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

TU Darmstadt is Germany's premier Technical University and especially for Computer Science. Within the CS department, the DEEDS (Dependable Systems and SW) Group specifically targets research for the development, assessment and validation of systems, services and protocols as an infrastructural basis for trustworthy systems and services. The DEEDS group is internationally renowned for its unique composite coverage of dependability + security research and has garnered extensive ongoing support from the European Commission, US NSF, US DARPA, Airbus, Audi, Saab, Volvo, Daimler Chrysler, NASA, IBM, Boeing, Microsoft and Intel among others. The DEEDS group also leads the technical efforts for an existing FP6 IP on component based dependable embedded systems (DECOS) and as part of the Dependability/Security NoE ReSIST. The DEEDS prior EU involvements include dependability STREPS of NextTTA, FIT, Dbench, as well as extensive ongoing EC project review and evaluation activities.

Atos Origin is an international information technology services company. Its business is turning client vision into results through the application of consulting, systems integration and managed operations. The company’s annual revenues are more than EUR 5 billion and it employs over 46,000 people in 40 countries. Atos Origin is the Worldwide Information Technology Partner for the Olympic Games and has a client base of international blue-chip companies across all sectors. Atos Origin is quoted on the Paris Eurolist Market and trades as Atos Origin, AtosEuronext, Atos Worldline and Atos Consulting. For more information, please visit the company’s web site at http://www.atosorigin.com
Atos Origin sae (the merger between SchlumbergerSema and Atos ODS Origin) is the Spanish branch of this leader European IT services Company. ATOS ORIGIN is a founding member of the European Technology Platform NESSI (Networked European Software and Services Initiative) officially launched in September 2005 as industry’s commitment to cooperate on research and innovation in the strategic software, Grids, eServices and security sector for Europe. NESSI aims to define a strategic research agenda on software and services. At national level, Atos Origin is also participating in other technology platforms like eMOV for mobility, eSEC for security, PROMETEO for embedded systems and INÉS for software and services.
Atos Research & Innovation (http://www.atosresearch.eu), node of R&D of Atos Origin in Spain, is a point of world reference in innovation for the whole Atos Origin group. It is focused in the project accomplishment, which combine the most advanced Technological developments and the economic exploitation of results in R&D. Our aim is to lead our knowledge and experience acquired to concrete projects with clients.

Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (ENST) is one of France's leading graduate engineering schools in the field of Communication and Information Technologies. Its disciplines include all the sciences and techniques that fall within the term "Information and Communications”: Computer Science Networks, Communications, Electronics, Signal and Image Processing, as well as the study of economic and social aspects associated with modern technology. The school was founded more than a hundred years ago and is classed among the Grandes Ecoles d'Ingénieurs. Because of its high scientific standard and the extremely competitive admission procedures, ENST can be compared to the highest level engineering schools and universities that one would find abroad. The school produces about 250 state certified engineers each year. The school is publicly funded, with close links with a number of partner institutions: it is part of a federation of schools in telecommunications, called the GET (Groupement des Ecoles de Télécommunications) and a member of ParisTech, a multi-campus networks of nine graduate engineering schools, all located in the Paris area.