European Software Institute

ESI-Tecnalia is taking part in a European Project called DIYSE (Do It Yourself Smart Experiences) with other 40 international companies such as Philips, Thales and Alcatel-Lucent. The project has a budget of nearly 25 million euros and 7 countries are involved in it.

The aim of this project is to transform everyday people's life, no matter which technical skills they have, through the control of their environment. People will be able to create their own smart experiences assembling, sharing, controlling and executing their own smart applications. For this, users will be able to (re-)use, and (re-)combine devices, sensors, actuators, services and applications fragments available.

The main objective of this project is mainly to investigate different aspects related to device conectivity, ubiquity, service infraestructures and multimodal interaction. We hope the project results will be relevant in order to contribute to the Internet of the Future development as well as to achieve several socioeconomic advantages that will help to improve the Information Society.

Once per year, ESI gathers its commercial partners in Bilbao. More than 20 organisations all around the world came on the 7th and 8th June to the ESI@net 2010 Event from countries such as Colombia, Korea, Brazil, Spain, Bulgaria, Moldavia, Chile, Ireland, Portugal, Germany, Finland, Hungary, Denmark, Ecuador and Mexico.

The main goal of this annual meeting is to generate opportunites which will help the partners to redesign their ESI products and services commercial plan, and identify, multiply and discuss current and potential commercial opportunities with ESI staff members.

In order to achieve these goals, and to help them to update and improve their knowledge of how to sell ESI Products & Services, this year the event agenda included sales courses and practical workshops centred on key ESI products and services such as IT Mark, Information Security, Industrialisation of Software Production and Digital Ergonomics.

In addition, several networking spaces were created, like the Partner Fair, which made possible the generation of numerous new commercial opportunities. Finally, an innovative Talk Show also took place and the partners attended an interview with a strategic ESI client, participating in an interactive discussion about the origin and development of sales.

This 5th meeting is a perfect opportunity to:

• Get in contact with all companies network that take part in INES, both in public and provate sector.
• Exchange experiences of using, developing and integrating Software and Servicios in different fields.
• Keep informed about the platform activities and related initiatives either international and national.
• Explore national and international opportunities to implement its investigation scheme and innovation in Software and Services.
for further information please go to http://www.ines.org.es/node/1566

Apart from ESI-Tecnalia, this project, that started in 2004 and finishing in 2011 has as partners the following companies:

SPAIN:
ITA
Telefónica I+D
iSOCO
WARP Networks
GIGLE Semiconductor
ARANTIA 2010

FRANCE
LIP6-UPMC EtherTrust Ucopia

GREECE
InAccess Networks

TURKEY
Vestel Electronics

FINLAND
AALTO
There Corporation
Osumus
Screenpeak
Mohinet

Improving software security is at the heart of the SHIELDS ('Detecting known security vulnerabilities from within design and development tools') project, which received EUR 3.25 million under the 'Information and communication technologies' Theme of the EU's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). The project, which officially ends in June, has helped tackle the software security challenge.

Researchers from the European Software Institute work in SHIELDS project, launched in 2008. The team's approach has been to focus on the knowledge and communication gap that exists between security experts and software practitioners. By providing software developers with important information from sections of the industry, the aim for SHIELDS has been to prevent known security vulnerabilities from being inadvertently written into new software. New tools would make it easier and faster for security experts to deliver the information on security vulnerabilities, which would, in turn, help developers avoid, detect and remove them.

The solution for SHIELDS was to develop a shared repository of security information for all kinds of software security tools and methods named Security Vulnerability Repository Service (SVRS). The SVRS is the central element of SHIELDS services. Its main purpose is serving as an intermediary between security experts and software developers. It stores and manages complex interconnected security knowledge. In addition the team has designed two certification programmes for the industry: SHIELDS Compliant, and SHIELDS Verified. SHIELDS Compliant is for tools that are compatible with SVRS, and SHIELDS Verified is used for certifying that software has been checked for security vulnerabilities during the development process.

Within ESI work in this project the following organisations: Institut TELECOM/TELECOM SudParis (France), Montimage EURL (France), Fraunhofer IESE (Germany), SEARCH-LAB Ltd (Hungary), TXT e-solutions SPA (Italy), SINTEF (Norway), European Software Institute (Spain), and Linköpings Universitet (Sweden).

For further information go to: http://www.shields-project.eu/

Source: CORDIS News