As part of the European research project ReachOut, a platform for the organization of beta test campaigns for European IT research projects has been created under the project management of Fraunhofer FOKUS. The aim is to ensure the quality and market readiness of new software solutions through the exchange of specialist expertise at European level.

The project “European Security Certification Framework” (EU-SEC) will aim to create a European framework for certification schemes and evaluation concepts to secure cloud infrastructures. EU-SEC will improve the business value as well as the effectiveness and efficiency of existing cloud security certification schemes.

The goal of this EU project is to develop, launch and operate a pan-European Open Data Portal. It will cover data from 39 European countries and it will improve the discoverability and the ability to re-use this data.

The warning system EUWARN has been used by the European Commission since 2019 to warn employees on its premises in the event of danger. The warnings are location-based and reache those affected directly via smartphone app.

The increasing amount of roaming Internet users in combination with the evolution of IP-based applications has created a strong demand for wide-area, broadband access to a number of IP multimedia services.

In the EXPAND+ER WB³ project, the vision of educator Otto Herz is applied to the field of vocational education. For people, lifelong learning means constantly working on expanding knowledge and developing their skills and abilities. But how do you make it easier for people to find interdisciplinary training opportunities through an appealing design and state-of-the-art search capabilities? The technology partners of the BMBF-funded EXPAND+ER WB³ project develop a scalable platform that protects privacy and enables users to search for and receive recommendations for further education courses.

In the EXPAND+ER WB³ project, the vision of educator Otto Herz is applied to the field of vocational education. For people, lifelong learning means constantly working on expanding knowledge and developing their skills and abilities. But how do you make it easier for people to find interdisciplinary training opportunities through an appealing design and state-of-the-art search capabilities? The technology partners of the BMBF-funded EXPAND+ER WB³ project develop a scalable platform that protects privacy and enables users to search for and receive recommendations for further education courses.

Every year, the Dominican Republic suffers from floods and other natural events, often with catastrophic consequences for the people, their property and public infrastructure.

The increasing networking of the value chain in the course of digitalization requires further development of networking software in the field of the Internet of Things (IoT). For this purpose, the FAMOUS project combines the research expertise of the University of Augsburg, ifak, the Fraunhofer Institutes IPK and FOKUS with the competencies of the companies Endress+Hauser, Lenze, and Bosch.

The EIT ICT Labs project “Fanning out Testbeds as a Service for the EIT ICT Labs” (FanTaaStic) explores best practice, performs a gap analysis, investigates applicable business models and works out an operational concept for implementation.

Fed4FIRE+ is an Integrating Project under the European Union’s Programme Horizon 2020, addressing the work programme topic Future Internet Research and Experimentation. It started in January 2017 and will run for 60 months, until the end of September 2021.

The Federation for Future Internet Research and Experimentation (Fed4FIRE) is an Integrating Project (IP) under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) in the context of the Future Internet Research and Experimentation (FIRE) programme.