Privacy Policy

Effective as of 01 September 2020

WHO WE ARE

“Data controllers” are the people or organisations that determine the purposes for which, and the manner in which, any Personal Data is processed, and make independent decisions in relation to the Personal Data and/or who/which otherwise control that Personal Data.

For the purposes of the GDPR, the data controller of this website with regard to the Personal Data described in this Privacy Policy is F6S Network Ireland Limited (registered number 643630) , whose registered office is at 77 Lower Camden Street, Dublin 2 D02 XE80, Ireland.

This Website falls under the responsibility of the REACH Consortium and is concerned with the dissemination and exchange of information about the research conducted in the course of the project and the outcome of this work. The RESCH project is committed to protecting your privacy and is developing technology that gives you a powerful and safe online experience. This Privacy Policy applies to the Web Site of the REACH project (Grant Agreement 951981) and governs data collection and usage.

1. POLICY SCOPE

The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to provide you, as our data subject, with a statement regarding the Data Protection and Privacy practices and obligations of The REACH Project and an explanation of your rights as a data subject. 

This Data Protection and Privacy Policy and Notice applies to our business practices, our website (Websites), which are accessible from https://www.reach-incubator.eu/ and it applies regardless of whether you use a computer, mobile phone, tablet, TV or other device.

As the Organisation is established in the Republic of Ireland, this document is written in the vein of Irish Data Protection Law, and The REACH Project falls under the jurisdiction of the Irish Data Protection Commission. This Privacy Policy sets out what Personal Data we collect and process about you in connection with the services and functions of the Organisation. We are not responsible for the content or the privacy notices for any websites to which we may provide external links.

2. WHY AND HOW DO WE ENSURE COMPLIANCE?

Data protection and privacy laws provide rights to individuals with regard to the use of their Personal Data by organisations, including The REACH Project website. Irish and EU laws on data protection govern all activities we engage in with regard to our collection, storage, handling, disclosure and other uses of Personal Data.

We must comply with data protection and privacy laws because the law requires us to but we also would like you to have confidence in dealing with us, and compliance with data protection law helps us to maintain a positive reputation in relation to how we handle Personal Data.

We are required to demonstrate accountability for our data protection obligations. This means that we must be able to show how we comply with the applicable data protection and privacy laws, and that we have in fact complied with the laws. 

We do this, among other ways, by our written policies and procedures, by building data protection and privacy compliance into our systems and business rules, by internally monitoring our data protection and privacy compliance and keeping it under review, and by acting if our representatives, including employees or contractors, fail to follow the rules. 

We also have certain obligations in relation to keeping records about our data processing.

3. WHO MUST COMPLY?

All our representatives, which include employees and contractors, are required to comply with our Data Protection Policies and Procedures which inform this Privacy Policy when they process Personal Data on our behalf.

What are the data protection principles and rules?

We aim to comply with the following principles found in Data Protection Law:

  • Lawfulness, fairness and transparency – Personal data must be processed lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner.
  • Purpose Limitation – Personal data must be collected for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes and not further processed in a manner that is incompatible with those purposes.
  • Data minimisation – Personal Data must be adequate, relevant and limited to what is necessary in relation to purposes for which they are processed.
  • Accuracy – Personal data must be accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date. Inaccurate Personal Data should be corrected or deleted.
  • Retention – Personal data should be kept in an identifiable format for no longer than is necessary.
  • Integrity and confidentiality – Personal data should be kept secure.
  • Accountability – Under the GDPR, we must not only comply with the above six general principles but we must be able to demonstrate that we comply by documenting and keeping records of all decisions.

4. PROJECT DATA CONTROLLERS

The REACH project is made of 19 consortium partners, each of these entities is responsible for their own data protection compliance. If you have any queries about your personal data being used in this project please contact the relevant controller from the list below making sure to cite clearly that your query is related to the REACH project:

