Completed Projects

Capacity Building for the German National Coordination Centre for cybersecurity in industry, technology and research (NCC-DE)

Project duration: October 1, 2023 - October 31, 2025
EU-Digital Europe Programme (DIGITAL), No. 101126787
Project description: The European Parliament and the European Council have agreed to establish the European Cybersecurity Competence Centre (ECCC), and a network of national coordination centres extending across the European Union on basis of the EU regulation 2021/887. The ECCC and the network are intended to pool investment in cybersecurity research, technology and industrial development and to better coordinate planning the Horizon Europe and Digital Europe programmes. Germany's National Coordination Centre (NCC-DE) for cybersecurity in industry, technology and research is a joint effort by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK); the Federal Ministry of the Interior and Community (BMI); the Federal Ministry of Defence (BMVg) and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), as well as individual ministries executive agencies (the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), the Research Institute CODE (RI CODE) and the DLR Projektträger). The BSI serves as the single point of contact for the ECCC, the NCC-network and the national stakeholders. The NCC-network will intensify exchange among the member states, enabling interested parties in government, industry and the research community in the EU to identify partners for multilateral projects more quickly and easily, thereby increasing the EU's digital sovereignty. Within each member state, the respective NCC promotes and intensifies dialogue and exchange among interested national partners. In this way, the flow of information to the ECCC will be consolidated to provide optimal support to the national cybersecurity community and to ensure that national interests are represented effectively in the EU's funding process. The funding from the Digital Europe Programme is to be used to support the initial establishment of the NCC-DE, which has already been set up and is to remain active beyond the funding period. The funding is intended to ensure that basic tasks are implemented quickly and effectively.
Consortium details: 1 Universities and 2 Industry Partners

Air Mobility Integration U-Space (AMIUS)

Project duration: January 1, 2022 - December 31, 2024
Bavarian Aerospace Program, No. ROB-2-3410.20-04-11-15/HAMI-2109-0015
Project description: The overall objective of the AMI-AMIUS joint project is to create the first integrated Bavarian U-space connecting the city of Ingolstadt with Manching Airport. In addition to the activities described here, this U-space is available as a real test field for use by Bavarian companies in the eVTOL and unmanned aerial systems (UAS) industry. The project investigates how a U-space based on digital services can integrate today's air traffic, including its processes and technologies, with future deployment scenarios of UAS and eVTOLs in a common airspace. For this purpose, the required air traffic management functionalities for safe, integrated and efficient operations, will be provided and demonstrated by the U-space services defined by the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA). Based on these digital services, flights within the Manching control zone, for example from the Drone Center to Ingolstadt main station, are planned as concrete use cases. These practical demonstrations will be supported by corresponding scientific model-based preliminary investigations, multimodal simulations with different traffic systems, feasibility studies as well as cost analyses by the participating universities. To guarantee safe and efficient integrated operations of UAS, eVTOLS and general aviation in the future, novel traffic concepts are required. For this purpose, the existing airspace management must be supplemented by an integrated UAS Traffic Management System (UTM) and thus expanded by the dimension of the previously uncontrolled airspace. The focus is on the design and technical implementation of the demonstrator using a UTM system and appropriate ground infrastructures, complemented by innovative communication technologies and a central control station. The project will also investigate how the data flow between the participating airspace users and the storage of relevant data can be secured by various measures against unauthorized external interference.
One of the academic partners - the UniBwM - has a bilateral cooperation established with the Institute of Air Transport Systems (ILT) at the Technische Universität Hamburg (TUHH), Germany. This alliance will pursue two goals in the field of UAS: (1) On the basis of a scalable model-based approach in close connection with real-world test approaches of the project partners, robust statements are to be made on the realization of the necessary command and control and communication infrastructure for urban air mobility. (2) Solutions for secure cloud-based data storage during operation and over the life cycle will be elicited to reduce the delay of data analysis and data communication.
Consortium details: 2 Universities (+ 1 bilateral cooperation) and 6 Industry Partners

For more, where Prof. Dr. Corinna Schmitt was involved, check here.