GDPR entered in force in May 2018 bringing an array of binding data protection principles, individuals’ rights, and legal obl ... igations to ensure the protection of personal data of EU citizens. But the legal approach is not enough if it does not come along with technical measures to protect privacy and personal data in practice. There is a need on how to address the protection of personal data during the design and development of products, services and systems, which is reflected by the principles of Privacy and Data Protection by Design. Engineers are ultimately responsible for conceiving, designing, constructing and maintaining the systems, services and software and hardware products to comply with GDPR. PDP4E mission is to bring privacy and data protection knowhow into mainstream practice of software and systems engineering, by providing engineers with methods and tools that operationalise data protection principles and regulation, and which are integrated with those others which they customarily use in the different activities that take place throughout the stages of the SDLC (System Development Lifecycle). The project aims to empower engineers to leverage the existent knowhow on data protection and will focus on four principal domains of engineering to provide these methods and tools: risk management, model-driven engineering, requirements engineering and Assurance. Objectives: 1: Introduce features to support privacy by design and data protection into existent mainstream software and system engineering tools. 2: Integrate privacy by design and data protection activities within existent mainstream software. 3: Empower engineers overall to leverage the existent know-how on data protection; even if they are not savvy in the field. 4: Spread the adoption of data protection practice in time and space, by promoting the adaptation of tools and methods to mainstream needs of engineers. 5: Foster the broadest practice of privacy through comunities such as IPEN. read more