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OLYMPUS
PROJECT
OBLIVIOUS IDENTITY MANAGEMENT FOR
PRIVATE USER-FRIENDLY SERVICES
D7.1 Intermediate Report on Dissemination and
Standardisation Activities
PROJECT NUMBER
786725
PROJECT ACRONYM
OLYMPUS
CONTACT
WEBSITE
http://www.olympus-project.eu
Due date of deliverable: 29-02-2020
Actual submission date: 27-02-2020
Dissemination Level
PU = Public, fully open, e.g. web
CO = Confidential, restricted under conditions set out in Model Grant Agreement
CI = Classified, information as referred to in Commission Decision 2001/844/EC.
Int = Internal Working Document
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CREVISION HISTORY
The following table describes the main changes done in the document since created.
Revision Date Description Author (Organisation)
V0.1 23/12/2019 First draft. Silvia Amado (MUL), Nuno Ponte (MUL)
V0.2 14/02/2020 Complete version for internal review
Silvia Amado (MUL), Nuno Ponte
(MUL), Nuno Martins (MUL), Nuno
Marques (MUL)
V0.3 24/02/2020 Added contributions, Executive Summary
Nuno Ponte (MUL), Antonio Skarmeta
(UMU), Jorge Bernal Bernabe (UMU),
Jesús García Rodriguez (UMU),
Michael Bladt Stausholm (ALX), Myriam
Vicente (LOG), Noelia Martínez Alfonso
(LOG), Georgia Sourla (SCY), Julia
Hesse (IBM)
V0.4 25/02/2020 Quality revision Rafael Torres (UMU), Jesús García
Rodriguez (UMU)
V1.0 26/02/2020 Final edit for publishing Nuno Ponte (UMU)
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INDEX
1. Executive Summary..................................................................................................................... 7
2. Introduction .................................................................................................................................. 8
2.1. Purpose of the Document ..................................................................................................... 8
2.2. Relation to Other Project Work ............................................................................................. 8
2.3. Glossary adopted in this document ...................................................................................... 8
3. Communication and Dissemination Policy ................................................................................. 10
4. Communication And Dissemination Strategy ............................................................................ 12
4.1. Social and Economic Environment ..................................................................................... 12
4.2. Objectives ........................................................................................................................... 14
4.3. Target Groups .................................................................................................................... 16
4.3.1. Communication Targets...................................................................................................... 18
4.3.2. Dissemination Targets ........................................................................................................ 18
4.4. Key Messages .................................................................................................................... 19
4.4.1. Keywords ............................................................................................................................ 19
4.4.2. Focus on the Project ........................................................................................................... 19
4.4.3. Focus on key features ........................................................................................................ 20
4.4.4. Focus on key innovation ..................................................................................................... 20
4.4.5. Focus on the expected outcomes ....................................................................................... 21
4.5. Communication Channels ................................................................................................... 21
4.6. Action Plan ......................................................................................................................... 23
4.7. Progress Monitoring ........................................................................................................... 24
5. Communication and Dissemination Report ............................................................................... 26
5.1. Visual Identity and Branding ............................................................................................... 26
5.2. Web Presence .................................................................................................................... 27
5.2.1. Website ............................................................................................................................... 27
5.2.2. Social Media ....................................................................................................................... 28
5.3. Press & Campaigns ............................................................................................................ 30
5.4. Events................................................................................................................................. 30
5.5. Collaboration with other R&D projects ................................................................................ 31
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5.6. Standardization working groups ......................................................................................... 32
5.7. Scientific workshops ........................................................................................................... 33
5.8. Publications in refereed conferences .................................................................................. 34
6. Key Performance Indicators Summary ...................................................................................... 36
7. Conclusions and Next Steps ..................................................................................................... 38
8. References ................................................................................................................................ 39
ANNEXES ........................................................................................................................................... 40
Annex 1: Templates ....................................................................................................................... 40
Annex 2: Brochure.......................................................................................................................... 41
Annex 3: Website ........................................................................................................................... 42
Annex 4: Social Media .................................................................................................................... 43
Annex 5: Press & Campaigns ........................................................................................................ 45
Annex 6: Events ............................................................................................................................. 46
Annex 7: Standardisation ............................................................................................................... 49
Annex 8: Scientific Workshops ....................................................................................................... 51
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LIST OF FIGURES
Figure 1 – Communication and dissemination target groups .............................................................. 17
Figure 2 – Communication and dissemination channels ..................................................................... 21
Figure 3 – Original OLYMPUS logo .................................................................................................... 26
Figure 4 – Artwork of new OLYMPUS logo and symbolic meaning .................................................... 26
Figure 5 – Website statistics ............................................................................................................... 27
Figure 6 – Total page views in LinkedIn .............................................................................................. 28
Figure 7 – Statistics from Twitter ......................................................................................................... 29
Figure 8 – Document template ............................................................................................................ 40
Figure 9 – Presentation template ........................................................................................................ 40
Figure 10 – Eurocrypt 2019 program .................................................................................................. 47
Figure 11 - GIoTS 2019 agenda item .................................................................................................. 48
Figure 12 – Excerpts of minutes of ISO meeting in Brainerd (US) ...................................................... 49
Figure 13 – Excerpts of minutes of ISO meeting in Sapporo (JP) ....................................................... 50
Figure 14 - IFIP Summer School Programme ..................................................................................... 51
LIST OF TABLES
Table 1 – Communication and dissemination goals ............................................................................ 16
Table 2 – Action Plan .......................................................................................................................... 23
Table 3 – Communication and Dissemination KPIs ............................................................................ 25
Table 4 – List of press releases and campaigns ................................................................................. 30
Table 5 – List of attended events ........................................................................................................ 31
Table 6 – ISO/IEC JTC1/SC17 WG10 meetings attended .................................................................. 32
Table 7 – List of publications in refereed conferences ........................................................................ 35
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OBLIVIOUS IDENTITY MANAGEMENT FOR PRIVATE AND USER-FRIENDLY
SERVICES
ABSTRACT
The aim of WP7 is to work on the communication, dissemination and exploitation of the OLYMPUS
results to a broad community of potentially interested parties. Furthermore, the contributions to
standardization activities where the technology developed under the project may be applicable are also
part of the scope of WP7.
This document summarizes all these activities carried out in the first half of the project, which helped
raise awareness about OLYMPUS.
KEYWORDS
Dissemination, Communication, Standardisation
AUTHORS (ORGANISATION)
Nuno Ponte (MUL), Nuno Marques (MUL), Nuno Martins (MUL), Antonio Skarmeta (UMU), Jorge
Bernal Bernabe (UMU), Jesus Garcia Rodriguez (UMU), Michael Bladt Stausholm (ALX), Myriam
Vicente (LOG), Noelia Martínez Alfonso (LOG), Georgia Sourla (SCY), Julia Hesse (IBM).
DISCLAIMER
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation
program under grant agreement No 786725, but this document only reflects the consortium’s view. The
European Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.
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1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The OLYMPUS consortium is fully committed to maximise the impact of the project results, in line with
the broad goals of the H2020 funding programme, and specifically with articles 29 and 38 of the Grant
Agreement. We aim at stimulating the wide use of OLYMPUS results by promoting it in the European
context, and beyond, as a best practice example for open source development addressing the needs
of individuals, governments, SMEs, and larger industry and thus improving their privacy and security
while enabling economic growth.
