The SIGNED project (SECURE IMPRINT GENERATED FOR PAPER DOCUMENTS): The European Commission selected the SIGNED project as one of those funded under the 2009 Research for SMEs call, within the Capacities program of the 7th Framework Programme. This call aims to support SMEs to improve their competitiveness and innovation capabilities by leveraging research results carried out in specialized centers.
SIGNED is a collaborative project involving five partners from three different EU countries, including three companies and two research centers, one of which is Gradiant. The project focuses on detecting and preventing fraud in printed documents, an area of strategic importance for the participating companies, with significant market potential and societal impact.
The technological challenge is to automate the detection of alterations and manipulations in printed documents since they were created by a trusted source. Although solutions exist on the market to address this issue, such as those pioneered by Bit Oceans (Fividoc) and Land (SecurePaper), these solutions still have room for evolution to be certified as digital signature solutions. This is the technological challenge that the SIGNED project aims to address.
Gradiant will be responsible for the technical coordination of the project and will lead research in the foundational technologies to resolve the technological challenge. The research will be conducted in collaboration with the University of Rome “Tor Vergata,” in line with the requirements set by the participating companies, who will also evaluate and validate the results.
