As an associated partner, PoAB provides operational context and infrastructure for LL2, focused on smart containers and ship-port integration. It facilitates data access, stakeholder engagement, and testing of WDS components in a major port environment. PoAB also supports regulatory feedback and standardisation activities linked to digital port safety and resilience.
AELER leads Living Lab 2 (LL2) and contributes to the application of WARRaNT methodologies in smart containers systems. AELER validates how smart containers interact with wider WDS architectures to enhance global logistics chains reliability, safety, efficiency and sustainability. Their work includes digital twin integration for condition monitoring, anomaly detection and reporting to WDS and port systems for various hazard scenarios (e.g. fire risks, containers lost overboard), and resilience testing of container-to-ship communication systems.
DANAOS leads Living Lab 1 (LL1), Dependable Containership Digital Systems, a core demonstration and testing hub within the WARRaNT project. The company provides a real-world operational environment and live vessel data, including from the ZIM LUANDA containership, to support the testing and validation of improvements in the dependability and cybersecurity of Waterborne Digital Systems (WDS). Within LL1, DANAOS is responsible for two main use cases: first, enhancing the cybersecurity and resilience of navigation systems through hazard analysis, vulnerability testing, and assurance modelling; and second, deploying a fully customised operational Digital Twin of ship systems, designed to monitor, manage, and improve dependability across both shipboard and shore-based operations. DANAOS collaborates closely with partners such as NTUA, KNT, INLECOM, TECNALIA, and DNV, applying the WARRaNT methodology in real maritime conditions and supporting the technical validation of the project’s tools and framework.
KONNECTA leads WP2 and is the main developer of the WARRaNT Knowledge Platform. They are responsible for integrating the system models, digital twins, and cybersecurity tools into a federated platform that supports dependable WDS operations. Their work includes designing the platform architecture, identity management systems, threat analysis engines, and runtime observability tools to support lifecycle assurance and decision-making.
SEAFAR leads Living Lab 4 (LL4) and contributes to WP1, WP2, WP3, and WP4. Their living lab focuses on enhancing the dependability of remote operations through ROS-based digital twins, AI-based hazard mitigation, and robust human-machine interfaces. They utilize fast and secure connectivity solutions, anomaly detection, predictive maintenance, and AI verification in operational control systems. SEAFAR’s high-TRL technologies are tested and scaled in real-world remote operations in inland waterways.
NTUA leads WP3 – WARRaNT Living Lab Ecosystem, coordinating the design, planning, and implementation of the four Living Labs (LLs), which serve as testbeds for validating and refining the WARRaNT methodology. NTUA also leads Task 3.1, ensuring unified deployment of LL activities and integration with developments from WP1 and WP2. In addition, it contributes technically to LL1 (Containership Systems) and LL2 (Smart Container Systems), where it performs dependability assessments and supports the development of Digital Twins and AI-based safety tools. NTUA is also involved in LL4, providing cybersecurity, simulation, and system assurance input. Beyond WP3, NTUA plays a key role in WP5, where it leads Task 5.2 on Quality Assurance and Risk Management, overseeing risk planning, project quality standards, and alignment with the FERMA framework. It also contributes to policy and standardisation activities in WP4, helping translate technical outcomes into regulatory impact.
TECNALIA plays a multi-faceted role in the WARRaNT project, contributing technical expertise across four work packages. In WP1, TECNALIA helps consolidate the WARRaNT methodology, including system-level HAZOP and STPA analyses for AI-enabled ship systems. In WP2 TECNALIA contributes the creation of a tool to assess vulnerabilities and their impact on the Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability (CIA) of machine learning-dependent Waterborne Digital Systems (WDS). To achieve this, TECNALIA applies Adversarial Machine Learning techniques, with a particular focus on poisoning and privacy attacks. In parallel, TECNALIA develops a Vulnerability Assessment Framework for maritime systems. This involves identifying critical assets and vulnerabilities, constructing directed graphs to map their interdependencies, and implementing a continuous monitoring and alerting system. TECNALIA’s involvement extends into WP3, where it participates in two Living Labs: LL1, which focuses on containership systems, and LL4, dedicated to remote operations. In WP4, Tecnalia supports innovation management, dissemination, and cybersecurity training activities TECNALIA is delivering key outcomes such as robust assurance frameworks, AI attack tools, and methodologies for the continuous monitoring of ML-based WDS components.
