European Cyber Security Organisation (ECSO)
2016-01-01 08:00 - 2026-12-31 17:00 (Europe/Oslo) | ECSO, Avenue des Arts 46 Kunstlaan, Brussels, 1000, Belgium
(NETWORK)

ECSO. “ECSO”. Accessed 14.08.2025. https://ecs-org.eu.

The right place to be for cybersecurity in Europe

The European Cyber Security Organisation (ECSO) is a European, cross-sectoral membership organisation that contributes to developing cybersecurity communities and building the European cybersecurity ecosystem.

ECSO federates the European Cybersecurity public and private sector, including large companies, SMEs and start-ups, research centres, universities, end-users and operators of essential services, clusters and associations, as well as the local, regional and national public administrations across the European Union Members States and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA).

Mission

ECSO contributes to Europe’s Digital Sovereignty & Strategic Autonomy and to strenghtening its cyber resilience by:

Bringing together the private and public sectors, facilitating their dialogue and joint actions

Empowering communities and shaping the European cybersecurity ecosystem

Federating and providing a platform for collaboration for various stakeholders

European Cybersecurity Investment Platform
2016-09-01 08:00 - 2026-12-31 17:00
(INITIATIVE) (INVESTMENT)

ECSO. “European Cybersecurity Investment Platform.” Accessed 14.08.2025. https://ecs-org.eu/activities/european-cybersecurity-investment-platform/.

About the initiative

The European Cybersecurity Investment Platform (ECIP) is set to be a fund-of-funds mechanism proposed by ECSO as a response to the investment gap in the EU cybersecurity market. With a target size of at least €1 billion, the ECIP aims to strengthen the competitiveness of our cybersecurity market and overall European strategic autonomy.

Since 2016, ECSO has been working with major private investors, the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the European Commission, alerting on the need to increase investments allocated to cybersecurity. In 2020, the Letter of Intentoutlining this proposal to the European Commission garnered the support of 49 prominent public and private stakeholders representing the European cybersecurity landscape.

Building upon ECSO’s initiative, the EIB European Investment Advisory Hub, at the official request of the ECSO-Member Basque Cybersecurity Centre, commenced a feasibility study in October 2021 to assess the market viability and potential structure of the ECIP. The study’s findings unequivocally confirmed the need for the creation of the ECIP. Discover in this page how ECSO continues working with the European cybersecurity ecosystem in concrete steps to establish the European Cybersecurity Investment Platform.

Objectives

Strengthen European cybersecurity market to attract and retain top talent, develop critical competencies, and ensure the strategic positioning of European solutions by enhancing investments in European cybersecurity start-ups and SMEs.

Support European start-ups to consolidate their operations, scale up, and expand their market presence by offering stronger growth-focused financing options, particularly for Series A+. The ECIP is an opportunity to fund late stage companies and create European champions.

Strengthen venture capital capabilities by investing in the existing or emerging European funds specialised in cybersecurity.

Create leverage effect and serve as an incentive among the LPs to invest bigger tickets into the funds by increasing trust in the cybersecurity market.

Stimulate the emergence of new venture capital funds and investment initiatives specialising in cybersecurity by promoting and strengthening the cybersecurity segment.

Support synergy creation in relevant R&D&I funding schemes across Europe.

IMS Commercialisation
2020-06-18 08:00 - 2021-06-01 17:00
(PROJECT)

The IMS commercialisation project was managed by an affiliated company that VentureNet acquired in 2023. The project was co-financed by the Norwegian development bank, Innovation Norway.

The project developed a prototype of an Innovation Management System, which provided the technical foundation and building blocks for VentureNet’s Information Management System (IMS) and secure data exchange platform.

Among the unique and groundbreaking IMS features are dynamic data enrichment capabilities with human-in-the-loop (HITL) models, low-code/no-code development functionality, and container technology for rapid deployment of digital applications, which can be customized for specific customer needs at a fraction of the time and cost of comparable application development platforms.

Furthermore, digital applications that are developed by VentureNet can be integrated seamlessly with VentureNet’s marketplace to enable secure data exchange in digital marketplaces that adhere to EU data privacy regulations and common standards for International Data Spaces, Cybersecurity, Safety, Data Governance, Interoperability, and Cyber Resilience.

Contact us to learn more about the IMS and how your organisation or region can leverage the IMS to manage your data, develop data-driven systems with trustworthy AI, build a virtual innovation ecosystem with resilient digital supply chains and access to secure international digital marketplaces.

Norwegian Centre for Cybersecurity in Critical Sectors
2020-09-01 08:00 - 2028-12-31 17:00
(NETWORK) (PROJECT)

NTNU SFI NORCICS. “NORCICS”. Accessed 14.08.2025. https://www.ntnu.edu/norcics.

Centre for Research-based Innovation (SFI)

NORCICS’s vision is to contribute to making Norway the most securely digitalized country in the world, by improving the cyber security and resilience of its critical sectors, through supporting research-based innovation.

Our primary objective is to enhance the capability of private and public sector stakeholders to respond to the current and future cybersecurity risks by developing, validating, and operationalizing innovative socio-technical solutions.

The following secondary objectives will lead to the achievement of the primary objective above:

To generate new knowledge about interdependencies and dynamics in Critical Sectors; and how Cyber Physical Systems especially in Critical Sectors can be attacked;

To design, develop, and test innovative methods and tools for the detection, prevention, and mitigation of cyberattacks against industrial control systems in Critical Sectors, and to validate these in industrially relevant environments;

To demonstrate and validate the efficiency and effectiveness of interlinked cybersecurity measures for control systems in Critical Sectors for selected industrially relevant environments;

To develop novel methods and tools for the improvement of cybersecurity training and awareness, and means for validation of such methods;

To effectively transfer the knowledge created within NORCICS among its user partners, sectoral and industrial clusters, and relevant stakeholders in Norway.

