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An EU integrated project

A 7.8 millions euros EU funded Integrated Project
SERENITY brings together software companies, application solution developers and research institutions. This consortium will be driven by the need for security and dependability solutions in e-business, e-government and communication domains. SERENITY is part of the R&D European Union’s Sixth Framework Programme.

SERENITY research theme, security and dependability in AmI systems, is included in the strategic line "Towards a global dependability and security framework", in the Information Society Technologies (IST) European research program. Under the authority of the European Commission, within the Sixth Framework Programme, SERENITY will receive a 7.8 million euros funding, among an overall budget of 13.1 million euros.

As an EU Integrated Project, SERENITY is a multipartner project designed to support objective-driven research. The primary deliverable is generating the knowledge required to implement the thematic priorities. SERENITY is integrated in the following ways :
  • technically, through complementary focus areas (Activities) addressed by strong research teams, industrially, through multi-sectors application partners who share a common vision for the potential of security issues,
  • managerially, through a strong management structure based on entrepreneurial practices,
  • internationally, with 15 R&D teams from 9 different countries,
  • personally, through strong existing working relationships between partners.
The general exploitation strategy adopted in SERENITY will be to release its open source results under a LGPL licence making it freely available to anybody in order to maximise its dissemination and build a SERENITY community to contribute to its evolution. This does not mean that other possible solutions will not be investigated during the project execution to see if during the project execution there will be the conditions and the market scenarios to adopt more suitable licences.

Dissemination
The SERENITY results will be iteratively made available to the community as soon as they are released according to the project plan and this will be announced in the Serenity magazine. With this approach it is expected to collect useful comments and suggestion from the whole community with the consequence to immediately start to build the SERENITY Community and meet the goal to become a reference point for the end of the project.

About Integrated Projects (IP)

IPs are multipartner projects to support objective-driven research, where the primary deliverable is generating the knowledge required to implement the thematic priorities. IPs bring together a critical mass of resources to reach ambitious goals aimed either at increasing Europe’s competitiveness or at addressing major societal needs. They contain a research component and may contain technological development, demonstration components and training component as appropriate.
Further information : http://cordis.europa.eu/fp6/instr_ip.htm

About the Sixth Framework Programme
The sixth FP is the European Union’s main instrument for research funding in Europe. Operational since 2003, FP6 aims to contribute to the creation of a true "European Research Area" (ERA). ERA is a vision of the future of research in Europe, an internal market for science and technology. It fosters scientific excellence, competitiveness and innovation through the promotion of better co-operation and coordination between relevant actors at all levels, in every members states.

To learn more about SERENITY, the consortium, its activities, to discuss with the partners and participate in this initiative : Forum Portal Website.
  

Structure & Management

Structure and management of the consortium

The members of the Serenity consortium are : Athens Technology Center (Greece), ATOS (Spain), City University of London (united Kingdom), Deep Blue (Italy), Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.p.A (Italy), Fraunhofer SIT (Germany), Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium), Telefonica I+D (Spain), SAP (Germany) , Security Technology Competence Centre (Slovenia), Strategies Telecoms & Multimedia (France), Thales (France), University of Trento (Italy), University of Aegean (Greece) and University of Malaga (Spain). [>>>] 

Approach & Methods

Automated provision in a layered approach

SERENITY differentiates security requirements and mechanisms at three basic layers : Business and organisational ; workflow and services ; and network and devices. The key to success is to capture security expertise in such a way that it can be supported by automated means. [>>>] 

SERENITY in Europe R&D Policy

SERENITY in the IST Vision

IST, Information society technologies, is one of the seven research themes of the Sixth Framework Programme. The sixth FP is the European Union’s main instrument for research funding in Europe. Operational since 2003, FP6 aims to contribute to the creation of a true "European Research Area" (ERA). ERA is a vision of the future of research in Europe, an internal market for science and technology. It fosters scientific excellence, competitiveness and innovation through the promotion of better co-operation and coordination between relevant actors at all levels, in every members states. [>>>]