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Regional Agency for Environmental Protection of Friuli Venezia Giulia

Arpa FVG is the Regional Agency for Environmental Protection of Friuli Venezia Giulia. ARPA is a public law body responsible of technical activities for environmental supervision and control, research and technical-scientific support activities, as well as for the provision of analysis and monitoring services related to health and environment.

Role in the project:

ARPA, as associated partner of CEDAR, will contribute to the Italian pilot, providing support on environmental aspects and data related to public procurements.

ANCE FVG

ANCE Friuli Venezia Giulia is the Regional Association of construction industrialists belonging - at national level - to ANCE, which represents the professional interests of the sector in relations with regional institutions and administrations, with political, economic, trade union, social organizations and with any other regional component of society.

Role in the project:

ANCE will collect insights describing critical events and situations, to define testing scenarios and roles, to propose significant KPI and metrics. ANCE will support piloting activities (setup and evaluation) as domain experts.

Friuli Venezia Giulia autonomous Region

Friuli Venezia Giulia autonomous Region is a territorial public authority with autonomous powers and functions with a special status with unique forms and conditions of legislative, administrative and financial autonomy. The administrative organization of the Region is divided into Directorates and Services that serve primary organizational needs; they are made up of regional offices to carry out functionally homogeneous and complementary activities to achieve joint programming, promotion and research, orientation and intervention and flexible structures to contingent needs.

Role in the project:

FVG manages an its own public procurement data platform that is used by most of municipalities and public administrations in the region. FVG will provide data and cooperate with scientific and technical partners on joint data analysis strategies and in particular on Italian case study on public tenders corruption prevention.

NETCOMPANY-INTRASOFT SA

Netcompany-Intrasoft (NCI) is a leading European IT Solutions and Services Group with strong international presence and expertise, offering innovative and added-value solutions of the highest quality to a wide range of international and national public and private organizations. It employs more than 3,200 highly skilled professionals and with headquarters in Luxembourg it operates through its operational branches, subsidiaries and offices in 10 countries.

Role in the project:

Netcompany-Intrasoft (NCI) will guide the development and integration of the CEDAR components and services through a detailed time- and responsibility-wise development and integration plan for the delivery of each technology and integration endpoint, along with the testing cycles to verify their correct functioning. NCI will define the interface specifications (APIs) and ensure the correct interoperability and functionality of all the modular tools.

UBITECH Ltd.

UBITECH is a leading, highly innovative software house, systems integrator and technology provider, established to provide leading edge intelligent technical solutions and consulting services to businesses, organizations and government in order to allow the efficient and effective secure access and communication with various heterogeneous information resources and services, anytime and anywhere. It enables real-time valid information processing and decision-making, the realization of intelligent business environments with high added-value business software services.

Role in the project:

UBITECH coordinates the identification and definition of the open and proprietary data sources, repositories and collections to be used in the project, which will further guide the design of CEDAR data flows within the conceptual architecture and the development of CEDAR Data- and ML- Ops, as well as the data to be shared / integrated with existing CEDS.

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

The Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) is the largest technical university in Spain, devoted to technical and engineering studies, having about 41,000 students, 3,600 teaching and research staff, and 2,000 administrative and technical staff. UPM plays an important role in European research activities: it has been the largest Spanish public contractor to the European Commission (position kept in FP4, FP5, FP6, FP7 and H2020) . Most of the international R&D activities performed by IT Spanish companies have been seeded by UPM.

Role in the project:

UPM will be the CEDAR Scientific Coordinator and will coordinate the modelling and harmonization of the different datasets being used in the project. To this end, UPM will apply its previous experience in knowledge graphs and semantic-based technologies.

Engineering Ingegneria Informatica

Engineering is the Digital Transformation Company, leader in Italy and expanding its global footprint, with around 15,000 associates, with over 70 offices spread across Europe, the United States, and South America and global delivery.

Role in the project:

ENG is the technical coordinator of the project and leader of WP3. ENG will provide innovative solutions for data collection and cleaning, data and ML operations, and integration of the new data sources with CEDS, as well as develop innovative solutions for data analytics and machine learning.

Institute for Corporative Security Studies

ICS is a non-government research institute with a vision to create, promote, and share top-level knowledge and processes in the area of corporate security. With a range of professional services, ICS helps public and private organisations to comprehensively manage the entire spectrum of security risks in business and other environments, creating a safer and richer future for the users, and beyond.

Role in the project:

ICS brings the knowledge and experience in the security domain to undertake two key responsibilities, namely (1) coordinate the pilot in Slovenia focused on increasing transparency in the healthcare sector, and (2) ensure security of the newly developed solutions through a comprehensive and continuous risk assessment and penetration tests.

LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY "ARTELLENCE UKRAINE"

Artellence is one of a few dozen companies in the world that has learned how to deeply analyze open big data. The company solves complex OSINT tasks for state structures of Ukraine, creates tools for verification of counterparties based on open information, and launches joint socially significant projects. Artellence analyzed billions of pages and profiles on the internet, developed its facial recognition system, built NLP algorithms for analyzing the meaning of texts, and created models for structuring heterogeneous big data.

Role in the project:

The company’s role in CEDAR covers: - developing the tool (jointly with YouControl) that will reveal the probability of potential corruption links in governmental tenders; - this tool will extensively utilize AI, and machine learning algorithms to squeeze insights from open big data; - predictive metrics on potential corruption links in governmental tenders will be provided as an output.

LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY "YOUCONTROL"

YouControl is a leading Ukrainian IT company with a 9-year track record in the open data market. Our mission is to foster international cooperation by ensuring transparency in the business environment. Our products allow users to quickly verify any company in Ukraine, individual entrepreneurs, or citizens using over 220 public data sources; analyze the market, find clients, and reliable partners for cooperation; investigate international cooperation for the presence of toxic connections with sanctioned and political figures.

Role in the project:

YC is the leader of the pilot “Transparent management of foreign aid for rebuilding Ukraine”. Our role in the pilot: Collect, model, harmonise, and utilise multiple complex data sources. Create a solution for multi-factor risk analysis of legal entities and key individuals behind them to find potential links to Russia and identify bids with a high risk for corruption. Develop an automated system for identifying legal grounds for disqualifying participants in public procurement.