European Tech Sovereignty Catalogue Launches: A Strategic Opportunity for IPCEI-CIS Community

The European DIGITAL SME Alliance has launched the Tech Sovereignty Catalogue, a strategic initiative that directly aligns with IPCEI-CIS objectives of strengthening Europe's digital independence and building a robust Multi-Provider Cloud-Edge Continuum. This new platform maps market-ready sovereign solutions across Europe's digital infrastructure layers, creating visibility for the European innovations that projects like IPCEI-CIS are developing.

The Catalogue addresses a challenge central to IPCEI-CIS's mission: Europe's dependency on non-European technology providers. With over 80% of digital technologies currently imported and more than 70% of the cloud market controlled by three US companies, the initiative creates much-needed visibility for European solutions. For IPCEI-CIS participants working on interoperable, sustainable, and sovereign-by-design cloud-edge solutions, the Catalogue offers a direct channel to decision-makers and potential collaborators across the EU's Member States and beyond.

The Tech Sovereignty Catalogue showcases market-ready European digital solutions across critical infrastructure layers that are directly relevant to IPCEI-CIS work. These include cloud and edge computing solutions that support the Multi-Provider Cloud-Edge Continuum, connectivity technologies essential for distributed network architectures, cybersecurity capabilities that represent a core IPCEI-CIS focus area, data management solutions critical for GDPR-compliant sovereign data processing, and AI and advanced technologies supporting applications from autonomous driving to Industry 4.0. By mapping European solutions across these pillars, the Catalogue helps expose the homegrown innovation that IPCEI-CIS projects represent, connecting them with businesses and public administrations seeking trusted European providers.

The Catalogue's objectives mirror IPCEI-CIS priorities in meaningful ways. Both initiatives emphasise interoperability by showcasing solutions that integrate seamlessly across providers, portability through technologies that avoid vendor lock-in, sustainability by featuring energy-efficient and climate-neutral infrastructure, and standardisation by promoting solutions built on common technological foundations. This strategic alignment makes the Catalogue a natural extension of IPCEI-CIS's vision for a competitive, sovereign European digital ecosystem.

The more than 100 partners involved in IPCEI-CIS projects are encouraged to submit their solutions to amplify their visibility and position themselves as trusted European providers in the growing sovereignty debate. Submission takes approximately 12 to 15 minutes at https://techsov-catalogue.eu/submissions/. By participating, IPCEI-CIS projects can reach decision-makers actively seeking European alternatives, demonstrate compliance with European values of transparency and data protection, contribute to building Europe's sovereign technology stack, and connect with complementary solutions across the continuum.

Digital sovereignty starts with visibility, and for IPCEI-CIS projects developing the next generation of European cloud infrastructure and services, the Tech Sovereignty Catalogue offers a strategic platform to showcase solutions, build partnerships, and accelerate Europe's journey toward technological autonomy. The Catalogue is part of a coordinated European effort to build resilient, trusted digital infrastructure—one solution at a time.