O-CEI

IWAPS 2026
2026-08-24 - 2026-08-27
Indigma AI Presents Research on Privacy-Preserving EV Demand Prediction at IWAPS Workshop (ARES Conference)
Indigma, winner of the O-CEI Horizon 1st Open Call, will present the paper “Federated Learning for Electric Vehicle Energy Demand Prediction Across Distributed Users,” at the International Workshop on Advances on Security and Privacy Technologies and Solutions (IWAPS), held in conjunction with the International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES).
This work directly builds upon Indigma’s ARIEL initiative (federAted oRchestration In Ev fLeets) within O-CEI Pilot 3, demonstrating how Edge AI and Federated Learning can enable smart, privacy-preserving energy management for large-scale electric vehicle (EV) fleets without centralizing sensitive operational data. By keeping raw telemetry localized at fleet depots and charging stations, while sharing only trained model parameters, Indigma’s work provides a trustworthy, scalable, and privacy-first foundation for European smart grid management and logistics fleets.

6th IWAPS 2026 (International Workshop on Advances on Security and Privacy Technologies and Solutions) in conjunction with the 21st International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES)
2026-08-24 - 2026-08-27
The O-CEI Horizon project will be represented at the 6th IWAPS 2026, held in conjunction with the ARES 2026. This scientific workshop brings together researchers and innovators working on advanced security and privacy technologies, with a strong focus on trustworthy AI, IoT security, and data governance models. The event is co-organised by leading European initiatives, including the active involvement of InQbit Innovations, our partner in O-CEI, which serves as co-organiser and contributes to shaping the workshop’s multidisciplinary programme.
IWAPS 2026 directly aligns with O-CEI’s core technical priorities around security, trust, and digital identity within the Cloud-Edge-IoT continuum. The workshop provides an important platform to exchange knowledge and disseminate research on topics such as secure interoperability, privacy-preserving AI, trustworthy data sharing, and resilient IoT and edge environments, all central to the O-CEI vision.
Through its participation, O-CEI contributes to ongoing discussions on how to build secure, compliant, and interoperable digital infrastructures in Europe, supporting the development of solutions based on zero-trust principles, self-sovereign identity, and trusted cross-domain data exchange.
Interested parties are invited to submit papers according to the following schedule:

Submission Deadline: May 18, 2026
Author Notification: June 01, 2026
Proceedings Version: June 13, 2026

ETSI NGSI-LD Testing Task Force
2026-07-20 - 2026-07-23
O-CEI Horizon will contribute to ETSI NGSI-LD interoperability and standardisation activities
O-CEI partners NEC and Seamware will participate in the ETSI NGSI-LD Testing Task Force, taking place from 20 to 23 July 2026 at the ETSI Headquarters in Sophia-Antipolis, France.
Organised by ETSI Technical Committee DATA, this Task Force brings together NGSI-LD implementation providers and stakeholders to advance interoperability testing, conformance validation, and the continued evolution of the NGSI-LD context information protocol and APIs (ETSI GS CIM 009). NGSI-LD is a key enabler for Smart Cities, IoT applications, digital twins, and data-driven digital ecosystems.
During the event, NEC’s Scorpio Broker and the Orion-LD Broker, maintained by Seamware, will participate in interoperability and conformance testing activities alongside other NGSI-LD implementations. Both solutions are part of the O-CEI catalogue and represent important building blocks for enabling interoperable Cloud-Edge-IoT environments.
NGSI-LD also plays a central role in the Open & Agile Smart Cities (OASC) Minimal Interoperability Mechanisms (MIMs), which provide a foundation for achieving interoperability across heterogeneous systems, platforms, and domains. O-CEI considers the adoption of open standards and specifications such as NGSI-LD and the MIMs as essential to accelerating the deployment of reusable and interoperable Cloud-Edge-IoT solutions.
This participation comes after last year’s attendance to NGSI-LD (Next Generation Service Interface – Linked Data) Plugtests™ event. Find more information about it here. (Hyperlink to: https://o-cei.eu/etsi-ngsi-ld-plugteststm-event/)
Through their participation, NEC and Seamware contribute to strengthening standardisation activities within the O-CEI ecosystem, supporting the validation and adoption of open, scalable, and interoperable technologies across Europe.

AI for Good Global Summit 2026
2026-07-07 - 2026-07-10
O-CEI Pilot 8 participated in the AI for Good Global Summit 2026, organised by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in Geneva, Switzerland, from 7–10 July 2026. The event brought together researchers, innovators, industry representatives, policymakers, and international organisations to explore how artificial intelligence can contribute to addressing global challenges under the theme “Unlocking AI’s Potential to Serve Humanity.”
Representing O-CEI Horizon, Pilot 8 joined the État de Genève / HES-SO exhibition booth, where project partners presented the pilot’s objectives, ongoing activities, and progress to date. The event provided an opportunity to engage with a diverse international audience and discuss how Cloud-Edge-IoT technologies and AI can support more sustainable and citizen-centred energy systems.
As part of the summit programme, Konstantin Skaburskas delivered a presentation entitled “Socially Acceptable Open AI-Based Systems for Energy Transition.” The presentation explored how open and transparent AI approaches can support the energy transition while preserving user trust, control, and social acceptance. These topics are central to Pilot 8, which is investigating how citizens can actively engage with energy flexibility solutions through trustworthy and socially accepted digital tools.
The AI for Good Global Summit provided Pilot 8 with an excellent opportunity to showcase its work to an international audience while engaging with experts from the fields of artificial intelligence, digital innovation, sustainability, and energy transition. Through discussions, presentations, panel sessions, and exhibitions, the team exchanged perspectives on emerging technological developments, societal expectations, and policy priorities related to the responsible use of AI. These interactions generated valuable insights for the pilot’s ongoing activities and increased the visibility of O-CEI within the broader international community working at the intersection of AI, energy, and digital transformation.