In that sense, an ambitious communication and dissemination plan has been developed, based on the
initial Description of Action submitted with the project proposal.
The plan starts with a clear definition of the strategy, describing the project’s social and economic
environment, the objectives established, the target groups to be addressed, the key messages to be
transmitted, the communication channels to reach our audiences and the action plan to be executed.
This document also reports about the activities carried out over the first half of the project. Further to a
strong emphasis on the visual identity and web presence, communication and dissemination has been
particularly active on the areas of standardization and publication of scientific papers in important
journals. Furthermore, many of the consortium partners have promoted the project in international
conferences and a summer school has already been organized to explain OLYMPUS concepts. Last
but not least, we sought collaboration with other R&D projects where results are of mutual interest.
In order to assess the overall progress on the work done so far about communication and dissemination
activities, a measurable indicator has been computed based on the established KPIs.
In the next half of the project, we will continue with the execution of the communication and
dissemination plan, with any adjustments eventually necessary based on the results achieved and the
evolution of project’s context.
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2. INTRODUCTION
This document is the project deliverable “D7.1 Intermediate Report on Dissemination and
Standardisation Activities”, which is part of Work Package 7 “Dissemination, Communication and
Exploitation”.
2.1. PURPOSE OF THE DOCUMENT
This document describes the communication and dissemination strategy of the OLYMPUS project. It
reports the work and activities performed so far, until half of the project, within the scope of tasks T7.1
“Dissemination and Communication of the Results” and T7.2 “Standardisation and collaboration with
other projects and fora”.
2.2. RELATION TO OTHER PROJECT WORK
This document D7.1 is also related to the following other OLYMPUS project deliverables:
• D7.2 Business and Innovation Plans
This document will describe the exploitation plans for the project results. It is planned for February 2020
(M18).
• D7.3 Public Workshop
This deliverable is a public event to disseminate and demonstrate the project results. It will occur during
the project before August 2020 (M24).
• D7.4 Final Report on Dissemination, Exploitation and Standardisation Activities
This document will expand D7.1 and report the completed dissemination, exploitation and
standardisation activities of OLYMPUS and the planned activities after the project ends. It is planned
for August 2021 (M36).
2.3. GLOSSARY ADOPTED IN THIS DOCUMENT
• Communication. The strategically planned process that starts at the outset of the action and
continues throughout its entire lifetime, aimed at promoting the action and its results. It requires
strategic and targeted measures for communicating about (i) the action and (ii) its results to a
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multitude of audiences, including the media and the public and possibly engaging in a two-way
exchange.
• Dissemination. Sharing research results with potential users (peers in the research field,
industry, other commercial players and policy makers). By sharing our research results with the
rest of the scientific community, we are contributing to the progress of science in general.
• Exploitation. The use of results for commercial purposes or in public policymaking.
• Standardisation. The contributions of the project towards setting specifications adopted by
broad communities for the main purpose of interoperability.
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3. COMMUNICATION AND DISSEMINATION POLICY
The European Commission has a clear goal that supported research projects by the Horizon 2020
programme must reach society. This means not only the technological and scientific activities shall be
driven to solve societal challenges, also the results achieved and benefits generated have to be actively
promoted, as a return to society of the considerable investment in public funding and human resources.
As a result, communication and dissemination has become an equally important key work field for the
H2020 research projects, playing level field with the remaining technology development and scientific
research activities.
The intention is to demonstrate how research projects are contributing to an “innovative European
Union”, with increased transparency over what projects are funded and their respective results. In order
to support this objective of the Commission, funded projects are required to incorporate work on
communication and dissemination transversally across all activities and constantly along the whole
duration of the project.
The communication and dissemination objectives originally set in OLYMPUS follow the requirements
of Grant Agreement (GA) [5] article 38.1.1 “Obligation to promote the action and its results”, which
states «The beneficiaries must promote the action and its results, by providing targeted information to
multiple audiences (including the media and the public) in a strategic and effective manner».
In support of this requirement, the EC has published several guidelines about 1) communication and
2) dissemination. Although some of its objectives are shared, they are different concepts in nature.
While dissemination focuses on presenting the outcomes of the project to audiences that may use the
results (e.g. peer reviewed publication), communication is about presenting the technology and
scientific results to a wider group of stakeholders beyond the project’s own community (e.g. general
public, policy makers, industry etc.).
EC defines «Communication on projects – it is a strategically planned process that starts at the outset
of the action and continues throughout its entire lifetime, aimed at promoting the action and its results.
It requires strategic and targeted measures for communicating about (i) the action and (ii) its results to
a multitude of audiences, including the media and the public and possibly engaging in a two-way
exchange» [6]. This requires the consortium to continuously show what Olympus is doing to the society
in general, as the ultimate source of funding of the project, as well as to the EC, which selected Olympus
over other concurring projects to address the societal need to increase privacy in online services. In
the case of OLYMPUS, this is of utmost importance as one of its key objectives is to «to establish an
oblivious identity management framework that ensures secure and privacy-friendly virtual identity
management interactions for citizens accessing services in Europe» [4].
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Some additional key aspects that are endorsed by the EC for communication activities are:
• Communicate from the beginning; meaning not only the results but also the journey along the
project duration, choosing the right tone for communications; just the relevant information, not
every detail.
• Communicate with purpose. The result of the communication activities should be coherent with
the objectives defined in the communication strategy.
Regarding dissemination, the main objectives are to transfer the knowledge and results to those that
can make best use of them and to maximize the impact of the research and innovation activities within
the project.
Within OLYMPUS, communication and dissemination activities are grouped under WP7
“Dissemination, Communication and Exploitation”, coordinated by MUL, and more specifically, in tasks
T7.1 “Dissemination and Communication of the Results” (responsible partner UMU) and T7.2
“Standardisation and collaboration with other projects and fora”. Nonetheless, spreading the message
of OLYMPUS is a joint effort of all consortium partners. Hence, the dissemination and communication
plans are presented together in this deliverable, and synergies are being explored and exploited in
order to maximize the impact of OLYMPUS outcomes.
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4. COMMUNICATION AND DISSEMINATION STRATEGY
The OLYMPUS consortium seeks to maximise the impact of the project by explaining the work and
results through outreach activities. Knowledge transfer to and knowledge exchange with all
stakeholders, i.e., citizens, governments, certification authorities, SMEs, standardization organisations,
research community, large industry, and industry organisations, is an important aspect and increases
the impact of the project. OLYMPUS adheres for its publications to the green open access principle.
In OLYMPUS, the communication and dissemination strategy is defined as the combination of rules
that are going to guide the information flow from the project towards the outside world.
This process is the result of answering the following questions.
1. Why? Social and economic environment
2. Which? Communication objectives
3. Who? Target groups
4. What? Key Messages
5. How? Communication channels
6. When? Action Plan
4.1. SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT
The increase on privacy when using electronic services is the main focus of OLYMPUS. When
analysing the current situation, there is plenty of opportunities to improve privacy of citizens.
