B-HUB FOR EUROPE will target deep tech vertical startups in the blockchain domain. The initiative is aimed at: discovering high-potential innovations, shaping suited proof of concepts and business models, providing specialised acceleration services to overcome current market barriers and assist the go-to-market process, unlocking new market channels with potential private/public customers, scaling up innovative businesses across five startups ecosystems in Europe: IT (Rome), FR (Paris), DE (Berlin), LT (Vilnius) and RO (Cluj-Napoca).The initiative will build on the excellence of European blockchain high-growing innovations and will help startups to shape and offer high-tech solutions to address public challenges and business needs.Public and private actors involved will benefit from a tailormade knowledge transfer process on blockchain technologies and use cases for internal barriers removal and faster adoption.The project will open to follow-up initiatives beyond the project conclusion stimulating the uptake of blockchain solutions in the private/public sector, through procurement processes, joint collaborations and fund rising opportunities.B-HUB FOR EUROPE will provide to blockchain startups, accurately identified and recruited in the five ecosystems through dissemination and engagement initiatives, a set of customised, expert-based services aimed at: accelerating business perspective, providing mentoring and coaching, supporting access to finance, improving cross-border networking with the broad EU blockchain community. Collaboration schemes will be explored for co-creation processes between blockchain startups, public organisations, corporates, and SMEs. Connections and cross-border activities will be promoted to favour exchange among grown-up and less developed ecosystems.The project will contribute to the on-going efforts for a more favourable regulatory framework in the blockchain domain in Europe, with inputs and recommendations collected during the project life.

The security sector is considerably evolving, by adapting the offer to the risk and threats and by permanently aggregating emerging innovations. The digital is disrupting this industry, by adding new capacities and new threats. The security sector is very fragmented. SecurIT aims to create a new global competitive security industrial (product & service) value chain by supporting a better integration of innovative security systems, with a cross-sectoral and European approach, to support the time to market optimization, the integration of privacy and security by design at all steps of maturity, with a cross-border collaboration between SMEs and other RDI actors. This vision is supported by a 4 step-approach: #1: : Analysis of the demand-side, mobilizing 40 integrators/end-users to identify their needs and 42 potential demonstrators including major actors as large industry, cities, critical infrastructures operators that will join SecurIT as user group, experiment hosting or supportive partners (26 support letters in annex - AIRBUS, THALES, ATOS, COESS, ECSO, cities, EEN etc.). #2&3: Involving supply sides (SMEs), aiming to get 300 EoI to participate in SecurIT and attracting +1000 SMEs to get part through outreach actions (15 letters of SMEs in annex). #4: Select and Support 63 innovation projects involving 126 SMEs with over 3,5M€ of FSTP through 2 Instruments of support from TRL5 to TRL9 (Prototyping and Demonstration/Pilot), and +700K€ in services provided by partners. Highquality experts will be involved in the SMEs selection process. The consortium is as a whole, with 7 Security and complementary Clusters from France, Belgium, Lithuania, The Netherlands and Denmark, coming from most relevant security / cybersecurity Regional Innovation Hubs in Europe, and the SecurIT partners have experience in open call management at national and european level.

Support for development and integration of Cyber-Physical Systems is seen as essential for the future. As the embedded world meets the Internet world there will be an increasing number of interacting systems with strong connectivity utilised in both society and in industry. Platforms4CPS targets the transport, manufacturing, energy and health sectors. Europe is a world leader in the area of time-critical and safety-critical systems and to maintain this position there is a need to be able to design, develop and deploy highly distributed and connected digital technologies. There is a move towards increased autonomy and a need to meet demanding safety, security, power efficiency, performance, size and cost constraints. Underlying this is a need to develop a foundational background to create the “science of systems integration” to manage the complexity of future CPS. Platforms for CPS deployment are also seen as being key for the future, however, these can only become successful if a supporting ecosystem of developers and users is created. Platforms4CPS thus aims to “create the vision, strategy, technology building blocks and supporting ecosystem for future CPS applications” with three key objectives to: - Create a vision and strategy for future European CPS by analyzing the ecosystem and market perspective and strategically updating and validating existing CPS roadmaps across multiple domains - Promote platform building, bringing together industry and academic experts and create a repository of CPS technology building blocks - Build an ecosystem by creating a constituency and through cooperating with ECSEL, ITEA, and ARTEMIS projects on the foundations of CPS engineering, and consensus-building on societal and legal issues related to the deployment of CPS The overall objective directly addresses the call objectives in ICT 1-2016b to maintain and develop Europe’s competitive lead in CPS by capitalizing and bringing together expertise for successful exploitation of ICT

Scale-EUp2 (ecoSystems Connected to AcceLerate and Encourage European Union start-uPs Potential) is a market driven action which ambitions to identify a portfolio of a minimum 200 high potential start-ups through the 4 connected hubs and to help them scale-up and to become leaders in the emerging Internet of Things (IoT) applications markets. The 4 Ecosystems will join their efforts to scout-out for the high potential start-ups in need of resources, the hubs regional markets making it like a European spider-web. The ecosystems’ scouting will extend to the overall European IoT markets by exploiting value chain analyses and the mobilization of European market stakeholders from the hubs and beyond. The partners from the hubs will also provide support, once the different facets of scouting has been completed, to organize match-making, to help the selected start-ups to join innovation projects and thus establish partnerships, alliances allowing to reinforce the valuation of the start-ups. At the same time, the partners will develop and set up tools for the start-ups to gain access more easily to financing as well as to the human resources market. .