AIOTI FG Landscape Maintenance of EU-Funded Projects
2026-07-03
O-CEI presented at the AIOTI Focus Group Landscape Maintenance session
O-CEI Horizon was presented during the AIOTI Focus Group Landscape Maintenance of EU-Funded Projects online session, where BluSpecs introduced the project as part of the latest update of AIOTI’s IoT and Edge Computing EU-Funded Projects Landscape. The session brought together representatives of European research and innovation projects to exchange updates and contribute to a shared overview of ongoing initiatives advancing the Cloud–Edge–IoT ecosystem.
During the presentation, BluSpecs provided an overview of O-CEI’s mission to accelerate the uptake of innovative Cloud-Edge-IoT solutions through eight large-scale cross-domain pilots spanning strategic sectors including energy, electromobility, software-defined vehicles, agrifood, logistics, and urban environments. The presentation highlighted the project’s work on enabling interoperable Cloud–Edge–IoT infrastructures, reusable blueprints, open marketplaces, cross-domain data sharing, and energy flexibility.
The session also showcased O-CEI’s strong commitment to standardisation, outlining its ongoing and planned contributions to organisations such as ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 41, ETSI TC DATA, AIOTI, and BDVA. Attention was given to activities including the proposed CEI Asset Management Framework, contributions to semantic interoperability standards, collaboration with AIOTI and BDVA working groups, and the project’s growing portfolio of scientific publications supporting the wider Cloud–Edge–IoT community.
By participating in the AIOTI Landscape Maintenance activity, O-CEI further strengthened its visibility within the European IoT and Edge Computing ecosystem while contributing to a shared understanding of the latest research, technological developments, and standardisation efforts shaping Europe’s digital future.

Code the Continuum Hackathon
2026-06-30 - 2026-07-01
Eclipse Foundation, CEI-Sphere, O-CEI Horizon, and COP-PILOT Horizon will organize Code the Continuum Hackathon.
The event will take place on 30 June–1 July 2026 at the University of Cagliari. It brings together students, developers, researchers, innovators, open-source communities, pilot teams, and solution providers to collaborate on practical challenges across the cloud–edge–IoT continuum.
Participants will work on hands-on challenges linked to key application domains such as energy, mobility, and industry. The hackathon provides a space for experimentation, knowledge exchange, and collaboration around open technologies, interoperability, and the reusability of assets across large-scale pilot environments. The final thematic tracks and practical details will be shared in a follow-up announcement.
The event aims to foster collaboration across communities, encourage the adoption of open-source approaches, and explore concrete opportunities for integration and innovation within the European computing continuum ecosystem.
Register here to attend: https://ceisphere.eu/events/code-continuum

CEI-Sphere Webinar: Integration of charging stations in Cloud-Edge-IoT environments
2026-06-26
O-CEI Pilot 2 Contributed to CEI-Sphere Webinar on Smart Charging Integration
On 26 June 2026, O-CEI Horizon participated in the CEI-Sphere webinar “Integration of Charging Stations in Cloud–Edge–IoT Environments”, dedicated to the integration of electric vehicle charging infrastructure across distributed Cloud–Edge–IoT ecosystems.
O-CEI was represented through Pilot 2 – Software-Defined Vehicle for VaS in Urban Areas, with contributions from Eusebiu Catana (ERTICO – ITS Europe) and Mihail Gaianu (AUMOVIO). The webinar also featured Antonio Kung and Olivier Maridat from Trialog, O-CEI’s standardization leader, who shared perspectives on interoperability, standards, and the integration of charging stations into connected mobility ecosystems.
The discussion addressed real-world deployment challenges, interoperable architectures, emerging testing tools, and the role of Cloud–Edge–IoT technologies in enabling intelligent and sustainable charging infrastructures. O-CEI’s participation highlighted how Pilot 2 contributes to advancing connected mobility solutions through interoperable, software-defined infrastructures developed within the broader European Cloud–Edge–IoT ecosystem.
For more information, read this blog post.

