The overall aim of CODECO is to contribute to a smoother and more flexible support of services across the Edge-Cloud continuum via the creation of a novel, cognitive Edge-Cloud management framework. To achieve this aim, CODECO proposes a unique, smart, and cross-layer orchestration between the decentralised data flow, computation, and networking services, to address Edge-Cloud challenges derived from the rising Internet and IoT service decentralisation.

The AI4Gov project is aimed at exploring the possibilities of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Big Data technologies for developing evidence-based innovations, policies, and policy recommendations to harness the public sphere, political power, and economic power for democratic purposes. The project intends to contribute to the research landscape that addresses ethical, trust, discrimination, and bias issues, and provide solutions to the challenges faced by stakeholders in modern democracies.

STAR is a joint effort of AI and digital manufacturing experts towards enabling the deployment of standard-based secure, safe reliable and trusted human centric AI systems in real-life manufacturing environments. STAR will research, develop, validate and make available to the AI and Industry4.0 communities novel technologies that will enable AI systems to acquire knowledge in order to take timely and safe decisions in dynamic and unpredictable environments. Moreover, the project will research and provide technologies that will enable AI systems to confront sophisticated adversaries and to remain robust against security attacks. In this way STAR’s solutions will eliminate security and safety barriers against deploying sophisticated AI systems in real-life production lines. The project’s results will be fully integrated into existing EU-wide Industry4.0 and AI initiatives (notably EFFRA and AI4EU), as a means of enabling researchers and the European industry to deploy and fully leverage advanced AI solutions in manufacturing lines.

PHYSICS empowers European CSPs exploit the most modern, scalable and cost-effective cloud model (FaaS), operated across multiple service and hardware types, provider locations, edge, and multi-cloud resources. To this end, it applies a unified continuum approach, including functional and operational management across sites and service stacks, performance through the relativity of space (location of execution) and time (of execution), enhanced by semantics of application components and services. PHYSICS applies this scope via a vertical solution consisting of a:
-Cloud Design Environment, enabling design of visual workflows of applications, exploiting provided generalized Cloud design patterns functionalities with existing application components, easily integrated and used with FaaS platforms, including incorporation of application-level control logic and adaptation to the FaaS model.
-Optimized Platform Level FaaS Service, enabling CSPs to acquire a cross-site FaaS platform middleware including multi-constraint deployment optimization, runtime orchestration and reconfiguration capabilities, optimizing FaaS application placement and execution as well as state handling within functions, while cooperating with provider-local policies
-Backend Optimization Toolkit, enabling CSPs to enhance their baseline resources performance, tackling issues such as cold-start problems, multitenant interference and data locality through automated and multi-purpose techniques.
PHYSICS will produce an Artefacts Marketplace (RAMP), in which internal and external entities (developers, researchers etc) will be able to contribute fine-grained reusable artifacts (functions, flows, controllers etc).
PHYSICS will contribute to open source tools and initiatives/policies (Gaia-X, Green Deal, EOSC, Eur. Strategy for Data), while validating the outcomes in 3 real-world applications (eHealth, Agriculture and Manufacturing), making a business, societal and environmental impact on EU citizen life.

LeADS research and educational program trains a new interdisciplinary professional figure that we call Legality Attentive Data Scientist or LeADS. An expert in data science and law expected to work within and across the two disciplines, a leader in bridging scientific skills with the ethico-legal constraints of their operating environment. LeADS will develop a data science capable of maintaining its innovative solutions within the borders of law – by design and by default – and of helping expand the legal frontiers in line with innovation needs, for instance, preventing the enactments of legal rules technologically unattainable. LeADS research will set the theoretical framework and
the practical implementation template of a common language for co-processing and joint-controlling key notions for both data scientists and jurists. Its outcomes will produce also a comparative and interdisciplinary lexicon that draws experts from these fields to define important crossover concepts. Through a broad, interdisciplinary, inter-sectoral network of academic and non-academic partners, LeADS will provide a cross-disciplinary training to ESRs who will work as (e.g.) data scientists or researchers in general, sales managers, project or general managers management at private entities (tech companies, consultancies and legal advisories) and public entities (research centres, universities and administration). LeADS answers to the lack of programs blending experiential learning and research in the area, offers an innovative curriculum linked to pioneering research results. It includes 6 interdisciplinary modules, sectoral courses; joint mentoring on individual research projects; TILL modules and Discussion Games to help ESRs develop pioneering soft skills; challenging secondments. Overall, LeADS research and training aims at changing the regulatory and business approach to information while training the experts able to drive the process that every data driven society needs to employ

