ERCIM News 146
October 2026
Special theme Quantum Technology
Guest editors Miroslav Dobsicek (RISE), Sebastian Raubitzek (SBA Research) and Filippo Vella (CNR-ICAR)
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by Massimo Cossentino, Giuseppe Papuzzo, Vishal Sonth and Fabio Martinelli (ICAR-CNR)
Cyberattacks against Europe’s digital infrastructures are growing in scale and sophistication, yet organisations still manage technical risk, situational awareness, incident response and cyber-insurance in separate silos. The Horizon Europe project SYNAPSE integrates all of these into a single platform, combining AI-driven threat intelligence, standardised incident-response orchestration and blockchain-based cyber-insurance.
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by Giulia Petrarulo, Filip Maksimovic and Thomas Watteyne (Inria)
OpenSwarm, an EU-funded project coordinated by Inria that concluded in April 2026, has developed and validated a new open-source approach for enabling large groups of small, low-power wireless devices to work together intelligently, efficiently and autonomously.
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by Panagiotis Tsakalides (FORTH-ICS) and Vassilis Charmandaris (FORTH)
The Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH) will establish the Cretan Center of Excellence in Emerging Space Technologies, structured around intelligent space systems, optical and quantum communications, and quantum sensors. The €35 million Horizon Europe Teaming project ranked 2nd among 61 proposals from across Europe.