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Shaping Europe’s Next Generation Cloud Infrastructure and Services
The 8ra Initiative is driving the development of a sovereign, interoperable, and secure Multi-Provider Cloud-Edge Continuum. With more than 120 partners from 12 EU Member States, the 8ra Initiative fosters open collaboration to create a resilient and scalable digital infrastructure tailored to Europe’s needs.
By promoting open-source innovation, interoperability, and cross-border cooperation, the 8ra Initiative empowers industries, researchers, and policymakers to shape the next generation of cloud and edge computing. Whether in AI, data spaces, telecommunications, or the industrial metaverse, the 8ra Initiative enables groundbreaking advancements free from vendor lock-in.
Explore how the 8ra Initiative is transforming Europe’s digital ecosystem and join the movement toward a truly federated cloud-edge future.
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© Konrad – stock.adobe.com 8ra Opens its Ecosystem to New Partners across Europe
The 8ra Initiative is entering a new phase as it opens up to new partners across Europe: a broader, industry-driven ecosystem designed to carry Europe’s cloud and edge ambitions beyond the IPCEI-CIS funding period. The move marks an important step in the evolution of the initiative.
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© Pēteris Ārājs | © Jānis Kampars “Digital twins should be reusable, not rebuilt from scratch”
Urban digital twins are widely seen as a powerful tool for city planning. Most implementations are developed as stand-alone solutions, which makes them costly and hard to transfer. The DigiTDevOps project takes a different approach. In our interview, Jānis Kampars & Pēteris Ārājs describe how a modular platform built on reusable patterns can simplify how…
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© Andrea Podda, Luca La Brocca, Stefania Pilleri AI WEEK 2026: Bringing the 8ra Vision into the European AI Debate
At AI WEEK 2026 in Milan, the IPCEI-CIS project Villanova brought the 8ra perspective into one of Italy’s major forums for AI, innovation and digital transformation. Across the event, one message became clear: AI is increasingly understood as a strategic driver for business transformation, with a clear focus on concrete use cases and scalable adoption.