CEI-Sphere’s Regional Workshop on Standards for Cloud–Edge–IoT Ecosystems
2026-06-23
O-CEI Contributes to Discussions on Cloud–Edge–IoT Standardization in Paris
O-CEI Horizon participated in the Regional Workshop on Standards for Cloud–Edge–IoT Ecosystems, held on 23 June 2026 in Paris alongside the ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 41 Plenary. The workshop brought together representatives from European research projects, industry, standardization bodies, and the European Commission to discuss how standards and open-source collaboration can accelerate the deployment of interoperable and sovereign digital infrastructures.
Representing O-CEI, Ignacio Lacalle (Universitat Politècnica de València) presented the project’s approach to transforming Cloud–Edge–IoT blueprints into deployable digital assets through the O-CEI Platform and Marketplace. The presentation highlighted how reusable, interoperable solutions can help reduce fragmentation and support the adoption of Cloud–Edge–IoT technologies across Europe.
The event also explored the role of digital twins, data spaces, AI, and open-source ecosystems in future standardization efforts, reinforcing the importance of collaboration between research, industry, and standards organizations to build Europe’s next generation of interoperable digital infrastructures.
For more information, read this blog post.

Panel “EU regulations and impact on 6G networks and terminals“
2026-06-22
Dr. Valerio Frascolla (Intel) organized and chaired the panel “EU regulations and impact on 6G networks and terminals“ in the Workshop “6th International Workshop on Real-life Modeling in 5G/6G networks and beyond (REFRESH)” organized during the “International conference on distributed computing in smart systems and the internet of things (DCOSS-IoT)”, held 22-24.06.2026 in Reykjavik, Iceland.
The Panel, attended by around twenty people, entailed a presentation from Dr. Frascolla touching on the impact of European regulation on system design and an open discussion with the audience during a Panel session that featured Dr. Fabian Göttsch and Dr. Michail Alexandros Kourtis as panelists, focused on providing system engineers and 6G technical experts with an understanding of the impact of EU regulations (AI Act, Data Act, Cybersecurity Act, CRA, etc.) on system design activities.
The project O-CEI is among the organizing EU-funded projects, in synergy with 6G-ARROW, MultiX, and 6G-SENSES.

34rd Edition Master’s in Port Management and Intermodal Transport (MGPT)
2026-06-20
O-CEI Presented at the 34th Edition of the Master in Port Management and Intermodal Transport
Prof. Carlos Enrique Palau Salvador, from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), coordinator of the O-CEI Horizon project, delivered a five-hour lecture as part of the 34th Edition of the Master in Port Management and Intermodal Transport, organised by the Fundación Valenciaport.
The session focused on Edge Computing and its growing role in enabling distributed digital services across the Cloud-Edge-IoT continuum. Participants were introduced to the key concepts, technological challenges, and opportunities associated with edge-enabled architectures, as well as their relevance for sectors such as logistics, transport, energy, and smart infrastructures.
The lecture also presented the objectives and ongoing activities of O-CEI, highlighting how the project is accelerating the uptake of interoperable Cloud–Edge–IoT solutions through eight large-scale pilots in strategic sectors. Particular attention was given to the project’s work on distributed intelligence, interoperability, reusable digital assets, and energy flexibility.
The event provided an excellent opportunity to raise awareness of O-CEI among students and future professionals, fostering connections between European research and higher education while promoting knowledge exchange on emerging Cloud-Edge-IoT technologies and their real-world applications.

NexusForum Talks: From Interoperability to Impact: Enabling Real-World Cloud-Edge Adoption in Europe
2026-06-12
O-CEI Horizon participated in the NexusForum Talk “From Interoperability to Impact: Enabling Real-World Cloud-Edge Adoption in Europe”, a discussion focused on one of the key challenges facing the European Cloud–Edge–IoT ecosystem: how to move beyond successful pilots and transform innovation into scalable, interoperable, and operational solutions.
Representing O-CEI, Project Coordinator Prof. Carlos E. Palau (Universitat Politècnica de València) contributed to the discussion by sharing practical experience on simplifying the deployment and operation of Cloud–Edge–IoT solutions across distributed infrastructures. The discussion addressed some of the major barriers still limiting adoption, including fragmented ecosystems, legacy infrastructures, portability challenges, and the complexity of integrating interoperable AI and digital services across the continuum.
A recurring message throughout the session was that semantic interoperability remains a critical gap for the ecosystem. Participants also emphasized that ecosystem building is not only about technology but also about creating the conditions that enable adoption, collaboration, and long-term sustainability. Interoperability was highlighted as something that should be embedded by design from the outset, rather than addressed later through standardization efforts alone.
The conversation also explored how Europe can move from pilots to large-scale replication across multiple domains and, ultimately, from pilots to sustainable business models. In this context, the importance of demonstrating clear economic benefits was identified as a key factor in encouraging the uptake of sovereign European technologies.
O-CEI’s vision of combining a platform for designing and deploying reusable blueprints with a marketplace for publishing, discovering, and reusing interoperable digital assets was presented as a concrete approach to reducing fragmentation and accelerating real-world deployment.
The discussion reinforced a common ambition across the European Cloud–Edge–IoT community: not only to develop advanced technologies, but to make th

