Rita Moutinho

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ATE

In a moment where Europe is dealing with the impact of a war that has, besides the humanitarian disaster, a significant impact on the availability and affordability of fossil energy resources, such as natural gas and oil is impacting the whole economy, and the existing strategy towards decarbonization has been re-enforced and accelerated, as a mean to reduce global warming but also to increase our energy independence. The ATE Consortium intends to place Portugal in the leadership of the decarbonization of society, taking advantage of our unique availability of renewable based energy sources and of our technological and scientific know-how in the Power and Energy domain. Massive integration of renewable energy sources is the steppingstone to this process, together with mobility, by using energy vectors such as electricity and hydrogen to decarbonise society. This process leads however to tremendous challenges, mainly due to the variability of these resources and also to a profound change that needs to take place in the energy system, that must change its nature from a vertical, passive and predictable approach to a distributed, dynamic and end-user centric paradigm. To support this new paradigm, a significant amount of technological development needs to occur, exploring digitalization as a mean to incorporate pervasive intelligence in all products, solutions and processes related to the management of the energy system of the future. In ATE, a well-balanced consortium, formed by more than 90 partners, designed a structured approach in the most relevant vectors of the energy system, creating solutions in the whole value chain: on the generation, transmission, distribution and final use of energy. The proposed strategy includes quick wins, departing from higher TRL resulting from previous R&D projects and business knowledge, but also significant scientific advances that will increase the value of products. This agenda also puts a significant effort in the most important asset to companies – know-how and qualification of human resources – that will be crucial to leverage the required investment and create long-lasting competitiveness to the Portuguese industrial cluster on the energy sector.

AIDA

RAID is Wedo's flagship end-to-end real-time data management platform handling the entire risk management lifecycle of enterprises. RAID provides a highly flexible and robust processing pipeline consisting of data collection, monitoring, notification, discovery and actuation phases. Wedo's platform is currently applied around the world to handle, among others, revenue assurance, business assurance and fraud management. The current and anticipated market demand poses two major challenges to the existing RAID: i) the need to scale-out to unprecedented levels and ii) provide privacy and confidentiality guarantees when handling most of the input data sources, exacerbated when these stem from different owners or administrative domains. Meeting these new requirements poses complex scientific and technological challenges, including in topics that until now did not represent major issues such as cybersecurity, but also open market opportunities through the exploration of emergent federated machine learning techniques that will reinforce the analytic capabilities of the platform. The overarching goal of the AIDA project is to conceive a new version of the current Wedo platform in which some of the pipeline phases can be dynamically moved to the edges of the system. As of today, the platform is fully deployed in physically colocated servers, either on premises or in the cloud. While some phases are likely to always be kept under the platform's service owner, with AIDA data collection and monitoring, and even actuation phases should be prepared to run in diverse hardware architectures outside the platform's owner physical or even administrative control. AIDA should provide for highly configurable data collection and monitoring while preserving the current real-time, security and dependability guarantees. A complete prototype of AIDA will be deployed and demoed by the end of the project in a realistic scenario in the area of telecommunication services. Project Datasheet

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Communication Service

Communicating science can be challenging, but not for our Communication team. We all know the saying: "If something is not communicated, it doesn't exist." That’s why our team focuses on developing ideas, planning, organising, and coordinating both internal and external communication for our institution, ensuring that information about what we do reaches everyone. They contribute to our visibility by following established regulations and procedures, and play an active role in positioning our brand as a solid and reputable R&D institution. How? Through an approach focused on five main components: content, design and multimedia, events, participation in communication working groups, and dissemination of national or European projects, as well as translation. The Communication team ensures that scientific communication gets the attention it deserves, fostering stronger bonds with civil society and fighting misinformation.