SPARTA - Special projects for advanced research and technology in Europe
The SPARTA project, funded within H2020, brought together a unique set of actors at the intersection of scientific excellence, technological innovation, and societal sciences in cybersecurity. Strongly guided by concrete and risky challenges, it created setup unique collaboration means, leading the way in building transformative capabilities and forming world-leading expertise centres. Through innovative governance, ambitious demonstration cases, and active community engagement, SPARTA aimed at re-thinking the way cybersecurity research is performed in Europe across domains and expertise, from foundations to applications, in academia and industry.
The project gathered 44 participants from all over Europe with the aim of developing a competence net, identifying topics for future research, and creating innovative strategies for European protection from cybernetic threats. Our tasks were focused on training and raising awareness in cybersecurity and research into modern cryptography for the Internet of Things (IoT). Furthermore, we were also focused on digital identity protection, privacy protection, and personal data misuse. The main results we contributed most are publications describing cryptographic protocols for constrained devices (see e.g. Malina et al., ARES 2019, doi: 10.1145/3339252.3340503), software tools for cybersecurity curricula design, and strategic documents containing roadmaps for the European Cybersecurity Competence Centre, the official European cybersecurity coordination initiative. Our involvement in this project significantly boosted the research in cybersecurity and continues in follow-up projects such as the Cyber-security Excellence Hub in Estonia and South Moravia(CHESS, #101087529) or Network Cybersecurity in Post-Quantum Era (NESPOQ, #VJ01010008).
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