Name Activity "3if.eu - Industry4.0, Industrial IoT & Industrial Internet in Flanders" "Industrial Internet of Thing (IIoT), Industry4.0, big data, data analytics, machine learning, vertical & horizontal integration, robotics, agile manufacturing, lot size one, industrial cybersecurity, robotics" "Centexbel - Scientific and Technical Centre of the Belgian Textile industry" "StrategyWe, at Centexbel, believe that Europe has a fascinating textile and plastic processing industry and we are proud to be part of it. Every single day we meet passionate people, we encounter great companies, we discover exciting technologies.We care for our industry and firmly believe that by building and sharing knowledge and know-how and by engaging in close and deep collaborations we can contribute to a sustainable future for our companies.This belief strengthens our ambition, defines our culture, shapes our organization and motivates us to do the things we do. We aim at pushing the boundaries.Our guiding principlesWe place the companies at the centre of our attention and facilitate a close connection and intense contacts with companies of the textile, plastic converting and related industries in Europe and especially in Belgium: a relationship built on trust.Our staff members are our most precious assets. We offer them space for creativity and a maximal responsibility.We develop industrial knowledge that really matters, in fields related to technologies, processes, products and their application fields that are of could be useful to the textile and plastic converting industry.We transfer our knowledge to as many European companies as possible, without distinction but in total respect of confidentially.We are making use of public funding and therefore we are complying with the expectations of and directions set out by the funding authorities.Key activitiesResearch and development in fields with a high added value, and more in particular in the melt processing of polymers, in coating and surface modification, composites, recycling, smart textiles, textile applications and material characterisation. Polymers, their additives and their processing are the common theme throughout our research activities.Product certification and finding adequate solutions in an independent manner, within the regulatory boundaries, but in full understanding of the challenges with which companies are faced.Assisting companies in analysing, characterising and testing of products by means of the most advanced instruments and based on our excellent knowledge of products and processes. Dissemintaion of knowlegde, in particular by allowing companies to make use of research results in their specific business context." "Industry and environment" "The research group focuses on industrial ecosystems such as the digital sector, renewable energy and energy-intensive industries with a focus on the manufacturing and process industries, their raw materials, auxiliaries, waste materials, by-products, intermediates, semi-finished and finished products and their influence on their environment, more specifically the influences man-machine, man-company and machine-company." "Sirris, the collective centre for the technological industry" "Jakob KestelootOlivier MalekFrank Van den Broek" "Companies keen to innovate can draw on Sirris's 60 years and more of expertise in five core technological domains. We have 140 engineers, scientists and technicians exploring the possibilities created by innovative technologies. Our winning combination of the right experts, high-tech infrastructure for research, and testing and an extensive network of partners can open up the way to innovation for your company, too." "LSEC - Leaders In Security" "LSEC (Leaders In Security) is a European not-for-profit association focused on Information Security, operating from Belgium. It is a Cybersecurity Competence Centre in Belgium. The association is based upon the corporate membership of more than 13.000 individual members, representing over 3.500 end user organisations from a variety of vertical sectors mainly in the Critical Infrastructure domain (ICT, energy, finance, transport, healthcare, government, …) and centred around more than 465 Core Members. The Core Members are the representatives from the information security industry with European dedicated SME’s and large companies focusing on industrial security challenges like SecurityMatters, IntrinsicID, Firmalyzer, Digital Security, Secudea, Flowmon, … and global expert organizations like FireEye, Fortinet, Crowdstrike, McAfee, Symantec, RSA (the Security Division of EMC), PwC, Dimension Data, KPMG, Deloitte and many others. Within the association there is representation of more than 70% European Security SME’s. Also amongst the core members are ict security research institutions throughout Europe, associated members (industry associations, financial services, and other critical infrastructure operators such as smartgrid, energy, e-commerce and other networks. Partners include other associations such as the bank regulators, state security, CERT.EU, DFN-CERT, CERT.RO, FEDICT, EC3 and other government and LEA-type organisations. LSEC is a Digital Security Catalyst with fundamental expertise in the domain of user requirements interests, having identified the context of their environment, and fundamental developing needs as parts of applicable scenario’s for current and future risk management considerations. cybersecurity, ict security, data security, cloud security, security management, identity, access control, authentication, virus, malware, analytics, AI, machine learning, virtualization security, kubernetes, containers, web application security, firewall, intrusion