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Research projects and grants obtained by the CRISES research group

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Prize Regional

ICREA Acadèmia Prize. David Sánchez

2026 – 2031

The ICREA Acadèmia award supports outstanding researchers at Catalan public universities by funding five years of intensified research. Prof. David Sánchez is renewing his distinction. He conducts research on knowledge and data semantics from an artificial intelligence perspective. He develops computational and machine learning methods to understand, manage, and transform textual data into analytical algorithms.

Funding entity: Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA) - Generalitat de Catalunya

Program: ICREA Acadèmia d'Excel·lència

PI: David Sánchez

Project International

SoBigData IP : SoBigData Implementation Phase

2026 – 2029

SoBigData is a pan-European research infrastructure focused on social mining and big data analytics. In its implementation phase, it integrates tools and services for public use, enhances user experience, and promotes collaboration among researchers, industry, policymakers, and citizens. It also advances toward becoming an ERIC, ensuring sustainability, interoperability, and strong European impact.

Funding entity: European Union

Program: Horizon Europe

PI: Josep Domingo-Ferrer

Grant National

FPU | Joan Ferré Queralt

2025 – 2029

FPU grants (Formación de Profesorado Universitario) are highly competitive predoctoral fellowships funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities. They are awarded to candidates with outstanding academic records and aim to support the training of future university faculty by financing PhD studies at Spanish universities or research centres. The programme provides a salary, covers social security contributions, and includes additional support for mobility, research stays,

Funding entity: Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades - Gobierno de España

Program: Programa Estatal para Desarrollar, Atraer y Retener Talento - Formación de Profesorado Universitario

PIs: Jordi Castellà-Roca, Alexandre Viejo

Project Regional

CYBERCAT-VALTEC : Research Valorization and Technology Transfer

2026 – 2028

The CYBERCAT technological network aims to help improve the competitiveness of the Catalan industrial ecosystem in the cyber domain by transferring knowledge and scientific results of industrial relevance to the market.

Funding entity: Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR) - Generalitat de Catalunya

Program: Ajuts per a xarxes d'R+D+I

PI: Josep Domingo-Ferrer

Prize Regional

ICREA Acadèmia Prize. Josep Domingo-Ferrer

2024 – 2028

The ICREA Acadèmia award supports outstanding researchers at Catalan public universities by funding five years of intensified research. Prof. Josep Domingo-Ferrer received it for his exceptional scientific excellence and leadership in data privacy and cybersecurity, being one of the world’s most cited researchers in these fields

Funding entity: Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA) - Generalitat de Catalunya

Program: ICREA Acadèmia

PI: Josep Domingo-Ferrer

Project National

CLEARING-IT : Cost-effective machine unlearning with privacy guarantees

2025 – 2028

CLEARING‑IT aims to develop efficient machine‑unlearning techniques with strong privacy guarantees for both traditional ML models and large foundation models. The project addresses legal and ethical requirements such as the right to be forgotten and copyright removal, enabling cost‑effective deletion of training data upon request

Funding entity: Agencia Estatal de Investigación - Gobierno de España

Program: Proyectos de Generación del Conocimiento

PIs: Josep Domingo-Ferrer, David Sánchez

Project National

SAFE : Secure and private Adaptive response For a sustainable digital Ecosystem - Privacy

2025 – 2028

SAFE is a coordinated project that aims to develop sustainable, adaptive, and privacy-preserving cybersecurity solutions capable of responding to an ever-evolving digital threat landscape. By leveraging AI-driven security systems that learn and adapt over time, the project seeks to provide robust protection without compromising users’ fundamental right to privacy

Funding entity: Agencia Estatal de Investigación - Gobierno de España

Program: Proyectos de Generación del Conocimiento

PIs: Jordi Castellà-Roca, Alexandre Viejo

Project National

MATSE : Mathematical Challenges for a Secure Digital Environment

2025 – 2028

MATSE advances mathematical foundations to enhance secure digital communications. The URV subproject focuses on post-quantum and distributed cryptography, efficient secret sharing, matroid theory and numerical semigroups, aiming to develop faster cryptographic algorithms and new models that strengthen privacy, reliability and future communication systems

