SIMON is a demonstration project with three large scale pilots in Madrid, Lisbon and Parma aiming to use ICT services to promote the independent living and societal participation of mobility impaired people in the context of on-street public parking areas and multiple transport modes. The project tackles two main challenges: - Reduction of fraud by demonstrating the use of an ICT – enhanced European Disable Badge for public parking, both on the basis of physical – i.e. smartcards – and virtual access right tokens – i.e. e-access through mobile devices. - Proposal of specific multimodal navigation solutions for elderly and disabled people, using opendata hubs and preexisting toolsets that will be populated and exploited with specific information – e.g. elevators located near sub-way stations. An additional challenge is the instantiation of a proven methodology for data privacy preservation and authentication of users. SIMON builds on existing mobility services, using the current infrastructure of the cities, and adds the required integration work to provide a seamless services integration layer which can be instantiated in different cities according to the specific context and the services available. Thus, from an ICT point of view, SIMON services are adaptable to heterogeneous environment, with different capabilities. The SIMON system platform supports some services that feed different applications, all of them accessible through different mobile devices. A backoffice also provides the access through a web application to let the public authority manage the whole system.

With the entry into force of the new CER directive, critical entities must focus on resilience. New tools will soon be demanded by Critical Infrastructure operators and innovative technologies will make the difference for the adoption of key measures: carry out risk assessments, take technical and organizational measures to enhance resilience and notify incidents. The H2020 PRAETORIAN project enables the security stakeholders of the CIs in Europe to manage the life cycle of security threats, from forecast, assessment and prevention to detection, response, and mitigation, in a collaborative manner with the security teams from related CIs—being the CIs in the same sector or not. PRAETORIAN supports the decision-making process of CI operators to prevent major damages to the installations, neighboring population, and the environment, while allowing a fast recovery after incidents. This means a significant move toward a Resilience-based framework, going beyond the merely Protection approach required by the former regulation.