EPoSS expert working groups tackle transversal topics, such as safety & security

Other transversal topics are system integration, sustainability, manufacturing of Smart Systems, and SME involvement.

Safety & security has until now been a topic of a separate EPoSS Working Group. However, Safety & Security are thoroughly transversal, and are enabling technologies in very many applications. They also are very important societal and political issues. Safety & Security will therefore in the future be taken care of by all EPoSS WGs. The WGs will have rapporteurs with an interest in the issue, who will meet regularly, together with Bernhard Candaele of Thales who chaired the EPoSS Working Group "Security" from the beginning, and who presented a proposal on Safety & Security as a transversal issue during the EPoSS General Assembly 2011 in Barcelona on 5 October 2011. 

Other transversal topics such as system integration, sustainability, and SME involvement will also be discussed in all EPoSS WGs. Manufacturing of Smart Systems is a key topic of the horizontal Key Technologies Working Group of EPoSS.