Work Package Leaders Interview Questions

Dear partners, we have prepared a few questions to help you showcase your work, your team or your personal expertise through the TESSERA project. Please respond to the questions in the simplest way in order to manage to engage with our general public as well. Of course, the questions are suggestive, and you can adapt them based on your Work Package content.

If you would like to send us also a picture to accompany the visuals of the campaign it would be ideal. It can be a personal picture or a team one.

Question 1:

Can you briefly describe your role and explain the main objectives of your Work Package within TESSERA?

We are NTTDATA based in Barcelona, the leads of the WP4 in the TESSERA Consortium.

The WP4 has been tasked with drafting some of the core elements that will define how the involved partners on the European Security Data Space for Innovation (EU SDSI) and their data will interact in a law and security environments.  In this regard the Architecture is our main objective.

This task is a challenge since TESSERA is one of the leading projects in this field but the collaboration among the different partners (NTTDATA, CERTH,…) is proving, day by day, that it can be achieved and a solid and secure security data space for law enforcement is not only possible but a real step forward in enhancing the crime prevention in Europe.

Question 2:

What key milestones have you achieved during the first half of the project, and what will you focus on for the months ahead?

Currently, WP4 is working on the definition and capabilities of the so called National Component (NC), the governance of the different NC in the context of the European Security Data Space for Innovation (EU SDSI) and their relationship as well as their technical specifications in terms of identity.

National Components may be understood as the technical, legal and organisational elements each Member State establishes to participate in the EU SDSI. They serve as trusted gateways for secure data exchange, ensuring compliance with national and EU-level regulations. In this regards their key element is the governance of the space since it will define the most crucial aspects of the whole project. In this sense the Governance structure must be adequate to the needs of the different agents involved and from TESSERA it has been agreed that providing the different agents involved with the capabilities (both technical and organizational) to self-define their governance structures and decision making is the correct decision since it provides enough flexibility to not only guarantee the data sovereignty but also evolve the initial organizational and technical agreements to a more complex and potent structures.

Question 3:

What has been the biggest challenge of your work and which are the lessons learnt from it?

The main challenge we have had so far has been the design of the EU SDSI . It comes as no surprise that any data related to security comes with a great deal of reluctance to share from their owners, in this sense the rules for data usage and participants in any given data Space are already fundamentally strict but in the security domain this element needs to be cut clear.

In this regard, providing a Governance model lead to the definition of the rest of the architecture based on the principles of data sovereignty.

Question 4:

Can you share how your team approaches ethical and secure data management, and why this is important for the project’s success?

On the WP4 ethical and secure data management is treated as a part of the data exchange and governance, and in particular in the Data usage policies defined by the Governance authority.

Policies define the conditions under which shared data can be accessed and for what purposes. These policies are anchored in governance infrastructure, such as trust registries or equivalent services, so that participants can retrieve and validate applicable rules dynamically. This guarantees consistency across jurisdictions and prevents unauthorized or non-compliant usage.

The Data Space Governance Authority (DSGA), in collaboration with accredited trust service providers and conformity assessment bodies, oversees the creation, publication, and enforcement of these policies. As use cases evolve, policies may incorporate additional requirements such as cost-recovery mechanisms, pseudonymization or anonymization for sensitive data, and sector-specific compliance obligations. This flexibility ensures that governance adapts to operational and regulatory needs without compromising the ethical and secure data management.

Question 5:

From your personal opinion, which do you believe is the most impactful result of the TESSERA project? How might this contribute to the stakeholders and society in the long-term ?

The ever growing need of data analysis and communication among Law enforcement agencies is a challenge that the EU is facing right now. In this sense laying the groundwork for a secure and trustworthy environment for high-quality large-scale data access, use and sharing that will enable future data-driven innovation to better support the operational needs for security agencies