PartnerEmail Link to Privacy Policy
COMMISSARIAT A L ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVESdpd@cea.frhttps://www.cea.fr/Pages/protection-donnees-personnelles.aspx
UNIVERSIDAD DE LA IGLESIA DE DEUSTO ENTIDAD RELIGIOSA (DEU)privacidad@deusto.eshttps://www.deusto.es/es/inicio/privacidad/politicas-de-privacidad
INSTITUTO TECNOLOGICO DE INFORMATICAdpo@iti.eshttps://www.iti.es/politica-privacidad/
ZABALA INNOVATION CONSULTINGinfo@zabala.frhttps://www.zabala.eu/privacy-policy/
BRIGHT DEVELOPMENT STUDIOinfo@brightdevelopments.com
MAAT FRANCE SARLcontact@maat-pharma.comhttps://www.maatpharma.com/legal/
F6S NETWORK LIMITEDprivacyie@f6s.comhttps://www.f6s.com/privacy-policy-participants
MTU EESTI ARIINGLITE ASSOTSIATSIOONeudpo@dnb.comhttps://www.dnb.com/about-us/data-transparency/personal-data.html
ETHNIKO KENTRO EREVNAS KAI TECHNOLOGIKIS ANAPTYXISdpo@certh.grhttps://www.certh.gr/01BF01A8.en.aspx
SYSTEM@TIC PARIS REGION (SYSTEMATIC)dpo@systematic-paris-region.orghttps://systematic-paris-region.org/privacy-policy/?lang=en
JOT INTERNET MEDIA ESPANA SLinfo.web@jot-im.comhttps://www.jot-im.com/privacy-policy/
MIGROS TICARET ANONIM SIRKETImigrosticaretas@hs01.kep.trhttps://www.migroskurumsal.com/en/privacy#personal-data-protection-and-processing-policy
YAPI KREDI TEKNOLOJI ANONIM SIRKETIinfo@ykteknoloji.com.trhttps://www.ykteknoloji.com.tr/Assets/pdf/KVKK_Politikasi.pdf

5. PERSONAL DATA THAT THIS WEBSITE COLLECTS PROVIDED BY YOU AND HOW WE USE IT

Any personal information which you volunteer to The REACH Project through the use of this website will be treated with the highest standards of security and confidentiality, strictly in accordance with the EU GDPR and the Data Protection Acts 1988 to 2018. Unless stated otherwise in detail in the relevant sections of the Website, Personal Data generated from the use of our Website is processed as follows:

(i) Contact via contact form

Should you choose to communicate with us via the contact form, we invite you to provide your name, your email address, and message. The website does not store your personal data. The legal basis for processing Personal Data for the purposes set out in this item is art. 6(1)(b) of GDPR.

(ii)Newsletter subscription

Should you choose to subscribe to our newsletter, we invite you to provide your name, and your email address which are managed by https://mailchimp.com/ according to their terms and conditions. The website does not store your personal data. The legal basis for processing Personal Data for the purposes set out in this item is art. 6(1)(a) of GDPR. You can withdraw your consent from any communication from the %ACRONYM% project by using the ‘Unsubscribe’ link in any communication.

(iii) Social Media

Some of our webpages use social media plug-ins from other organisations. We embed widgets from these social media networks to provide retweet / sharing functions, like boxes, stream embeds and follow buttons. These other organisations may receive and use personal data about your visit to our sites or apps. If you browse our Website or view content on our apps, the information that these third-party social media organisations collect may be connected to your account on their site. For more information on how these organisations use personal data, please read their privacy policies. The legal basis for processing Personal Data for the purposes set out in this item is art. 6(1)(a) of GDPR.

(iv) Special Category Data

We will not collect special category data from you (for example information around your political/philosophical beliefs, racial/ethnic origins, sex life/sexual orientation) through your use of this website.

(v) Site visitation tracking

We use Matomo, an open source web analytics platform in order to measure, collect, analyse and report visitors data for purposes of understanding and optimising the website. We enable all anonymisation features in Matomo so no personal data is collected.

6. COOKIES AND THIRD PARTY – COOKIES

Cookies are small text files that can be used by websites to make a user’s experience more efficient.

You reserve the right to set up your browser to warn you before accepting cookies, or you can simply set it to refuse them, although you may not have access to all the features of this website if you do so. See your browser ‘help’ button for how you can do this. You do not need to have Cookies on to use or navigate through many parts of this Website. Remember that if you use different computers in different locations, you will need to ensure that each browser is adjusted to suit your Cookie preferences.