Privacy-Enhancing Technologies for Information Security in Edge-Cloud Applications
2026-05-19 14:30 - 16:00 (Europe/Zurich)
As Cloud–Edge–IoT (CEI) systems continue to expand across sectors, Europe’s digital transformation increasingly depends on the ability to securely share and process data across distributed environments. While edge processing enhances confidentiality, many real-world applications still require data to be aggregated and exchanged between multiple actors to unlock full value, creating a fundamental tension between innovation, data protection, and sovereignty.
Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs) are emerging as a key enabler to address this challenge, embedding security, privacy, and data sovereignty directly into system architectures. However, translating PET concepts into operational CEI systems requires careful alignment between technology choices, regulatory requirements, and application-specific constraints.
Within this context, O-CEI Horizon will contribute to the upcoming CEI-Sphere webinar, showcasing how these challenges are being addressed in practice within large-scale, multi-sector Cloud–Edge–IoT deployments.
Together with the COP-PILOT Horizon project, O-CEI will share hands-on insights from real-world implementations of CEI infrastructures, illustrating how secure and scalable data sharing can be achieved while maintaining trust, compliance, and operational efficiency across distributed systems.
The webinar will feature:

A presentation of a recent PET study developed by Fraunhofer ISST, offering a structured framework for selecting and implementing PET strategies in edge–cloud environments
Insights from the O-CEI and COP-PILOT Large-Scale Pilots, highlighting practical approaches to data protection in complex, real-world CEI deployments
A panel discussion on secure and scalable Cloud–Edge–IoT architectures and their role in enabling trusted data ecosystems

By combining research outcomes with pilot-driven experience, the session will provide a comprehensive view of how PETs can move from theory to deployment, supporting secure collaboration and innovation across Europe’s digital infrastructures.

Empowering Energy Infrastructure: The Role of 5G/6G and Edge Intelligence
2026-05-07
O-CEI at AIOTI Workshop on Energy Infrastructure and Edge Intelligence
O-CEI will participate in the Empowering Energy Infrastructure: The Role of 5G/6G and Edge Intelligence, organised by AIOTI, taking place on 7 May 2026 in Brussels. The workshop will bring together key stakeholders from Large-Scale Pilots, industry, and policy to explore how next-generation connectivity and edge intelligence can enable smarter and more resilient energy infrastructures.
O-CEI will be represented by Pilot 1 and Pilot 7, contributing to Panel 2: Pilots Presentations and Open Discussion.
Brian O’Regan, from University College Cork, the Pilot 1 leader, will participate as speaker and panellist, sharing insights on how the Cloud–Edge–IoT continuum supports the deployment of intelligent, connected energy systems and contributes to the evolution of Europe’s digital energy ecosystem.
Maria Makrynioti, from CERTH, representing Pilot 7, will also contribute as a speaker and panellist, focusing on the practical challenges of scaling smart energy solutions, including interoperability and governance. The presentation will highlight real-world deployment of edge-to-cloud architectures and demonstrate how 5G/6G and distributed intelligence can connect decentralised energy assets with the grid.
O-CEI Horizon’s participation reflects its active role within the broader European Cloud–Edge–IoT ecosystem and its collaboration with initiatives such as CEI-Sphere, contributing to the alignment of Large-Scale Pilot results with market needs, standards, and the European data strategy.

Pilot 8 Social Acceptance - Second Workshop with the energy community Polygones
2026-04-29
Building on the insights gathered during the November workshop, Pilot 8 reunited with the Polygones community in Meyrin on 29 April for a second participatory session, this time moving from exploration to concrete co-design.
While the first event focused on understanding how citizens perceive local energy communities, this session translated those insights into action. Working directly alongside residents, the team co-designed two tangible versions of a flexible energy application: one tailored for personal household use and another designed for shared community spaces.

Participants explored which functionalities would make the application genuinely useful in their daily lives, not only from a technical perspective but also in a way that is intuitive and aligned with real habits. A key theme emerged strongly: residents want to know that the small efforts they make, such as shifting their laundry to off-peak hours when the grid is under strain or renewable production is expected to increase, translate into a real and measurable environmental impact, while ideally also generating savings on their energy bills.
The session also marked an important milestone in the co-creation process, as an early-stage prototype was tested directly in context through a usability evaluation. This hands-on exercise allowed both the team and participants to experience the application’s value firsthand, gather feedback quickly, and begin moving towards a solution that truly reflects community needs.
The results reinforced a central conviction of Pilot 8: a meaningful energy transition happens when residents are not merely consulted but become active partners in shaping the tools they will ultimately use.

