PLIADES contributes to NOUS & Beyond: Building Bridges Across Data Spaces workshop
On 17 December 2025, the NOUS consortium successfully organised its third workshop “NOUS & Beyond: Building Bridges Across Data Spaces”, bringing together research teams, sister projects and experts from across Europe to share progress and discuss interoperability and collaboration in next-generation data ecosystems.
The event featured the presentation of preliminary results and insights from the first NOUS White Paper, showcasing the project’s integrated architecture for a European Cloud–Edge–HPC–Data Spaces framework designed to enable secure identity management, data sovereignty and efficient orchestration of computing resources. This architecture supports a hybrid model that includes edge, cloud and high-performance computing, together with emerging technologies such as quantum computing.
Four real-world use cases demonstrated the potential impact of this work, including:
- improvement of road safety using GDPR-compliant edge and fog camera systems
- enhanced renewable energy forecasting through machine learning and federated learning
- stronger crisis management platforms with blockchain and zero-trust mechanisms
- accelerated scientific discovery via AI-driven workflows that optimise large design spaces
The sister projects roundtable provided an opportunity for cross-initiative discussion on shared challenges and collaborative paths forward. Representatives from related EU projects exchanged views on governance, integration, data lifecycle management and secure data exchanges across domains.
The PLIADES project was highlighted among the sister initiatives for its contribution to AI-enabled solutions that optimise data lifecycles and support interoperability across diverse application domains, including mobility, energy, healthcare and industry. This participation reaffirmed PLIADES’s role in shaping the future of interoperable data spaces across Europe.
Video recording from the session available here.
