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From 12th-13th June 2025 the CONNECT consortium gathered in Villach, Austria for a two-day project meeting focused on preparing for the final phase of the project. With the project closure scheduled for August 2025, the meeting provided an essential opportunity to...

During this year’s IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (IEEE VNC), Prof. Frank Kargl and Artur Hermann from the Institute of Distributed Systems at Ulm University presented recent research results from the CONNECT project on trust assessment in connected, cooperative, and automated...

With our newsletter we want to keep you informed about our research and technical breakthroughs in the interesting field of CCAM. In this issue we invite you to discover our three CCAM use case, through which CONNECT applies and evaluates...

Join Our Upcoming Webinar: Trust & Trustworthiness in CCAM – May 28, 2025 | 10:00 CEST We’re excited to invite you to our upcoming webinar on “Trust & Trustworthiness in Cooperative, Connected, and Automated Mobility (CCAM)”, taking place on Wednesday,...

We are thrilled to look back on the Workshop on Trustworthy AI, which took place on March 25-26, 2025, at the Holm Centre, Frankfurt Airport. This event brought together experts from various AI-related domains to discuss the challenges and future...

We are excited to announce that our project has been featured in the European Commission’s results pack on Connected, Cooperative, and Automated Mobility (CCAM), now available on CORDIS! This results pack, coordinated by the European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive...

Join us at the Workshop on Trustworthy AI – 25-26 March 2025, Holm Centre, Frankfurt Airport organized by Ioannis Krontiris, Frank Kargl, Thanassis Giannetsos, Peter Schmitting, Lisa Burgstaller-Hochenwarter // co-organized by REWIRE The development of trustworthy AI systems is one of...

From January 15th to 17th, 2025, the CONNECT project consortium convened in Turin, Italy, for an intensive three-day technical meeting hosted by Politecnico di Torino. This gathering marked an important milestone in our ongoing effort to develop a secure, trustworthy,...

Today we are launching CONNECT’s third newsletter. With our newsletter we want to keep you engaged and informed about our project’s endeavors, milestones, and breakthroughs in the interesting field of CCAM. What to Expect in this issue: 1. Outlook to...

The CONNECT project consortium was proud to contribute to escar Europe 2024, which took place on 19–20 November in Dortmund, Germany. As a leading conference on automotive cybersecurity, escar Europe brought together experts, researchers, and industry leaders to discuss the...

Our technical leader Thanassis Giannetsos’ represented CONNECT at this year’s edition of the “IEEE International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks” (CAMAD, 21-23 October 2024). He participated in the special session on “Physical &...

Yesterday, we had the privilege of listening to a talk by Francesca Bassi of our use case provider IRT SystemX, who delivered an insightful presentation titled “Navigating Trust and Data Privacy Contradictions in the Age of Autonomous Cars.” Francesca’s expertise...

The CONNECT project will be represented by our partners ICCS and UBITECH at the upcoming IEEE International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks, taking place from October 21 to 23, 2024, in Athens, Greece....

Three intense days of work and discussions at the Huawei Research Center in Munich, Germany! During the Integration Meeting of the CONNECT project in Munich from 2nd to 4th July 2024, partners dedicated themselves to integrating the CONNECT technical components....

In this video Adam Henschke, Assistant Professor at University of Twente (NL), talks about his work on ethics, trust and CCAM in the context of the CONNECT project.

Today we are launching CONNECT’s second newsletter. Our newsletters serve as a dynamic platform to keep you engaged and informed about our project’s endeavors, milestones, and breakthroughs in the ever-evolving field of CCAM. What to Expect in this issue: 1....

We are happy to announce that all project-related videos can now be found in one place, namely in the CONNECT video gallery on Vimeo.

Two weeks ago, on 24th April 2024, the CONNECT project underwent its first review meeting, chaired by our Project Officer representing the European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA). Our Project Coordinator, our Technical and our Scientific Leader were...

We recently concluded an exceptional technical project meeting in Paris, graciously hosted by Huawei from 6th to 8th February. The gathering provided a prime opportunity to delve into our project’s intricacies, assess current progress, and chart a clear path forward....

What an exceptional experience at escar Europe 2023! As a co-organizer and chairman, Frank had the honor of guiding the proceedings, moderating both the opening and closing sessions. Nataša also made a significant contribution by presenting our joint paper titled...

The CONNECT project recently delved into the heart of automotive innovation at the “Towards the Sustainable Vehicle Era” workshop organized by CARS and PEIC labs at PoliTO. Held on November 14 and 15, 2023, this two-day event was a key...

At the ETSI Security Conference 2023 in Sophia Antipolis, France, CONNECT showcased its pioneering work in merging security and safety within Connected, Cooperative, and Automated Mobility. With a focus on Security Research and Global Security Standards, the event served as...

In our recent CONNECT technical meeting hosted by Denso in Munich from October 11th to 13th, partners engaged in focused discussions. There were several updates for the work packages, and the planning for upcoming deliverables took place. Additionally, detailed discussions...

