7SHIELD Kick off Meeting was held on 28-29 September 2020 by videoconference due to COVID-19 pandemic. The meeting gathered more than 80 participants from 12 countries.

7SHIELD aims to develop a holistic framework to protect Space Ground Segment facilities against hybrid (Cyber & Physical) threats. It will enable to confront complex threats by covering all the macro stages of crisis management, namely pre-crisis, crisis and post-crises phases.

The purpose of the Kick-Off meeting was to discuss the most important aspects of the project with the Project Officer and to prepare an action plan for the coming months.

The project is financed under the H2020 program (H2020-SU-INFRA-2018-2019-2020) and its duration is planned for 24 months.

7SHIELD consortium is composed of 22 partners from Belgium, Cyprus, Finland, France, Greece, Israel, Italy, Netherland, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and UK:

@Engineering Ingegneria Informatica Spa

@Centre for Research & Technology Hellas (CERTH)

@Space Applications Services NV/SA

@Sheffield Hallam University

@SERCO

@Finnish Meteorological Institute

@National Observatory of Athens

@INOV

@Satways Ltd

@CS GROUP

@Deimos Space

@Deimos Engineering and Systems SLU

@DFSL (Dr. Frucht Systems Ltd.)

@Resilience Guard GmbH

@EETT

@Center for Security Studies (KEMEA)

@ACCELIGENCE LTD

@ResilTech S.r.l.

@Hellenic Police

@Centro Regionale Information Communication Technology – CeRICT scrl

@CyberLens

@CS-Novidy’s