Funding entity: Agencia Estatal de Investigación - Gobierno de España

Program: Proyectos de Generación del Conocimiento

PI: Oriol Farràs

Grant National

FPI | Tamim Al Mahmud

2024 – 2028

The FPI grants fund four-year employment contracts for doctoral students to complete their PhD directly linked to approved "Generación de Conocimiento" research projects. This comprehensive financial support covers the researcher's salary, social security contributions, doctoral tuition fees, and travel expenses for research stays abroad. Universities and research centers host these grants and directly select candidates through open, public recruitment processes.

Funding entity: Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades - Gobierno de España

Program: Actuaciones para la formación de personal investigador predoctoral

PIs: Josep Domingo-Ferrer, David Sánchez

Grant National

FPI | Miquel Guiot

2024 – 2027

The FPI grants fund four-year employment contracts for doctoral students to complete their PhD directly linked to approved "Generación de Conocimiento" research projects. This comprehensive financial support covers the researcher's salary, social security contributions, doctoral tuition fees, and travel expenses for research stays abroad. Universities and research centers host these grants and directly select candidates through open, public recruitment processes.

Funding entity: Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades - Gobierno de España

Program: Actuaciones para la formación de personal investigador predoctoral

PI: Oriol Farràs

Project National

PROVTOPIA : Counteracting Disinformation via Secure and Private Provenance Verification of Media Content

2024 – 2027

PROVTOPIA develops secure and privacy-preserving methods to verify the provenance of digital media, aiming to counter disinformation. The project advances threat-modelling, privacy-risk analysis and mechanisms that ensure both provenance integrity and user privacy, enabling trustworthy and verifiable online information

Funding entity: Agencia Estatal de Investigación - Gobierno de España

Program: Proyectos de Generación del Conocimiento

PI: Rolando Trujillo

Grant Regional

FI | Yu Li

2024 – 2027

This program aims to regulate university, research centre and hospital foundation grants for the recruitment of new research staff. It also promotes the quality of the research by incorporating predoctoral training research staff in research, innovation, and development projects. It is an instrument for supporting jobs and ensuring fairer job opportunities related to research careers.

Funding entity: Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR) - Generalitat de Catalunya

Program: Programa Joan Oró

PI: Rolando Trujillo

Grant National

FPU | Benet Manzanares-Salor

2024 – 2027

FPU grants (Formación de Profesorado Universitario) are highly competitive predoctoral fellowships funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities. They are awarded to candidates with outstanding academic records and aim to support the training of future university faculty by financing PhD studies at Spanish universities or research centres. The programme provides a salary, covers social security contributions, and includes additional support for mobility, research stays,

Funding entity: Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades - Gobierno de España

Program: Programa Estatal para Desarrollar, Atraer y Retener Talento - Formación de Profesorado Universitario

PI: David Sánchez

Project International

BosomShield : A comprehensive CAD system based on radiologic- and pathologic-image biomarkers for diagnosis andprognosis of breast cancer relapse

2022 – 2026

BosomShield develops a CAD system combining radiologic and pathologic imaging to classify breast cancer subtypes and predict relapse risk. It also trains young researchers in imaging, AI and privacy. CRISES-URV supervises one of the project’s doctoral theses

Funding entity: European Union

Program: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Networks Actions

PI: Josep Domingo-Ferrer

Project National

HERMES : Ciberseguridad en computación descentralizada

2023 – 2025

HERMES advances cybersecurity through research in post‑quantum cryptography, AI privacy and security, IoT and vehicular protection, compliance, and secure hardware. The project delivers new methods, tools, and demonstrators, strengthens technology transfer to industry, and builds a multidisciplinary ecosystem to boost Spain’s strategic cyber capabilities.