7. HOW WE STORE YOUR PERSONAL DATA

If you submit your contact details via the newsletter subscription form, your data is stored and managed in the platforms mentioned in section 5. They will be securely transmitted through the %ACRONYM% website with access only by authorised personnel.

Cookies are currently the only occasion where personal data will be stored by this Website.

We utilise state-of-the-art technology to store your data. The following safeguards are used, for example, to protect your personal data from misuse or any form of unauthorised processing:

  • Access to personal data is restricted to a limited number of authorised persons for the stated purposes.
  • The IT systems used for processing data are technically isolated from other systems to prevent unauthorised access and hacking.
  • Access to these IT systems is constantly monitored to detect and prevent misuse in the early stages.

8. HOW LONG WE WILL KEEP YOUR PERSONAL DATA FOR

The project shall not keep personal data in a form that permits identification of data subjects for longer a period than is necessary, in relation to the purpose(s) for which the data was originally collected. However, as it is a European Commission funded project it must retain generated data until five years after the balance of the project is paid or longer if there are ongoing procedures (such as audits, investigations or litigation). In this case, the data must be kept until they end.

9. DATA BREACHES

We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator when we are legally required to do so.

10. YOUR RIGHTS AS DATA SUBJECT WITH RESPECT TO YOUR PERSONAL DATA

Under the General Data Protection Regulation [Articles 15-21], you have a number of important rights . In summary, those include rights to:

Right of access:

You have the right to be aware and verify the legitimate nature of the processing. So, you have the right to access your personal data and receive additional information about how we process it.

Right to rectification:

You have the right to study, correct, update or modify your personal data by contacting the %ACRONYM% website manager at privacyie@f6s.com.

Right to erasure (Right to be forgotten):

You have the right to request deletion of your personal data when we process it on your consent or in order to protect our legitimate interests. In all other cases (such as, where there is a contract, obligation to process personal data legally required, or public interest), this right is subject to specific restrictions or shall not exist, as the case may be.

Right to restriction of processing:

You have the right to request a restriction of the processing of your personal data in the following cases:

(a) when the accuracy of the personal data is contested and until the accuracy is verified 

(b) when you oppose the deletion of your personal data and request the restriction of their use instead,

(c) when personal data are not needed for processing purposes, they are however required for the establishment, exercise, or defence of legal claims, and 

(d) when you object to the processing and the decision on your objection to processing is pending.

Right to object to processing:

You have the right to object at any time to the processing of your personal data where, as described above, the processing is based on the legitimate interests we pursue as data controllers, as well as, for the purposes of direct marketing and consumer profiling, if applicable.

Right to data portability:

You have the right to receive your personal data free of charge in a format that allows you to access, use, and edit them with commonly used editing methods. You also have the right to ask us, in case it is technically feasible, to transmit the data directly to another controller. Your right to do so exists for the data you have provided to us and is processed by automated means based on your consent or for the execution of a relevant contract.

Right to withdraw your consent:

In cases where processing is based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw it without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on consent prior to its withdrawal.

If you would like to exercise any of those rights, please:

  • contact us using our Contact details below
  • let us have enough information to identify you,
  • let us have proof of your identity and address, and
  • let us know the information to which your request relates.

11. TIME LIMITS FOR COMPLIANCE WITH YOUR RIGHTS AS DATA SUBJECT

We make every effort to comply with all requests within one month of the receipt of the request. However, this period may be extended for reasons relating to the specific right or complexity of your request.

12. DATA CONTROLLER CONTACT DETAILS AND DATA PROTECTION OFFICER

The data controller of this website is F6S Network Ireland Limited (registered number 643630) , whose registered office is at 77 Lower Camden Street, Dublin 2 D02 XE80, Ireland. All questions, comments and requests regarding this Privacy Policy may be also addressed to the following Contact details to privacyie@f6s.com or post address to our Company.

A Data Protection Officer has been appointed by F6S and such DPO will assist with the oversight of this Privacy Policy.

13. HOW TO COMPLAIN

As the Data Subject, you have the right to complain at any time to a supervisory authority in relation to any issues related to our processing of your Personal Data. We would like to hear from you first if you have a complaint about how we use your data so that we may rectify the issue. As The %ACRONYM% Project and F6S Network Ireland Limited are located in Ireland and we conduct our data processing in the EEA, we are regulated for data protection purposes by the Irish Data Protection Commissioner.

