COST Action IC1403: CRYPTACUS

CRYPTAnalysis of Ubiquitous Computing Systems

Improve the security and privacy of ubiquitous

computing systems, from theory to practice.

Dec. 2014-2018

MC Chair: Gildas Avoine, INSA Rennes, France

MC Vice-Chair: Julio Hernandez-Castro, Univ. of Kent, UK
Grant Holder Manager: Isabelle Mesguen, INSA Rennes, France
COST Science Officer: Karina Marcus
COST Administrative Officer: Andrea Tortajada

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 Welcome to Participants
Welcome
Agenda
Minutes
Update from Chair
Update from GH
Update from COST
News about Book
Activity Summary
AoB
Decisions Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Closing

Rennes, France

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 Adoption of the Agenda
Welcome
Agenda
Agenda was sent with the official invitation.
Minutes
Update from Chair
Update from GH 1. Welcome to participants
Update from COST 2. Adoption of agenda
News about Book 3. Approval of minutes
Activity Summary
4. Update from the Action Chair
AoB
Decisions 5. Update from the Grant Holder
Closing 6. Update from the COST Association
7. News about the book
8. Summary of Cryptacus’ activities and contributions
9. AoB
10. Summary of MC decisions
11. Closing

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 Approval of Minutes and Decisions
Welcome
Agenda
 Minutes of Nijmegen MC Meeting unanimously approved by
Minutes
e-vote (Sep. 11th, 2018).
Update from Chair
Update from GH  Shift of the awareness meeting from Dec. 4th to Nov. 27th,
Update from COST 2018 unanimously approved by e-vote (Sep. 11th, 2018).
News about Book
Activity Summary
AoB
Decisions
 Minutes of Azores MC meeting (17/04/18) to be approved.
Closing  Quorum (20/30 countries) not obtained. An e-vote will be
organized by the MC Vice-chair.

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 Update from the Chair
Welcome
Agenda
Minutes
Update from Chair
Update from GH  Current MC Meeting is the final one
Update from COST
News about Book
 End of the Action is Dec. 11th, 2018
Activity Summary
 Still an awareness day in Brussels in November 2018
AoB
Decisions  STSMs and ITC Grants continue up to Dec. 11th
Closing
 Newsletter will continue till Dec. 2018.
 Due date for Action report is Jan. 10th, 2019.

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 Promotion of the Action
Welcome
Agenda
Minutes
Update from Chair  Acknowledgement
Update from GH
Update from COST
– "This article is based upon work from COST
News about Book Action IC1403 CRYPTACUS, supported by
Activity Summary COST (European Cooperation in Science and
AoB Technology)".
Decisions
Closing

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 Update from the Grant Holder
Welcome
Agenda
Minutes
 Grant Holder: INSA Rennes, France
Update from Chair  GH Administrative Manager: Isabelle Mesguen
Update from GH
Update from COST  GH Scientific Representative: Gildas Avoine
News about Book
Activity Summary
AoB
Decisions
Closing

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 Update from the Grant Holder
Welcome
Agenda
Minutes
Update from Chair
Update from GH
Update from COST
News about Book
Activity Summary
AoB
Decisions
Closing

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 Budget: STSM
Welcome
Agenda
Minutes
Update from Chair
Update from GH
Update from COST
News about Book
Activity Summary
AoB
Decisions
Closing

 Budget (final grant period): 16 000€

 Spent or forecasted: 13 450 €
 Remain: 2550 € (up to Dec. 11th, 2018)

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 Budget: ITC Conference Grant
Welcome
Agenda
Minutes
Update from Chair
Update from GH
Update from COST
News about Book
Activity Summary
AoB
Decisions
Closing

 Budget (final grant period): 5 400€

 Spent or forecasted: 1 765 €
 Remain: 3635 € (up to Dec. 11th, 2018)

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 Reimbursement
Welcome
Agenda
Minutes
 Hotel bill is required by INSA’s financial office.
Update from Chair  If 0 € < public transportation expenses for non-cross
Update from GH
Update from COST
border travels ≤ 25 € : claim 25 € and DO NOT submit
News about Book any receipt.
Activity Summary
AoB
 Max (n+1) nights reimbursed per n-day meeting
Decisions
(signature on attendance list required).
Closing
 By default, taxi is never reimbursed (except for early
departure and late arrival).

 Floor is open for questions.

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 Update from the COST Association
Welcome
Agenda
Minutes
Floor is given to Karina Marcus
Update from Chair
Update from GH
Update from COST
News about Book
Activity Summary
AoB
Decisions
Closing

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 News about the Book
Welcome
Agenda
Minutes
 Publisher is Springer (contact: Ronan Nugent)
Update from Chair  Cost: 9000 € (165 copies)
Update from GH
Update from COST  All (13) chapters have been written (37 authors)
News about Book
Activity Summary  Current phase: cross-review and revision
AoB
Decisions  Next phase: global review by Gildas and Julio
Closing
 Should be delivered to Springer in November 2018
 Publication is expected early in 2019
 Webpage to promote the book

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 Summary of Cryptacus’ activities
Welcome
Agenda
Minutes
Update from Chair
2015 2016 2017 2018
Update from GH
Update from COST
News about Book
Activity Summary
AoB
Decisions
Closing

