Project cooperation
System integrator with substantial experience in Horizon projects and available use cases
Author
Senior Research Consultant at UniSystems S.M.S.A.
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.
My organisation
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. Uni Systems is a long-standing strategic partner to financial institutions, public organizations, telecom operators, enterprises, and institutions in the European region. 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, Brussels, Bucharest, Luxembourg, and Milan in tandem with on site or remote project teams. 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.Key to our ongoing success is our commitment to excellence and quality, the development of innovative and agile solutions and our deep business and technology experience. With over 50 years of solid ICT experience, our current project base, comprehensive solution portfolio and a formidable human capital, we try hard to remain relevant to our customers in achieving their business goals.
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.
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.
Skills
- innovation funding
Interests
- Cloud Edge
- Artificial Intelligence
- Public Administration
- System integration
- Smart city
- Data spaces