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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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© Skórzewiak – stock.adobe.com CISERO Open Source Community Day 2025
The CISERO project, the support action for IPCEI-CIS, is co-organising the Open Source Community Day 2025 with the Eclipse Foundation and the CEI-Sphere project. This two-day event brings together open source advocates from industry, academia, and the EU research landscape, offering a platform to explore the role of open source in shaping Europe’s digital future.
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© Giovanni Frattini “Scale up, make technology usable!”
In this interview, Giovanni Frattini from the AVANT project, shares his vision for the future of digital infrastructure in Europe. He argues that the next wave of digital transformation must be scalable and usable, and that a federated model is designed to achieve this by building a “toolbox” of interoperable solutions.
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© CISERO Project CISERO online session on the IPCEI-CIS Reference Architecture
Following the release of Version 1.0 of the IPCEI-CIS Reference Architecture (ICRA), the next CISERO online session on 22 July 2025 will focus on the architecture’s role in advancing Europe’s federated, sovereign Multi-Provider Cloud-Edge Continuum.