CISERO has released the first version of the IPCEI-CIS Sustainability Roadmap (D2.2), providing an in-depth analysis of the European cloud-edge market and outlining pathways to maximise the long-term impact of IPCEI-CIS projects’ results.
The report highlights the growing importance of AI-driven workloads, edge computing, and trusted data infrastructures, alongside increasing market expectations around digital sovereignty, interoperability, and secure-by-design solutions. It also identifies key barriers to market adoption, including ecosystem fragmentation, skills shortages, and strong global competition. By aligning technological innovation with market needs and European policy priorities, the roadmap aims to help position IPCEI-CIS initiatives as key contributors to Europe’s competitive, secure, and sovereign digital infrastructure.
CISERO's Sustainability Roadmap maps demand, barriers and opportunities across the IPCEI‑CIS ecosystem, and sets out how Europe turns strong public investment into cloud and edge solutions that actually get adopted.
Building great tech isn't enough
IPCEI‑CIS mobilised unprecedented, coordinated public and private investment across 12 Member States and 100+ partners. That's the easy part — Europe's real gap sits downstream.
- Strong on R&D
Coordinated investment across 12 Member States and 100+ partners has delivered real technical progress.
- Weaker on go‑to‑market
European roadmaps (the Alliance, NexusForum) define what to build — but stop short of target markets, value propositions and commercialisation paths.
- Risk: pilots that don't scale
Without a market narrative, technically strong outputs risk staying confined to pilots once funding phases out.
One framework, ten building blocks
The roadmap analyses market demand across five technical and five non‑technical building blocks — built on D2.1, the Alliance for Industrial Data, Edge and Cloud, and the NexusForum roadmap.
Where European buyers are pulling — and hesitating
Three signals from the roadmap show where demand is real today, and where it's still forming.
Want to dive deeper? Explore the six key priorities IPCEI-CIS projects must act on today.
Access the full Roadmap report here