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TRUST · digital TuRn in EUrope: Strengthening relational reliance through Technology

Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2021-09-01 → 2025-08-31
EU contribution
€998,200
Participants
14
Scheme
MSCA-RISE

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Results in brief

digital TuRn in EUrope: Strengthening relational reliance through Technology

Leveraging on a highly interdisciplinary and intersectoral perspective, our consortium has promoted the understanding of the role of trust in the implementation of digital technologies. We intended to provide indications on how to secure “trust” in terms of requirements of the legal framework, technical applications, and economic/business conditions. Four research objectives drove our joint work: to define a proper legal framework, as well as to shape and raise relational trust in the age of BCT (RO1); to define open standards, following a multi-stakeholder, collaborative and consensus-driven process, stimulating the transition to novel approaches based on BCT and AI (RO2); to analyse procedures and modes to make concrete use of BCT in the business domain while increase relational trust (RO3); to analyse the possible use of BCT to tackle specific challenges in the governance and management of cities (RO4). Indeed, TRUST Consortium has been committed also to improving the quality of the European Research Area by: (a) enhancing scientific knowledge and research skills of participants; (b) boosting staff transversal skills and career prospects of participants; (c) building lasting knowledge and cooperation networks.

Data: CORDIS, © European Union

Project objective

TRUST promotes an interdisciplinary research program, involving academic and non-academic institutions, in order to understand the role of trust in the implementation of digital technologies and suggest actual means of development. Assuming that the digital transformation of European society can be fully achieved only if technologies evolve in a trustworthy environment, the project analyses the mutual influence between trust and digital technologies in order to raise relational reliance in people-to-people, people-to-business and people-to-authorities interactions.The attention is on blockchain technology (BCT) as one of the most relevant forms of Distributed Ledger Technology. BCT is considered a trust-building machine as it creates new forms of relational reliance. BCT projects the issue of trust in a new dimension that we intend to explore, in adherence with the initiatives and key actions promoted by the EC in the Communication “Shaping Europe’s digital future” (COM (2020) 67final), where it is remarked that trust and digital transformation of society go hand-in-hand.The research and knowledge transfer programme evolves around key topics, such as: the development of a suitable regulatory framework for the effective integration of BTC in a trust-based society; the transition towards a fair and competitive peer to peer economy; the applications of BTC in the field of AI, to assure security and trust; the development of new models of collaborative governance for smart and trust-based cities. The consortium gathers expertise from different backgrounds (legal, economic, engineering), belonging to EU countries, as well as Israel and China. Complementary research perspectives, innovative training and international/intersectoral cooperation will boost staff careers development by studying how the use of digital technologies can shape a trustworthy European environment, in which citizens are empowered in how they act and interact, and promote economic growth as well.

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Participants

  • UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI MACERATA · MacerataCoordinatorItaly
  • BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY · BEIJINGChina
  • EDNA PASHER PHD AND ASSOCIATES MANAGEMENT CONSULTANTS LTD · Tel AvivIsrael
  • ESELEOS SL · BADALONASpain
  • GROTTINI LAB SRL · PORTO RECANATIItaly
  • INSTITUT MINES-TELECOM · PalaiseauFrance
  • KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN · LeuvenBelgium
  • LVIV POLYTECHNIC NATIONAL UNIVERSITY · LvivUkraine
  • MONTIMAGE EURL · ParisFrance
  • ONO ACADEMIC COLLEGE ASSOCIATION · Kiryat OnoIsrael
  • REGION DE MURCIA · MurciaSpain
  • THERMOVAULT · GENKBelgium
  • UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID · Getafe (Madrid)Spain
  • UNIVERSITA POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE · AnconaItaly

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Data: CORDIS, © European Union