SPATIAL DEFENDING THE ENFORCEMENT OF DATA PRIVACY, RESILIENCE ENGINEERING AND ACCOUNTABILITY OF AI FEATURES IN SECURITY SYSTEMS DURING THE PROJECTS TO POLICY SEMINAR IN BRUSSELS
SPATIAL participated in the 3rd edition of the ‘Projects to Policy Seminar (PPS)‘ (Brussels, June 30 – July 1 2022), an event hosted by the European Commission to gather the main stakeholders around EU Security Research and Innovation. An opportunity to establish two-way communication between initiatives funded under Horizon funds and relevant Commission services, including DG HOME, DG CNECT, REA and ENISA.
The objective of the seminar was to ensure that relevant policy drivers are aware and involved in the early phases of newly launched initiatives, while researchers can adopt a more active position in policy development. At the same time, the event created a meaningful opportunity to nurture untapped collaboration across projects, identifying synergies and fostering the exchange of ideas.
Aaron Ding (Coordinator of SPATIAL, and Director of CPI Lab at TU Delft) and Jose Gonzalez (Head of Impact in SPATIAL, and CEO of AUSTRALO) represented SPATIAL in the dedicated session for Digital Security (DS). The ambition of the project around Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence exposed its value proposition, delivering building blocks capable of enforcing data privacy, resilience engineering and accountability of AI features in security systems. The session highlighted the relevance of empowering legal and ethical impact in security systems, a challenge foreseen in SPATIAL through the social innovation team members and the education module for Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) that will be launched.
The breakout session also manifested the ongoing cooperation of SPATIAL within the Task Force of H2020 projects under SU-DS02-2020: Intelligent security and privacy management, Arcadian-IoT, ERATOSTHENES, IRIS, IDUNN and SECANT.