In May 2019 started with implementation the EU project funded within the program JUST-JCOO-AG-2018 entitled »European Investigation order – legal analysis and practical dilemmas of international cooperation – EIO-LAPD«. In the project partners come from Slovenia, Austria, Portugal, Italy, Germany and Croatia. The aim of the project is to study and to rise the awareness about the Directive about the European Investigation order. The laboratory tasks are connected to the problems of collecting e-evidence on digital devices.

At the end of April 2019, the SI-PASS project, co-financed by the European Union from the funds of the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF Telecom), was successfully completed. The project partners, under the guidance of the Laboratory for Open Systems and Networks of the Jožef Stefan Institute, established at the Ministry of Public Administration an eIDAS node, which represents the central point of trust in the country for secure cross-border e-services, and integrated e-services in the field of eHealth, pension and disability insurance, protection of intellectual property, company registers and electronic business. The results of the project enable foreigners access the Slovenian e-services with their national electronic identification means, for example, electronic ID cards and easy access to public e-services in other EU Member States in the near future.

In 2018 the European Commission set up a special fund in the Horizon 2020 program to fund centers of excellence in the field of cyber security. Among the four centers selected at the tender is also CONCORDIA, which included the Laboratory for Open Systems and Networks of the Jožef Stefan Institute at the invitation of the coordinator of the German research institute CODE. The Center will provide research and development solutions for a safe, resilient and trusted European ecosystem. Laboratory staff will carry out research and development in the field of confidentiality, electronic identity management, user-friendly services for e-health and smart solutions to prevent cyber threats.