Taking as example the Drivers’ Licence use case addressed by OLYMPUS, selling products and
services such as alcohol, tobacco, and gambling are subject to restrictions. Also, citizens meeting
certain requirements are often entitled to special benefits at public and private services.
Examples of such restrictions are age limits, state of residence, the salary or retirement pension
amount, etc. In most cases, there is no need to disclose the full identity of the subject, but rather to
show only a single attribute (e.g., year of birth, salary amount), or even just to prove that the attribute
satisfies some predicate (e.g., older than a certain age, salary less than a certain amount). For example,
alcohol can only be sold to individuals over 16 or 18 years of age, but a vendor does not need to know
the exact birth date, nor does he need any other personal information about the customer.
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As of today, the situation is the following:
• According to the recent Communication of the European Commission (Brussels, 8.12.2016
COM(2016) 790 final) entitled “Action plan to strengthen the European response to travel
document fraud”, identity fraud and forgery of travel documents are increasing rapidly. According
to the European Border and Coast Guard’s 2016 report (http://frontex.europa.eu/publications),
impostor fraud and the fraudulent obtaining of genuine documents increased by 4 % and 76 %,
respectively, between the first quarter of 2015 and the first quarter of 2016, whereas fraud with
counterfeit documents decreased (-8 %).
• Unfortunately, the forgery of identity documents has been going on for several years already, as
studies from 2009 had already shown. Forgery of traditional (i.e., chipless) identity documents
has continued to grow for several years. According to The Economist, “a study in 2009 of
American university students found that 17% of freshmen and 32% of seniors owned a false ID.
In August 2012 the numbers had been even higher, experts reckon.” High-quality fake US
driver’s licenses can today be bought online for around 100 USD.
• Reading out electronic identity documents such as eIDs, ePassports, and International Driver
Licences (IDLs) based on the eMRTD ICAO 9303 standard discloses full personal information
about the bearer, including his full name, birth date, country, etc.
The migration to electronic identity documents significantly reduces the possibility of forgery.
Specifications such as ICAO 9303 (in use for ePassport and eIDs) and ISO 18013 (IDL) provide
mechanisms to prove authenticity and integrity of the document. However, once read access is granted
by the chip, all biographic data contained in Data Group 1 (DG1) can be retrieved.
This means that the software validating an electronic ID document (e.g., the point-of-sale of an alcohol
vendor) has access to much more personal data than strictly required. Worse even, the data is already
in machine-processable form, so the vendor could easily build a comprehensive database of customer
profiles with full personal details, which poses serious threats to privacy.
On the other use case addressed in Olympus – the Credit File –, privacy is combined with activities of
Credit Reporting to achieve a greater societal objective of Financial Inclusion.
The ICCR (International Committee of Credit Reporting), an organisation belonging to the World Bank
has been working in several initiatives to facilitate access to credit for individuals and small and
medium-sized enterprises, avoiding their exclusion from the financing circuit.
«Financial inclusion has become a public policy priority in many countries. Many policymakers
and regulators are introducing measures to advance financial inclusion levels in their
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jurisdictions and in response private-sector stakeholders are scaling up their efforts to reach
unserved or underserved populations.
In this policy brief, the ICCR elaborates on how Credit Reporting can contribute to Financial
Inclusion, focusing specifically on access-to-credit issues for both individuals and M&SE’s whose
credit needs remain unserved or underserved by licensed financial institutions and/or by other
formal lenders that are not financial institutions (e.g. retailers)» [8].
In Spain, for example, law 5/2015 of April 27, about promoting corporate financing, has as one of its
objectives to foster and promote the financing of SMEs and self-employed people, making bank finance
more flexible and accessible. The Law establishes that extensive information on the financial situation
and payment history will have to be provided in a document called "Financial Information-SME".
On the other hand, the new EU general data protection regulation 2016/679 (GDPR) came into force
on May 25th, 2018. According to this regulation, if an entity requires personal information from a
customer, they will need the explicit consent to use their personal data. Penalties in case this standard
is not met are high.
Currently, when a customer needs financing, the credit institution requires: (a) a customer identification,
(b) access to external databases to collect customer data, (c) a credit risk evaluation, and, if it is granted,
(d) establishing a contractual credit relationship.
Before a financial institution can grant credit, the customer needs first to be identified with a high level
of assurance, and then must give consent to the bank to access external databases to validate
customer information (bad credit databases, default history, criminal records, laboural trajectory, etc.).
The client to give consent must provide his personal data and sign one or more documents. The
financial institution must keep the consent (i.e., the signed document) and the personal data for several
years. At this point in time, the financial institution does not even know whether the credit will be granted.
4.2. OBJECTIVES
The OLYMPUS communication and dissemination objectives are outlined in project’s Description of
Action [4] for WP7, specifically:
«[Obj. 7.1] The enhancement of competence in the area of services to find, analyse, rank, select
and integrate OLYMPUS services with respect to privacy and security in the use-case scenarios
and possible extension to areas like IoT. The awareness will be raised on a broader scale
(national and international communities) through cooperation with other relevant projects,
services, platforms, and initiatives and organisations. […]
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[Obj. 7.3] Dissemination of the project results, publication of concepts and reports to the research
IdM research and industry communities as well as to other European stakeholders to create
awareness, involvement and update. Promote the relevance of the OLYMPUs solution within
the GDPR framework.»
According to the H2020 communication guidelines [9] a communication strategy for an EU-funded
project pursues the following objectives:
• Raise the awareness of national governments, regional authorities, and other public and private
funding sources or policy-makers to the need for and ultimate benefits of our research.
• Promote the effort of the EU in pushing the investment in technological projects such as
OLYMPUS that span technical, societal, ethical and economic benefits for the citizenship.
• Promote project achievements and emphasize the innovation advances as a key feature of
OLYMPUS.
• Enhance reputation and visibility of consortium members at local, national and international
level, as well as encouraging talented students and scientists to join our partner institutes and
companies.
• Help searching for financial backers, licensees or industrial implementers to exploit our results.
The communication and dissemination efforts of OLYMPUS are targeted to specific stakeholder groups
(see section 4.3 below). Table 1 lists the specific goals, according to those target groups.
Target Groups Specific Dissemination and Exploitation Goals
Citizens • Raise awareness about OLYMPUS benefits.
• Maximise the effectiveness, usability and applicability of the proposed technology solutions
through user studies and a user centric design methodology.
• Outreach student and get them awareness of the importance of security and privacy in Internet.
Promote activities in MSCA Researchers` Night and Scientific weeks.
Government
Agencies
• Demonstrate how OLYMPUS can further improve privacy in G2C and G2B online services using
electronic ID documents.
• Address specifically Department of Motor Vehicle (DMV) agencies as Issuing Authorities of
electronic Driver Licences to embrace OLYMPUS technology on their plans for mDLs.
• Facilitate the creation of an ecosystem of privacy-by-design enabled attribute providers from
public authorities holding personal data about citizens, where this data may be required for other
societal objectives such as Financial Inclusion.
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Standardization
groups
• Influence work in standardisation to facilitate wider adoption of proposed technology enablers
and tools.
SMEs • Encourage the uptake of OLYMPUS enabled solutions in identity management solutions.