CIM Users Group Meeting 2026
2026-04-28 - 2026-04-30
Semantic Interoperability Tests based on IEC CIM in European Energy Data Space and associated to EU Regulation
At the CIM Users Group Meeting 2026, EDF R&D and Trialog, partners in the O-CEI Horizon project, will participate and present their joint contribution entitled “Semantic Interoperability Tests based on IEC CIM in European Energy Data Space and associated to EU Regulation,” in collaboration with ENEDIS, the main French DSO.
In the context of the Energy Data Space Program promoted by the EU Commission and associated with implementing the act on Metering and Customer Data Access (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2023/1162/oj/eng ), semantic interoperability ensures that data providers and service providers of distinct data spaces have a common understanding of shared datasets.
This presentation will describe the semantic interoperability tests performed amongst five Energy Data Space projects (DATA CELLAR, EDDIE, ENERSHARE, OMEGA-X, and SYNERGIES) in March 2025. These tests were based either on EUMED Metering (which is an international standard based on IEC CIM (Common Information Model) of the International Electrotechnical Commission or on EME (EUMED METERING Ontology), which is an ontology developed in OMEGA-X as part of its Common Semantic Data Model (CSDM) and the result of the semantization of EUMED Metering.
Building on these successful tests, our objective is to translate exchange specifications into machine-checkable constraints that produce clear pass/fail results and auditable evidence. The main challenge is to keep the validation lightweight and technology-neutral, while ensuring datasets remain aligned with shared semantic artefacts, in particular EUMED Metering and its EME semantization. Within the O-CEI project, this will be delivered as a Validation and Verification (V&V) platform through a joint open-source initiative centred on the Ontology-Driven Constraint (ODC) Tester, integrating the EME Validation Service into a reusable validation core.
The elaboration of the CSDM in OMEGA-X in which Trialog and EDF were involved, was also closely related to IEC system committee Smart Energy work on ontologies which published IEC SRD 63417:2025 “Guidance and plan to develop smart energy ontologies”. All this work will feed the EU Smart Energy Expert Group which recommends developing a coordinated European Testing Action Plan for energy interoperability, bridging with the transport sector and other sectors where relevant, and linking national authorities, standardisation bodies, testing laboratories, and expert communities.

𝗜𝗻𝗱𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗢𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 & 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗘𝗜-𝗦𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁
2026-04-27
On 27 April 2026, the O-CEI project will participate in the open consultation on Industrial Optimisation & Productivity, organised under the Industry pillar of the CEI-Sphere initiative by INSIDE Industry Association.
CEI-Sphere is structured around three spheres: Industry, Energy, and Mobility. Within the Industry sphere, INSIDE is bringing together key stakeholders from Europe’s Cloud-Edge-IoT ecosystem, including participants from large-scale pilots such as O-CEI (Horizon Europe) and COP-PILOT (Horizon Europe).
The consultation aims to explore the challenges and opportunities related to the commercial adoption of Cloud-Edge-IoT (CEI) solutions developed in Europe’s Large-Scale Pilots, with a focus on strengthening the Edge-to-Cloud Continuum (E2CC) and identifying key gaps, barriers, and future priorities for industrial deployment.
Through its participation, O-CEI will contribute insights from its pilot activities and engage with ecosystem stakeholders to support the development of a more open and competitive European CEI landscape.

Open Community for Research (OCR) 2026
2026-04-23
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.

OCX (Open Community Experience) 2026 organized by Eclipse Foundation
2026-04-22
Trialog presentation on the use of the Hourglass Model in the Open Community for Research track of the OCX 2026 meeting
Antonio Kung, Cécile Rabrait, Léo Cornec, Diana Jimenez-Bejarano and Estibaliz Arzoz Fernandez from Trialog will present a talk entitled “Using the Hourglass Model for Open Source Development in Research”.
The objective of this talk is to show how the Hourglass Model, adapted by CEI-Sphere to study ICT ecosystems, can lead to the identification of Open Source opportunities in research projects. The Hourglass Model provides a visual map, organised into layers and dual-sided columns to illustrate the relationships between stakeholders on one side, and technologies on the other side. The “technologies” column is further refined into three aspects, capabilities, standards, and Open Source building blocks.
The following link describes the Hourglass Model and its application to the CEI ecosystem in the CEI-Sphere project: https://ceisphere.eu/hourglass-model.
The Hourglass Model has been applied successfully in the past 6 months in a growing number of research projects or ecosystems. In particular, this model has already been used to describe the following ecosystems: data spaces, digital twins, self-sovereign identity, AI, and smart cities.
This talk will explain the five principles driving an Hourglass Model analysis: layering key enablers, ensuring interoperability and reusability, supporting regulations and harmonized standards, leveraging standards and Open Source components, and the four processes defined within CEI-Sphere to help projects performing this analysis.
Then, several cases of Hourglass Model usage to enable the identification of Open Source opportunities in different EU-funded projects will be presented, including the Cloud-Edge-IoT O-CEI project focusing on the development of a digital asset builder system. For each of these projects, we will present the project’s strategy regarding Open Source and standardisation activities, the main Open Source building blocks used or targeted for use in the project as well as lessons learned and recommendations for other research projects.

Eclipse Foundation Open Community Experience
2026-04-21 - 2026-04-23
Eclipse Foundation to Host OCX 2026 and the Open Community for Research
As the Open-Source Leader within the O-CEI project, the Eclipse Foundation will host two key events from 21–23 April 2026 in Brussels: the next edition of the Open Community Experience (OCX) and the co-located event Open Community for Research (OCR).
OCX 2026 marks the return of the Eclipse Foundation’s flagship annual conference, building on the success of its inaugural 2024 edition. The event will once again gather the Foundation’s diverse and growing community to share knowledge, showcase technology, and foster collaboration across open-source ecosystems.
Alongside OCX, the Eclipse Foundation will host the Open Community for Research (OCR) — a dedicated forum designed to strengthen collaboration between research projects, industry adopters, and open-source communities. OCR invites researchers working in domains such as software engineering, AI, data science, cloud, edge, and IoT to exchange experiences, present their work, and explore best practices for leveraging open-source technologies in research and innovation.
Participation opportunities at OCR included:

Call for Presentations: Researchers could submit talks featuring innovative projects, case studies, or technical contributions built on or contributing to open-source technologies.
Dissemination Materials: Attendees were encouraged to bring posters, flyers, rollups, stickers, or other outreach materials to showcase their research and project achievements.
Attendee Registration: Participants had the opportunity to engage directly with experts, receive valuable feedback, and explore new collaborations within the Eclipse ecosystem.

