Kryptus (Brazil). Developed the SCuP, the world’s only microprocessor crafted for high-security and the only one publicly inspectable with hardware and software designs, as confirmed in writing by the European Defence Agency. It designed the 400.000 voting machines of Brazil, fighter to fighter communications systems, and the HSM of core Root CA of the main Brazilian PKI.

Role: CPU and SoC design

KU Leuven – COSIC Group (Belgium). Research group COSIC (Computer Security and Industrial Cryptography) of the Dept. of Electrical Engineering ESAT Dept, Led by Prof. Bart Preneel, President of the International Association for Cryptologic Research. It provides world­-leading expertise in digital security and strives for innovative security solutions, in a broad range of application domains.

Role: Cryptosystems architecture

DFKI – German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (Germany). Currently the largest research center worldwide in the area of Artificial Intelligence and its applications, in terms of number of employees and the volume of external funds. DFKI shareholders include Deutsche Post, Deutsche Telekom, Google, Microsoft, SAP, BMW, Intel and Daimler

Role: Fabrication oversight processes (CivicFab/Site)

TRUSTLESS.AI (US/Switzerland). TRUSTLESS.AI is a spin-off of the Open Media Cluster, founders of the Trustless Computing Association. It is building the first trustless Computing complaint IT service, SeevikNet, including a 2mm-thin touch-screen device – attachable through a case to the back of any phone – that enables top enterprises, top banks, and mission-critical NGOs to radically exceed the state-of-the-art in the confidentiality and integrity of lawful communications and financial transactions.

Role: app and middle-ware layers; service, life-cycle and supply-chain architecture; socio-technical and organizational components.

Role: Architectural and Supply Chain Mgmt and Integration

Lfoundry (Italy). Leading EU-located and EU-owned foundry with a 200mm plant, with over 1700 staff and with capacity of 40,000 wafers per month. The only independent and economically-viable EU foundry with in the 60nm and 160nm capabilities. It is suitable for high-assurance low-performance IC fabricat

Role: Fabrication oversight processes (CivicFab/Site)

Municipality of Barcelona (Spain). It is the capital city of the autonomous community of Catalonia in Spain and Spain’s second most populated city, with a population of 1.6 million within its administrative limits. Barcelona is the seat of the Catalan government, known as the Generalitat de Catalunya; of particular note are the executive branch, the parliament, and the Supreme Court of Catalonia. It has historically been a EU leader in government and e-government practices centered on promoting citizens’ autonomy.

Lombardia Informatica (Italy). It is a public-capital service company which has been constituted in December 1981 as an initiative of the Regional Government of the Lombardia (Regione Lombardia). It has around 630 employees and a turnover of about 200 million Euros. Designs and implements ICT Systems for the Regional Government and represents the unique interface between Regione Lombardia and the marketplace. Lombardia Informatica SPA (LISPA) team has a complete expertise in providing public services. The large experience in complex service and in providing critical privacy and security services in e-Gov and eHealth fields involving citizens and public employees guarantees all competence to manage the lab validation site.

Italian Ministry of Economic Development – Instituto Superiore delle Comunicazioni e delle Tecnologie dell’Informazione (ISCOM) (Italy). ISCOM is a General Direction of the Italian Ministry of Economic Development and it runs the OCSI, the Italian Scheme for ICT Security which certifies all IT systems authorized to deal with state secrets, under guidance form Italy DIS. Italy is a member of SOG-IS.