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Maria Karampela

Senior Research Consultant

UniSystems S.M.S.A.

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I work as a Senior Research Consultant for Innovation Funding & Ecosystem Development at UniSystems and the iQnovus Innovation Center of Quest Group.

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UniSystems S.M.S.A.

UniSystems S.M.S.A.

Industry / Large Enterprise

Athens, Greece

Uni Systems is one of the most reliable European Information and Communication Technology companies that delivers a wide range of products and services, helping its customers adapt and excel in a rapidly changing and challenging business environment. It has a proven track record of successful large-scale, complex and critical ICT projects in more than 30 countries through its business entities in Athens, Luxembourg, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Romania and Cyprus in tandem with on site or remote project teams. Uni Systems is a long-standing strategic partner to public organizations, financial institutions, telecom operators, enterprises, and institutions in the European region. Uni Systems clientele includes some of the most important European Organizations and Agencies, where it provides successfully for many years ICT consultancy, implementation, operational and support services. These Organizations are the following and the list keeps growing: European Parliament; European Commission (DG CLIMA, DG-RTD, DG DIGIT, DG TAXUD, DG ECHO, DG DEVCO, etc.); European Chemicals Agency (ECHA); European Patent Office (EPO); Council of the European Union; EUROSTAT; European Securities and Markets Authority(ESMA); Publications Office of the EU; FRONTEX; Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER); European Agency for the operational management of large-scale IT systems in the area of freedom, security and justice (EU-LISA);World Bank; United Nations and UN Organizations (WIPO, IFAD). Uni Systems portfolio offers from modern ICT infrastructures (cloud based and virtualized) up to state of the art business applications (platform based or on demand). Consulting, implementation, support, operation and managed services complement our offerings together with deep business domain knowledge and expertise. Its solutions and services portfolio includes: infrastructure modernization & redesign, Cloud services and supports, DevOps automation, Distributed Ledger Technologies, IT security, telecom consultancy & design, case management, human capital management, application management, critical systems custom software development, financials systems, business support. Uni Systems, via its entities in Greece and Luxembourg, has thus far participated in the planning, implementation, and dissemination of more than 60 National and European projects (coordinator in 13 of those) under numerous programmes (Horizon Europe, H2020, Digital Europe, Erasmus+, Greek General Secretariat for Research and Technology, etc.), across various sectors: Energy, Mobility, Health, Security & Cybersecurity, Cloud Computing, Digital Transformation, Smart Cities, Environment & Climate Change, E-Gov, Culture, Industry 4.0/5.0, Digital Skills & Education, and Smart Agro. This experience provides the company with a unique insight in the practical aspects on the implementation of large-scale co-funded projects, making it a strong and reliable European project partner and leader.
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About me

As a brief introduction, my name is Dr Maria Karampela, and I work as a Senior Research Consultant for Innovation Funding & Ecosystem Development at the iQnovus Innovation Center of the Quest Group of companies.

Specifically, the iQnovus Innovation Center runs the Research and Innovation activities for the following companies: ACS (logistics/courier services), Info Quest Technologies (ICT & cloud services), Quest Energy (energy company with solar parks), BriQ (real-estate company managing primarily commercial buildings), Cardlink (payments/fintech), and UniSystems. UniSystems is a leading ICT company and systems integrator and a long-standing strategic partner to EU institutions, agencies and public organizations, with a proven track record of successful large scale, complex and critical ICT projects in more than 30 countries through its business entities in Athens, Brussels, Bucharest, Luxembourg, and Milan.

The Innovation Center has a strong portfolio of EU funding proposals submissions in various domains, incl. energy, mobility, culture & education, health, security, e-gov, smart cities, etc., and has been successfully awarded more than 30 projects across different EU funding programmes (e.g. Horizon Europe, Digital Europe, Creative Europe, etc.). The Center has adopted an open innovation approach and works very collaboratively with various academic/research institutes, other companies, start-ups and non-profits across Europe in submitting joint proposals in various EU funding programmes. We also participate in numerous collaborative structures, incl. clusters, competence centers and digital innovation hubs, and have established the Pleiades IoT cluster. Uni Systems has also developed a smart city platform, City4Life and has a large network of municipalities around Greece.

We are thus always interested to find new partners for collaboration in EU funding proposals and can perform various roles (e.g. our companies are often selected as use cases/pilot sites, while our technological profile means we can also assume roles relating to system integration, platform development, as well as coordination, commercial exploitation, dissemination, etc.). In addition, we can bring use cases and other partners if needed via our wide innovation ecosystem.

Call topics of interest

Which of the call topics are you / your organisation interested in?

HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-DATA-13: Fostering Innovative and Compliant Data Ecosystems HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-DATA-10: Roadmap for next generation computing technologies from IoT device level to edge to cloud to HPC HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-DATA-09: Alignment of stakeholders towards the supply-side large-scale pilot of end-to-end infrastructures integrating device, network computing and communication capabilities HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-DATA-08: Large-scale pilots for supply end-to-end infrastructures integrating device, network computing and communication capabilities for Telco Edge Cloud deployments, as a basis for Connected Collaborative Computing Networks HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-DIGITAL-EMERGING-07: Robust and trustworthy GenerativeAI for Robotics and industrial automationHORIZON-CL4-2025-03-HUMAN-15: GenAI4EU: Generative AI for Virtual Worlds: Advanced technologies for better performance and hyper personalised and immersive experienceHORIZON-CL4-2025-03-HUMAN-14: Core technologies for virtual worldsHORIZON-CL4-2025-04-DIGITAL-EMERGING-07: Enhanced Learning Strategies for General Purpose AI: Advancing GenAI4EUHORIZON-CL4-2025-04-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01: Advanced sensor technologies and multimodal sensor integration for multiple application domains HORIZON-CL4-2025-04-DATA-03: Software Engineering for AI and generative AI HORIZON-CL4-2025-04-DATA-02: Empowering AI/generative AI along the Cognitive Computing continuu

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