Forum on ICT research took place in Brussels , under the aegis of the European Commission and of ASEAN and with the support of the SEACOOP FP7 project. As mentioned previously in Latest news, after submitting a proposal to SEACOOP, INCO-TRUST were invited to make a presentation on International cooperation activities sponsored by the EU at a Thematic session entitled Future Networks. Both during the session and in the networking activities, a number of excellent contacts were made with SEA Industry and Academia engaged in ICT Trust, privacy and security research and development activities. The presentation can be found here.

 On 16th September 2008, INCO-TRUST participated to the EuroTRUSTAmI’08 - European Research towards Trusted Ambient intelligence 2nd European Workshop. Co-organised by the  SERENITY IST project and Strategies Telecoms & Multimedia , EuroTRUSTAmI aims at providing a comprehensive vision of the European Research Projects that deals with advancing the AmI vision and providing secure and dependable computing environments in a context of open, heterogeneous and dynamic networks. INCO-TRUST was one of the 22 European research projects related to Ambient Intelligence & Security issues that presented their objectives, progresses and results, and finally exchange views to outline long term IT security strategies for Europe. Additional information on the program can be found here .

In August 2008, Professor Neeraj Suri of TU Darmstadt, Germany took part in high level meetings with NICTA regarding an EU-NICTA cooperation grant that the Australian government is planning to implement for future collaboration. In addition, Professor Suri was a guest lecturer during the 2008 Winter School on Data Management & Data Quality held during 15-20 August 2008 at The Australian National University. Professor Suri's lecture was on Software/OS Profiling for Design and Assessment of Dependable Software (& OS's) .

 INCO-TRUST participated in the First Asia Future Internet (AsiaFI ) School on Architecture and Building Blocks held during August 25 - August 29, 2008 at the International Center, Cheju National University, Jeju, Korea. AsiaFI was founded in 2007 to coordinate research and development on Future Internet among countries in Asia as well as with other continents.

 The FP6 PRIME Project (Privacy and Identity Management for Europe) held its closing event in Leuven on 21st July 2008. The full day workshop had a very interesting set of presentations, panel sessions and demonstrations of the significant present and future ongoing work in the FP6/FP7 ICT areas regarding identity and privacy.  The full complement of slides from the Workshop are available here. An unofficial record of the Workshop can be found here.

 In April 2008, the INCO-TRUST project submitted a proposal to a consultation launched by the Support Action SEACOOP project. In June 2008, we learned that the proposal was accepted (out of 70 submitted) by the consortium to be “kept in view” and the proposers were invited to the 2008 Euro-Southeast Asia Cooperation Forum on ICT research in Brussels being held on Oct. 6-7, 2008, under the aegis of the European Commission and of ASEAN. According to their web site, “this visibility should provide an ideal opportunity to proposers to further elaborate their proposals through networking and exchange of information, and possibly transform them into proposals to be submitted to the next FP7 ICT Call (to be launched some weeks after the event)”.

The first INCO-TRUST visitation to Japan took place during the week 19 – 23rd May 2008. In addition to providing a keynote address at a session on International cooperation at 5th International Service Availability Symposium (ISAS 2008), the project members met with the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) and relevant JST sponsored research communities including the team research-based Core Research for Evolution Science and Technology (CREST) Program.

A full report of the mission can be found in the Visitations section of the web site.

The European Commission and the INCO-TRUST project  were invited to participate in a Plenary panel session on International cooperation at the U.S. National Science Foundation Cyber Trust Principal Investigators Meeting 2008 held 16-18 March 2008 at Yale University in New Haven, CT.

Jacques Bus, Head of Security Unit, DG Information Society and Media, ICT Programme of the European Commission and Neeraj Suri of Technische Universität Darmstadt of INCO-TRUST attended and made presentations.

The full NSF Cyber Trust web site, agenda and presentations can be found here.

INCO-TRUST were privileged to obtain a speaking slot in the upcoming 5th International Service Availability Symposium (ISAS 2008 ) being held in Tokyo on 19-21st May 2008. More details on the programme and summary of the INCO-TRUST presentation (21st May 2008 at 16:40) can be found here.

INCO-TRUST were invited to participate to the ICT-FORWARD Workshop held 17-18th April 2008 in Gothenborg, Sweden. ICT-FORWARD: Managing Emerging Threats in ICT Infrastructures is a Coordination Action project that started at the same time as INCO-TRUST and will have close links. The project aims at identifying, networking, and coordinating the multiple research efforts that are underway in the area of Cyber-threats defenses, and leveraging these efforts with other activities to build secure and trusted ICT systems and infrastructures. A summary of the INCO-TRUST presentation made at the workshop can be found here. INCO-TRUST are participating to a working group entitled Critical Systems set up during the Workshop. The final Workshop programme can be found here. A full report of the Workshop will be made available by the ICT-FORWARD project.

You will find an inaugural newsletter for the Inco-Trust project here »

In January 2008, the CISTRANA project, the European initiative for the Coordination of IST Research and National Activities, organised a seminar on ICT Trust and security. A number of the INCO-TRUST partners participated and the full agenda and presentations can be found here »