You can contact the Data Protection Commission as follows:

Website: www.dataprotection.ie

Phone: +353 (0) 1 7650100  or +353 (0) 1800437 737

Email: info@dataprotection.ie

Address: Data Protection Office – 21 Fitzwilliam Square South, Dublin 2, D02 RD28, Ireland

14. CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

Our practices as described in this Privacy Policy may be changed, but any changes will be posted and any such changes shall apply to your continued usage.

You are encouraged to review this Privacy Policy periodically to make sure that you understand how any personal information you provide will be used. 

We may also email you in certain circumstances to let you know if and when we update this Privacy Policy to ensure you are informed.

Any changes to this Privacy Policy will be posted on this website so you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.

CONNECT5 – DIH for Connectivity, CPS, IoT, Cloud/Edge and Data Analytics is a national and European DIH supporting the digital and green transformation of SMEs and public organizations. CONNECT5 is a collaborative network, in the form of a Consortium of 12 entities (RTO, polytechnic institutes, universities), with high level of expertise in digital technologies, state-of-the-art infrastructures and a deep nation-wide network of contacts (companies, business associations, public entities, etc.) bringing together their complementary expertise and assets, to create a unique value platform. 

The DIH TERA consortium consists of organisations based in East Croatia, among which there are constituents of the two East Croatian universities and development agencies from all five of the region’s counties, as well as business support institutions and renowned Croatian SMEs with extensive knowledge and experience in the IT sector and digitalisation processes. The coordinator is an SME with a not-for-profit clause, established by the Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Osijek-Baranja County and the City of Osijek.

4PDIH provides, connects and support knowledge, business and technology expertise, technologies, experimental and pilot environments, best practices, methodologies and other activities necessary to fully enable the Slovenian industry, public administration and communities in building digital competencies, innovation models and processes, and to support their digital transformation. The aim of 4PDIH is to foster awareness and provide services to grow digital competencies, share digital experience and case studies locally, regionally and internationally, and support the government to adapt regulation and open its data to foster entrepreneurship.

RTU ITI Digital Innovation Hub focuses on solving complex digitalization problems and knowledge and technology transfer to businesses and society. It specializes in enterprise integration, development of scalable cloud solutions for big data processing, data mining and machine learning including applications in cybersecurity, IoT, intelligent transportation systems and biotechnology, modelling and optimization of complex systems, development of digital twins as well as digital transformation of organization by using advanced information technologies.

CERR is Digital Innovation Hub Emilia-Romagna, one of the 22 Italian DIH, funded by Confindustria Emilia-Romagna and the other major industry associations of Emilia-Romagna Region, and is part of the EDIH recognized by the UE. CERR is a Business Innovation and Technology Transfer Center recognized by the Emilia-Romagna regional government, a node of the High Technology Network, acting as a link between companies, researchers and institutions. CERR is also part of a wider innovation ecosystems of Public-Private Partnerships.

The CERTH/ITI nZEB Smart House is a rapid prototyping & novel technologies demonstration infrastructure resembling a real domestic building where occupants can experience actual living scenarios while exploring various innovating smart IoT-based technologies with provided Energy, Health, Big Data, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) services. As the first Smart near-Zero Energy Building in Greece, it combines enhanced construction materials and intelligent ICT solutions creating a future-proof, sustainable and active testing, validating and evaluating ecosystem.

DIGIHALL is a DIH specialised in artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and cyber-physical systems. It was launched in March 2017 with strong support of the region Île-de-France, which will invest €300 million over 5 years within their smart regional strategy. DIGIHALL is led by a Research and Technology Organisation (CEA LIST) and an industry cluster (SYSTEMATIC), who federate different actors spanning from academia and education providers, to venture capital, incubators and testbeds. The DIH offers services such as testing facilities, digital maturity assessment, training on digital skills, and access to customers and finance. The aim is to accelerate technology adoption and knowledge transfer to industrial actors.