VLTN BV leads Task 4.4 on stakeholder adoption simulation and optimisation within Work Package 4. Its core contribution is the development of agent-based models to simulate how dependable Waterborne Digital Systems (WDS) may be adopted by maritime stakeholders, assessing technological, economic, and behavioural variables for uptake by 2030 and 2050. VLTN’s work underpins the project’s impact modelling and provides evidence-based input into policy and standardisation discussions. The company also contributes to WP1 by supporting modelling of stakeholder interaction and value-chain dynamics, and plays an active role in the WDS Alliance, helping ensure that WARRaNT outcomes are grounded in real-world feasibility and stakeholder needs. Through this integrated role, VLTN ensures that the project’s methodology and tools are not only technically robust, but also socially scalable and aligned with the realities of maritime innovation.
TU Delft is a scientific contributor to WP1 and WP3, focusing on intelligent dependability supervision using resilient controllers, monitoring agents, and virtual sensing. Their expertise supports development of safe and resilient AI control mechanisms for digital ship systems, and they assist with simulation-based validation and knowledge dissemination, through the SAFE-NET research group.
DST leads Living Lab 3 and contributes to WP1, WP3, and WP4. They provide HIL simulation, system modelling, and virtual testing environments, including test vessels (ELLA, NOVA) and the VeLABi digital twin simulator. DST helps refine the WDS methodology and validates resilience strategies for autonomous green vessels, bringing key infrastructure and engineering insight to the project.
DNV leads WP1 and is responsible for developing the WARRaNT Methodology for dependable and resilient Waterborne Digital Systems (WDS) and Smart, Resilient, Open Digital Systems (SRODS). This includes lifecycle-based system integration, HAZOP and STPA analysis, dependability management, and assurance processes. DNV also contributes to the knowledge platform architecture, data space design, Living Lab coordination, and dissemination through training and publications. It plays a central role in translating the methodology into actionable guidance for safe, secure, and interoperable maritime systems.
SINTEF Ocean leads the dissemination, scale-up, and standardisation activities in Warrant. SINTEF Ocean will also contribute to research on the WARRaNT methodology for dependable waterborne digital systems, and development of support tools for these. SINTEF Ocean will contribute to shapes regulatory and technical standards for waterborne digital systems through capacity building and policy recommendations to ensure that relevant project results will be communicated to the appropriate maritime regulatory and industrial organisations.
SINTEF Digital contributes to WPs 1 - 4 and leads cybersecurity training (T4.3). It develops assurance models, cybersecurity improvement tools, and reference digital twins. Their work supports STPA analysis, regulatory compliance (e.g., IACS E26), and validation of cybersecurity resilience in ship systems. They also help train project partners in safe and secure digital system operation.
INLECOM Group serves as the coordinator of the WARRaNT project, overseeing its overall implementation, governance, and compliance with Horizon Europe standards, ensuring smooth administrative and technical coordination, risk management, ethical compliance, and alignment across all Work Packages. Beyond coordination, INLECOM plays a central technical role, leading the design of the Waterborne Digital Systems (WDS) Dependability Framework and managing the WARRaNT federated Dataspace to enable secure, interoperable sharing of data and models among stakeholders. The company also contributes to innovation management and IPR exploitation strategy, supports federated learning for threat detection, and participates in validation activities within two of the project’s Living Labs. With broad experience in digital innovation and platform development, INLECOM is instrumental in ensuring both the operational excellence and long-term impact of WARRaNT.