Dear all,
I have received the green light from the PO to proceed with the amendment. I
will prepare a draft with all the changes we have to put in it and I would
like to approve it in a general meeting to be held next Tuesday (December
the 5th) at 1PM CET, using the common slot of WP2-4.
Furthermore, she will grant us also an extension of 6 additional months.
It is important that all partners will participate, because she granted me a
quick process
if we also are quick. In this call I add also representatives
of the new partners Trinomial and Ethical AI. Please Nikos extend to them
the call invitation.
The major points of discussion are the ones you found in the email I sent
you on Monday (below).
Lets keep on moving!
Fulvio
From: fulvio.frati@unimi.it
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2023 10:30 AM
To: 'aeras@di.unimi.it'
Subject: update on PMs reshuffling
Dear all,
I would like to update you on the status of the amendment we should ask to
move ahead and reshuffle PMs among partners (thus keeping alive the
project
).
As I told you, we contacted Mazaryn University since they were the perfect
candidate for our project being the developers of the CONCORDIA cyber rage
(KYPO). Even if they were interested at the first calls, they rejected after
speaking with their managers (this took a week to have a reply from them).
The MSCAs approach hardly fits with their staff, they are more keen to
research projects that do not involve secondments.
We found the availability of two organizations from Cyprus to join the
Consortium: Ethical AI (Academic) and Trinomial (non-academic). They can
commit 5 ESRs for 12 months each. They are good in web technologies and
cybersecurity and they seem very good candidates. We also thought how to
organize the work. We think that focusing the work on pilots sites (PAGNI
and UPAT) will be the best solution to reach our objectives. Furthermore,
CUT is available to perform 12 additional PMs.
Both Trinomial and Ethical AI have valid PIC and they are already aware of
MSCA-RISE program (they already participated/are participating to it).
The possible reshuffle could be the following.
* All 48 PMs will be moved from TSI to Ethical AI
* 48 PMs will be moved from STS-CY to Trinomial
* 12 PM will be moved from UMIL to CUT
* 12 PM will be moved from UMIL to Ethical AI
* 12 PMs will be moved from PAGNI to Trinomial
* UMIL will have its budget reduced from 48 to 24 PMs
* STS-Cy will have its budget reduced from 60 to 12 PMs (already
reported 3.53 PMs from Nikitakis secondment)
* PAGNI will have its budget reduced from 48 to 36
* CUT will raise its budget from 48 to 60 PMs
* TSI will leave the Consortium and all its budget will be returned
The following table will summarize the new consortium
current
amendment
UNIMI
48
24
CUT
48
60
12 from UMIL
STS
60
12
AEGIS
24
24
PAGNI
48
36
UPAT
36
36
ETH AI
-
60
48 from TSI + 12 from UMIL
Trinomial
-
60
48 from STS + 12 from PAGNI
TSI
48
-
312
312
Being both Trinomial and Ethical AI both from Cyprus, we can reorganize the
secondments assigning all of them to the pilots sites in Greece: Ethical AI
to PAGNI and Trinomial to UPAT.
To balance, UPAT secondments that were planned to STS-CY can be moved to
AEGIS, and my final secondment planned to PAGNI can be moved to Trinomial in
2025.
In the amendment we will also ask an extension of WPs and deliverables
submission dates. The uncertainties of the last months froze the work, since
the work on models is mostly dependent on the choose of the cyber range
infrastructure to incorporate.
If possible, we will ask a further extension of 6 months, that could be
beneficial to the project, if MSCA regulations allow it.
I have already contacted the PO. As soon as I have a reply form her, we can
organize a call where summarizing all the change to put in the amendment.
Best,
Fulvio
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