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Latest News
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Image AI generated © deimos.az – stock.adobe.com 18 European countries publish manifesto for new IPCEI on Artificial Intelligence
The planned IPCEI-AI aims to develop a European continuum of federated and distributed AI services. The manifesto explicitly positions the initiative as complementary to 8ra and other strategic European technology initiatives.
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Image AI generated © NooPaew – stock.adobe.com BWI builds on NeoNephos for its Open Defense Cloud
BWI – the German public IT services provider owned by the German Federal Ministry of Defence – is using technologies from the NeoNephos Foundation as it develops the Open Defense Cloud (ODC) for the German Armed Forces. This demonstrates how open-source technologies from the 8ra ecosystem can be applied in highly demanding operational environments.
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© DLR Third Version of the IPCEI-CIS Reference Architecture Released
Version 3.0 of the IPCEI-CIS Reference Architecture (ICRA) is now live, a structured framework to guide the development of a federated Multi-Provider Cloud-Edge Continuum, capable of supporting the next generation of data-driven applications across sectors such as manufacturing, mobility, energy as well as the integration of AI.
Current Events
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© CISERO Project Building Europe’s Sovereign AI, Data, federated cloud-edge Infrastructure to enable Europe’s economic growth
On 19 November, projects working on Europe’s Multi-Provider Cloud-Edge Continuum will meet industry, policymakers and the AI compute community at the InterContinental Budapest. The event is organised by CISERO and E-Group, working together with 8ra.
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© metamorworks – stock.adobe.com 8ra Impact Forum – Connecting Results, Shaping the Future
Following the German Digital Summit 2026, the 8ra Initiative will bring together representatives from its German ecosystem in Berlin to showcase results, explore concrete use cases and discuss the next steps for Europe’s sovereign digital infrastructure.
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© metamorworks – stock.adobe.com –8ra Initiative at GITEX AI EUROPE 2026
The 8ra Initiative will be represented at GITEX AI EUROPE 2026 in Berlin, one of the continent’s key forums for digital innovation. A central part of 8ra’s presence will be the panel discussion “From Vision to Reality – Deploying AI Across a Federated Cloud-Edge Continuum” on 1 July 2026.
Voices of 8ra
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© ResEvo d.o.o. | Tilde,SIA “8ra has given us confidence in true technological sovereignty”
This month we are in conversation with Tomaž Bergant (CEO & Co-founder, ResEvo), Inga Loseva (R&D Team, Tilde), and Raivis Skadiņš (CTO, Tilde). Together, within the 8ra ecosystem, they spearheaded a cross-border collaboration that connects ResEvo’s industrial analytics with Tilde’s conversational AI, bringing natural-language querying directly to factory floors.
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© Bull “The fact that so many European partners can work together is already a form of sovereignty”
E2CC is developing an end-to-end platform designed to connect cloud, edge and on-premises infrastructure. In this interview, François Exertier and Patrice Calegari explain how E2CC approaches vendor independence, how applications can be orchestrated across different infrastructures, why security is non-negotiable, and why collaboration is by itself a crucial part of European digital sovereignty.
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© SICP – Software Innovation Campus Paderborn “The mindset is federated now”
In this interview, Dr Gunnar Schomaker explains, how a federated mindset helps to build a community that brings computing directly to the energy production site. He describes a key moment was when he was discussing a technical matter with a partner and then realised that they were facing exactly the same technical challenges.