{"id":634,"date":"2016-11-11T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.eda.kent.ac.uk\/news-ext\/2016\/11\/11\/eda-leads-on-major-eu-mobile-security-research-collaboration\/"},"modified":"2016-11-11T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T01:00:00","slug":"eda-leads-on-major-eu-mobile-security-research-collaboration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/2016\/11\/11\/eda-leads-on-major-eu-mobile-security-research-collaboration\/","title":{"rendered":"EDA leads on major EU mobile security research collaboration"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The School of Engineering and Digital Arts has been awarded a \u20ac2.5 million grant from the European Commission for a research network that will address current issues facing the use of mobile devices to deliver biometric solutions. <\/p>\n<p>The Marie Sk\u0142odowska-Curie Integrated Training Network  (ITN) grant, which will begin in January 2017, is being led by Kent&#8217;s Deputy Head of Engineering and Digital Arts, Dr Richard Guest.<\/p>\n<p>The project will involve direct interaction with four other universities across Europe: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain), Roma Tre University  (Italy), Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg  (Germany) and Warsaw University of Technology (Poland). Researchers will also be working with European-wide industry partners including IBM , Nubo Solutions , ElevenPaths , Skalli, NASK , GenKey  and Namirial <\/p>\n<p>This research will look at how biometrics (authentication of users through physiological or behaviour characteristics such as fingerprint, face or device interaction), can ensure both a balance of convenience and security on mobile devices.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, the UK Government&#8217;s Science and Technology Committee recognised  the need to develop a strategic approach to the use of biometrics due to its fast-changing nature, and that although it provides an opportunity for better identity verification, this must be balanced against safe-guarding the rights of the individual from unnecessary intrusion or data misuse.<\/p>\n<p>The School of Engineering and Digital Arts has a strong reputation for both its teaching and research. With strong industrial links, the School is engaged in high-quality research with significant national and international impact while offering excellent opportunities for graduate studies.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The School of Engineering and Digital Arts has been awarded a \u20ac2.5 million grant from the European Commission for a research network that will address &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/2016\/11\/11\/eda-leads-on-major-eu-mobile-security-research-collaboration\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55249,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}