Sibenik 15 Haifa 16 Nijmegen 17 Rennes 18

Brussels 14 Sofia-Antipolis 16 Sutomore 17 São Miguel 18

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 STSMs (2014-2018)
Welcome
Agenda
Minutes
Update from Chair
Update from GH
Update from COST
News about Book
Activity Summary
AoB
Decisions
Closing

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 Summary of Cryptacus’ activities
Welcome
Agenda
Minutes
Update from Chair  A strong scientific network has been created
Update from GH
Update from COST  Many collaborations (articles, book, STSMs, project
News about Book
proposals) have been launched
Activity Summary
AoB  This community should survive to the end of
Decisions
Cryptacus
Closing

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 Any other Business
Welcome
Agenda
Minutes
 Floor is open for discussion
Update from Chair
Update from GH
Update from COST
News about Book
Activity Summary
AoB
Decisions
Closing

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 Summary of MC Decisions
Welcome
Agenda
Minutes
Update from Chair  Julio will request the MC to approve the Azores’ minutes.
Update from GH  Gildas will send to the MC the unapproved Rennes’ minutes.
Update from COST
News about Book  Julio will request the MC to approve the Rennes’ minutes.
Activity Summary
AoB
Decisions
Closing

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 Closing
Welcome
Agenda
Minutes
 Thanks for coming. Enjoy the conference.
Update from Chair  Big thanks to all the MC Members and contributors to
Update from GH
Update from COST
Cryptacus!
News about Book
Activity Summary
AoB
Decisions
Closing

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COST Action IC1403
Final MC meeting
Karina Marcus – Rennes, 18 September 2018
Action Outcomes
 The topic has attracted a lot of attention all
over Europe: from 12 countries at the
proposal stage to 30 countries today
 Via their activities over the 4 years (until
now)
 8 meetings,
 2 Training Schools,
 30 STSMs
 2 ITC Conference Grants
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The dot size is proportional to the number of participations coming
from the specific country. The width of the lines indicates the
number of interactions between participants from these two specific
countries

IC1403

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 IC1403

The dot size is proportional to the number of participations

coming from the specific science subfield

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 Number of Participations
per Country
30

25

20

15

10

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 Amount of Reimbursement
per Country
25000

20000

15000

10000

5000

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 COST Policy…
300

250

200

150

100

50

0
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Total participation Female part ECI part Female ECI part
Albania becomes a full COST Member
 COST’s governing body, the Committee of
Senior Officials (CSO), has unanimously
accepted Albania’s request for full COST
membership
 The country is now the 37th COST Member
and it a COST Inclusiveness Target Country

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 COST Member Countries
• 37 COST Members
Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and
Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech
Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France,
Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland,
Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta,
Montenegro, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland,
Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia,
Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United
Kingdom and the former Yugoslav Republic of
Macedonia

• 1 Cooperating Member
Israel

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Action Monitoring
Final Assessment
Type Time Focus Referent
(months)
PR1 12 Implementation of SC Recommendations Scientific
& COST Policies Committee
PR2 24 • Progress Action
• Impacts and successes Rapporteur
• Dissemination & Exploitation
• Urgent needs for improvement
FA 48 • MoU Achievements Action
• Expected Impact & Successes Rapporteur
• Dissemination & Exploitation
• Added value of the networking
• Lessons for the future and success
stories
• Emerging themes/ potentially
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important future developments
Final Assessment

Review Type Purpose and features Reviewed by

Identify how well the Action has reached the defined

MoU objectives and deliverables (Achievements,
Impacts & Successes, Dissemination & Exploitation,
and added value of the networking)
Collects data for:
Final Independent
 COST Association reporting to EC
Assessment External
 Impact Analyses
Expert
 The identification of success stories
(End of the assigned by
 The identification of emerging themes/
Action) the COST
potentially important future developments
Association
An Action Rapporteur will be appointed by the
COST Association and will perform the evaluation
remotely based on a report prepared by the Action
Chair (MC approval needed)

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Final Assessment in e-COST

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COST Strategic Plan (Dec 2017)
 Three priorities for the current and next Framework
Programme for Research and Innovation:
1. Promoting and spreading excellence,
2. Fostering interdisciplinary research for breakthrough
science,
3. Empowering and retaining young researchers and
innovators
 Implying a need to increase the budget to at least EUR
600 million (EUR 85,7 million per year), enabling initiating
up to 75 new COST Actions per call (currently 30-35
Actions per call)
 http://www.cost.eu/download/62986

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 For 2018: Technical Annex template and
evaluation criteria changed
 Following Open Call: collection date in
September 2019

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Action Administration
 Administrative Officer: Ms Andrea Tortajada
(Andrea.Tortajada@cost.eu)
 Vademecum
 Always refer to the version on the COST website:
(http://www.cost.eu/Vademecum)
 Watch out for an updated version in May!

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What is Next?
 What do you do with this accomplished work that
was presented at this conference?
 Push forward your Agenda and priorities set by
COST Action at local national and EU policy level
 How do you keep the momentum and
connections?
 Think and act for concrete follow-up projects and
collaborations
 See the end of the Action as the start of
something new

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