Lessons learned from FP7
proposals and projects
SMI2G 2014
Andrea Nowak
Deputy Head of Department Safety&Security
AIT - Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH
23 January 2014, Brussels
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Austrian
Industry
Federal Ministry for Transport,
Innovation and Technology
50,46%
Federation of Austrian
Industries
49,54%
 ~1000 Employees
 Budget: 120 Mio €
 Business Model:
40:30:30
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2010-2013
AIT/DSS – successful positioning within European and National
Security Research Community
AIT successful cooperative R&D projects: 12 Mio Euro
5.554.890
6.000.000
5.000.000
3.957.610
AIT Person Years
4.000.000
EC Funding [€]
2.323.455
3.000.000
2.000.000
1.000.000
0
0
0
Call 3 /
2010
16,9
Call 4 /
2011
31,7
41,4
EC Funding [€]
AIT Person Years
Call 5 /
2012
Call 6 /
2013
EU FP7 Security Research Program
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2009 – 2010 Cultural Change Program (1)
Innovation Management to foster innovation, overcome „silos“ and
enabling high quality delivery
leading edge
skill & asset management
highest transparency
sustainable portfolio management
SoCol
„Online Social collaboration
Do the right things
–
do the things right!
social media processes and tools“
PLP
„Project Lifecycle
Process“
Gate 0
Gate 1
Gate 2
Gate 3
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creativity - transparency - focus - cooperation
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2009 – 2010 Cultural Change Program (2)
Stage Gate - Process
„research is predictable and assessable by promoting creativity and
taking risk „
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creativity - transparency - focus - cooperation
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Strategy Development (1)
Top-Down:
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Global organization- und strategic orientations of the departments
 Five Department and there domains
Top-down  Defined commitments and goals
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Financial 40:30:30
Scientific: Numbers of publications, patents
Resources: Growth rate
Carrier model for our employers
External Evaluation process every year
Buttom-up:
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commitment and goal orientation
Buttom-up –
creativity and innovation power of
the department
Development of the department Strategy  this was our freedom
 Enormous communication and discussion effort
 Making ALL employees aware of the strategy
Focus activities on the defined Research Areas and Research Fields
Empowerment of our staff
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Strategy Development (2)
Focus in 3 Research Areas
Intelligent Vision
Systems (IVS)
Highly Reliable SW
and Systems (HRS)
Future Networks and
Services (FNS)
Source: digitalbevaring.dk
Surveillance &
Protection
Highest System
Reliability
Large Scale Networked
Systems
Multi-Camera Vision
High Speed Imaging
Assessment and Testing
of Autonomous and
Safety-Critical Systems
Secure Information Access in
Distributed Systems
Next-Gen. Content
Management Systems
Advanced Applications in
Sensor Networks
From key scientific competences to focused
applied research
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Strategy Development (3)
“From strategy to focus = Building critical mass”
 Scientific and Engineering skill
 Diversity in qualification
200+ Experts (FTE)
1/3 Scientists
2/3 Engineers
36% PhD
 2/3 of new employees with international education
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Strategy Development (4)
DSS Applied R&D Methodology = our market USP
Strategy 2017
Industry impact
mid and long-term cooperation
with industry
Phase 3
Solutions for larger systems
Strategic aliances/cooperation with
users/stakeholders
Phase 2
Cooperation in the research community
Technology/Science – basic competence and solution portfolio
Phase 1
Strategic orientation – top down from our owner
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Research & Business Approach
Applied Research - AIT Security Eco-system
European security
research
National security
providers
Security & ICT
Industry
Strategic Cooperations
Security by
Design
Ikarus
Tools &
Methodologies
Sphinx
Extensive involvement
Processes
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“Door opener”
for our international cooperation's
National research programs
 KIRAS – national security research program
 ICT of the Future
 Take off
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International Networks: European research community
 EUROTECH
 IMG-S
 PSCE
 ARTEMIS
 COST
 Doman specific networks
 TeleTrust
 FRONTEX
 Enisa
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Example (1)
Automated Border Control  Programme Roadmap  Strategy
ASAP
FBC
FastPass
A harmonized, modular
reference system for all
European automated border
crossing points
Feasibility study
2009
National proof of
concept project
2011
1st Austrian IP in Security
Call
15 Mio Euro
2013
MobilePass
(in negotiation)
A secure, modular and
distributed mobile
border control solution
for European land
border crossing points
2015
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Example (2)
Cyber Defense  Programme Roadmap  Strategy
National Cyber Defense
Prevention, protection and reaction to
cyberattacks to critical infrastructures
CIIS
Cyber Incident Information Sharing
ECOSSIAN
Cyber Attack Information System for Austria
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European Control System Security
Incident Analysis Network
EP3R working group –
European Public Private Partnership for Resilience
Topic
SEC-2013.2.2-3
Protection of smart energy grids against
cyber attacks
SEC-2013.2.5-3
Pan European detection and management of
incidents/attacks on critical infrastructures in
sectors other than the ICT sector
SEC-2013.2.5-4
Protection systems for utility networks
Topic
Coordinator
Akronym
AIT
SPARKS
Technicon
ECOSSIAN
AIT
HyRiM
Coordinator
Akronym
FhGIML
CARONTE
AIT
MobilePass
SEC-2013.2.2-1
A research agenda for security issues on
land transport
ICT-Security
Object and Personel Security
ICT-Security
Overview of successful projects - Call 6 (1)
SEC-2013.3.2-3
Mobile equipment at the land border
crossing points
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Overview of AIT/DSS projects FP7 Call 6 (2)
Crisis and Disaster Management
Topic
SEC-2013.4.1-1
Phase II demonstration programme on
aftermath crisis management
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Coordinator
Akronym
Atos
DRIVER
SEC-2013.5.1-1
Analysis and identification of security systems
and data set used by first responders and
police authorities
AIT
EPISECC
SEC-2013.5.3-1
Definition of interoperability specifications for
information and meta-data exchange amongst
C2-Sense
sensors and control systems
Sagem Defense
Securite
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Lessens Learned (1)
Comments of my colleagues
Markus:
 Timely and structure approach to complete the proposal
 Amicably relations within a strong consortium
 Support and knowledge of colleagues within AIT and their enthusiasm
 Support of the AIT management to allow for a maximum of flexibility in
working on creative scientific contributions
Florian:
 Idea of ECOSSIAN is right on time to support these initiatives.
 The consortium consists of an optimal mix of academics/research, industrial
partners and national bodies.
 All work package leaders have plenty of experience in EU projects, know
how to approach goals, and are professional and reliable partners. This
helped a lot in the proposal preparation phase.
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Lessens Learned (2)
Comments of my colleagues
Paul:
 A strong consortium, which was appreciated by the reviewers.
 The users group, that we prepared was a strong point that helped
 Internally, we were well prepared from a content perspective
 The proposers day turned out to be surprisingly useful, i.e., via discussions
with the PO, to read between the lines of the proposal text, …
 As an institution, I think we were well-placed to coordinate the proposal from a
content perspective, i.e., with the three departments taking part
 I think we built on previous successes, e.g., with SECCRIT in last Security call
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Summary of Lesson Learned
Project management
Cooperation's & Partners
R&D Skills
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Framework conditions
 Idea Generation
 Finding the best
consortium
 Structured proposal work
 Keep the time lines
 Communication (intern
and extern)
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Strategy
Trust
Defined Risk
Management & Process
Support
 Efficient Tool Support
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