NORCICS has the following work packages (WP):

Research-based innovation roadmap

Foundations

Technologies, applications, and services

Demonstration environments

Dissemination and knowledge transfer

Project management

AI-Mind: Artificial Intelligence for Dementia Prevention
2021-03-01 08:00 - 2026-02-28 17:00
(PROJECT)

Accelopment Schweiz AG. “AI-Mind”. Accessed 13.08.2025. https://www.ai-mind.eu.

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 964220. This website reflects only the author’s view and the Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.

What is the challenge?

There are over 50 million people worldwide living with dementia and by 2030 this number is expected to reach 82 million.

The ageing brain becomes vulnerable to decline and keeping independency in daily life can become a challenge for the elderly. People with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), an intermediate condition between normal brain ageing and dementia, may develop dementia in the future.

There is an urgent need for early risk assessment and intervention. Current practices with time-consuming patient investigations focus on late symptoms management due to a lack of diagnostic tools. This causes numerous implications in terms of familial, medical and care costs.

With AI-Mind we aim to reduce the disease’s burden by developing novel, AI-based tools to support healthcare professionals in their diagnosis and offering timely interventions to patients.

At the heart of AI-Mind is our research study, that

Takes place in Norway, Finland, Italy and Spain and will involve 1,000 participants.

Helps to develop and validate artificial intelligence (AI) based tools to predict who is likely to develop dementia.

The AI-Mind project aims to ease the burden of dementia by creating innovative, AI-driven tools that assist healthcare professionals in predicting dementia risks in patients affected by mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Most dementia treatments focus on managing symptoms once they appear, leaving little room for early prevention. AI-Mind seeks to transform this process by replacing complex and inefficient screening methods with advanced, automated tools powered by AI. These tools will address the critical need for early and precise diagnosis, allowing doctors to identify patients at high risk of developing dementia with greater confidence.

Digitalization, innovation and network effects in rural and mountainous regions: a study of the status quo and opportunities for the IMS
2021-06-01 08:00 - 2022-05-31 17:00
(PROJECT)

The IMS project was completed in 2022 with support from the Eastern Norway Research Institute (a division of the University of Inland Norway) and SINTEF, one of Europe largest independent research institutions. The project was managed by an affiliate of VentureNet, which VentureNet acquired in 2023, and the project received co-financing from the Research Council of Norway and Innlandet County through the FORREGION program.

Background: small-and-medium-enterprises (SMEs) need help with data management.

Problem: Limited availability and access to private sector (business) data.

High cost of generating business data and analysis for startups and SMEs.

High cost of harmonizing business data using Big Data and artificial intelligence (AI).

Opportunities: make business analysis more cost-effective for SMEs using Big Data.

“Core” business data points are reused in sales, fundraising and other processes.

Gather existing “core” business data using Big Data to save time and cost for SMEs and advisors.

Exchange “core” business data across digital platforms to save cost and generate revenue for SMEs, advisors, customers, investors, making SME data more valuable and cost-effective to analyze.

Challenges required advanced knowledge of regional dynamics and data science.

Lack of digital platforms designed to make use of business data exchange and virtual networking.

How to build a network of businesses and advisors that benefit from enriching and exchanging data.

Technical bottlenecks in Big Data related to data harmonization, enrichment and exchange.

Project objective

Inform design of a main research project to develop new machine-learning and data exchange models for Big Data and digital B2B platforms that accelerate digitalization, innovation and network effects for SMEs in rural areas.

Hypotheses for lower growth rates in rural and mountainous regions:

The Lemon Problem: lower trust in SMEs due to a lack of verified data (“Information Asymmetry).

Lower access to capital and specialist expertise in non-metropolitan areas (“Agglomeration Effects”).

Lower growth ambition? The Inland region of Norway has a high proportion of micro-enterprises.

Is this due to a perception of lower access to private capital?

Possible lower access to specialist/M&A expertise?

Other factors, such as cultural factors, systemic inequalities or biases, or lower competitiveness?

Project Results

Key results from the University of Inland Norway

Statistical analysis of ICT companies in the Inland region using publicly available data from Proff.

Use of Centralization Index as a basis for future ethnogeography studies and statistical analysis.

Mapping of advisory services and financial services available for companies in Innlandet.

Questionnaire templates to evaluate knowledge and utilization of digital tools and advisory services.

Other relevant suggestions from HINN colleagues for use in future research projects:

Social network analysis and gender study methods to analyze cultural and systemic factors linked to growth.

Analysis of industry clusters and network effects to identify best practice and factors linked to value creation.

Key results from SINTEF

Clarified that the IMS has an innovative approach to data enrichment, which can be used to develop advanced machine-learning models with Humans-In-The-Loop, a current challenge for data scientists.

Identified opportunities to reduce time and cost of data entry by using machine-learning techniques for data harmonization and enrichment.

Identified areas for further development: Data Fusion, Dynamic Data Enrichment, Data Exchange.

Delivered a toolbox and recommendations for potential suppliers and partners to enhance the IMS:

Several leading data sets providing broad access to available business data in Norway and Europe.

Leading ontologies and vocabularies for harmonizing and enriching data with machine-learning.

Advanced methods and software for data mining, harmonization, and enrichment.

Project Outcomes

Clear path for development of advanced Big Data solutions (software, methods and data).

Data Harmonization/Fusion: integrate multiple data sources to dynamically produce structured data.

Data Enrichment: develop HITL machine-learning models to dynamically enrich missing/incomplete data.

Data Exchange: re-use “core” business data securely and cost-effectively across platforms and users.

Scalable frameworks and templates for further research and studies into regional dynamics.

