ENACT Project Plenary Meeting – Valencia – 17-18 June 2025

This week, the ENACT project reached an important milestone as partners gathered in sunny Valencia for the mid-term plenary meeting. With the first phase of the project wrapping up at the end of June, this was a key moment to showcase progress—and it didn’t disappoint.

The technical partners presented the first working versions of their components and it was inspiring to see how far we’ve come in such a short time and how well the different parts are beginning to integrate.

At DS4, we’re proud to be contributing to the ENACT project by developing a Security Risk Modeller (SRM)—an automated tool designed to assess deployment configurations for security threats. SRM identifies risks and recommends ISO 27001-aligned controls to ensure that deployment decisions made by the ENACT orchestrator are secure and standards-compliant.

A huge shout-out to Nadia for presenting the first version of the SRM and delivering an impressive live demo of its capabilities! The session sparked valuable discussions with our partners and demonstrated how SRM is shaping up to be a key component of the project.

None of this would have been possible without the tireless work of our brilliant technical team working behind the scenes. Your hard work made this milestone possible—thank you!

Onwards and upwards —ENACT is well on its way!

MobiSpaces Project Plenary Meeting – Madrid – 27-28 May 2025

Time flies when you’re having fun, and we couldn’t believe how quickly we got into the final months of the MobiSpaces project.

The project partners were delighted to get together again for a plenary meeting; this time they joined in at the ATOS premises in Madrid.

Every partner updated the consortium on their achievements to date; this was followed by discussing the open issues and outstanding tasks in the few remaining project months.

The DS4 work on the Security Risk Modeller was presented by Zhilber with the active participation of Nadia on-line.

Special mention also to our excellent technical team who work hard in the background on integration activities.

Thank you DS4 team and thank you project partners for our collaborative work 🙂

ENACT Project Plenary Meeting – Athens – 18-19 February 2025

It is good news that Nadia likes Athens because she had to board the plane to Athens once again and attend the plenary meeting for ENACT project.

Our plenary hosts from FDI made everyone welcome with some small gestures like the lovely personal tags as shown below:

Nadia presented the latest work of the DS4 team on our Security Risk Assessment tool.  The demo showed how the tool creates an automatic system model, displays the uploaded model in a dashboard and auto-validates the model.  Nadia also led the Data Management Plan workshop covering topics related to FAIR Data Principles, Ethical and Legal Considerations as well as Data Security.

Thank you Nadia 😊 In addition to participating in the productive plenary days, we hope you managed to enjoy a little bit of beautiful Athens before you had to board the plane again.

RoBétArmé Project – First Technical Integration Meeting – CEAS, Copenhagen – January 2025

It was so exciting this week at the CEAS premises in Copenhagen to see the first RoBétArmé project robot in action: moving, scanning, welding …

Those of you who follow our RoBétArmé project will know that we started the project journey about 30 months ago. Now it was time for the project partners to get together for a week-long work on integration of the technical tools and components.

The successful technical work was followed by a user engagement workshop which was led by our DS4 team. 

We presented the participants with a scenario for a repair project requiring structural reinforcement in a degraded area, where additive manufacturing is considered as an optimal solution for precision metal reinforcement, integrated with shotcreting.  A new construction project involving shotcreting has also been discussed.

Thank you partners for participating and providing your comments verbally as well in the formative evaluation questionnaire which you completed diligently.  Your responses will help us to further improve the system.

And last but not least, Zhilber, please be careful; do not spill this coffee and definitely DO NOT TOUCH THE ROBOT!!!

Another October Week – Another Project Plenary

Straight after Larnaca (see previous blog post) the DS4 team had to re-direct its attention to the upcoming first plenary meeting of the ENACT project.  The host of this event was our partners from Innovalia Association in the beautiful city of Bilbao.

All partners presented the status of their tasks after the first 9 months of the project with a focus on the technical development, state of the art and innovation. 

As a Task Leader, we presented our progress in developing the tool for assessing the risk of distributed deployment of applications while maintaining confidentiality, integrity and availability of the resources deployed in different environments.

We are taking the opportunity to thank our research associate Nadia and our development team for putting in a lot of hard work in the conceptual modelling of dynamic graph data in the risk assessment tool.

Work continues with the aim to provide risk assessment and recommendation for each deployment pilot configuration by the spring next year.