UNIPI Team Leader: Prof.ssa Laura Ricci, Dip. Informatica

The HELIOS project will design, implement and validate a state-of-the-art, peer-to-peer federated social media network that addresses the dynamic nature of human communications in three dimensions- contextual, spatial and temporal- while providing all necessary means to ensure the highest level of trust and privacy. HELIOS implements a user-friendly solution for creating and managing social networks. Its core scope is to facilitate democratization of content production, promotion and monetization.

HELIOS will also reduce development cost and deployment complexity of any social media application built on top of it. Implemented technologies and tools are following a modular strategy which ensures continuous development beyond the scope of the project, yet maintaining basic features of security and robustness. As a unique value proposition, the project will overcome the closed ecosystem stigma and will re-define the term “social media platform” by creating a foundation for cooperating social networking services. The novel distributed context-layered model in which different types of services (private and public) can form symbiotic existence.

Coordinator: Teknologian tutkimuskeskus VTT Oy, Finland

Partners:

• ATOS SPAIN SA, Spain
• ETHNIKO KENTRO EREVNAS KAI TECHNOLOGIKIS ANAPTYXIS, Greece
• GRASSROOTS ARTS AND RESEARCH UG (HAFTUNGSBESCHRANKT), Germany
• ISTITUTO SUPERIORE MARIO BOELLA SULLE TECNOLOGIE DELL'INFORMAZIONE E DELLE TELECOMUNICAZIONI ASSOCIAZIONE, Italy
• Nagoon AB, Sweden
• SWISS TXT AG, Switzerland
• THE PROVOST, FELLOWS, FOUNDATION SCHOLARS & THE OTHER MEMBERS OF BOARD OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY & UNDIVIDED TRINITY OF QUEEN ELIZABETH NEAR DUBLIN, Ireland
• UNIVERSITA DI PISA, Italy
• UNIVERSITAT AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA, Spain
• UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE VALENCIA, Spain
• UNIVERSITAT PASSAU, Germany
• HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO, Finland
• WORLDLINE IBERIA SA, Spain

Start date: 01/01/2019

End date: 31/12/2021

Call Title: H2020-ICT-2018-2

Project cost: 4.999.601 €

UNIPI role: partner

UNIPI quota: 411.904 €

Project website: http://helios-social.eu/blog/