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EU project on Trustworthy ICT
TeleTrusT participates in EU project application on Trustworthy ICT
"European Transnational Information Security Cooperation ETISC - Application for a Coordination Action under the FP7 Cooperation Work Programme: Information and Communication Technologies ICT (Call 5 Objective ICT-2009.1.4: Trustworthy ICT)"
TeleTrusT joins a common project application in the area of trustworthy ICT together with its Belgium partner organization LSEC and further associations and institutions from Estonia, France, The Netherlands, Poland, Spain and UK.
This proposal is an opportunity to further capitalise on the world-class research already happening in the EU in the field of Trustworthy ICT and information security. The initiative aims to coordinate security research through the cooperation of a number of national information IT security associations into the European Transnational Information Security Cooperation (“ETISC”).
ETISC:
ETISC is a unique coordination action as it unites the biggest European Information Security not for profit associations (national security clusters) representing Germany, UK, France, Spain, Poland, Belgium, and the Netherlands. These associations embody over 500 companies active in the domain of trustworthy ICT in Europe and have together over 50 years of experience in these activities. The clusters are already established, well-known and have proven their value at national level. They specialise in trustworthy ICT and information security and have strong ties with both the academia and the industry. ETSIC will ensure the value of these associations is realised at EU level. On a daily basis, they bring together academic research, industry innovation and the development of SME’s, on a local basis. With this initiative, these associations want to contribute to the coordination of Trustworthy ICT research in Europe, by pro-actively using their wide membership basis to reach out to security researchers, security competence centers, industry and governments in their countries. The main goals of this action are to coordinate national security clusters and therefore strengthen the European research community and facilitate technology transfers by improving relationships between the research community and security industry in Europe.
To achieve this, the project will create an inventory of IT security research activities in the domain, map this with the demand for research by the Industry and open the debate with the national or regional IT security research roadmaps. During three conferences and a series of workshops over the next two years, this inventory and market study will be discussed at length. During match making activities and definition of specific themes, people and their respective organizations will be coordinated towards common goals. European and local actors will be able to find their peers. Industry and government will be able to find field experts and influence research to facilitate know-how transfer. The results of the findings will be used to influence the greater European public towards the use of more trustworthy ICT.