International Research

Mandat International is actively supporting international research projects, including as coordinator and research partner in areas such as:

• ICT Research: Future networks, Internet of Things, Edge computing, IPv6, 5G, etc.
• Privacy and Data Protection: GDPR compliance, Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PET), DPIA, DPO services, etc.
• Legal and Regulatory Compliance: GDPR, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, data protection impact assessment, etc.
• Data Science and Data Spaces: data interoperability, data analytics, open APIs, big data, open science, etc.
• Artificial Intelligence: AI algorithmic, LLM, federated machine learning, etc.
• Medical Research: research protocol, cohort support, regulatory compliance (including MDR and EHDS), etc. 
• Smart Cities and digital transformation: architecture design, multi-protocol integration, deployment, data fusion, etc. 
• Sustainable Development: smart cities, smart water management, environmental impact studies, etc.
• Research Infrastructures: testbed federation, testbed as a service, conformance, interop and performance tests, etc.

Discover some of our past and recent research projects

Our support and contribution to research projects

Our multidisciplinary team of researchers can support projects with a comprehensive set of expertise, including:

• Regulatory compliance with European regulations (GDPR, DA, AIA, DGA, NIS2, CRA, ePrivacy, EHDS, MDR, etc.) and international law.  
• Ethics, Privacy and Data Protection: GDPR compliance, DPIA, DPO services, reporting, etc.
• Open Science, data management and curation, including FAIR and Open Science principles in line with the UNESCO declaration principles for open science. We provide our own CKAN open data servers infrastructure connected to EOSC, and we are used to lead Data Management Plans.
• Citizen science, co-creation and privacy-by-design end-user validation with innovative cocreation methodologies and tools to engage with end-users in a fully privacy by design manner.
• Sustainable development, SDG and impact assessment with specialized methodologies. Thanks to its special consultative status to the UN, our foundation can serve as an interface between projects and the international agenda for sustainable development.
• Standardization: Our team is actively engaged in international standardization with experience at ITU, ISO, IEC, ETSI, OGC, IETF, IEEE, W3C and TM Forum. We have served as Rapporteur at the ITU on research and emerging technologies and have led the development of several new international standards. We are used to coordinate and lead standardization strategies for research projects.
• International outreach and communication: Our team is used in leading outreach and communication for research projects, including through international conferences such as IoT Week, Digital Around the World, Global IoT Summit, and Privacy Symposium, for which we play a central role in the organizing. We can also leverage our role in various international fora and our consultative status to the UN to disseminate research results globally. We also support the plans for dissemination, communication, standardization, and exploitation.
• Testbed and research infrastructure: We provide access to the largest European ICT research infrastructure to perform experiments, tests, and validation, including reproducibility and open science documentation. 
• Internet of Things and multi-protocol interoperability: Our team has strong expertise in IoT multi-protocol integration, with over 50 IoT standards and communication protocols.

Born in the European research programme, IoT Lab has been established in Geneva to serve as an international research laboratory. It actively supports:

1. International research and cooperation.
2. Technology transfer from research.
3. Research infrastructure development.

IoT Lab serves as a bridge between the research community and the society and industry needs. It provides a single entry point to access state-of-the-art expertise, resources, and solutions to solve industry and public administrations challenges. IoT Lab is also playing a central role in the development of SLICES  RI, the European large-scale research infrastructure for ICT and future networking technologies. It provides remote access to over 40 testbeds and research infrastructures across Europe.

Find more about IoT Lab at https://www.iotlab.com/en

Mandat International has led the development of an Academic Freedom Charter, which can be freely used by educational or research centres. Academic freedom is a fundamental right and a key requirement for the development of open and democratic societies. It aims at developing and sharing knowledge. It also aims at developing intellectual skills enabling individuals to think by themselves, contribute to the society, and support its progress. Academic freedom is indissociable from the freedom of expression enshrined in article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the right of access to information recognised by the UNESCO and the World Summit on the Information Society, and the UN Sustainable Development Goal 16 to promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels. Academic freedom is also essential to differentiate knowledge from opinions and beliefs. It allows to confront theories and opinions to factual evidences, critical thinking, logics, and reasoning. It enables to develop sound, useful, and reliable knowledge anchored in the reality, that is free from cognitive, religious, and political biases.

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