• Develop novel business models for services and products using OLYMPUS.
Large
Industries
• Encourage the uptake of OLYMPUS enabled solutions in identity management solutions.
• Develop novel business models for services and products using OLYMPUS.
Industrial
Organisations
and other
projects
• Cooperation with industrial stakeholders’ organisations to reference OLYMPUS services and
products as best practices benchmarks.
• Define synergies with other projects in the field, especially in those where partners of OLYMPUS
are collaborating in related projects including CyberSec4Europe, SODA and USEIT.
• Collaborate with the advisory board to identify potential business
• Present the results of OLYMPUS at industrial conferences and policy maker events.
Research
Community
• Effectively disseminate knowledge and research findings to enable others to build upon Olympus
technology advances and to stimulate new experimentation ideas.
• Track scientific progress and foster collaboration and synergies with others.
• World class research results, using the possibilities of collocating activities with conference and
workshop co-chair by some of the researchers of the projects such as Dr. Skarmeta that
participate in several relevant TPCs.
• Summer schools such as IFIP summer school on identity management and privacy, PETS,
InfoSec, Cysep, Senzations, etc to promote the technologies and improve the capacities of new
researchers and application developers in IdM solutions.
Table 1 – Communication and dissemination goals
4.3. TARGET GROUPS
In order to implement OLYMPUS Communication and Dissemination Strategy, two different categories
of stakeholders are considered:
• Internal, involving the coordination of communication and dissemination towards the target
audience existing in each of consortium partners’ organisations.
• External, involving the coordination of communication and dissemination towards all the target
audiences existing outside the project consortium.
Figure 1 depicts the classification of the target groups of OLYMPUS communication and dissemination
activities.
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Figure 1 – Communication and dissemination target groups
At internal level the main target groups are:
• OLYMPUS Consortium Partners: partners of the project are the best potential ambassadors
of the results of the project. All the partners are committed to promote the work developed along
the project, as well as participate actively in activities organized to this aim as workshops, joint
papers and presentations.
• Advisory Board: The AB gathers recognised specialists and experts invited to support the
project. The AB provides expert advice and feedback on selected OLYMPUS deliverables. The
AB is also consulted to assist with strategy for effective communication, including the uptake
and understanding of OLYMPUS research, both at a regional as well as global dimension.
• Security Advisory Board: As described in the DOA [4], SAB is the group responsible for
reviewing the project's deliverables prior to distribution outside the consortium. This board does
not have executive powers and its advice is non-binding. Final decisions are responsibility of the
project management board. They are involved in any communication action as workshops and
presentation of results with the aim of being aligned with them, with the side effect of acting also
as “OLYMPUS ambassadors”.
At external level, the targets are distinguished depending on the approach: Communication or
Dissemination. Nonetheless, despite this differentiation, the frontiers between Communication and
Dissemination are usually “blurry” [10], in the sense that one can feed the other, and vice versa. For
example, a Communication action intended to raise awareness on a group of users could lead to further
interest of acquiring the technology, leading to further Dissemination actions and ultimately to an
effective Exploitation. This interplay is understood as highly beneficial to the project and, thus,
embraced and promoted.
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4.3.1. COMMUNICATION TARGETS
The focus on communication is to inform a broader audience of potential users, clients, investors,
researchers and policy makers of the benefits of OLYMPUS, to establish strong liaisons that promote
interest in take-up of the results and demonstrate the value added of the project funding. This
collaboration will serve to complement the specific dissemination activities, gain feedback from the
community, identify potential partners and users, and influence relevant standards.
• Citizens: as end users of OLYMPUS, citizens are considered a key target for communication.
• Research Community: this group is focused on universities, research centres and other
academic institutions, as well as R&D departments of industrial companies that may be
interested on OLYMPUS specific topic of privacy and electronic identity.
• Industrial Organisations and other projects: this group is composed by sector specific
associations (e.g. Secure Document Alliance, Alliance 4.0, IoT Forum, European Signature
Dialog, etc), as well as consortiums of other R&D projects running under the H2020 or other
funding programmes.
4.3.2. DISSEMINATION TARGETS
The focus on dissemination is to promote knowledge transfer and tools developed within OLYMPUS to
stakeholders that can leverage the results into new business opportunities and/or take up the results
and enrich them with external contributions, used in complementary research fields.
• Government Agencies: public organisations with authority for issuing ID documents or holding
personal data information about citizens. Examples are Department of Motor Vehicles, Digital
Transformation Agencies, Civil Registers, etc.
• Standardization Groups: An important part of the exploitation plan is based on the
incorporation of some of the OLYMPUS building blocks into standards, making them mandatory
and interoperable. Examples of such standardization bodies are ISO, W3C and OASIS.
• SMEs: Many of the companies acting as Services Providers in the OLYMPUS ecosystem are
expected to be SMEs, agile and innovative enough to embrace and deploy privacy aware and
user-friendly services.
• Large Industries: Setting up and kick start new and scalable services with innovative business
models may require significant upfront investments and resources. This is usually only
accessible to large companies, which are addressed as specific group in OLYMPUS.
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4.4. KEY MESSAGES
Considering the goals set for OLYMPUS, its features, innovations and expected outcomes, different
messages can be communicated to our target groups.
According to the project theme, the main topics for communication and dissemination are privacy
(especially personal data), identity (in electronic formats) and security (mitigate data compromise).
All contents created for communication and dissemination activities shall take these key topics as a
starting point and elaborate over them, in connection to the OLYMPUS objectives and results.
4.4.1. KEYWORDS
The OLYMPUS concept is based on the following terms:
✓ Privacy
✓ Data Protection
✓ Identification
✓ Risk Management
✓ Identity Management Systems
✓ Electronic ID documents
✓ Online services
4.4.2. FOCUS ON THE PROJECT
The goal of these messages is to emphasize OLYMPUS value, as well as the facts and reasons that
motivate the whole idea of the project.
✓ OLYMPUS does not rely on secure hardware tokens and ensures user privacy by enforcing
untying of authentications and minimal disclosure of data in relation to service providers and
identity providers.
✓ Through the ability of online IDP in traditional IDM systems distributed across multiple partial
IDPs, no single server, or no collusion of servers smaller than a certain threshold, can
impersonate its users, link their virtual identities between services, or retrieve their passwords.
✓ More transparency for Service Providers and Identity Providers in adhering to existing standards
and complying with privacy aware policies and data protection regulations.
✓ Implementation of a user-centric IdM ecosystem by enabling citizens to manage the disclosure
of personal information.
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✓ Set the standard on electronic ID documents for privacy protection of personal information with
minimal disclosure.
4.4.3. FOCUS ON KEY FEATURES
The key messages can be focused on the main features of the OLYMPUS framework, resulting on
benefits to the stakeholders:
✓ Augmented user experience of online authentication without revealing unnecessary information.
✓ No traceability of users across multiple Service Providers, as well as across the partial IdPs
composing a virtual IdP.
✓ No compromise on user access credentials, even if all but one partial IdPs are compromised
simultaneously.
✓ No need for the user to hold secret keys on a dedicated secure hardware token when
authenticating online towards OLYMPUS virtual IdP.
