The Technical University of Crete (TUC) is a state university under the supervision of the Greek Ministry of Education and was founded in 1977 in Chania, Crete. The Technical University of Crete is particularly active in conducting basic and applied research. The research and development projects, managed by the Research Committee, are funded by the European Union, the Greek General Secretariat for Research and Technology, the Greek Ministry of Education, the Region of Crete, local administration organisations and many private businesses. A large number of TUC undergraduate and postgraduate students are employed in these projects; in this way, they benefit from the best possible training and they are familiarised with conducting research.
Moreover, TUC is co-funded from external research and development grants and contracts in telecommunications and allied areas: cybersecurity, telecommunication systems/networks and network services, networking hardware, sensors, RF, and high-performance computing systems, machine learning, information systems, big data analytics, signal processing for telecommunications, speech, language and image processing, and biomedical applications. Funding mainly comes from the European Commission, international industry, National Funding Agencies, and DARPA. TUC has had significant experience in FP6, FP7 and Horizon (H2020, HE) projects, including FET, acting on many occasions as coordinator. It has also adopted a strategy of promoting the commercial exploitation of R&D results, by providing services (e.g. consulting) and contracting with industrial partners for specific products.
In MEDIATE, TUC is the coordinating oranisation, leading WP1 (Project Management) as well as tasks T1.1 – Project Administrative and Financial management, T4.1 – Hardware-based security sensors and partial reconfiguration & isolation technology, and, finally, T5.4 Sentinel reconfiguration and redeployment technology. In addition, TUC is contributor to the technical work of MEDIATE and is going to contribute on the runtime partial reconfiguration capabilities of the platform as well as on the security modules that will be deployed on the HW-based Sentinels of MEDIATE.