Funding entity: Instituto Nacional de Ciberseguridad de España (INCIBE)

Program: Proyectos Estratégicos

PI: Josep Domingo-Ferrer

Project National

Càtedra en Ciberseguridad INCIBE-URV

2023 – 2025

The INCIBE‑URV Cybersecurity Chair strengthens Spain’s cyber ecosystem through advanced research, talent development and high‑impact training. It delivers summer schools, workshops, seminars, industry courses, researcher exchanges, outreach in schools, and international events, boosting innovation in privacy, cryptography and secure digital technologies

Funding entity: Instituto Nacional de Ciberseguridad de España (INCIBE)

Program: Cátedras

PIs: Rolando Trujillo, Oriol Farràs, David Sánchez, Alberto Blanco-Justicia

Project National

ACITHEC : Challenges in Algebraic Codes and Information Theory based Cryptography for the digital communication environment

2022 – 2025

ACITHEC advances cryptography by addressing challenges in algebraic codes and information-theoretic security for modern digital communications. Running from 2022 to 2025, it develops new models, mathematical tools, and secure coding techniques to strengthen post‑quantum resilience and data-protection mechanisms

Funding entity: Agencia Estatal de Investigación - Gobierno de España

Program: Proyectos de Generación del Conocimiento

PIs: Maria Bras-Amorós, Oriol Farràs

Project National

CURLING : Co-Utile decentRaLized computING for ethics by design

2022 – 2025

CURLING works on ethics-by-design in decentralized computing by creating co-utile mechanisms that incentivize honest behaviour. It develops reputation-based incentives, co-utile outsourcing and anonymous communication primitives, and privacy-preserving federated learning methods that maintain accuracy while ensuring security and unlinkability.

Funding entity: Agencia Estatal de Investigación - Gobierno de España

Program: Proyectos de Generación del Conocimiento

PIs: Josep Domingo-Ferrer, David Sánchez

Project National

SECURING : Bringing Sustainable Cybersecurity to the Internet of Things

2022 – 2025

SECURING develops sustainable, cost-effective cybersecurity and privacy technologies for IoT. It advances intrusion detection and prevention at wireless, cloud, and vehicular layers, designs privacy-preserving protocols balancing utility and GDPR compliance, and proposes a distributed crowdsensing communication model with secure routing and user-centric data protection

Funding entity: Agencia Estatal de Investigación - Gobierno de España

Program: Proyectos de Generación del Conocimiento

PIs: Jordi Castellà-Roca, Alexandre Viejo

Project International

SoBigData RI PPP : SoBigData RI Preparatory Phase Project

2022 – 2025

SoBigData RI provides tools and services to support large-scale data science and social mining experiments, accessible via cloud and high-performance computing. It promotes FAIR and FACT principles, enabling efficient and reproducible research while integrating ethical, legal, and privacy considerations with advanced data analytics and AI methods.

Funding entity: European Union

Program: Horizon Europe

PI: Josep Domingo-Ferrer

Prize Regional

ICREA Acadèmia Prize

2021 – 2024

Funding entity: Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA) - Generalitat de Catalunya

Program: ICREA Acadèmia

PI: David Sánchez

Project International

Mitigating Ethical Risks in Large Language Models through Localized Unlearning

2024 – 2024

This project develops localized unlearning methods to reduce ethical risks in large language models. It identifies the minimal internal components that cause harmful or biased behaviors, applies targeted interventions to remove them, and evaluates the approach on standard LLMs—aiming to make models safer and more ethically compliant without sacrificing utility

Funding entity: Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia - Gobierno de España

PIs: Josep Domingo-Ferrer, David Sánchez

Project Regional

Doctorat Industrial

2016 – 2019

Funding entity: Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR) - Generalitat de Catalunya

Program: Doctorats Industrials

PI: Jordi Castellà-Roca

Project University

Lost-Project

2011 – 2011

Funding entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Program: Research to Business (R2B)

PI: Agustí Solanas