As part of the »Transfer Point« project of the »IT Security for the Economy« initiative of the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi), the business units Collaborative Safety and Security (ESPRI) and Digital Public Services (DPS) are developing solutions to support small and medium businesses with practical and up-to-date information on protection against cyber attacks. 

At the beginning of 2020, the three-year project »Transferstelle IT-Sicherheit im Mittelstand (TISiM)« (Transfer Point for IT Security in Business), started as part of the BMWi's initiative »IT-Sicherheit in der Wirtschaft« (IT-security in the economy). Within this framework, two business units of Fraunhofer FOKUS - DPS and ESPRI - will support companies from medium-sized businesses with up-to-date information to protect themselves against cyber-attacks.

Standardization departments in companies are facing major challenges today. In light of the swift pace of development in science and technology, rapidly changing preferences on the demand side and dynamic market developments, it is no longer enough to respond to changes reactively.

The EU funded Small or medium scale focused research project (STREP) from the ICT Call 10 ICT-2013-1.7(d): Future Internet Research Experimentation- EU-South Africa cooperation on future internet experimental research and testbed interconnection TRESCIMO started in January 2014 having Fraunhofer FOKUS/NGNI and TU Berlin/AV.

In the context of the EU’s Horizon 2020 initiative, Triangulum will lead the way towards a smart and sustainable development in European cities. Therefore, Triangulum will transfer designated urban districts into smart quarters within the “lighthouse cities” Manchester (UK), Eindhoven (Netherlands) and Stavanger (Norway). 

The main goals of the project TRICE are to develop models and methods for deriving quality and trust values by applying trust metrics on both static data and operational data. TRICE follows a user-centric approach; it assesses the trustworthiness of services based on user trust policies.

The goal of Trillian-T is to develop an intelligent self-detecting UMTS monitor for distributed monitoring. Within the project, a generic approach and implementation for protocol detection and traffic analysis have been developed. The approach will be implemented in a demonstrator to evaluate the concepts.

In TRIPLEADAPT, an adaptive, interoperable professional education platform will be created via the development of a digital triplet. Digital learning environments will then be extended by learning concepts with the aim of increasing learning success. 

The aim of this project was to create a B2B-marketplace for trusted and proven cloud services.

IEEE TSN standards are the technology for unifying network infrastructures in the manufacturing industry. They gradually replace existing non-interoperable networking solutions and guarantee seamless communication from enterprise to field level. High bandwidth, full interoperability, strict and dependable real-time communication – TSN is a game changer for interconnecting shop floor assets.

Within the TT-Medal project, industrial and academic research teams have started a common offensive to establish a basis for the industrial application of tests and testing methodologies with advanced languages.

The TUNER project addresses current concerns about data privacy.It therefore aims to mitigate the risks involved in open networked environments. The project’s research results will be used for the creation of an open-source platform that supports the development of trustworthy service environments.