The focus of iHELP is on early identification and mitigation of the risks associated with Pancreatic Cancer based on the application of advance AI-based learning and decision support techniques on the historic (primary) data of Cancer patients gathered from established data banks and cohorts. This analysis helps to (i) determine key risks associated with Pancreatic Cancer, (ii) develop predictive models for identified risks, and (iii) develop adaptive models for targeted prevention and intervention measures. Based on the identification of key risks and availability of respective models, the project selects high-risk individuals (from hospital records and other sources) that are invited to take part in the pilot activities or digital trials. The digital trials are carried out through user-centric mobile and wearable applications that apply proven usability principles to offer more engaging experience for health monitoring, risk assessment and personalised decision support. Close collaboration between clinical and AI experts focus on drawing decision support from the prevention and intervention models against identified/predicted risks and providing personalised recommendations (e.g. lifestyle changes, behavioural nudges, screening test etc) to the participants in the digital trials. In addition to providing the personalised monitoring, alerting and decision support mechanisms, the iHELP (mobile and wearable) technology solutions help in validating iHELP solutions and raising health related awareness at individual level. The (secondary) data gathered through the mobile and wearable applications (concerning life style, behavioural, social interactions and response to targeted prevention and intervention measures) is integrated with primary data in the standardised HHR format – within a big data platform. Frugal AI-based learning techniques are developed to provide near real-time risk assessment based on the integration and availability of primary and secondary data in the standardised HHR format. The availability of HHRs provide opportunities to validate iHELP outcomes (e.g. improvements in quality of life, reduced risks etc) through advance analytic functions. iHELP solutions also help in policy making by providing decision support and social analysis on the design of new screening programs and new guidelines for bringing improvements in clinical, lifestyle and behavioural aspects of the fight against Cancer.

DIASTEMA aims to both meet the needs of data and applications (which tend to be data-oriented) and to optimally meet those needs by providing an integrated infrastructure management environment consisting of six (6) cores:

The 1st core refers to the operating system that will be used for efficient and optimized infrastructure management. All decisions will be based on data, thus proposing the operating system exclusively data-centric, and not service-centric solutions.
The 2nd core utilizes the data-centered infrastructure management system in order to provide “”Data as a Service”” techniques in an efficient, effective and flexible way.
The 3rd core refers to the Data Visualization environment that goes beyond the simple representation of data and its analysis, leading to customizable representations in an automatic way according to the analysis of applications and the semantics of data.
The 4th core refers to the Data Toolkit, which allows the integration of data analysis functions and the definition of analysis techniques, while providing advice to the infrastructure management system on how best to perform such analyzes.
The 5th core refers to Process Modeling, which provides an infrastructure that allows flexible modeling of the analysis to be performed.
The 6th core refers to the Dimensioning Workbench, which aims at the dimensioning of applications to provide the required data services, their dependencies on the application micro-services and the necessary resources.

MORPHEMIC is a unique way of adapting and optimizing Cloud computing applications. The project is an extension of MELODIC which is a multi-cloud platform developed in the H2020 project. MELODIC is the simplest and easiest way to use Cross-Cloud.

PolicyCLOUD aims at delivering an integrated cloud-based environment for data-driven policy management. The environment will provide decision support to public authorities for policy modelling, implementation and simulation through identified populations, as well as for policy enforcement and adaptation. PolicyCLOUD technologies will aim at optimizing policies across sectors by utilizing the analysed inter-linked datasets and assessing the impact of policies, while considering different properties (i.e. area, regional, local, national) and population segmentations, in order to ensure high impact of the proposed policies. The PolicyCLOUD environment will realize an introduced holistic methodology for policies modelling and management based on data artefacts, while also providing a toolkit allowing both stakeholders and engaged citizens to create policies by exploiting the PolicyCLOUD models and analytical tools on various datasets, contexts and policy models. Moreover, the toolkit will allow stakeholders to specify their requirements and parameters to be considered during the collection and analysis of different datasets, thus tailoring policy making. Core to the environment will be the realization of interoperable and reusable (to different datasets, cases and scenarios) models and analytical tools that will utilize the data and analytical capacity offered by cloud environments. PolicyCLOUD will provide integrated reusable models and analytical tools, turning raw data into valuable and actionable knowledge towards efficient policy making. These tools will be applied through data functions across the complete data path realizing additional functionalities such as opinion mining, sentiment, social dynamics, and behavioral data analysis, while ensuring conformance to legal, security and ethical issues. Moreover, PolicyCLOUD will deliver a set of innovative technologies with an overall goal to enable data-driven management of policies lifecycle, from their modelling and implementation, to optimization, compliance monitoring, adaptation and enforcement. To this end, PolicyCLOUD provides a holistic solution for evidence-based policy making. It enables collection of data from different types of sources, modelling and interoperability of data to increase their potential use in cross-sector scenarios, as well as analytics to obtain insights. These core data-oriented offerings will facilitate the incorporation in the policy design process of all datasets. On top of this, PolicyCLOUD amplifies the effectiveness of policies by introducing the concept of policies collections in order to utilize policies within and across sectors and compile collective knowledge that can be exploited to identify the overcomed limitations, identify the most effective decisions and propose adaptations of policies (i.e. strategies that have impact to be “replicated” in different sectors, areas, or target populations, and accordingly others to be avoided).