Plan and partnerships to build a user ecosystem and test platform for data exchange.

Clear project opportunities and expressions of interest from leading research institutions.

SINTEF invitation to join the EU Horizon “EnrichMyData” industrial research project with OECD.

Dialog with SINTEF and NTNU-NorCIS to establish NRC Collaboration Project in cybersecurity.

Private sector consortium of digital platforms in NRC Innovation Project (IPN) for data exchange.

Assisting INN to establish “Inn-the-Loop” NRC Social Impact Project (KSP) in artificial intelligence.

Dialog with INN and IESE Business School to apply for EU Horizon Expanding Investments Ecosystems.

Want to learn more?

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European Cluster for Securing Critical Infrastructures (ECSCI)
2022-03-03 08:00 - 2026-12-31 17:00
(NETWORK)

ECSCI. “ECSCI”. Accessed 14.08.2025. https://www.ecsci.eu.

The main objective of the ECSCI cluster is to create synergies and foster emerging disruptive solutions to security issues via cross-projects collaboration and innovation. Research activities will focus on how to protect critical infrastructures and services, highlighting the different approaches between the clustered projects and establishing tight and productive connections with closely related and complementary EU funded projects. To promote the activities of the cluster, ECSCI will organize international conferences, and national or international workshops, involving both policy makers, industry and academic, practitioners, and representatives from the European Commission.

VentureNet: Reducing barriers to innovation and business development through secure data exchange
2022-09-01 08:00 - 2023-09-30 08:00
(PROJECT)

The VentureNet data exchange project was a research project completed in 2023 in collaboration with SINTEF and the Norwegian Centre for Research and Innovation in Cybersecurity in Critical Sectors (SFI NORCICS) based at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). The project received co-financing from the Research Council of Norway and Innlandet County through the FORREGION program.

Background

A major EU industrial research project on data harmonization, euBusinessGraph, identified major challenges with access to business data, citing that “it is extremely expensive, time consuming and error prone to find, interpret and reconcile”, especially across industries, geographic regions and languages.

Machine learning (ML) plays an important role in automating data processing tasks such as natural language processing (NLP), but human input is needed to train ML algorithms and thereby improve the accuracy of ML models. One of the challenges identified by data scientists is a lack of machine learning models with humans-in-the-loop (HITL). 80% of the cost of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) projects is time spent by data scientists finding, interpreting and harmonizing data. A lack of HITL limits the effectiveness of ML models and their potential to reduce cost in Big Data and AI projects.

VentureNet aims to create a virtual business accelerator hub powered by its proprietary Information Management System (IMS), which centralizes access to multiple digital ecosystems, facilitating data exchange and reducing manual data entry. Developed in collaboration with SINTEF and NTNU, the project focuses on creating a secure data exchange framework with Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) capabilities that can be scaled up in European data markets.

Project Results

The project delivered a report introducing a novel framework and new technical solution for data exchange that will facilitate dynamic harmonization and enrichment of business data with HITL ML models. The envisioned solution is a digital B2B workspace and marketplace that will automate data management tasks and processes and facilitate involvement of non-technical data providers (small businesses) in data enrichment with HITL models.

SINTEF compared VentureNet’s IMS to leading low-code platforms and AI solutions, such as Oracle APEX, AWS Amplify, Open AI GPT, Sheet GPT, and Google Natural Language API and concluded the following:

We compared VentureNet against a few low-code/no-code platforms. Low-code/no-code platforms significantly accelerate software development by simplifying and automating code generation, making it possible for non-developers to create applications, thereby democratizing development and reducing the technical skill barrier. However, these platforms can limit customization capabilities, restrict advanced functionality, and lead to vendor lock-in situations, potentially impeding scalability, and long-term growth for more complex or unique business requirements.

Potential for higher accuracy and filtering of hallucinations, using HITL, especially in sensitive domains, such as healthcare.

The principal advantage of the VentureNet platform lies in its comprehensive integration capabilities. It can fulfill all project requirements, including form processing, API management, low-code graphical user interface elements, and data enrichment. Unlike other generic platforms, VentureNet enables the development of highly customized solutions tailored to specific project needs.

Although it is possible to assemble similar platforms using excellent off-the-shelf tools, coordinating, and integrating these disparate components requires significant time and effort. Additionally, the complexities associated with billing processes can often pose substantial challenges. VentureNet solves these concerns by offering a unique solution that simplifies project management and reduces operational overhead. This approach ensures a streamlined workflow and efficient project execution.

Contact VentureNet to learn more about the project results and collaboration opportunities.

EBRAINS: A Research Infrastructure to Advance Neuroscience and Brain Health
2022-09-01 08:00 - 2026-12-31 17:00
(PROJECT)

EBRAINS. “EBRAINS.” Accessed 13.08.2025. https://www.ebrains.eu.

EBRAINS is an international non-profit association (AISBL), headquartered in Brussels, Belgium. It is made up of 8 Full Members and 35 Associate Members. The Research Infrastructure is organised around a central hub that coordinates a pan-European network of services delivered through National Nodes. EBRAINS is governed by three bodies, the General Assembly, the Governing Board and the Management Board. A National Node Board gathers Node representatives. EBRAINS also has two Advisory Committees, the Science and Technology one and the Ethics and Society one which will soon be instated. EBRAINS is funded by the Horizon Europe Framework Programme.

A state-of-the-art ecosystem for neuroscience

EBRAINS is on a mission to revolutionise how neuroscience is conducted. The digital ecosystem that we provide enables advances in brain research that translate to innovations in neuroscience, healthcare and technology.

Towards a European Brain Partnership to accelerate scientific, technological, and societal needs.

