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).

 

Let’s keep on moving!

Fulvio

 

From: fulvio.frati@unimi.it <fulvio.frati@unimi.it>
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2023 10:30 AM
To: 'aeras@di.unimi.it' <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 MSCA’s 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 pilot’s 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.

 

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 pilot’s 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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