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ExpectedOutcome:
Projects’ results are expected to contribute to some or all of the following outcomes:

Tools to support cybersecurity resilience, preparedness, awareness, and detection within critical infrastructures and across supply chains;
Cloud infrastructures vulnerabilities mitigation;
Secure integration of untrusted IoT in trusted environments;
Use of Zero-Trust architectures;
Trust & Security for massive connected IoT ecosystems & lifecycle management;
Secure interoperability and integration of systems;
AI-based automation tools for cyber threat intelligence;
Secure infrastructure, secure Identities and usability for a security chain covering communication, data collection, data transport, and data processing.
Scope:
The evolution of our interconnected society brings multiple layers of cloud, edge computing, and IoT platforms that continuously interact with each other. Yet this always-connected ecosystem populated with potentially vulnerable entities requires advanced, smart and agile protection mechanisms to manage the security and privacy of individual components throughout their lifecycle and of overall systems. The complexity of such interconnected environments underlines the need for the proactive and automated detection, analysis, and mitigation of cybersecurity attacks in cloud, at the edge, for OT, IoT deployments, and in application domains such as, for example, smart cities. Integrating end-to-end security and user-centric privacy in complex distributed platforms requires work to address security threats and vulnerabilities over the entire platform ecosystem.

The identification and analysis of potential regulatory aspects and barriers for the developed technologies/solutions is encouraged, where relevant.

Scope:

The overall goal of this Challenge is to advance technological developments of the light states in driven nonlinear systems and to develop novel platforms for chip-scale frequency combs.

This Challenge aims to foster skills, talent, and innovation in semiconductor technologies, specifically for using advanced materials and the integration of photonics and microelectronics in cutting-edge chips. This Challenge should lead to novel results deep-tech innovations for next-generation chip technologies that will enable new applications, providing strong competitive advantage for future innovative start-ups and SMEs that the EIC can further support towards scale up through its Accelerator scheme.

Scope:
Proposals submitted to this Challenge should focus on demonstrating novel devices, sensors or technologies that have a clear and quantifiable advantage with respect to one or several of the key issues mentioned above compared with existing alternatives for similar class of problems or applications.

In the medium term, the expected outcome is the commercial emergence of new class of environmental technologies that radically improve or solve one or several of the issues mentioned (i.e., reduce complexity, energy consumption, using non-critical, non-toxic raw materials or ensuring their full recycle/reuse). A business model, its initial validation and a business plan are also expected outcomes of the project.