More information on OCX 2026 and the Open Community for Research is available at:

https://www.ocxconf.org/event/2026/summary
https://www.ocxconf.org/event/2026/open-community-for-research-1

O-CEI is proud to highlight the leadership of the Eclipse Foundation in advancing open-source innovation and community-building across Europe.

Workshop in Valda
2026-04-02
Pilot 8 organised a workshop bringing together key tourism actors from the Val d’Anniviers, including hotel, ski resort, and the local Tourism Office. The goal was to collectively map a systemic view of the valley and build a shared vision for promoting the energy transition while strengthening Val d’Anniviers as an attractive tourist destination.
The workshop was structured in two parts. The first focused on identifying measures and best practices implemented in other countries and across Switzerland, followed by an open discussion on what could realistically be applied in the valley. The second part was dedicated to co-creating a future scenario that positions Val d’Anniviers as a pioneer in the energy transition.
As a first outcome, the workshop produced a draft identifying key pain points and potential areas for improvement. The next step will be to gather feedback from tourists on this prospective vision.

2nd AIOTI Workshop on Semantic Interoperability for Digital Twins on March 24 and 25th
2026-03-24 - 2026-03-25
Sessions to present and improve the “Manifesto for Reusable Ontologies” lead and facilitated by Trialog, with the participation of EDF
During this event, Antonio Kung will lead a session on the requirements and content of the “Manifesto for Reusable Ontologies” which is currently discussed within the semantic interoperability community, and is of high interest for both the CEI-Sphere and O-CEI projects.
This session will feature two introductory presentations by renowned European semantic interoperability experts and a panel discussion facilitated by Trialog. Here is the detailed agenda of this session :

Towards a FAIR-by-design ontology development framework, by María Poveda-Villalón (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
On the need for ontology hub interoperability, by Raúl Garcia-Castro (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
Panel discussion on the Manifesto for Reusable Ontologies :

Amelie Gyrard & Henon Mengistu Lamboro facilitators, Trialog
Members of the panel: Cornelis Bouter (TNO), Mahda Noura (Siemens), Raul Garcia (UPM), Martin Serrano (Insight Research Ireland Centre for Data Analytics), Zehor Hounas (EDF)

This panel session will bring together perspectives from academia, standardisation bodies, and industry. A high-level orientation on why we need such a manifesto will be discussed, and the viewpoint from the energy domain will also be provided.
This session will be followed by an interactive session (the next day) again facilitated by Trialog, and with the participation of EDF, named Towards the Manifesto for Reusable Ontologies. This breakout session will enable participants to make suggestions to help finalise the list of principles in order to reach an agreement. Relevant stakeholders from different communities will be invited to participate in the breakout session. Finally, EDF will also lead a technical session on Semantic Modelling of Digital Twins.

Bridge General Assembly 2026
2026-03-23 - 2026-03-24
The partners in Pilot 8 participated in the BRIDGE General Assembly 2026, which took place on 23–24 March in Brussels. This annual flagship event of the BRIDGE initiative brings together Horizon Europe projects, European Commission representatives, and key energy stakeholders from across Europe.
The two-day event provided a valuable opportunity to engage with representatives from other Horizon Europe projects working on Smart Grids, Energy Storage, Islands, and Digitalisation, sharing best practices, lessons learned, and collaborative approaches to accelerating Europe’s clean energy transition.
As part of the O-CEI Horizon Europe project, Pilot 8 was actively represented through the contributions of Emmanuel Fragnière and Juliana Magalhães Cardoso, who serve as co-leaders alongside Carlos Montalvo in the Engagement Indicators subgroup, part of the BRIDGE Working Group on Consumer and Citizen Engagement.
Over the past months, Emmanuel and Juliana have made meaningful contributions to the BRIDGE community by sharing the work carried out within Pilot 8 on social acceptance. Their work aims to ensure that energy communities and citizens are genuinely supported throughout the energy transition, placing inclusivity and social acceptability at the heart of innovation.
Being part of the BRIDGE community and participating in this type of event reinforces our commitment to co-building a more supportive and inclusive energy transition, together with citizens, communities, and fellow European projects.

