• Mapping Europe’s Cloud-Edge-IoT Ecosystem: CEI-Sphere Launches New Use Case Visualisation Tool

    Europe’s Cloud-Edge-IoT (CEI) ecosystem is growing rapidly, but understanding how innovations connect across sectors, technologies and stakeholders remains a challenge. From energy systems and smart mobility to industrial optimisation and agrifood applications, many initiatives are developing valuable solutions, yet the ecosystem itself often remains fragmented and difficult to navigate. To help address this, the CEI-Sphere…

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    FOSDEM 2026 Through a Digital Policy Lens 

    FOSDEM has always been a mirror of the open-source ecosystem: its strengths, its tensions, and its future directions. Across the Open Source & EU Policy, Legal, and CRA in Practice devrooms, a consistent narrative emerged: European regulation, standards, and public investment are deeply entangled with the technical realities of open ecosystems.  This post highlights key insights from those FOSDEM tracks and reflects on how they align with — and challenge — what NexusForum is promoting.  From “Open Source and Policy” to “Open Source as Policy”  One of the most striking elements of the Open Source & EU Policy devroom was how far the conversation has evolved. Rather than treating policy as an external constraint imposed on developers, many talks framed open source itself as a policy instrument — a means to achieve public goals such as digital sovereignty, resilience, and interoperability.  Discussions around European digital sovereignty repeatedly rejected simplistic narratives of technological independence. Instead, speakers emphasised sovereignty as capability: the ability to understand, influence, maintain, and evolve the software that underpins society. This framing aligns closely with NexusForum’s emphasis on participation in global open ecosystems rather than isolation from them.  The implication is clear: Europe’s strategic autonomy depends less on “owning” software and more on sustaining strong, well-governed open communities that European actors actively contribute to.  Governance, Procurement, and the Digital Commons  Another recurring theme was governance — not…

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    Event Report: NexusForum.EU Digital Convergence Week 2026

    EU and South Korea Strengthen Digital Ties at Successful Convergence Week in Incheon. The NexusForum EU-South Korea Digital Convergence Week 2026 took place between 13th to 16th of April 2026, marking a significant milestone in the maturing digital partnership between the two regions. Held at the Yonsei University International Campus, the event drew a strong…

  • O-CEI First Open Call: 24 innovators selected to scale Europe’s Cloud-Edge-IoT ecosystem

    The Context The first Open Call of the O-CEI project has reached an important milestone with the selection of its winners, marking a key step in supporting the next generation of Cloud–Edge–IoT (CEI) solutions across Europe. The call attracted a strong response from the European innovation ecosystem, with 249 proposals submitted from 37 countries, reflecting…

  • European Edge Computing Leaps Forward: ACES Redefines the Digital Continuum for the EU Cloud-Edge-IoT Initiative

    The Autopoietic Cognitive Edge-cloud Services (ACES) project is driving a massive transformation in Europe’s digital infrastructure, positioning itself as a strategic cornerstone of the broader EU Cloud-Edge-IoT initiative. Moving aggressively away from the traditional, centralized “hub-and-spoke” cloud models dominated by non-European hyperscalers, ACES introduces a revolutionary decentralized “East-West” mesh topology. This architectural paradigm shift is not just…

  • MetaOS INSIGHTS

    The Context The document provided is the “MetaOS Final Report” (dated November 2025), which details the outcomes and strategic vision of a €60 million investment by the European Commission under the Horizon Europe programme. The initiative aims to establish “Meta Operating Systems” that create a computing continuum, unifying IoT devices, edge nodes, and the cloud…