A group of 17 leading European telecommunications service providers, IT corporations, infrastructure vendors and academic institutions have launched “UniverSelf” a research initiative whose goal is to overcome the increasing complexity of managing communication networks and enable their future growth by generating innovations in autonomic networking – technologies that enable networks to manage themselves.

The UST+ project aims at the development of a semantically enhanced, context-sensitive middleware for dynamic interconnection and collaboration of services located on different devices.

SQC joined forces with an industry partner from the SME sector in the Vakoma project (validation methods for cost-effective, modular, industrial control systems) to develop decentralized modular architectures for control devices in compliance with IEC 61508, the standard governing safety requirements in electronic systems.

Within the VARIES project 23 partners from seven European countries work on maximizing the potential of variability in safety critical embedded systems, which underlie additional requirements. Therefore, the VARIES project team will develop an extensible reference platform for the "Variability Management".

The expected outcome of the VERDE project is a net improvement of productivity, predictability and cost control in the development process. The VERDE solution will be readily exploitable by software engineering vendors and service providers.

The Internet of Things (IoT) increases the risk of attacks on the software of systems caused even by simple execution errors. Software verification tools can make a significant contribution to ensuring the security and reliability of digital technologies.

The changes in energy policy pose new challenges to the power grid. Thermal power stations, windmills, photovoltaic plants as well as energy accumulators shall all be fed into the power supply system without causing any fluctuations. The control of such decentralized systems is performed using the VHPready standard.

The standard AUTOSAR already encapsulates a variety of approaches for integration of a broad array of functions in the car. Yet given the different safety requirements for the huge number of individual components, these approaches need to be re-assessed. Therefore, VirtuOS establishes new processes, tools and methods.

The main objective of VISP is to develop a software platform enabling a cluster of SMEs to operate as a single business entity, in multiple dynamic business models, for the production of tailored Internet Service Provider (ISP) solutions adapted to local business needs.

VITAL++ major objective is to combine and experiment with the best of the two worlds, namely, IMS-like control plane functionality and P2P technology giving rise into a new communication paradigm that will bring a wide range of benefits. The key to achieving this objective, is to put this paradigm under strenuous experimentation, carried out under realistic network conditions using popular applications.

VISCOM has developed a digital advertising pillar which in addition to rendering still images or videos also allows realistic 3D projection of panoramas and objects.

Web App DRM by Fraunhofer FOKUS allows developers of web applications to define innovative licensing conditions for their applications in a flexible manner. At the same time, the privacy concerns of users are suitably addressed by sandboxing the licensing process.