✓ Possibility of deriving offline assertions about user attributes with minimal disclose (for example
for age proof, without revealing birthdate)
4.4.4. FOCUS ON KEY INNOVATION
Innovation is one of the distinctive features of OLYMPUS. The consortium has identified the following
areas of significant scientific and technological progress over the current state-of-the-art:
✓ Specification and reference implementation of a new distributed Single Sign On protocol with
proactive and adaptive security, guaranteeing security as long as not all servers are
compromised at the same time.
✓ Definition of a new distributed partially oblivious Pseudo Random Function, letting users
deterministically derive a signing key pair from their username and password, while having that
key distributed amongst an arbitrary number of different servers.
✓ New proactively secure distributed signature, with an instantiation based on RSA signatures.
✓ Integration of private attribute-based credentials into an electronic ID document.
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4.4.5. FOCUS ON THE EXPECTED OUTCOMES
Further to technology advances of OLYMPUS, the added value of the project is demonstrated by the
outcomes produced, which ultimately define the effective utility of the project:
✓ A privacy preserving digital identities framework, making sure citizens are in full control of their
personal data when interacting with digital services and reducing opportunities for online tracking
and profiling.
✓ Support digital transformation processes with increased privacy-by-design, through OLYMPUS
available components.
✓ New generation of electronic ID documents with improved mechanisms for minimal data
disclosure.
✓ Integrated online ecosystems of Identity Providers, Service Providers and Attribute Providers,
facilitating new services and business models in support of societal challenges like Financial
Inclusion.
✓ Novel cryptographic building blocks that may be object of further research, reused and extended
in other types of distributed oblivious systems.
4.5. COMMUNICATION CHANNELS
This section presents a summary of the planned channels for communication and dissemination
activities considered to be used for OLYMPUS to reach the identified target groups.
Figure 2 – Communication and dissemination channels
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Channel Description
Visual Identity &
Branding
The creation of a distinctive branding identity is important to build a visual recognition of the
project. A set of elements and colour schemes are designed and selected to be used consistently
across all the contents created in OLYMPUS.
Web Presence The web presence is instrumental for communication and assured by a combination of a
dedicated web site and social media pages.
Website: The OLYMPUS website is one of the communication channels to promote the project,
covering the following topics:
• Introductory information about the project, facts and its general approach
• Outline of project activities and results, main publications
• Useful documentation, links and references in .pdf files
• News related to the project: internal meetings, presence at events, published papers,
starred deliverables, etc.
Social media: Social media networks facilitate immediate information sharing with target
audiences, raise visibility of the project, create communities around the project. For OLYMPUS,
the selected social media networks are:
• LinkedIn – since most of the target groups are governmental or corporate, a professional
oriented network as LinkedIn is considered more appropriate when compared to other
networks like Facebook or Instagram, more targeted to individuals and leisure activities.
• Twitter – allows short and quick communications with transversal audiences –
governmental agencies, corporates, academia and citizens.
• Youtube – channel to be used at a later stage in the project to distribute video contents
based on the demonstrators.
Press & Campaigns In addition to scientific publications, OLYMPUS shall also be communicated in common language
accessible to non-expert audiences, to trigger further interest. These articles not classified as
scientific papers can be published in magazines or distributed as whitepapers.
Events This channel comprises workshops, talks about the project at sector specific conferences, forums
or any type of meeting where the project somehow can be promoted by a consortium member.
Collaboration with
other R&D projects
OLYMPUS actively seeks communication and exchange with related R&D EU Projects.
Particularly the parallel projects under the same H2020 call and topic are likely to be relevant.
Standardization
working groups
The project will contribute to the relevant standardisation activities and working groups including,
ISO, OASIS and W3C. This will be coordinated through existing participation of some of the
consortium partners in relevant standardisation organisations and working groups such as
ISO/IEC JTC1/SC17 WG10 for the mobile Driver’s License that also serves as an electronic ID
document and is expected to work as an online access credential.
Scientific
workshops
OLYMPUS’ partner members will organize and participate in scientific workshops in order to
promote our research activities, as well as exploit other researchers’ relevant results.
Publications in
refereed
conferences
The main scientific dissemination activity for OLYMPUS is the publication of innovative research
results: Partners publish the results of the conducted research in relevant conferences to
maximize the impact of the scientific work to the target communities.
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4.6. ACTION PLAN
The dissemination and exploitation strategy splits into 3 phases, distributed along the project duration.
Phase I. Awareness
Timeline M1-M12
Objectives Year 1 is about awareness. The concept and idea of the project is widely disseminated. Standard
channels such as the project website, social media, press releases and news articles are used to
“spread the word”. The aim is to attract potential stakeholders from diverse backgrounds. In
particular, focus on targeting citizens and SMEs to engage them in an initial dialogue about the
dimensions of the project and the work involved.
Action Points 1. Definition of the Communication and Dissemination strategy
2. Roll-out of branding and graphic identity
3. Implement web presence, comprising the website and social media
4. Present OLYMPUS at selected scientific and sector specific conferences (*)
5. Organize a summer school to explain OLYMPUS building blocks
6. Monitoring progress of the plan and update strategy accordingly (*)
Phase II. Feedback
Timeline M13-M24
Objectives Year 2 is about getting feedback. The second year has planned working prototypes and the
development of an initial ecosystem with the appropriate platforms. Achieving feedback on the
development is the project’s priority. It is a critical time for the project to engage with a variety of
communities, be it large industries, SMEs, end users or standardization groups.
Action Points 7. Grow web presence with regular publication of informative contents about OLYMPUS (*)
8. First reporting of activities performed along first half of the project
9. Collect feedback from previous communication and dissemination actions and incorporate
into the development works undergoing in the remaining (*)
Phase III. Impact
Timeline M25-M36
Objectives Year 3 is about third-party uptake and impact. The success of the project is ultimately measured
by the uptake of the addressed target groups. The dissemination activities will mainly be geared
towards engaging with third party stakeholders as well as standards bodies to generate lasting
impact of the project and creating business opportunities.
Action Points 10. Final Dissemination/Communication workshop to present the results of the project
11. Final evaluation and reporting of activities along the whole project duration
(*) AP running continuously throughout the whole duration of the project, with focus adjusted to respective objectives for the period.
Table 2 – Action Plan
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4.7. PROGRESS MONITORING
In order to assess implementation of this plan, a set of Key Performance Indicators (KPI) are
established and described in Table 3. These KPIs are grouped according to the communication
channels defined in section 4.5. Each KPI is defined with a metric (either quantitative or true/false),
cumulative over the entire duration of the project, and a target value to be achieved by the end of the
project (month 36) is defined.
These metrics are monitored throughout the lifetime of the project and help measuring the impact of
the communication strategy by quantifying the results achieved.
ID KPI Metric Target (M36)
1. Visual Identity & Branding
1.1 Design of graphic material Graphic material produced?
Logo?
Templates?
Brochure?
