IPCEI-CIS Pilots & Demonstrators

How Pilots and Demonstrators fit into the IPCEI-CIS ecosystem

Pilots and Demonstrators showcase how IPCEI-CIS project results are validated in practice, at different levels of integration and scale.

Pilots are integration-driven initiatives that bring together technologies developed across multiple IPCEI-CIS projects and Integration Clusters. They act as convergence points, testing interoperability and joint performance in real cloud and edge environments. Through this integration effort, Pilots also contribute to validating the IPCEI-CIS Reference Architecture and to refining it by identifying gaps, missing components, or opportunities for optimisation.

Demonstrators, on the other hand, are initiatives developed by a single company. They focus on showcasing and validating specific solutions or components in a concrete operational context, providing tangible evidence of how individual IPCEI-CIS results can be applied in practice.

This section provides an overview of the most advanced IPCEI-CIS Pilots and Demonstrators. Explore the initiatives below to understand their roles and contributions within the broader IPCEI-CIS ecosystem.

ApeiroRA
ApeiroRA

Focused on how data and context can be accessed and reused across distributed cloud and edge environments without centralising data.

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FACIS PoCs
FACIS PoCs

Addressing how federated cloud services can be orchestrated and composed through common architectures, interfaces and governance models.

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Fact8ra
Fact8ra

An AI Factory pilot exploring how AI services, including open-source language models, can run on federated cloud and edge infrastructures.

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Lab8ra
Lab8ra

A shared validation framework where technologies from different IPCEI-CIS projects are tested together for interoperability.

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Virt8ra
Virt8ra

A software stack designed to support the virtualisation and federation of cloud and edge infrastructures operated across Europe.

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