Cloud for Europe (C4E) addresses the goals of the European Cloud Partnership program. The main objectives of C4E are to build trust in European Cloud Computing, to remove the obstacles for Cloud adoption and to harmonize the requirements from different public organizations beyond national borders. The program is co-funded by the European Commission under the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (FP7).

In the context of the European Technology Initiative ARTEMIS Joint Undertaking, the project CRYSTAL aims at fostering Europe’s leading edge position in embedded systems engineering, particularly regarding quality and cost effectiveness of safety-critical embedded systems and architecture platforms.

In the METAR project, Fraunhofer FOKUS supports the BMW Group by assisting them with different work packages and groups of the AUTOSAR development partnership. Scientists from the Competence Center SQC work on the development of AUTOSAR interchange formats and the configuration of AUTOSAR basis software modules.

Standardized communication protocols and technical specifications do require unique descriptions for testing. Scientists of SQC are part of the Special Task Forces (STFs) of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), whose objective it is to define test specifications using TTCN-3

The RASEN project’s main objective is the strengthening of European organisations’ ability to conduct security assessments of large scale networked systems through the combination of security risk assessment and security testing, taking into account the context in which the system is used.

In the STANCE project, ten European partners from science and industry want to provide a toolbox for source code analyses, which can be used to verify that software systems are immune to certain categories of attacks.

The MIDAS project aims at building an integrated framework for SOA testing automation that will be available as a Software as a Service (SaaS) on a cloud infrastructure. The framework spans all the testing activities: test generation, execution, evaluation, planning and management.

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 BMBF funded project Software Platform Embedded Systems XT (SPES_XT) is composed of 21 partners from industrial companies and research institutions working on topics like the seamless, methodic and tool-based integration of model and analysis technologies into the development process of embedded systems.

Quality of life in an urban environment depends strongly on ecological, social and mobility aspects. Based on these assumptions, the GeMo project develops innovative processes and applications for enabling the collaborative use of different mobility resources - especially in the area of electric mobility.

The On-Board Computer System Architecture (OBC-SA) project is developing an architectural framework for future on-board computer systems to enable the modular integration of systems with different performance and functional characteristics into the IT infrastructure of a spacecraft.

In the ASCENS (Automatic Service-Component Ensembles) project, researchers from SQC are collaborating with scientists from across Europe in an attempt to develop theories of self-organisation of sensor networks. One Example is a traffic management system which integrates information from all available resources.