2. Web Presence
2.1 Website
All public deliverables available for
download? ≥ 20 deliverables
# news entries ≥ 48 news entries
# sessions ≥ 4 000 sessions
# unique visitors ≥ 2 500 unique visitors
# countries of origin ≥ 75 different countries of origin
2.2 LinkedIn
# posts ≥ 25 posts
# page views ≥ 250 page views
# unique visitors ≥ 75 unique visitors
2.3 Twitter
# tweets ≥ 15 tweets
# impressions ≥ 10 000 impressions
# profile visits ≥ 200 profile visits
2.4 Youtube # videos ≥ 3 videos
# views ≥ 100 views
3. Press and Campaigns
3.1 Number of publications # press releases ≥ 3 press releases
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# articles in corporate publications ≥ 3 articles
4. Events
4.1 Participation in conferences # presentations of OLYMPUS in well-known
conferences ≥ 15 presentations
5. Collaboration with other R&D projects
5.1 Other projects involvement
and collaborations # projects collaborated ≥ 3 projects
6. Standardization working groups
6.1 Standardization activities
# standardisation working groups engaged ≥ 3 working groups
# attended standardisation meetings ≥ 12 meetings
# submitted contributions to standards ≥ 1 contribution
7. Scientific workshops
7.1
Organization/participation in
scientific conferences or
workshops
# scientific workshops organized ≥ 2 workshops
# participations in scientific workshops ≥ 6 workshops
8. Publications in refereed conferences
8.1 Scientific production # scientific papers/articles in refereed
journals ≥ 18 papers
Table 3 – Communication and Dissemination KPIs
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5. COMMUNICATION AND DISSEMINATION REPORT
All communication activities have been classified according to the established channels (section 4.5)
and are reported in the following sections.
5.1. VISUAL IDENTITY AND BRANDING
The very first element of visual identity of OLYMPUS is the logo. By the time the original project proposal
was submitted for evaluation, the consortium has already drafted an initial logo (Figure 3).
Figure 3 – Original OLYMPUS logo
After the project started, the consortium worked on a new logo with a cleaner and more elegant look,
still retaining some of the design elements with a symbolic meaning (Figure 4). A colour palette was
also selected to be used consistently in the contents to be produced in the project.
Figure 4 – Artwork of new OLYMPUS logo and symbolic meaning
Further to the logo, a set of templates (Annex 1) for documents and presentations was also prepared,
as well as a brochure (Annex 2) with the key messages.
✓ The circle of stars mimics the EU flag and refers to the
project’s European background
✓ The 6 stars represent the number of partners in the
consortium
✓ The bigger M resembles Mount Olympus, the highest
mountain in Greece and home of the gods in Greek
mythology. It represents the difficulty of the challenges
ahead in the project, as well as the glory attained with
the results to be achieved.
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5.2. WEB PRESENCE
5.2.1. WEBSITE
A dedicated informational website [1] for the project initially setup and hosted by UMU available at
https://olympus-project.eu. Immediately afterwards, a new version of the website was developed using
the framework Wordpress. The mains goals were to have a cleaner and more elegant look, easier
content editing and publication and collection of access (privacy-friendly) statistics. This new version
went live on July 2019, replacing the first website version at the very same Internet address.
The website is currently is the main channel of OLYMPUS to communicate the results of the project
and to regularly report about activities and achievements to the wide public. Figure 5 shows the
statistics collected1 about visitors and sessions in the new project website.
Figure 5 – Website statistics
1 Website statistics only available since July 2019, when the new website went live.
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5.2.2. SOCIAL MEDIA
A LinkedIn account was created for OLYMPUS to communicate relevant news about the project.
Furthermore, post entries on LinkedIn can be shared by partners to raise wider visibility.
The LinkedIn page [2] is publicly accessible at https://www.linkedin.com/company/olympus-eu-project/.
In the period from February 2019 to January 2020, there were a total of 110 page views from 53 unique
visitors (Figure 6). Very interestingly, there was a peak in September 2019, which coincided with the
presentation of OLYMPUS in eID Forum 2019.
Figure 6 – Total page views in LinkedIn
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A Twitter account for OLYMPUS [3] was also created, with public URL https://twitter.com/IdprivacyO.
Figure 7 – Statistics from Twitter
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5.3. PRESS & CAMPAIGNS
OLYMPUS was featured in the following press articles and campaigns:
# Type Articles Date
1 Press release Press release from University of Murcia about OLYMPUS project
https://www.um.es/web/sala-prensa/-/la-universidad-de-murcia-lidera-un-
proyecto-para-limitar-la-informacion-que-se-obtiene-de-los-certificados-de-
identidad-digital
2018-10-31
2 Article Online article about OLYMPUS project on the digital publication “Open Access
Government January 2020”
https://www.openaccessgovernment.org/olympus/78803/
2019-12-04
Table 4 – List of press releases and campaigns
5.4. EVENTS
OLYMPUS was presented in the following events:
# Type Activity Description Partners Location,
Date
1 Conference eID Conference 2018
The research in OLYMPUS about privacy and data minimization
was referred by Nuno Ponte in his presentation about the mDL in
the panel "eID Vision and Case Studies: Building an eID
Architecture for the Future"
MUL Lisbon (PT),
2018-09-27
2 Conference Eurocrypt 2019
Presentation of paper "(R)CCA Secure Updatable Encryption with
Integrity Protection" by Anja Lehmann
IBM Darmstadt (DE),
2019-05-20
3 Conference Global IoT Summit 2019
Olympus goals and architecture presented by Antonio Skarmeta
at the GIoTs. Title of talk: "OLYMPUS: towards Oblivious identitY
Management for Private and User-friendly Services".
UMU,
ALX
Aarhus (DK),
2019-06-19
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4 Conference eID Forum 2019
Olympus goals and architecture presented by Antonio Skarmeta
at the GIoTs. Title of talk: "OLYMPUS Project: An identity
management framework that ensures secure and privacy-friendly
virtual identity management interactions for citizens accessing
services in Europe". Geoff Slagle from Project Advisory Board
attended the meeting and provided insights and feedback about
the project.
ALL Tallinn (EE),
2019-09-17
Table 5 – List of attended events
5.5. COLLABORATION WITH OTHER R&D PROJECTS
OLYMPUS has collaborated with the following R&D projects:
# Project Scope of collaboration
1 CyberSec4Europe
https://cybersec4europe.eu
OLYMPUS has collaboration with CyberSec4Europe, with consortium
partner UMU being involved in both projects. CyberSec4Europe is
identifying researchers’ challenges on different areas of cybersecurity.
More specifically, Task 5.3 in that project is related to privacy preserving
identity management solutions. UMU is presenting some of the results of
OLYMPUS as key technologies to be considered in the future. It is
expected that once OLYMPUS is able to provide the different
components, synergies will be created to enable possible tests within the
pilots that CybeSec4Europe is defining. Additionally, as part of WP4
where the roadmap of different challenges is defined, the results and
advances proposed by OLYMPUS may be included as contributions.
2 SODA
https://www.soda-project.eu
Joint research work on distributed RSA key generation was done in the
projects OLYMPUS and SODA by consortium partner ALX. SODA is
focused on general multiparty computation and the use of the such
distributed key generation method is being integrated in OLYMPUS in an
Identity Management application.
3 USEIT
https://www.chistera.eu/projects/useit
Collaboration with CHIST-ERA project USEIT – Usable Security and
Privacy for IoT. In this project, UMU and IBM worked on the design of
privacy preserving protocols for V2I communications. Based on this
research, some of the concepts were taken as inputs to the discussion of
OLYMPUS architecture as an extended solution.