Data Cycle Hub is the Reference Digital Innovation Hub in the Valencia Region to promote data, artificial intelligence and cybersecurity based innovation. The objective is to close the gap between research and the industry, specifically SMEs, as well as the Public Administration, providing innovative solutions and services to make the best decisions regarding technological investments. It is an ecosystem composed of all the relevant agents and part of the AI Digital Innovation Hubs Network. All the technologies covered by the DIH are around DATA, covering from Data Gathering to Visualization. In this sense, the DIH addresses Primarily Big Data and Artificial Intelligence, but also other key digital enabling technologies like Cyber Physical Systems, IoT, Cloud and High Performance Computing Platforms or Statistics Optimization. The DIH was one of the 5 finalists to the DIHNET DIH Champions Challenge 2019.

INVAT·TUR (Institute of Tourism Technologies of Region of the Valencia), is a center conceived as a meeting platform for all agents in the tourism sector and represents one of the main axes in improving the competitiveness and sustainability of the tourism model of the Region of the Valencia. The goals are to develop lines of action in R+D+i adapted to the needs of the tourism sector, as well as transfer knowledge to tourism companies and organizations, giving the tourism sector access to the most advanced knowledge, services and technologies.

SMAT (Società Metropolitana Acque Torino S.p.A.) is the water utility managing the integrated water supply and wastewater service in the whole Metropolitan City of Turin (in the Piedmont region, north-west of Italy), for more than 2.2 million inhabitants from almost 300 municipalities. These include Turin urban area, which accounts for about half of the total population served. SMAT Group is a leader in the field of integrated water services and operates in the areas of engineering, construction and management of diversified water sources, state-of-the-art drinking water treatment systems, drainage systems and recycling of urban wastewater, collection, purification and recycling networks, energy cogeneration and recovery systems. 

Since 2008, SMAT has strongly engaged in research activities, with the inauguration of the Research Centre counting 7 full-time researchers and about 50 operators with a variety of competences including engineering, chemistry, physics, biology and biotechnology and has a fully equipped laboratory. Currently, SMAT Research Centre is involved in about 20 projects (two EU-funded Horizon 2020 projects).

The Bilbao City Council is the municipal executive body of Bilbao, which is directly elected by the citizens. The main competencies of the Bilbao City Council’s security area are public safety and civil protection, including the management and planning of the city’s fire brigade.

Grupo AN is a centenary cooperative and a leader in the Spanish agri-food sector. They are a second-degree cooperative formed by 160 agricultural cooperatives and 40,000 farmers and livestock owners. Grupo AN is the largest producer of cereal in Spain and is also highly active on national and international wheat, barley, corn, rape and sunflower markets. They are mainly producers of agricultural products, including fruits and vegetables of worldwide commercial interest.

Cofares is the leading pharmaceutical wholesaler in Spain. It is a cooperative with 100 % pharmaceutical capital that provides pharmacies with products as well as health-related services.

EDP is a multinational, vertically integrated utility company. Throughout over 40 years of history, they have been building a relevant presence in the world energy scene, being present in 29 countries, on 4 continents.
With more than 12.100 employees, they are present throughout the electricity value chain and in the gas commercialization activity. They are the fourth-largest wind energy production company in the world and 74% of their energy is produced from renewable resources. They provide electricity and gas to more than 9 million customers.

Biscay (NUTS3) is a one of the three provinces of the Basque Country, in the north of Spain with Bilbao, its capital, as the business, social and cultural center. The provincial executive body is the Government of Biscay (Diputación Foral de Bizkaia), which is directly elected by citizens. Core competences of the Government of Biscay are full taxation power, complete development of Social Services and Economic Promotion, among others, such as culture promotion, transport, infrastructure promotion, agriculture and environment, within the wide level of autonomy of the Basque Country. The Department of Social Action will participate in this project. The Department’s main function is to provide service to all those in Biscay who, due to a personal, family or social situation, have difficulties in leading a dignified and full life.

Idea75 is a SME that aims at providing innovative solutions for process optimization and energy efficiency of industrial plants following the new guidelines of Industry 4.0 and ISO 50001. The company has gained skills and experience in design and implementation of system automation, monitoring and supervision of production lines and automatic control systems. Idea75’s smart manufacturing solutions help our customers to significantly improve their operations by leveraging the data provided by related devices, people and processes (e.g. development of descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analytical models for Business Intelligence applied to energy efficiency and predictive maintenance of industrial machinery).