One Digital Grid Platform - SCHNEIDER in O-CEI and Beyond
2026-03-17
On 17 March, Schneider Electric, O-CEI Horizon’s partner in Pilot 4, will host a dedicated webinar exploring the role of energy equipment providers in enabling the digital transformation of modern energy systems.
The session will highlight how Schneider Electric contributes to the O-CEI Smart Port pilot in Malta, where advanced energy monitoring and control capabilities are essential for managing complex grid environments. In large-scale infrastructures such as ports and island energy systems, real-time data visibility and actuation over the energy grid are critical to ensure efficiency, resilience, and coordinated energy management.
During the webinar, Schneider Electric will present how its One Digital Grid Platform supports these capabilities by providing the technological foundation for grid monitoring, optimisation, and interoperability across energy infrastructures. The discussion will also illustrate how Schneider Electric’s participation in the O-CEI ecosystem enables innovation opportunities for stakeholders such as maritime terminals and local Distribution System Operators (DSOs), helping to connect operational infrastructure with advanced digital services.
By showcasing concrete use cases and technology concepts, the session will demonstrate how digital grid platforms can support scalable and transferable solutions for future Cloud-Edge-IoT-enabled energy systems, contributing to the broader objectives of the O-CEI project.
The webinar will include an introduction to the initiative and its context within O-CEI, followed by an overview of Schneider Electric’s role in the project. Participants will learn about the concept and technology behind the One Digital Grid Platform, explore real-world applications and deployment examples, and discuss how these capabilities can be further leveraged within the O-CEI ecosystem. The session will conclude with an interactive Q&A.

IEECB&SC’26 and ESCO Europe 2026 Conference
2026-03-11 - 2026-03-12
The IEECB&SC’26 and ESCO Europe 2026 Conference brings together leading researchers, technology providers, ESCOs, policymakers, and energy practitioners to explore advances in energy efficiency, smart building systems, and the development of resilient and intelligent smart communities. The conference focuses on practical and research-driven solutions for accelerating decarbonisation in the built environment, including building automation, energy management systems, flexibility services, and new business models supporting the energy transition.
As part of the conference programme, a scientific paper titled “Towards Autonomous Buildings, Communities and Positive Energy Districts: Multi-Layer Modeling and Edge-Enabled Islanding for the Energy Transition” will be presented by our partners from University College Cork. The paper introduces a multi-layer modelling framework integrating deterministic, stochastic, AI-based, and reinforcement learning approaches to support autonomous building and community energy operation. A key innovation is the concept of edge-enabled fragmented islanding, enabling buildings, energy communities, and Positive Energy Districts to dynamically isolate and self-balance during grid instability, while supporting peer-to-peer energy coordination and improved resilience. The work also introduces the Response Derivative (RD) metric to quantify flexibility and responsiveness under uncertainty, and proposes a distributed TinyML–Edge–Cloud architecture for scalable real-time implementation.
This dissemination activity strengthens the visibility of the O-CEI’s research outcomes, supports knowledge transfer to European stakeholders, and contributes to accelerating the adoption of intelligent, flexible, and resilient energy systems across commercial buildings and smart communities.

Eclipse Foundation Open Community Experience
2026-02-23
Open-Source Strategies for Europe’s Sovereign Digital Infrastructure: Striving for Industrial European Open-Source Platforms
This workshop, organized during Eclipse’s Open Community Experience event, will focus on Europe’s need to strengthen digital sovereignty by building viable alternatives to dominant global digital platforms as the industry rapidly transitions toward software-defined and AI-driven systems.
Participants will explore how open-source ecosystems can support a sovereign software stack spanning cloud, edge, IoT, and AI, ensuring secure, interoperable, and resilient digital infrastructures while addressing emerging policy developments related to Europe’s new Open-Source strategy.
The workshop will feature contributions from policymakers and research leaders, including Rolf Riemenschneider, Project Officer for O-CEI Horizon and COP-PILOT Horizon.
The O-CEI coordinating team will actively contribute by presenting how Cloud-Edge-IoT continuum technologies enable interoperable industrial platforms and trustworthy data infrastructures across multiple sectors: software-defined vehicles, energy systems, and the telco-cloud-edge-AI continuum.
Discussions will also address the CEI-Spheres and Hourglass architectural model, and their operationalisation of open-source strategies.
By connecting research, industry, and policy perspectives, the workshop aims to demonstrate how collaborative open-source development can evolve into a coordinated European digital infrastructure capable of ensuring technological autonomy, trusted data exchange, and scalable innovation across critical sectors.
Participants:

Rolf Riemenschneider, European Commission
Tanya Suarez, BluSpecs
Antonio Kung, Trialog
Giovanni Rimassa, Martel Innovate
Ignacio Lacalle Ubeda, UPV, O-CEI Horizon coordination team
Representative of COP-PILOT Horizon

Register here: https://www.ocxconf.org/event/2026/registration

Scaling up CEI pilots: Discover the open calls of O-CEI and COP-PILOT
2026-02-12
O-CEI participated in a joint webinar organised within the CEI-Sphere framework to highlight how open calls support the transition of Cloud-Edge-IoT (CEI) research from concept to real-world deployment. During the session, the project presented the key outcomes and lessons learned from its first open call, offering guidance to organisations interested in scaling innovative CEI solutions.
The webinar also introduced the running COP-PILOT open call and explored strategic approaches to participation beyond procedural aspects, demonstrating how collaboration across initiatives can enhance impact, visibility, and scalability within the CEI ecosystem.
The event targeted potential applicants, innovators, and stakeholders seeking to expand pilots through European funding opportunities.
Did you miss it? You can watch the recording here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=876WE9r7LzQ&list=PLInbjUtABxyse9L5winG8-JIt_2TaslWf&index=4