Although USEIT finished January 2020, the baseline of collaboration is
continuing within OLYMPUS, which is expanding on the results.
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5.6. STANDARDIZATION WORKING GROUPS
ISO
MUL and SCY have been attending regularly the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC17 WG102 meetings, mostly
focused on the specification of the Mobile Drivers’ License (mDL). A draft specification version is
currently undergoing DIS ballot, and according to formal ISO standardisation process, a final version is
expected to be released as international standard ISO 18013-5 by end of 2020. MUL was responsible
for the Trust Model and the Certificate Profiles, for which a contribution was submitted. A partial
contribution was also submitted to the Privacy Annex.
# Location Date Details Partners
1 Okayama (JP) 2018-10-08 /
2018-10-10
1st mDL interoperability test event. WG10 meeting. SCY
2 Melbourne (AU) 2018-12-12 /
2018-12-14
WG10 meeting. Collocated with Austroads conference. SCY
3 Leiden (NL) 2019-02-04 /
2019-02-06
WG10 meeting. MUL,
SCY
4 Ljubljana (SI) 2019-04-01 /
2019-04-03
TF14 meeting. MUL,
SCY
5 Porto (PT) 2019-07-01 /
2019-07-04
WG10 meeting. Resolution of Comments. Meeting hosted by MUL. MUL,
SCY
6 Omaha (US) 2019-08-20 /
2019-08-22
2nd mDL interoperability test event. WG10 meeting. Collocated with
AAMVA International Conference.
MUL,
SCY
7 Brainerd (US) 2019-10-07 /
2019-10-09
WG10 meeting. SCY
8 Sapporo (JP) 2019-12-09 /
2019-12-12
TF14 meeting. Exclusively dedicated to mDL “Day 2 features”.
OLYMPUS was part of the agenda and was presented.
MUL3
Table 6 – ISO/IEC JTC1/SC17 WG10 meetings attended
In the Sapporo meeting, exclusively dedicated to “mDL Day 2 features”, the core privacy technology
“Anonymous Credentials” of OLYMPUS was included as a specific topic in the agenda (Annex 7). A
presentation to the 30 experts attending was done, followed by technical discussion. Further updates
2 Working Group 10 (WG10) has a dedicated task force (TF14) for the specific work of mDL’s specification ISO 18013-5. Meetings
where specific discussions are focused solely on mDL and need no voting from national delegations are “TF14 meetings”.
3 Travel costs supported by OLYMPUS
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on the progress of the project and a contribution to the standard are listed as action points for the next
planned meetings – for 2020, Orlando (US), Amsterdam (NL), Stockholm (SE) and Beijing (CN).
W3C
The consortium has also engaged with the W3C Verifiable Credentials Working Group. The intention
is to investigate the usage of the data model specified in the recent W3C Recommendation “Verifiable
Credentials Data Model 1.0” [11] and analyse whether it can be integrated in OLYMPUS and eventually
contribute with comments and suggestions.
AIOTI
Through UMU, OLYMPUS has also been involved in activities of Alliance of Internet of Things
Innovation (AIOTI)4 distributed ledger (DLT) Working Group. Here we are supporting to create an
overview on best practices of DLT usage in Europe and to push standardisation activities towards DLT
and Blockchain protocol interoperability.
ECSO
Under the European Cyber Security Organisation (ECSO)5 there is the cPPP on Cybersecurity and
partners like UMU are involved on different WG related to security for IoT, industrial deployment and
research identification. During last year UMU has been involved in ECSO Horizon Europe Priorities
SWG6.1 for the HEP and DEP priority identification. In that sense, UMU has provided input related to
privacy preserving technologies and challenges to be incorporated in the next Horizon Europe program
5.7. SCIENTIFIC WORKSHOPS
OLYMPUS has organized the following scientific workshops:
# Type Activity Description Partners Location,
Date
1 Workshop IFIP Summer School
Presenting initial problem and core solution of OLYMPUS to an
audience of students. Do a Q&A on applicability of the use cases.
Programme in Annex 8.
IBM,
ALX,
UMU
Brugg (CH),
2019-08-20
4 https://aioti.eu
5 https://ecs-org.eu
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5.8. PUBLICATIONS IN REFEREED CONFERENCES
The following papers have been published or submitted to refereed conferences:
# DOI Year Title, URL Authors
1 10.1109/GIOTS.2019.8766357 2019 OLYMPUS: towards Oblivious identitY Management for Private and User-
friendly Services
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8766357
Rafael Torres Moreno, Jorge Bernal
Bernabe, Antonio Skarmeta, Michael
Stausholm, Tore Frederiksen, Noelia
Martinez, Nuno Ponte, Evangelos
Sakkopoulos, Anja Lehmann
2 10.1007/978-3-030-17653-2\_3 2019 (R)CCA Secure Updatable Encryption with Integrity Protection
https://ia.cr/2019/222
Michael Klooß, Anja Lehmann, Andy
Rupp
3 10.2478/popets-2019-0048 2019 ScrambleDB: Oblivious (Chameleon) Pseudonymization-as-a-Service
https://petsymposium.org/2019/files/papers/issue3/popets-2019-0048.pdf
Anja Lehmann
4 (in submission) 2019 PESTO: Proactively Secure Distributed Single Sign-On, or How to Trust a
Hacked Server
https://ia.cr/2019/1470
Carsten Baum, Tore K. Frederiksen,
Julia Hesse, Anja Lehmann, Avishay
Yanai
5 (in submission) 2020 Short Threshold Dynamic Group Signatures
https://ia.cr/2020/016
Jan Camenisch, Manu Drijvers, Anja
Lehmann, Gregory Neven, Patrick
Towa
6 (to be published) Identity Management: State of the Art, Challenges and Perspectives Tore K. Frederiksen, Julia Hesse,
Anja Lehmann, Rafael Torres
Moreno
7 10.3390/s20030945 2020 The OLYMPUS Architecture—Oblivious Identity Management for Private
User-Friendly Services
https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/20/3/945
Rafael Torres Moreno, Jorge Bernal
Bernabe, Jesús García Rodríguez,
Tore Kasper Frederiksen, Michael
Stausholm, Noelia Martínez,
Evangelos Sakkopoulos, Nuno
Ponte, Antonio Skarmeta
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8 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2950872 2019 Privacy-Preserving Solutions for Blockchain:Review and Challenges
https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2950872
Jorge Bernal Bernabe, Jose L.
Canovas, Jose L. Hernandez-
Ramos, Rafael Torres Moreno and
A. Skarmeta
9 (in submission) 2020 OLYMPUS: A distributed privacy-preserving identity management system Rafael Torres Moreno, Jesus García
Rodríguez, Cristina Timón López,
Jorge Bernal Bernabe and A.
Skarmeta
Table 7 – List of publications in refereed conferences
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6. KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS SUMMARY
ID KPI Metric Target (M36) Progress (M18)
1. Visual Identity & Branding
1.1 Design of graphic
material Graphic material produced?