detection, firmware, intrusion prevention, CIA, confidentiality, mitigation, continuity, retention, end point protection, multi party computation (MPC), privacy enhancing technologies (PET), distributed ledger technologies (DLT), crypto, encryption, AES, RSA, mobile, industrial control systems, industry4.0, industrie4.0, cybersecurity for robotics, Cybersecurity Centre of Excellence, NIST, ISO 27000, IEC62443, data protection, privacy, GDPR, AVG,  ... " "Construction engineering" "Herve DEGEE" "The research activities of the research group CERG are situated within two research lines. The first research line studies the behaviour of structural components in concrete and other quasi-brittle materials. A first research topic of this research line investigates the behaviour of building components, such as masonry walls and prestressed concrete members. The focus lies on the development of finite element models which allow for assessing the residual strength and damage in these building components. The results of this research are compared with experimental results from our own research laboratory. A second research topic is road design. This research focuses primarily on the diagnosis and prognosis of structural damage in road surfaces. The overarching goal is to develop practical recommendations as regards the implementation and design of buildings and civil-technical constructions in concrete and other quasi-brittle materials. A second research line ""road design and road ergonomics"" follows the recent international trend in the so-called user-friendly (i.e. ergonomical) design. The core of this research consists of analysing the effect of road construction aspects on driving behaviour. On the one hand, the effect of the actual road design (i.e. geometry and cross-section) on driving behaviour will be studied. On the other hand, the impact of extra monitoring and infrastructural arrangements (i.e. signalisation, marking, gate constructions etc.) on driving behaviour will be taken into account as well. The experimental data is collected from a driving simulator which allows for precise observation in various road environments and traffic situations (such as crossroads, intersections etc.) Services to industry: The services are performed in the domain of: material testing, finite element studies of civil engineering problems, experimental studies." "Management Information Systems (MIS)" "Jan Verelst" "Software Architectures This group has focused on identifying principles, patterns and other methodological elements for building software architectures for enterprise systems. The principles define the rules according to which software architectures have to be built so that there are no combinatorial explosions in the impacts of pre-defined basic changes to the system. Systems that comply with the principles are called normalized systems. The patterns form a constructive proof that normalized systems, containing common basic functionality of enterprise systems, can be actually be built in practice. It is noteworthy that these principles are independent of specific programming or modeling languages, software packages or any kind of hype in the ICT sector. Normalized systems are a specific way of viewing service-oriented architectures (SOA), which are currently prevalent in academic literature. Indeed, the essence of SOA can be described as a new way of building high-level designs. Unfortunately, there are at this moment very few guidelines or laws on how this should be done, which is a major shortcoming. The principles described above can be seen as a contribution to solving this problem, demonstrating the technical-scientific relevance of this research. The objective of this line of research is to achieve 'straight through processing'. This term is used to refer to the tight coupling between a change at the organizational level, which is propagated straight to the architectural and implementation level. This line of research integrates previous research by Herwig Mannaert on software architectures and their implementation with Jan Verelst's research on evolvability of conceptual models and design models of information systems. Several PhD students are active in this line of research. A new, related research topic is the influence of SOA on outsourcing, which is the subject of PhD-level research. Governance and Alignment In the present dynamic knowledge based economy, ICT is playing an increasingly important role in the management of transactions, information and knowledge. In many companies ICT is an integral part of the business and fundamental to the support, durability and development of economic and social activity. Starting from this observation, the managerial research group wants to execute and report on consumable research that is based on scientific models and relevant for practice. The focus areas for the research are models and best practices in the fields of ""business governance of ICT"" and ""business/ICT alignment"". The 'managerial' research area focuses on ICT Governance and its structures, processes and relational mechanisms. Specific attention is paid to the Balanced Scorecard as a performance measurement and management system for ICT. Currently, there are three major research directions: ICT governance practices, the relationship between business and ICT goals, the business value of ICT related business projects, and the further development of an ICT control standard (COBIT). Other topics These topics, all PhD-level research, were determined previously to the development of the vision mentioned above, and were not specifically aligned with it. - Organizational Adoption of Open Source Software - E-sourcing adoption - Ubiquitous computing"