The 4th annual TPM.dev Conference, held on May 16th – 17th, 2023, featured a presentation providing insights into the CONNECT project. Titled “Are We There Yet? Decentralized Trust Anchors towards Sustainable Security,” the presentation was delivered by Stefanos Vasileiadis, Alexandros...

We are thrilled to announce the launch of CONNECT’s first newsletter.. This newsletter serves as a dynamic platform to keep you engaged and informed about our project’s endeavors, milestones, and breakthroughs in the ever-evolving landscape of CCAM innovation. What to...

The University of Surrey produced a new video outlining the work done in the CONNECT project.

Autonomous vehicles are set to profoundly impact our societies, making trustworthiness and trust essential values in their development and deployment. The EU research project CONNECT aims to assess and enhance trust in connected, cooperative, and automated mobility (CCAM) systems. By...

The second use case of the CONNECT project is represented by DENSO – “Vulnerable Road User Protection through Adaptive Cruise Control.” This concept aims to enhance cooperative adaptive cruise control with trust-based decisions. By sharing data among vehicles, a unified...

The Dagstuhl Seminar 23242, held from June 11 to June 16, 2023 at Schloss Dagstuhl (Germany), was organized by Frank Kargl (Universität Ulm, DE) and Ioannis Krontiris (Huawei Technologies – München, DE) from the CONNECT project, along with Jason Millar...

CONNECT made a strong impact at the ITS European Congress in Lisbon, Portugal, on May 23, 2023, by hosting a compelling panel discussion on the “Roadmap towards adoption of dynamic trust assurances for sustainability in CCAM,” organized by Athanasios Giannetsos,...

Intersection Movement Assist is a use case by IRT System X that utilizes V2V communication to assist vehicles approaching intersections. The application recognizes the presence of other vehicles, calculates their trajectories, and alerts the driver of possible crash zones. It...

The WP3 on Trust Architecture and Trust Management Lifecycle for Modular CCAM is progressing well. The teams from IRT System X, Huawei, and the University of Ulm met in Paris on 15-16 May for a technical meeting to discuss the...

The 2023 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC 2023) held in Istanbul, Türkiye, from 26-28th April 2023, was an incredible event for anyone interested in automotive research. With its 14th edition, VNC has become the go-to conference for individuals passionate about...

The European vision of CCAM (Cooperative Connected & Automated Mobility) is all about creating a collaborative, constantly connected infrastructure for vehicles. By enabling autonomous cars to exchange information with surrounding vehicles and infrastructure, road safety and traffic efficiency can be...

The first CONNECT Fact Sheet: Trust Assessment discusses one of the main elements of the CONNECT framework and, in more detail, the trust management framework. It provides a great introduction to the role trust plays within the CONNECT project using...

As autonomous vehicles are becoming more and more reality wouldn’t you like to find out more on their safety concepts? Under the motto “Never trust, always verify” the CONNECT project is working on the next generation trust management framework. But what...

In the next few weeks we will introduce on our social media channels the people working on CONNECT for each of our partners. The consortium consists of 17 partners from 9 different countries (Austria , Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Israel,...

Marco Rapelli from POLITO presented CONNECT at the 19th Italian Networking Workshop INW 2023  (16 – 18 January 2023, Ponte di Legno, Italy) with their work on “Multi-stack, open and plug & play On-Board Unit for on-field testing and retrofit...

In our second talk, Prof. Frank Kargl, Scientific Lead of the CONNECT project and Director of the Institute of Distributed Systems at Ulm University provides his perspective on the significance of the CONNECT project and the role of trustworthiness in...

This Call for Papers is for the 2023 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC) 26-28th April 2023 in Istanbul, Türkiye. The conference is organised by CONNECT’s scientific lead UULM. Now in its 14th edition, VNC has been the primary venue for...

We spoke to Thanassis Giannetsos, Technical Lead of the CONNECT project and Head of UBITECH’s Digital Security & Trusted Computing Research Group on the significance of the CONNECT project for connected cars, the challenges it is facing and also on the...

ISO Technical Committee 204 on ‘Intelligent Transport Systems’ has recognized that Artificial Intelligence and Big Data standardization is gaining momentum in all different domains of standardization. Consequently, WG20 on ‘Big Data and Artificial Intelligence supporting ITS’ has been established to...

The summit which took place at HUAWEI, Munich from the 2nd – 4th November 2022 as a hybrid event addressed the increased risk of systemic vulnerabilities and cyber risks of connected cars the higher the complexity of connected cooperative and...

The Horizon CONNECT project represented by Ioannis Krontiris (HUAWEI) took to the stage at the last CCAM (Connected, Cooperative and Automotive Mobility) Association Multicluster Meeting on the 25th of October in Brussels, Belgium. It was the first opportunity for CONNECT...

The EU funded Horizon Europe project CONNECT launched with the kick-off meeting on 22nd-23rd September 2022 in Athens, Greece. Project partners gathered to plan, organize and designate duties for the next 36 months. The upcoming work and tasks in the...