University Partners 

City University of London (CUL) The City University is based close to the City of London, where it contributes significantly to the capital's academic, cultural and business life. City's research in the area of Computing is carried out in the School of Informatics, the largest department of which is the Department of Computing that participates in SERENITY. The department conducts research, education and technology transfer in computing with a focus on service oriented computing and software systems, intelligent and autonomic systems, biocomputing, and intelligent sound and music systems. More specifically, the Software Engineering Group of the department has long standing expertise and active research activities related to the management of inconsistencies in software systems using both static and run-time verification techniques; systems requirements management and traceability; and service oriented and component-based software systems engineering. It has also active research activities in the area of security which focus on the run-time verification of security requirements. ► Visit the web site at: www.city.ac.uk ► View the biography of Pr George Spanoudakis

CN RFID The CNRFID (Centre National de Référence RFID) has been created to promote the development of applications for this new technology in "facilitating" appropriation by the users of radio frequency identification and tracking technologies (RFID) as well as techniques, best practices and systems that use them. The Center will focus on applications of tracking and identifying objects and animals by radio-frequency.  ► Visit the web site at: www.centrenational-rfid.com

 

INRIA INRIA, the French national institute for research in computer science and control, operating under the dual authority of the Ministry of Research and the Ministry of Industry, is dedicated to fundamental and applied research in information and communication science and technology (ICST). The Institute also plays a major role in technology transfer by fostering training through research, diffusion of scientific and technical information, development, as well as providing expert advice and participating in international programs. By playing a leading role in the scientific community in the field and being in close contact with industry, INRIA is a major participant in the development of ICST in France. Throughout its eight research centres in Rocquencourt, Rennes, Sophia Antipolis, Grenoble, Nancy, Bordeaux, Lille and Saclay, INRIA has a workforce of 3 800, 2 800 of whom are scientists from INRIA and INRIA's partner organizations such as CNRS (the French National Center for Scientific Research), universities and leading engineering schools. They work in 150 joint research project-teams. Many INRIA researchers are also professors and approximately 1 000 doctoral students work on theses as part of INRIA research project-teams. INRIA develops many partnerships with industry and fosters technology transfer and company foundation in the field of ICST - some ninety companies have been founded with the support of INRIA-Transfert, a subsidiary of INRIA, specialized in guiding, evaluating, qualifying, and financing innovative high-tech IT start-up companies. INRIA is involved in standardization committees such as the IETF, ISO and the W3C of which INRIA was the European host from 1995 to 2002.INRIA maintains important international relations and exchanges. In Europe, INRIA is a member of ERCIM which brings together research institutes from 19 European countries. INRIA is a partner in about 120 FP6 actions and 40 FP7 actions, mainly in the ICST field. INRIA also collaborates with numerous scientific and academic institutions abroad (joint laboratories such as LIAMA, associated research teams, training and internship programs). ► Visit the web site at: www.inria.fr ► View the biography of Pierre Paradinas

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL) K.U.Leuven is the largest Belgian academic institution and one of the oldest European universities. The Interdisciplinary Centre for Law and Information Technology (ICRI) is a K.U.Leuven research centre with activities focused on legal aspects of information technology and electronic communications and on legal information retrieval and legal knowledge systems. The principal areas of legal research concern electronic signatures and PKI, electronic archiving, e-government, electronic commerce, Internet content control, personal data protection and identity management, ICT contracts and -conflicts, ICT-related intellectual property rights and electronic communications. ► Visit the web site at: www.icri.be ► View the biography of Pr Dr Jos Dumortier

SANS Institute SANS is the most trusted and by far the largest source for information security training and certi!cation in the world. It also develops, maintains, and makes available at no cost the largest collection of research documents about various aspects of information security, and it operates the Internet’s early warning system – the Internet Storm Center. The SANS (SysAdmin, Audit, Network, Security) Institute was established in 1989 as a cooperative research and education organization. Its programs now reach more than 165,000 security professionals around the world. SANS provides intensive, immersion training designed to help you and your staff master the practical steps necessary for defending systems and networks against the most dangerous threats – the ones being actively exploited. This training is full of important and immediately useful techniques that you can put to work as soon as you return to your office. Courses were developed through a consensus process involving hundreds of administrators, security managers, and information security professionals, and they address both security fundamentals and awareness and the in-depth technical aspects of the most crucial areas of IT security. ► Visit the web site at: www.sans.org

SUPCOM - Ecole SUpérieure des Télécommunications de Tunis Founded in 1998 and placed under the tutelage of both the ministry of Higher Education and the Ministry of Communication Technologies, SUP' COM is an engineering school which has three objectives: - Training highly-qualified engineers, capable of conceiving, implementing and managing the services, the systems and telecommunications networks. - Contributing to the national effort concerning the scientific and technological Recherche in the field of Information and Communication Technologies. - The vocational training of the senior managers in the field of ICT. ► Visit the web site at: www.supcom.mincom.tn/fr

TU Graz Almost 200 years of research and teaching in society’s service make Graz University of Technology one of Austria's most venerable scientific institutions. The University’s success throughout its eventful history has been based upon the achievements of outstanding personalities in science, research and their application. Richard Zsigmondy, who received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1926, worked as an assistant and an outside lecturer at Graz University of Technology. Names such as Herbert Eichholzer, Hans List, Otto Nußbaumer, Friedrich Mohs, Anna-Lülja Praun, Friedrich Schmiedl, Nikola Tesla or Ferdinand Wittenbauer account for the excellent reputation of Graz University of Technology in the past and present. ► Visit the web site at: http://portal.tugraz.at/portal/page/portal/TU_Graz

UCL University of Louvain-la-Neuve ► Visit the web site at: www.uclouvain.be

University of Lille 1 ► Visit the web site at: www.univ-lille1.fr

University of Malaga (UMA) The University of Málaga has about 40.000 students and the main technical degrees at the undergraduate and graduate levels that it grants are those in Industrial/Mechanical Engineering, Telecommunications Engineering and Computer Science. The research group that is involved in SERENITY is the Software Engineering Group (GISUM) that is part of the Computer Science Department in the university. The main activities of GISUM are related to Software Engineering applied to Distributed Systems. One of the most active lines in the group is "Security in Distributed Systems and Applications". More precisely, the members of the security section are involved in research concerning different aspects of Internet security, with special interest in Security engineering, Electronic Notarization, Smartcards Applications, Analysis and development of electronic commerce protocols, Software Protection, Digital Rights Management, Access Control and Authorization and Digital Certification, among others. ► Visit the web site at: www.lcc.uma.es ► View the biography of Dr Antonio Maña Gomez

University of Nice Sophia Antipolis ► Visit the web site at: portail.unice.fr