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Through its international undertaking, IRT SystemX aims to increase the visibility of its work and expertise as well as contribute to French scientific dissemination and standardization, all the while attracting new skills, new use cases and new sources of funding. The institute’s international outreach draws on the strengths of its national position. SystemX has developed a multi-sector activity based on cutting-edge scientific and technical fields recognized abroad, offering digital environments in response to the current challenges of key topics. SystemX is also keen on developing its international network and participate in calls for projects adapted to evolving international contexts.

In Europe, several structuring programmes have been established to foster research, innovation and development, namely Horizon Europe, which is the EU’s key funding program for research and innovation with a total budget of €95.5 billion.
Horizon Europe consists of 3 pillars. The second pillar, in particular, focuses on collaborative research addressing global challenges and European industrial competitiveness. A cluster of the second pillar is dedicated to Deep Tech, with AI technologies, open source and digital technology at the service of ecological transition. Digitalization is also at the heart of other clusters, namely in connection to health, mobility, and energy.
It is thus only natural for IRT SystemX to contribute to the Horizon Europe programme, given its expertise in applicative fields, its advances in the implementation of digital environments and its mobilization of research engineer talents.

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Featured projects

To develop an open environment for integrating trustworthy-by-design AI models.

AI for REAL-world NETwork operation.

Tackling the challenges of privacy in automotive industry.

To pave the way towards Highly Automated Vehicles (HAVs) deployment in traffic.

Testing AI in smart cities and communities.

Address the convergence of security and safety in CCAM.

Data-driven and dynamic space and assets for physical internet-led urban logistics and planning.

To face the challenges of cyber threats.

For shared-connected and low-emission logistics operations.

Build green and sustainable Neighbourhood.

Resilience-centric smart, green, networked EU Inland waterways.

Safe, efficient and autonomous multimodal library of european shortsea and inland solutions.

Secure collaborative intelligent industrialassets.

Social innovation to foster inclusive cooperative, connected and automated mobility.

Key networks

International networks are established in a short and mid-term perspective, which is a key enabler for the construction of international projects on a recurrent basis. Below, a list of the networks in which IRT SystemX is involved:

Applications: Intelligent Transport Systems, power systems
Technology: big data, AI, data and robotics, cloud and dataspace
Standards: telecommunication, systems engineering
Trustworthy AI
Academics: AI lab, cybersecurity of critical infrastructure, smart cities

Testimonies

Some of our partners are talking about their collaboration with IRT SystemX :

Lóránt Tavasszy

Professor, TU Delft

Adrien Becue

Head of Innovation, Airbus Cybersecurity

Adrien Becue

What is the aim of the SeCoIIA project?

The SeCoIIA project (Secure Collaborative Intelligent Industrial Assets) aims to design the security of the collaborative industrial production systems of tomorrow. It mainly aims to: • Develop and validate systems for simulation, testing and immersive training based on digital twins of the industrial tool, • Develop and validate authentication and encryption technologies applicable to distributed industrial clouds (Cloud Manufacturing), • Create and validate collaborative systems to detect, decide on and respond to industrial security incidents, • Define methods to develop a robust AI, legal liability principles, and digital evidence collection techniques, applicable to the factory of tomorrow, • Demonstrate these key capabilities as applied to the security of several industrial sectors such as aerospace, automotive, naval and robotics.

What has IRT SystemX brought to this European project?

IRT SystemX has made a range of contributions with a focus on the technological advances of the project. Firstly, the institute developed digital twins integrated into the Airbus CyberRange tool for testing, training and demonstrating automotive and naval use cases. Secondly, the teams developed attribute-based encryption techniques for use in distributed cloud environments. Finally, SystemX integrated, tested and demonstrated risk scenarios applied to automotive and naval pilot systems.

How do you assess the innovation potential of the attribute-based encryption solution? How could it affect collaborative manufacturing?

The attribute-based encryption solution developed by IRT SystemX meets the need to share sensitive information with industrial partners along an extended supply chain. This solution offers considerable advantages: • Encryption and access control at the data point, refined authorisation management in the context of industrial collaboration between players at different privilege levels, • Applicability to distributed cloud environments, no single point of failure, resilience to denial of service attacks and Byzantine fault scenarios, • Security apparatus is scaled and reinforced by user community growth, traceability and auditability of transactions, and compatibility with privacy protection measures. Close