EBRAINS’ ambition is to enable breakthroughs in different areas of brain science. We are proud to be part of several game-changing projects and initiatives, in which we join forces with leading institutions to achieve tangible results and outcomes. If you’re interested in working with us on specific projects, different possibilities exist. Don’t hesitate to contact us for more information.

EBRAINS is organised around a central hub that coordinates a pan-European network of services that are delivered through national nodes.

EU-CIP: European Knowledge Hub and Policy Testbed for Critical Infrastructure Protection
2022-10-01 08:00 - 2025-09-30 17:00
(PROJECT)

Engineering (ENG). “EU-CIP.” Accessed 13.08.2025. https://www.eucip.eu.

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under the grant agreement No 101073878.

The main goal of EU-CIP is to establish a novel pan European knowledge network for Resilient Infrastructures, which will enable policy makers to shape and produce data-driven evidence-based policies, while boosting the innovation capacity of Critical Infrastructures (CI) operators, authorities, and innovators (including SMEs).

In this direction, the partners have already established the European Cluster for Securing Critical infrastructures (ECSCI), which brings together 22 projects that collaborate in CI Resilience.

EU-CIP will leverage the capacity, organization, community, and achievements of the ECSCI cluster towards establishing an EU-wide knowledge network with advanced analytical and innovation support capabilities.

enRichMyData
2022-10-21 08:00 - 2025-09-30 17:00
(PROJECT)

enRichMyData. “enRichMyData.” Accessed 13.08.2025. https://enrichmydata.eu.

enRichMyData develops a novel paradigm for building rich, high-quality and valuable datasets to feed Big Data Analytics and AI applications. It has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101070284.

The enRichMyData project is coordinated by SINTEF (Norway), one of European’s largest independent research organisations. The project partners include companies such as Philips (The Netherlands) and Bosch (Germany), dedicated to engineering and manufacturing; Speed Network (Estonia), a provider of procurement data; JOT Internet Media (Spain), a digital marketing company; CS Group (Romania), a software service company; Expert AI (Italy), a technology company specializing in natural language understanding; and Ontotext (Bulgaria), a semantic technology company. They will have the full support of the research partners that, in addition to SINTEF, include the University of Milano Bicocca (Italy), Jozef Stefan Institute (Slovenia), University of Copenhagen (Denmark), GATE Institute (Bulgaria), and BGRIMM Technology Group (China).

enRichMyData delivers an open software toolbox – the enRichMyData toolbox – comprising practical, robust and scalable components to support organizations in enriching their data with reference data they may have limited knowledge of, as well as supporting data providers in making their data reusable and available in data enrichment processes.

The toolbox lowers the technological entry barriers by providing support for the definition of highly scalable and replicable data enrichment pipelines through a set of tools and infrastructure services related to capabilities needed during the lifecycle of enrichment pipelines. The toolbox makes the data enrichment process accessible to a broader set of stakeholders by reducing the required expertise and enhancing the tool support level.

Empower AI-driven business products and services

h-quality, rich and meaningful data are crucial to successfully implementing Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Big Data Analytics (BDA) solutions. Delivering required data to feed into AI and BDA models is costly, difficult, and often limited in data and skill availability. It is well known that up to 80% of the effort spent in AI and BDA projects is dedicated to ensuring data is fit for purpose. Activities are required to discover, understand, select, clean, transform, and integrate data from a variety of sources in such a way that data can be fed into the modelling phase. Such activities result in enriched data, eventually improving the quality of downstream BDA and AI applications. The data enrichment process is implemented by specifying, deploying, and executing data enrichment pipelines over data that can be structured, semi-structured and unstructured, in large amounts, and from static or streaming sources. While techniques exist to cover different enrichment operations such as data cleaning, linking, feature extraction, classification and semantic annotation, etc., the lack of comprehensive approaches and established tools dedicated to data enrichment makes the definition, implementation, and operation of enrichment pipelines difficult for too many organizations willing to improve their BDA and AI applications.

The overall vision of the enRichMyData project is to create a novel paradigm for building rich, high-quality, valuable, and FAIR-compliant datasets to feed downstream BDA and AI applications in the context of data-sharing ecosystems, such as data spaces. The paradigm facilitates the specification and execution of data enrichment pipelines, focusing on supporting various data enrichment operations. enRichMyData makes this easily accessible to a wide set of large and small organizations that encounter difficulties in delivering suitable data to feed their BDA and AI solutions due to the lack of usable tools/expertise for the cost-effective management of data enrichment pipelines.

FAME: Federated decentralized trusted dAta Marketplace for Embedded finance
2023-01-01 08:00 - 2025-12-31 17:00
(PROJECT)

FAME. “FAME.” Accessed 13.08.2025. https://www.fame-horizon.eu.

FAME is a joint effort of world-class experts in data management, data technologies, the data economy, and digital finance, aiming to develop and launch to the global market a unique, trustworthy, energy-efficient, and secure federated data marketplace for Embedded Finance (EmFi).

​The FAME project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2023 Research and Innovation Programe under grant agreement nª 101092639. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or Horizon Europe. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

Marketplace

The FAME Federated Data Marketplace for Embedded Finance is a Data Space, according to the definition of the EU, customized for buying and selling federated data assets in the financial sector.

Accessible through a unified entry point, the Marketplace allows for secure data access, sharing, trading and analysis through FAME’s analytical tools for both finance and non-finance organizations, tech and non-tech users, and other end-users.

Why FAME?

Modern data marketplaces are transforming how data assets are shared, traded, and utilized. Recent European initiatives have made significant strides, particularly in enhancing data monetization, regulatory compliance, and secure data exchange. However, existing centralized marketplaces face challenges that limit broader participation and accessibility. Notable limitations include complex data discovery processes, limited transparency in value-based data monetization, and insufficient integration of trusted, energy-efficient analytics. Addressing these gaps can unlock new data-driven applications in sectors like finance, retail, and smart cities, empowering innovative services that seamlessly integrate financial data. That is where FAME comes in.