Sonae is a leader in the Portuguese retail market (food and non-food). Established in 1959, grew and strengthened its core business during 1980’s and 1990’s and achieved a turnover of more than 6 Bn € in 2018. Innovation in products and services has been the main tool to increase the company’s competitiveness. Sonae holds other businesses and interests such as retail properties, and core partnerships, such as shopping centres and telecommunications (one of Portugal’s biggest Telco companies).

Almerys is specialized in collecting, storing and processing sensitive data. Almerys ambitions are to become the global digital trust leader over the coming 10 years. Almerys provides products and services in digital trust, sovereignty and privacy-by-design, ranging from tier 4+ level data centers , to identities management, electronic signature, dynamic consent management, transactional payments, legal and probative archival of sensitive data, as well as personalized services brokering.

Play&go experience is a tool to create customized apps that improves the visitor’s experience, based on gamification, geolocation and augmented reality. With geolocated data we provide the visitor information of interest getting more interaction, fun and immersion, in mixed reality

VRT is the public broadcaster of the Flemish Community in Belgium. Its mission is to inform, inspire and unite and so reinforce Flemish society. As a service providing organization, the VRT wants to take up a special position in society. The VRT strives for a large audience, not so much to gain a high market share, but because it wants to be relevant to as many Flemish people as possible. This is the most important charter of the public broadcaster, i.e. reinforcing democracy and society by contributing to a social and pluralistic debate, documenting society and stimulating culture and language and Flemish society in all its diversity.

Yapı Kredi Teknoloji is a technology company established in 2015 to deliver innovative and patentable products and solutions with high added value. We develop innovative and R&D oriented comprehensive software projects, especially for the banking and finance sector. For the solutions and products, we mostly employ artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing, data mining. WIth several AI projects deployed so far, Yapi Kredi Teknoloji has always been a leader ideas in the era of bank operation models. We focus on the functions/applications/systems that better translate AI results to the customers. Among all AI applications better results come out of customer centric solutions. We put ourselves in the customers’ place and focus on AI at key dialogue points.

Migros Ticaret A.Ş. was founded in 1954 in İstanbul through the joint initiatives of the Swiss Migros Cooperatives Union and the İstanbul Municipality. Embracing the mission of procuring food supplies and consumables from producers under the supervision of the municipal authorities and of serving these products to İstanbul inhabitants in hygienic conditions and at economic prices. Migros opened its first store in Istanbul in 1957. Today, Migros offers spacious stores in a wide range of formats and locations whose vast selection of stationer, glass and kitchenware, appliance, book, recorded media, clothing and other necessities give it the ability to satisfy nearly all of the shopping needs of its customers.

JOT Internet Media España is one of the world’s leading platforms for High Quality Audience Acquisition for Global Digital Players. It was created in October 2004 and operates internationally in brokering high volumes of multichannel internet traffic which includes search engine queries (Search), social networks media (Social) and advertising space (Display). JOT is one of the three largest worldwide players in internet traffic brokerage. The company operation is supported by large technology partners such as Google, Bing/Yahoo, Ask.com, Web.de, CBS. JOT is a multinational digital company that generates large amounts of qualified and high quality2 traffic in Search, Social and Display.

Systematic Paris-Region innovation and technology cluster brings together and promotes an ecosystem of excellence in Deep Tech (Cyber & Security; Data Science & AI; Digital Engineering; Digital Infrastructure & IoT; Open Source; Optics & Photonics) with 900 members. Systematic connects stakeholders and boosts digital projects through collaborative innovation, SME development, business sourcing, across a range of strategic sectors: energy, telecoms, healthcare, transport, information systems, factory of the future, digital city and security. The cluster promotes its members, region and innovation projects, with the aim of raising their profile and enhancing the attractiveness of the Paris- Region area and ecosystem.

The Centre for Research and Technology Hellas is one of the largest research centres in Greece; top 1 in north Greece. It was founded in 2000 and is located in Thessaloniki. Its mission is to promote the triplet Research – Development – Innovation by conducting high quality research and developing innovative products and services while building strong partnerships with industry and strategic collaborations with academia and other research and technology organisations in Greece and abroad.

