Trinity College Dublin welcomed members of the European Council’s Horizontal Working Party on Cyber Issues on 6 October for a technical exchange on research relevant to Europe’s security, resilience and digital sovereignty.
Hosted by the Trinity Centre for Digital Security and Societal Resilience, the visit showcased Trinity research spanning AI, critical infrastructure, cryptography, autonomous systems and privacy-preserving technologies.
Professor Maria Grazia Porcedda, Deputy Director of the Centre, opened the programme by setting out Trinity’s wider research response to Europe’s changing security environment and the links between the Centre, Rinn AI and Rinn Quantum.
Another highlight of the session was a presentation of Sea-Scan, led by Professor Marco Ruffini and Professor John Kennedy, which uses Distributed Acoustic Sensing and AI to turn existing undersea fibre-optic cables into a maritime sensing system. The research explores how infrastructure can become part of Europe’s own sensing and resilience capability.
The programme also featured short technical discussions led by Professor John D. Kelleher, Professor Stephen Farrell, and Professor Hitesh Tewari on frontier AI, autonomous systems and digital sovereignty.
The visit aimed to give EU cyber officials direct access to Trinity researchers and to explore how emerging research capability is helping inform future European policy, resilience and technological sovereignty.
The Centre for Digital Security and Societal Resilience also has a presence at the NCSC Cyber Conference and Expo during Cyber Week, alongside research showcases for InvizCrypt, zkBallot and Sea-Scan.