Establishment of a Virtual Innovation Ecosystem
2023-01-20 08:00 - 2023-12-01 17:00
(PROJECT)

The virtual regional innovation ecosystem project was a business network development initiative in 2023, which was managed by VentureNet AS in collaboration with leading innovation ecosystems in the Inland region of Norway (Klosser Innovation AS, Vaager Innovasjon AS, and Skåppå AS) and the University of Inland Norway. The project received co-financing from Innlandet County.

The project built on results of a previous FORREGION project on regional innovation ecosystems and laid groundwork that contributed to establishment of several projects to develop national and Nordic Innovation Ecosystems with a connections to the Inland Region of Norway and Greater Oslo Region.

Project results

This project created a large national and international partner consortium of innovation actors, business actors, research institutions and universities, which led to the establishment of several project consortia since the start of the project, and which submitted 9 applications for collaborative projects to the Research Council, EU ERDF (Interreg), and EU Horizon in 2023 alone.

In addition, work is underway to establish 6 large coordination and innovation/development projects in consortia consisting of, among others, Klosser Innovasjon, Vaager Innovasjon, Skåppå, Smart Innovation Norway, the Norwegian Agency for Digitalisation (Digdir), NCE Heidner, NCE Manufacturing, NCE Smart Energy Markets, Cluster for Applied AI, Norway Health Tech, Rikshospitalet, University of Oxford, University of Oslo, NTNU NORCICS, SINTEF, Institute of Energy Technology (IFE), Norwegian Computing Centre, Inland University College, Østfold University College, several municipalities, private business actors, and foreign innovation actors.

Results are described further below related to the effects and continuation of the project.

1. Replicable ecosystem collaboration model to build stronger regional ecosystems.

Workshops being planned in 2024 and 2025 with key stakeholders in Innlandet, Oslo, Østfold, Sweden, Spain and Germany to identify/plan key networking events and conferences with stakeholders and sponsors.

Networking events and conferences from June 2024 to interconnect ecosystems, match businesses and investors.

2. Virtual innovation ecosystem with hubs & nodes for regions and strategic industries.

Digital Infrastructure: open to integration with external systems and fully customizable.

Network: 250+ local key stakeholders identified by Siva-incubators; 30+ European regions in partner network.

Hubs: 10 regional hubs (incl. tourism, career hubs), 6 initial industry hubs, 14 hubs for Innlandsporteføljen.

3. Plan for Events, Conference and Projects to interconnect local/regional ecosystems.

Conferences: major European “Smart Impact” conference opportunity in 2025-2026.

4 “Ecosystem” plans (RIV, Interreg, EIE, Hub-Node)to finance workshops, networking events and conferences.

12 R&D plans (IPN, Pilot Helse, RFF, EUH, SFI) with leading R&D institutions in AI and cybersecurity.

Would you like to strengthen the innovation ecosystem in your region?

Contact VentureNet for more information about the project’s results and collaboration opportunities.

ENFIELD: European Lighthouse to Manifest Trustworthy and Green AI
2023-09-01 08:00 - 2026-08-30 17:00
(PROJECT)

NTNU. “ENFIELD”. Accessed 13.08.2025. https://enfield-project.eu.

ENFIELD is set to establish a distinctive European Center of Excellence focused on advancing fundamental research in Green, Adaptive, Human-Centric, and Trustworthy AI and applied research within key sectors like Energy, Healthcare, Manufacturing, and Space. Promoted by 30 leading research institutions, businesses, and public sector representatives from 18 countries, the project builds a vibrant AI community of the brightest minds from across Europe. ENFIELD network will deliver over 75 unique AI solutions, 180 high-impact publications, strategic documents and extensive outreach efforts.

Our Mission

Our goal is to develop AI solutions that address challenges in sectors such as healthcare, energy, manufacturing, and space, while promoting sustainability and ethics.

The ENFIELD Project is co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or DG CNECT. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.  The University of Nottingham’s participation in the Horizon Europe Project ENFIELD is supported by UKRI grant number 10094603.

MinDID: Desentralised Identity (DID) and consent management for secure data exchange
2023-10-01 08:00 - 2024-10-31 17:00
(PROJECT)

MinDID was a research project in 2024 managed by VentureNet AS in collaboration with the Norwegian Computing Centre (NR), which received co-financing from the Research Council of Norway and Innlandet County through the FORREGION program.

MinDID succeeded in developing an reference architecture for a cutting-edge decentralized identity and consent management (MinDID) component for VentureNet’s data exchange platform to enable interoperability between decentralized identity and consent management solutions, such as self-sovereign identity wallets.

According to an OECD report, a well-known barrier to data exchange is “a proliferation of standards, and a lack of common standards”. A key research question in the project was how to develop an open, independent and interoperable solution for decentralized identity and consent management (MinDID), which will be able to integrate with several commercial solutions for digital identity and consent management.

The MinDID component aims to give data owners the ability to choose which applications they want to use for managing their identity, consent and data storage, in addition to easily switching between different solutions without having to lose control and overview of their data and settings for data exchange. MinDID can also enable third-party platforms to maintain customer relationships and data exchange agreements even if customers switch vendors for digital identity and consent.

NR assisted in a mapping of relevant data exchange standards and technologies to ensure that the development framework for MinDID is in line with relevant EU initiatives, and contribute to increasing scalability and interoperability of VentureNet’s data exchange system.

NR has cutting-edge expertise in digital identity, access management, encryption and security in digital marketplaces that are being developed in the EU, and which is highly relevant to the VentureNet consortium’s future research project plans. NR participates in several relevant EU projects, such as the Horizon project “FAME” that aims to develop a decentralized digital marketplace for “secure, interoperable and regulatory compliant data exchange in line with European initiatives such as GAIA-X”.

