ESCAPE is about evaluating and replicating several side-channel attacks and countermeasure publications in a realistic setting. The evaluation shall include attacks against commonly used symmetric schemes (DES, AES), asymmetric encryption and signature schemes (RSA, ECDSA) as well as post-quantum schemes. The latter have received wide attention from the cryptologic research community recent years. Market-leading embedded processors such as ARM and RISC-V will be targeted. We shall focus on low-cost approach with practical consequences to small and medium research institutions and businesses – ones who cannot afford the cost of full certification. The results shall include a collection of successful attacks against selected schemes as well as techniques to prevent these attacks, all adapted to current market conditions, common hardware and software.