Logo? YES (100%)
Templates? YES (100%)
Brochure? YES (100%)
2. Web Presence
2.1 Website
All public deliverables available
for download? ≥ 20 deliverables 11 (55%)
# news entries ≥ 48 news entries 17 (34%)
# sessions ≥ 4 000 sessions 1531 (38%)
# unique visitors ≥ 2 500 unique visitors 1260 (50%)
# countries of origin ≥ 75 different countries of
origin 88 (117%)
2.2 LinkedIn
# posts ≥ 25 posts 7 (28%)
# page views ≥ 250 page views 110 (44%)
# unique visitors ≥ 75 unique visitors 53 (71%)
2.3 Twitter
# tweets ≥ 15 tweets 7 (47%)
# impressions ≥ 10 000 impressions 3989 (40%)
# profile visits ≥ 200 profile visits 101 (67%)
2.4 Youtube # videos ≥ 3 videos 0 (0%)
# views ≥ 100 views 0 (0%)
3. Press and Campaigns
3.1 Number of publications
# press releases ≥ 3 press releases 1 (33%)
# articles in corporate
publications ≥ 3 articles 1 (33%)
4. Events
4.1 Participation in
conferences
# presentations of OLYMPUS in
well-known conferences ≥ 15 presentations 4 (27%)
5. Collaboration with other R&D projects
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5.1
Other projects
involvement and
collaborations
# projects collaborated ≥ 3 projects 3 (100%)
6. Standardization working groups
6.1 Standardization activities
# standardisation working
groups engaged ≥ 3 working groups 4 (133%)
# attended standardisation
meetings ≥ 12 meetings 8 (67%)
# submitted contributions to
standards ≥ 1 contribution 0 (0%)
7. Scientific workshops
7.1
Organization/participation
in scientific conferences
or workshops
# scientific workshops organized ≥ 2 workshops 1 (50%)
# participations in scientific
workshops ≥ 6 workshops 3 (50%)
8. Publications in refereed conferences
8.1 Scientific production # scientific papers/articles in
refereed journals ≥ 18 papers 9 (50%)
Considering each KPI with equal importance, the mean average of the KPIs is 55%. This can be
understood as an indicator of the global progress of execution of this Communication and
Dissemination Plan.
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7. CONCLUSIONS AND NEXT STEPS
Halfway through the OLYMPUS project, there is significant work done so far on communication and
dissemination activities, even if the more tangible results are yet to be developed and demonstrated
over the second half of the project.
So far, OLYMPUS has been presented in several important international conferences, with an adequate
balance between scientific and business-oriented events. This is helping raise interest not only on the
research community, but also on potential customers and industrial partners. For example, a surge on
page views at OLYMPUS web channels was clearly visible during the presentation at eID Forum
conference. Also, the summer school at IFIP proved to be a very successful event, with more than 40
students attending.
The scientific research, one of the major efforts of the first half of the project did also produce very
relevant results, with several papers submitted and accepted at the most prestigious scientific
conferences and journals.
Also worth of note is the activity on standardisation. Several meetings have been attended and the
project was already presented to the ISO Working Group responsible for the Mobile Drivers’ Licence.
Due to its interest and potential benefits, it is marked as an action point for further updates and
contributions. Therefore, it is important for the consortium partners engaged into this group to keep
regular attendance to the meetings and draft a contribution to be submitted in the next half of the project
and take opportunities to do live demonstrations of the implementation.
The activities done so far have laid down the ground for the exploitation plans. All consortium partners
remain strongly committed towards the success of the project and leveraging the opportunities it is
creating. In that sense, in the second half of the project, communication and dissemination activities
will be focused on reaching broader audiences and engage with stakeholders that can help maximize
the possible impacts.
On one side, web presence will be reinforced with even more publications in the website and social
media, including the setup of a Youtube channel to share videos of the demonstrators.
As more results will be coming from OLYMPUS, we will seek further collaboration with other R&D
projects, looking for synergies and joint opportunities of communication and dissemination.
Last but not least, we will stay closer to the identified target groups that can have particular interest in
OLYMPUS, namely, Government Agencies, Standardisation Groups, SMEs and Large Industries.
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Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation
program under grant agreement No 786725
8. REFERENCES
[1] Olympus website, https://olympus-project.eu
[2] Olympus LinkedIn page, https://www.linkedin.com/company/olympus-eu-project/
[3] Olympus Twitter channel, https://twitter.com/IdprivacyO
[4] Olympus Description of Action
[5] Olympus Grant Agreement
[6] EC Research & Innovation Participant Portal Glossary/Reference Terms,
https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/support/glossary
[7] Making the Most of Your H2020 – Project Boosting the impact of your project through effective
communication, dissemination and exploitation, The European IPR Helpdesk, March 2018,
https://www.iprhelpdesk.eu/sites/default/files/EU-IPR-Brochure-Boosting-Impact-C-D-E.pdf
[8] Policy Brief – How Credit Reporting Contributes to Financial Inclusion – Consultative Draft, World
Bank, September 2016, https://consultations.worldbank.org/sites/default/files/materials/consultation-
template/how-credit-reporting-contributes-financial-
inclusionopenconsultationtemplate/materials/iccr_policy_brief_on_credit_reporting_and_financial_incl
usion_publicconsultation_september2016.docx
[9] Horizon 2020 – Communicating EU research and innovation guidance for project participants,
European Commission, version 1.0, 25 September 2014,
https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/other/gm/h2020-guide-comm_en.pdf
[10] The Plan for the Exploitation and Dissemination of Results in Horizon 2020 – Fact Sheet, The
European IPR Helpdesk, July 2015, https://www.iprhelpdesk.eu/sites/default/files/newsdocuments/FS-
Plan-for-the-exploitation-and-dissemination-of-results_1.pdf
[11] Verifiable Credentials Data Model 1.0, W3C, 19 November 2019, https://www.w3.org/TR/vc-data-
model/
[12] H2020 Guidance —Social media guide for EU funded R&I projects, European Commission,
version 1.0, 7 January 2020,
https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/other/grants_manual/amga/soc-med-
guide_en.pdf
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program under grant agreement No 786725
ANNEXES
ANNEX 1: TEMPLATES
Figure 8 – Document template
Figure 9 – Presentation template
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ANNEX 2: BROCHURE
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Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation
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ANNEX 3: WEBSITE
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Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation
program under grant agreement No 786725
ANNEX 4: SOCIAL MEDIA
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This project has received funding from the European
Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation
program under grant agreement No 786725
ANNEX 5: PRESS & CAMPAIGNS
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Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation
program under grant agreement No 786725
ANNEX 6: EVENTS
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Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation
program under grant agreement No 786725
Figure 10 – Eurocrypt 2019 program
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Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation
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Figure 11 - GIoTS 2019 agenda item
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This project has received funding from the European
Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation
program under grant agreement No 786725
ANNEX 7: STANDARDISATION
Figure 12 – Excerpts of minutes of ISO meeting in Brainerd (US)
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program under grant agreement No 786725
Figure 13 – Excerpts of minutes of ISO meeting in Sapporo (JP)
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This project has received funding from the European
Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation
program under grant agreement No 786725
ANNEX 8: SCIENTIFIC WORKSHOPS
Figure 14 - IFIP Summer School Programme