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Data Space for Smart and Sustainable Communities
2023-10-01 08:00 - 2026-09-30 17:00
(PROJECT)

European data space for smart communities (DS4SSCC-DEP). “DS4SSCC”. Accessed 13.08.2025. https://www.ds4sscc.eu/home.

DS4SSCC–DEP is funded by the European Union Digital Europe Work Programme 2021-2022 under Grant Agreement No. 101123342. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Commission. Neither the European Union nor the European Commission can be held responsible for them.

The European Data Space for Smart Communities (DS4SSCC-DEP) initiative is a pivotal deployment following the preparatory action for a Data Space for Sustainable and Smart Cities and Communities (DS4SSCC). Emphasising sustainability aspects and diversity in communities, DS4SSCC developed a multi-stakeholder data governance scheme, created a blueprint for the European DS4SSCC, delivered priority datasets, and developed a roadmap towards a mature DS4SSCC.

DS4SSCC-DEP’s vision revolves around creating a well-governed federated territorial, place-based data space for smart communities available for developers and infrastructure providers, aligning with the prospects outlined in Europe’s Digital Decade objectives. This approach distinguishes itself from sectoral data spaces by encompassing diverse domains, and underpinning governance across all levels of society.

Visit the 11 Pilot Data Spaces Projects in Europe

Explore the Data Space Blueprint for Smart Communities

COMFORTage
2024-01-01 08:00 - 2027-12-31 17:00
(PROJECT)

Grupo Antena. “COMFORTage.” Accessed 14.08.2025. https://comfortage.eu.

COMFORTage is a four-year project funded through the European Unión´s Horizon Europe Programme involving 39 organisations from 12 countries. Funded by the European Union (Grant Nº 101137301) and supported by Innovative UK (Grant Nº 10103541) . Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HADEA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

Fostering Personalized solutions for prevention of dementia and frailty

COMFORTAGE is a joint effort of medical experts, social scientists and humanists, technical experts, Digital Innovation Hubs (DIHs) and Living Labs (LLs) to establish a pan European framework for Community-based, Integrated and People-Centric prevention, monitoring and progression managing solutions for dementia and frailty.

COMFORTage will developed 13 pilots at 8 EU members states. The main objective is to supply relevant subjects data on Scientific Technology Options Assessment (SToA) referred to dementia and frailty detection and intervention and deploy, validate and evaluate the models and tools in real life new clinical scenarios (Beta Solution Treated and Overaged-BSToA).

COMFORTage Virtualized AI-Based Healthcare Platform (VHP)

The project will create a first of a kind Virtualized AI-Based Healthcare Platform (VHP) that will centralize access to project’s AI resources for risk factor analysis, early diagnosis and personalized decision making for age-related mental and physical diseases and disorders.

Partners

COMFORTage strives to establish a pan-European framework for community-based prevention and intervention strategies to facilitate effective lifestyle changes thought the synergies of our Consortium and other stakeholders. Our consortium is compose by:

8 Research Institutions/Universities

11 Healthcare Organizations & Actors

12 Industry and SME partners

4 Social Multipliers and Associations

4 SSH and Legal Organizations

INN-the-Loop: Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence
2024-01-12 08:00 - 2025-03-30 17:00
(PROJECT)

INN-the-Loop was a research project in 2024 managed by the University of Inland Norway (INN) with contributions from the Norwegian Computing Center (NR), SINTEF, NTNU SFI NORCICS (Norwegian Center for Cybersecurity in Critical Sectors), and VentureNet AS. The project was co-financed by the Research Council of Norway and Innlandet County through the Regional Research Fund (RFF) program.

The INN-the-Loop project analysed limitations and risks related to ML, GenAI and Agentic AI. It identified significant risks and barriers to widespread adoption of AI in healthcare and other critical sectors that demand high standards of accuracy, safety, security, and privacy.

The project builds on results from a research project in 2023 with several leading Norwegian research institutions and VentureNet AS, a Norwegian technology company specialising in data exchange automation. A key result from the 2023 project was a framework for Human-Guided Artificial Intelligence and Data Exchange (Human-GAIDE).

Human-GAIDE was developed to address widespread challenges with data accuracy in AI models. AI and machine learning (ML) models are vulnerable to missing data, erroneous data, manipulation of data and systems, and AI bias, all of which can impact the accuracy of an AI-model. Error and cyber vulnerabilities can compromise the safety of AI-enabled systems and lead to undesirable outcomes, such as proliferation of manipulated and distorted information or medical device failure.

The project developed a highly scalable methodology to design trustworthy AI-systems with dynamic HITL models for smart healthcare. This is applicable to several critical sectors with high requirements for safety, security and resilience.

Nordic Digital Innovation Ecosystem
2024-05-22 08:00 - 2026-12-01 17:00
(PROJECT)

The Nordic Digital Innovation Ecosystem (NDIE) is an ongoing business network development initiative to support development of trustworthy systems and infra- structure in critical sectors by connecting public and private sectors and research institutions and supporting project establishment.

The project was initiated in 2024 and managed by Klosser Innovasjon AS and VentureNet AS in collaboration with the Norwegian Computing Center (NR), the Norwegian Center for Cybersecurity in Critical Sectors (SFI NORCICS), the Institute for Energy Technology (IFE), and Smart Innovation Norway, with financial support from Innlandet County in Norway.

Within 5 months of the project’s start, NDIE organised and executed 9 successful international events, including some of Norway’s first seminars and webinars on European Data Spaces and a trailblazing 2-day Nordic Matchmaking Event at DNV Headquarters and NR Headquarters in Oslo.

