ENCRYPT

A scalable and practical privacy-preserving framework
Project ID
Funding Organization:
Funding Programme:
HORIZON-CL3-2021-CS-01
Funding Instrument:
Research & Innovation Action
Start Date:
01/07/2022
Duration:
36 months
Total Budget:
4,392,540 EUR
ITI Budget:
400,625 EUR
Scientific Responsible:

The deluge of big data, accompanied by developments in software and hardware technologies leveraging them, has created new opportunities for research and industry. The main challenges, though, faced by researchers and service providers working with personal data, are stemming from the fact that these data need to be processed in a privacy-preserving way, as they contain sensitive information. Although several technologies have been developed to facilitate the processing of data while preserving privacy, they have not made significant inroads into real use cases, due to several reasons.

ENCRYPT will develop a scalable, practical, adaptable privacy preserving framework, allowing researchers and developers to process data stored in federated cross-border data spaces in a GDPR compliant way. Within this framework, a recommendation engine for citizens and end-users will be developed, providing them with personalised suggestions on privacy preserving technologies depending on the sensitivity of data and the accepted trade-off between the degree of security and the overall system performance.

The ENCRYPT framework will be designed taking into consideration the needs and preferences of relevant actors, and will be validated in a comprehensive, 3-phase validation campaign, comprising i) in-lab validation tests, ii) use cases provided by consortium partners in three sectors, namely the health sector, the cybersecurity sector, and the finance sector, that include cross-border processing of data, and iii) external use cases including privacy preserving computations on federated medical datasets.

CERTH leads the research and development of privacy-supporting technologies and the Use Cases implementation. More specifically, CERTH is responsible for the development of advanced data processing techniques required for the proper application of the Privacy-Preserving Technologies (PPTs) to be implemented by the ENCRYPT project and for the development of the User Interface (UI). In addition, CERTH acts as a Use Case provider by developing the necessary tools for the extraction of Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) from the available data, as well as for the correlation and enrichment of the extracted CTI.

Consortium

EXUS SOFTWARE MONOPROSOPI ETAIRIA PERIORISMENIS EVTHINISI, GREECE
ENGINEERING – INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA, ITALY
ETHNIKO KENTRO EREVNAS KAI TECHNOLOGIKIS ANAPTYXIS, GREECE
EIGHT BELLS LTD, CYPRUS
COMMISSARIAT A L ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES, FRANCE
TRUST UP SRL, ITALY
ARISTOTELIO PANEPISTIMIO THESSALONIKIS, AUTH
DBC EUROPE, BELGIUM
STICHTING KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT BRABANT, NETHERLAND
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI NAPOLI FEDERICO II, ITALY
SYNETAIRISTIKI TRAPEZA IPEIROU SYN.P.E., GREECE
JOHANN WOLFGANG GOETHE-UNIVERSITAET FRANKFURT AM MAIN, GERMANY
UNIVERSITAETSMEDIZIN DER JOHANNES GUTENBERG-UNIVERSITAET MAINZ, GERMANY
THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER, UNITED KINGDOM

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Contact

Dr. Ioannis Kompatsiaris
(Scientific Responsible)
Building A - Office 2.9

Information Technologies Institute
Centre of Research & Technology - Hellas
6th km Harilaou - Thermis, 57001, Thermi - Thessaloniki
Tel.: +30 2311 257774
Fax: +30 2310 474128
Email: ikom@iti.gr
Url: http://mklab.iti.gr


Dr. Stefanos Vrochidis
(Contact)
Building A - Office 1.4

Information Technologies Institute
Centre of Research & Technology - Hellas
6th km Harilaou - Thermis, 57001, Thermi - Thessaloniki
Tel.: +30 2311 257754
Fax: +30 2310 474128
Email: stefanos@iti.gr

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