Data Spaces Symposium 2026
2026-02-10 - 2026-02-11
Towards a European Mobility Data Space: Interoperability, Governance, and Compliance
The O-CEI project, through its partner ERTICO-ITS Europe, will support the SDV pilot integration and the link to the future European Mobility Data Space. The topic will be presented as “Towards a European Mobility Data Space: Interoperability, Governance, and Compliance.”
Over two days, a wide audience will be introduced to some of the most advanced mobility initiatives, including O-CEI, deployEMDS, NAPCORE, NAPCORE X, SCUDO, 3DxVERSE, and BoostEDIC Transport & Logistics. These projects will demonstrate how to establish a federated, interoperable, and trusted environment for data exchange among mobility operators, public authorities, service providers, and other key stakeholders. Data will be shared in a sovereign, governed, and auditable manner through certified connectors and standardized semantic models such as DATEX II (Data Exchange for Traffic and Travel Information, CEN/TC 278), NeTEx (Network Timetable Exchange, CEN/TS 16614), and SIRI (Service Interface for Real-Time Information, CEN/TS 15531).
The proposed architecture will be fully aligned with the principles of European Data Spaces, IDSA, and GAIA-X, providing a robust foundation where regulatory compliance, analytics, and operational decision-making will be based on reliable, machine-readable data.
By adopting this approach, mobility solutions will actively contribute to the success of a data space by enabling secure and governed data sharing among multiple stakeholders, while ensuring interoperability, traceability, and controlled access. The framework will also support automated compliance, predictive analytics, and improved operational efficiency, in full alignment with the objectives of the EU Mobility Data Space.
Ultimately, this approach will reduce administrative burdens, will strengthen regulatory oversight, and will enable the safe and scalable deployment of innovative mobility services. The event will showcase the practical application of the SDV concept as part of the Cloud-Edge-IoT continuum technologies promoted by O-CEI.

European Research & Innovation Opportunities
2026-01-21
HES-SO participated in the conference “European Funding – Opportunities for Companies & Academics Collaborations” that took place at Campus BioTech in Geneva on 21 January 2026.
The conference was designed to inform academia and industry stakeholders about opportunities to participate in Horizon Europe projects under Clusters 4 and 5, as well as other international funding mechanisms.

HE-SO’s presentation focused on sharing institutional experience within the O-CEI project, detailing the establishment of the Swiss Pilot initiative. It illustrated how HES-SO, through its extensive network, successfully orchestrated a comprehensive partnership encompassing technology providers, solution integrators, end users, prosumers, and system operators.

The event brought together approximately 70 participants, with 60% from academia and 40% from industry.

AI Enables Cybersecurity Meet-Up
2026-01-14
“AI Enables Cybersecurity” Meetup Event 2026
The Centre for Research & Technology Hellas (CERTH) represented the O-CEI Horizon Project at the “AI Enables Cybersecurity” Meetup held at the COSMOTE premises in Athens. This technical forum, centred on the theme “From Risk to Resilience,” provided a strategic platform to showcase the security advancements of O-CEI Pilot 7. The presentation focused on the critical challenge of protecting electric vehicle distribution charging infrastructure, highlighting how integrated security frameworks are essential for the future of European energy and mobility networks.
To address these challenges, Pilot 7 utilizes artificial intelligence to secure the entire computing continuum between edge devices and the cloud. This approach ensures robust resilience and trustworthiness within a large-scale, cross-domain pilot located in Rome, where the intersection of power grids and digital services requires sophisticated defence mechanisms. By implementing AI-driven monitoring and design-time security, the initiative establishes a blueprint for autonomous, secure digital infrastructure across the European Union.

CEI-Sphere Webinar: Understanding the CEI Ecosystem via the Hourglass Model
2026-01-12
On January 12th, the #CEISphere webinar “Understanding the CEI Ecosystem via the Hourglass Model” brought together the community to explore how complex Cloud–Edge–IoT ecosystems can be better understood and structured.
During the session, Antonio Kung (Trialog, O-CEI Standardisation Leader) introduced the Hourglass Model, developed within #CEISphere, as a practical framework to clarify how stakeholders, capabilities, and interoperability points align across digital ecosystems, from devices and infrastructure to standards, platforms, and applications.
The discussion then moved from concept to practice with insights from key partners: Ignacio Lacalle Úbeda (UPV, O-CEI Coordinator), Javier Valiño (Eclipse Foundation, O-CEI Open Source Leader), and Damir Filipovic (BluSpecs, O-CEI Clustering Leader), who demonstrated how the Hourglass can be applied across domains such as energy, mobility, and data-driven services.
Dr. Lacalle Úbeda highlighted O-CEI as an early adopter of the Hourglass Model from three perspectives:

Mapping O-CEI’s main results (including blueprints, marketplace, and platform) to the model to connect with actors across the energy value chain.
Positioning partner services within large-scale O-CEI pilots.
Using the clepsydra-shaped tool to visualise concise, one-page blueprints of the use cases.

Did you miss the webinar? Watch the recording here: https://ceisphere.eu/events/understanding-cei-ecosystem-hourglass-model