Some of the speakers included representatives from the Norwegian Digitalisation Agency, Sykehuspartner, Det Norske Veritas, DNV-Nixu, FICEC, F-Secure, Defendable, Business Finland, the City of Wien in Austria, Gaia-X, and FIWARE.

Visit the digital platform and video clips on VentureNets Online Marketplace and on Youtube.

Norwegian Digital Innovation Ecosystem Launch: Development of Critical Digital Infrastructure in Norway
2024-06-06 09:30 - 17:30 | Hamar Kulturhus, Torggata 100, Hamar, Innlandet, 2317, Norway
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The launch event for the Nordic Digital Innovation Ecosystem brought together stakeholders from leading research, innovation, public and private sectors to discuss development of next-generation digital infrastructure in Norway.

To ensure a well-functioning and competitive digital future for Norway and the Nordic region, it is crucial that business and the public sector actively contribute to the development of our digital infrastructure. Join an important initiative by taking part in the work to:• Create value through data sharing and digital trust.• Build a robust and secure digital infrastructure.• Develop new and innovative technologies.

In connection with the rapid development of important national initiatives with tight deadlines, we have had the opportunity to discuss development plans with Ulrich Ahle, CEO of Gaia-X, a European initiative for secure digital infrastructure, who is visiting Hamar on June 6. Ahle will participate in the opening of a national center for data-driven innovation that includes a Nordic Gaia-X hub and Fiware iHub.

Visit the digital platform and video clips on VentureNets Online Marketplace and on Youtube.

Norwegian-Finnish Workshop and Matchmaking Event: The Role of Cybersecurity in Digital Resilience
2024-11-18 12:00 - 2024-11-19 17:00 | Oslo Science Park, Gaustadalléen 21, Oslo, 0349, Norway
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This event aimed to strengthen collaboration on cybersecurity and digital resilience initiatives between industry, research and public sectors in Norway and Finland.

Organized in collaboration with the Norwegian Center for Cybersecurity in Critical Sectors (SFI NORCICS), the Norwegian Cybersecurity Cluster (NCC), the Finnish Center of Expertise for Cybersecurity (FICEC), North European Cybersecurity Cluster (NECC), University of Jyväskyla, DNV Norway and Finland, NR, NTNU, the Norwegian Ecosystem for Secure IT-OT Integration (NESIOT), and the Nordic Digital Innovation Ecosystem (NDIE).

One of the outcomes of this 2-day event was the establishment of the Nordic European Cyber Days 2025 conference in collaboration with the European Cyber Security Organisation (ECSO), the North European Cybersecurity Cluster (NECC) and all 8 Nordic and Baltic National Coordination Centers for Cybersecurity Research and Innovation (NCCs).

Download the brochure to see the list of speakers and partners.

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Business Village, Aker Brygge
2025-01-01 08:00 - 2026-12-31 17:00 | Business Village, Aker Brygge, Grundingen 6, Oslo, 0250, Norway
(PLACE)

Aker Brygge Business Village AS. “Business Village.” Accessed 07.08.2026. https://businessvillage.no/en/welcome.

A MODERN, EXCLUSIVE, AND INCLUSIVE COWORKING SPACE

Business Village is an exclusive coworking space located in the heart of Aker Brygge. Aker Brygge is situated by the fjord in Oslo’s best business district.

MODERN AND FLEXIBLE OFFICE SOLUTIONS AND MEETING ROOM RENTALS

Business Village at Aker Brygge offers state-of-the-art, fully furnished offices for companies with a staff of 1 to 40, with all shared costs included. Quality and efficient customer service are the main priorities at Business Village, which is reflected in our facilities.

As a tenant at Business Village, you can access meeting rooms, quiet booths, shared common areas, and a professional environment that encourages well-being, productivity, and a strong sense of community. Our chef prepares a varied warm lunch buffet daily, made all from scratch using fresh ingredients.

Business Village is also a place where you will want to bring clients or host company events. We lease out four newly renovated meeting rooms for up to 14 people and an exclusive lounge that elevates any event – perfect for meetings, workshops, and larger gatherings.

Oslo Science Park
2025-01-01 08:00 - 2026-12-31 17:00 | Oslo Science Park, Gaustadalléen 21, Oslo, 0349, Norway
(PLACE)

OsloTech AS. “Where Science Meets Business.” Accessed 07.08.2025. https://www.forskningsparken.no/en.

A vibrant meeting place.

Oslo Science Park is an innovative community where over 3000 people have their daily workplace in more than 300 different companies. We believe that a vibrant environment based on openness, collaboration, and sharing is a key to success for our members.

In Oslo Science Park, your company has room to pursue growth. Companies undergoing changes can quickly scale up or down in our premises. Get in touch and let us know your company needs.

Bright House
2025-01-01 08:00 - 2026-12-31 17:00 | Bright House, Raufossvegen 40, Gjøvik, 2821, Norway
(PLACE)

Mustad Næringspark. “Bright House.” Accessed 07.08.2025. https://brighthouse.no.

Bright House vil forsøke å styrke og utvikle det eksisterende samarbeidet i regionen. Vi ønsker å samle flere aktører på et og samme sted og koordinere de ulike behovene som finnes – og greier vi det vil vi alle komme sterkere ut av det. Her skal vi samle det beste vi har av innovasjons- og gründermiljøer i regionen, målet er å skape nye ideer og verktøy for globale markedet, akkurat slik Mathias Topp gjorde med sin fiskekrokmaskin for 140 år siden.

Bright House skal være et samlingssted for studenter og næringsliv

Bright House vil bidra til å skape flere arbeidsplasser gjennom nye oppstartsbedrifter og prosjekter

Bright House vil utvikle eksisterende næringsliv slik at de vokser og forblir attraktive

Bright House vil skape et miljø for innovasjon

Er du nysgjerrig på bygget? Vil du ha din arbeidsplass i historiske lokaler? Vil du være med på å skape en kultur og et miljø for innovasjon i regionen vår?