EstBAN is an organization for business angels and business angel groups seeking investment opportunities in Estonia and its neighbouring regions with an aim to grow the quantity and quality of local seed stage investments. In 2014, EstBAN was awarded “The Best Newcomer in Europe” by European Business Angels network and in 2018 received an award for the Best Early Stage Ecosystem and performing EBAN member. As of 2019, EstBAN has 150+ members that invested a total of €7 million EUR during 2018. EstBAN’s main aim is to increase the amount of angel investments in Estonian startup ecosystem, support and train angel investors to become more knowledgeable, improve the deal flow quality and raise the number of angel investors in EstBAN.

Gnúbila is a data privacy solution designer and independent software vendor. GNúbila provides solutions to extract, de-identify, demilitarise and share medical sensitive data cross-enterprise and transnationally. Actively supporting European and international consortia since a decade, Gnúbila justifies a rich experience in the field of biomedical research and e-health big data platforms developments. Its goal is to offer state-of-the- art anonymisation techniques to process all possible medical information and make it shareable in big data scenarios. Gnúbila enforces privacy and informational self-determination by design.

F6S is a leading global founder and startup network that helps public sector entities around the world to promote, communicate and disseminate technical and research projects. F6S stands for F-ounder-S. Our mission is to help founders and startups grow to solve the world’s pressing social, economic, environmental, sustainability and innovation problems. In addition to F6S’ work with governmental entities, we also work with corporates, investors, research institutions, programs, universities and others in the global startup ecosystem. F6S tools deliver company growth through grants, partnerships, funding, investment, pilot contracts, partnerships, jobs & talent recruitment and company services.

Bright Pixel is a company builder studio, working on the assumption that putting together industry partners, technology, incubation and investment contributes to launching better and more robust tech-based companies and products into the market. Bright Pixel’s business model has two lines of action with synergies with each other: Incubation & investment: with a strong tech-based team, with vast experience in launching IT products/services, Bright Pixel is uniquely positioned to support start-ups being able to provide mentoring and support to start-ups both on tech and business topics. Bright Pixel incubates and invests in start-ups as well as launches own spinoffs.

ZABALA is a Spanish SME (over 200 employees) that has a wide experience in supporting entities in the management of their RTD and innovation activities, as well as in technology transfer projects and initiatives. It is a consolidated RTD and Innovation consultancy firm working across Europe on these fields since 1986. It currently provides, on a contract basis, consultancy services related to RTD and innovation management to a portfolio of 600 organisations (including SMEs, big companies, RTD centres, universities and public organizations).

Instituto Tecnológico de Informática is a Spanish Research & Technology centre specialised in ICT, established in 1994 and located in Valencia, Spain. ITI research and innovation activity is developed by a team of 200 highly-skilled people, focused on 6 key digital enablers around the Data Cycle: Cyber connectivity, Cyber-Physical Systems, Computing Infrastructures & Platforms, Big Data Analytics, Optimization Technologies, and Artificial Intelligence. All this knowledge and experience is brought to the industrial and public sector through a range of services: Access to infrastructure and technology platforms, Access to specialist expertise on digitisation & applications, Collaborative research for Industry needs, Demonstration of best practices, Training and Education, Showcase technologies in pilot factories, and Support experimentation in real-life environments.

The University of Deusto, recently recognized as an International Excellence Campus, was founded in 1886 and comprises 6 Faculties: Psychology and Education, Human and Social Sciences, Engineering, Law, Business and Economic Sciences and Theology. The MORElab – ICT for Good — research group is one of the largest and most successful research groups in the University and belongs to the Internet unit within DeustoTech – Deusto Institute of Technology, affiliated to the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Deusto. The group has a strong background in the application of Artificial Intelligence techniques to middleware for embedded and mobile systems in order to foster context-aware reactivity. In addition, the group is currently focusing its research on the area of Smart Cities by leveraging its expertise on Ubiquitous Computing, Social Computing, Linked Open Data management and recommendation and social data mining (Big Data Analytics) to extract structured data from social networks and thus enable urban apps assisting the daily activities of citizens or visitors.

Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives is a French Research and Technology Organisation established in October 1945. The CEA LIST research institute focuses on the development of software and hardware technology for highly integrated complex systems. Its R&D programs, all based on major economic and social implications focuses, deal with advanced manufacturing, embedded systems, ambient intelligence, and health applications. It has a long experience of European funded projects but also in technology transfer to industry and SMEs.