The University of Coimbra (UC) is a reference institution in higher education and research in Portugal. Among its eight faculties, the Faculty of Sciences and Technology (FCTUC) comprises 11 Departments, which cover most the scientific areas. FCTUC research activities are carried out in the scope of 16 Research Units and several Associated Research Units that constitute a national and international reference in science production in a vast number of fields. FCTUC explores also its knowledge transfer and scientific potential through Pedro Nunes Institute (IPN), the 2011 Best Science-Based Incubator.

The Centre for Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra (CISUC) is a large research centre in the field of Informatics and Communications. CISUC aims at carrying out original R&D at a pre-competitive level, training highly qualified young researchers and co-operating in International European and National R&D projects. CISUC is organized into 6 research groups (Cognitive and Media Systems, Adaptive Computation, Software and Systems Engineering (SSE), Communications and Telematics (LCT), Information Systems and Evolutionary and Complex Systems), covering a substantial segment of the research topics on Computer Science and Engineering, and with an increasing activity on multidisciplinary and emergent research subjects. This project was planned and will involve researchers of the Laboratory of Communications and Telematics (LCT) and the Software and Systems Engineering (SSE) group of CISUC.

The Laboratory of Communications and Telematics (LCT) of CISUC has been involved in many research projects and has participated in technical committees and expert groups at national and international level in the areas of computer communications and computer and network security. Current research activity address topics that include Computer Networks, Wireless communications, Quality of Service and Experience, Energy efficient communications, Internet of Things (IoT), Cloud Infrastructures and Platforms, Network and Services Management, Communications Security and Communication reliability.

The Software and Systems Engineering (SSE) Group has been working with software security, benchmarking and reliability. Moreover, the group has been pioneer, in the recent years, in techniques for vulnerability and attack injection designed to uncover security vulnerabilities and evaluate protection systems. This knowledge has been applied in several domains, ranging from web applications and services to safety critical systems. The group has also broad experience in cloud computing infrastructures both in terms of projects and collaborations. For

example, the UC is member of one international initiative in the context of SPEC that aims at developing benchmarks for IDS solutions for cloud infrastructures.

Role in the project

The University of Coimbra will be the research and development of two core components in the architecture: the Risk Module and the Personal Data Analyser. UC is responsible for the leadership of the WP where these two components will be developed.

Besides the specific contributions mentioned above, UC will also be involved in the definition of the overall architecture, in the identification of the requirements, in the validation of the overall solution and in dissemination and exploitation activities.