Kom innom eller ta kontakt med oss!

Hub LHMR
2025-01-01 08:00 - 2026-12-31 17:00 | Hub LMHR, Jernbanegata 13, Lillehammer, 2609, Norway
(PLACE)

Lillehammer-regionen Vekst. “Hub LHMR”. Accessed 11.08.2025. https://www.hublhmr.no.

HubLHMR er et kontorfellesskap og entreprenørskapssenter midt i Lillehammer sentrum. Hub’en er for gründere, nystartede bedrifter, pendlere og andre som ikke er avhengige av et lukket kontor. Her få du energi av å omgås andre som vil utvikle sin bedrift!

Et medlemskap i HubLHMR inkluderer bruk av fleksible kontorarbeidsplasser for ulike behov. Medlemmene har tilgang til næringsutviklingsressurser fra Lillehammer-regionen Vekst og Skåppå og en rekke aktiviteter for kompetanseheving og organisasjonsutvikling.

Mesh Community, Oslo
2025-01-01 08:00 - 2026-12-31 17:00 | Mesh Youngstorget, Møllergate 6, Oslo, 0179, Norway
(PLACE)

Mesh Community AS. “Mesh Community”. Accessed 11.08.2025. https://meshcommunity.com.

From Key Nordic cities, our community supports every stage of the entrepreneurial journey, from startups to international success.

Our Nordic Locations

With more than 5.000 members and over 100.000 annual users, we are one of the largest startup communities in the Nordic region.

Our goal is to create the best startup locations, valuable recruiting and funding services to accelerate the Nordic startup scene.

We offer high-end event spaces, a bar and café, flexible workspaces, a lounge, and private offices – all designed to inspire creativity and collaboration.

Park Hamar
2025-01-01 08:00 - 2026-12-31 17:00 | Park Hamar, Grønnegata 85, Hamar, 2317, Norway
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Hamarregionen. “The space to create”. 07.08.2025. https://parkhamar.no/park-space-to-create/.

PARK business and startup house is an ecosystem and community specializing in technologies such as VR, AR and game development.

The startup ecosystem of the Oslo Region grows at an exponential rate, and the region is on track to become an increasingly powerful change engine for the Norwegian and European economy.

The Hamar Region area is part of the greater Oslo Region and located close to the city of Oslo – just over 1 hour by car or train. The Region has a diverse and exciting business community that is strong and thriving, offering excellent opportunities for those who wish to start their own business.

Norway Health Tech
2025-01-01 08:00 - 2026-12-31 17:00 | Oslo Science Park, Gaustadalléen 21, Oslo, 0349, Norway
(NETWORK)

Norway Health Tech. “Norway Health Tech”. Accessed 14.08.2025. https://www.norwayhealthtech.com/en.

Connecting minds, transforming health

We are Norway’s leading health cluster.Norway Health Tech brings together more than 350 organizations – companies, investors, healthcare providers, municipalities, academia, and research institutions. Together, we drive growth in the health industry and accelerate innovation in healthcare – for the benefit of patients and citizens.

Would you like to be part of a leading health innovation environment?

Get in touch – we’re here to connect stakeholders and help pave the way for the healthcare system of tomorrow.

North European Cybersecurity Cluster
2025-01-01 08:00 - 2026-12-31 17:00
(NETWORK)

NECC. “NECC.” Accessed 14.08.2025. https://necc.network.

The North European Cybersecurity Cluster (NECC) promotes information security and cybersecurity-related cooperation and collaboration in the Northern European region in order to enhance integration into the European Digital Single Market.

The NECC has created a trusted competence network with various tested collaboration models among companies, academia, public sector and end-users. The cluster-type collaboration model is beneficial for all participating stakeholders and supports the EU’s contractual Public Private Partnership (cPPP).

The NECC will be working towards more compelling business, cybersecurity and research environment for attracting more investments, resources and new innovation into the region.

NCC-NO: "ECSO-VentureNet" A cross-sector platform to strengthen cybersecurity and resilience in critical sectors.
2025-04-01 08:00 - 2025-09-30 17:00
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In recent years, cybersecurity has gained increased attention as a critical development area for society and industry to mitigate risk and enable data-driven value creation. The rapid global expansion of cybercrime has raised awareness of daunting challenges in cybersecurity for the public sector and businesses alike. Geopolitics and the Covid-19 pandemic have raised awareness of risks to security, safety and supply chain disruption, and a need for solutions to ensure resilience of digital systems and supply chains for critical sectors.

In Europe, cybersecurity solutions and expertise have a wider role beyond mitigating and preventing risk and cybercrime. Privacy-enhancing technologies are enablers for data sharing and artificial intelligence (AI) in compliance with EU regulations. As such, cybersecurity can play a key role enabling businesses and communities to unlock data silos and generate value from data sharing and AI, increasing productivity with less resource consumption.

The ECSO-VentureNet project aims to bring together cyber solution providers, experts and stakeholders from public and private sectors to collaborate on project establishment and research addressing key challenges and opportunities in cybersecurity, supply chain resilience and data-driven innovation.

The project will plan a 3-day European cybersecurity conference in Oslo in collaboration with the European Cyber Security Organization (ECSO), North European Cybersecurity Cluster (NECC), Norsk Regnesentral (NR), and SFI NORCICS (among others). Preparation for the event will entail applied research and active engagement of SMEs, investors, industry clusters, and public sector partners through existing partner networks.

The events and research are intended to develop a community, collaboration platform and framework for managing cybersecurity, supply chain resilience and data-driven innovation, including access to digital tools to find knowledge, partners and markets in Norway and Europe.
