Special workshop: Open‑Source Strategies for Europe’s Sovereign Digital Infrastructure – Striving for industrial European open-source platforms
O-CEI Horizon will participate in the Open Community for Research 2026, a two-day event co-located with the Open Community Experience 2026, organised by the Eclipse Foundation.
On 23 April, O-CEI will attend the workshop Open-Source Strategies for Europe’s Sovereign Digital Infrastructure – Striving for industrial European open-source platforms. This will bring together researchers, industry representatives, and policymakers to explore how open-source collaboration accelerates the translation of research results into real-world technologies. The discussion will focus on how open-source ecosystems can strengthen Europe’s digital sovereignty by enabling interoperable platforms across the Cloud-Edge-IoT continuum and emerging AI infrastructures.
Rolf Riemenschneider, Project Officer for both O-CEI and COP-PILOT, will provide the policy perspective on the importance of open-source ecosystems for Europe’s digital strategy. His intervention will highlight how collaborative development models and open digital infrastructures contribute to the creation of a sovereign European software stack, supporting interoperability, innovation, and secure data exchange across sectors.
The O-CEI project will be represented by Ignacio Lacalle Ubeda from the Universitat Politècnica de València, part of the team coordinating the project. Dr. Lacalle Ubeda will introduce O-CEI and present its key concepts, including the O-CEI marketplace, the development of blueprints, and the role of the O-CEI platform as the technological backbone supporting interoperable services across pilots. His presentation will emphasise the central role of open source in the project’s research approach, highlighting how O-CEI aims to make its results openly available to foster adoption and reuse by the wider community.
In addition, the presentation will position O-CEI within the broader Cloud-Edge-IoT ecosystem of European initiatives and standardisation efforts, illustrating how the project contributes to a growing family of initiatives such as the COP-PILOT Horizon and CEI-Sphere projects.
By connecting research, open-source development, and industry collaboration, the session will demonstrate how O-CEI contributes to building a federated and interoperable digital infrastructure for Europe.
