COP-PILOT

ICAERUS UC2 Drone Spraying 2nd Demonstration Event
2025-11-06 | Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Agricultural University of Athens Showcases Smart Farming Innovations at the 2nd ICAERUS Demonstration Event
Agricultural University of Athens (AUA) attended the 2nd ICAERUS EU Demonstration Event in Athens, as an important step in promoting collaboration and knowledge exchange among European agri-tech projects.
During the event, Georgios Ntakos, from the Smart Farming Technology Group – AUA, presented the group’s contributions to COP-PILOT Cluster 3A, highlighting advancements in autonomous navigation, real-time weed detection, and precision spraying using an Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) platform. These innovations, including the AI models and navigation systems developed by AUA, will play a key role in enhancing the sustainability and efficiency of modern agriculture within the COP-PILOT ecosystem.
The ICAERUS Demonstration Event successfully showcased the latest innovations in agricultural robotics and digital technologies, providing participants with hands-on insights into how robotic systems, UAVs, and autonomous platforms are transforming modern farming, from precision spraying to data-driven field management.
The event also served as a vital clustering and dissemination opportunity, strengthening collaboration between EU-funded agri-tech initiatives, including SPADE, OpenAgri, AgRibot, AgRimate, Climate Farm Demo, and Smart Droplets. Through this joint effort, the European research community continues to drive shared innovation towards a smarter, more connected, and sustainable agricultural future.

Web Summit 2025
2025-11-09 - 2025-11-12 | Lisbon, Portugal
COP-PILOT was represented at Web Summit 2025 by project partner Instituto Pedro Nunes (IPN), one of Europe’s leading innovation and technology transfer centres.
During the event, IPN hosted a dedicated stand where they engaged with a wide range of companies, innovators, and technology stakeholders. As part of these interactions, COP-PILOT promotional materials were distributed, helping raise awareness of the project’s objectives, Collaborative Open Platform approach, and upcoming opportunities among relevant industry audiences.
Participation in Web Summit 2025 supported COP-PILOT’s dissemination and outreach goals, strengthening visibility within the international innovation ecosystem and fostering connections with potential future collaborators.

Agrifood Innovation Workshop during Festival dell’Innovazione Agroalimentare
2025-11-10 - 2025-11-13 | Online
University Tor Vergata to Showcase Smart Sensor Technology at Agrifood Innovation Workshop
The University Tor Vergata (TOR), partner in Cluster 3A, will participate in the upcoming online Agrifood Innovation Workshop (Festival dell’Innovazione Agroalimentare). TOR will present detailed information on a new wearable smart sensor specifically developed for monitoring antinutrients in vegetables.
This presentation is closely aligned with the strategic goals of the COP-PILOT project, and it will display concrete examples of smart sensor devices that will be integral to the project’s exploitation phase.

ETSI ZSM PoC 16
2025-11-14 | Online
On November 14, 2025, UBITECH, PANEPISTIMIO PATRON (UoP), P-NET, NOVA TELECOMMUNICATIONS, and TELEFONICA INNOVACION DIGITAL (TID), all partners across both COP-PILOT and ACROSS projects, will participate in the ETSI ZSM PoC 16 online webinar. During this open event, PoC 16, approved on September 9, 2025, will be showcased to the ETSI ZSM community.
This PoC delivers important features of the COP-PILOT platform via open-source contributions to ETSI OSL, TFS, OSM, and the Maestro service orchestration platform (all of which are part of the COP-PILOT platform) with regards to: (i) automatically expanding the platform to new private domains, (ii) co-provisioning complex end-user services with dynamically crafted compute and 5G network capabilities, and (iii) proactively ensuring the SLAs of these services via a closed-loop among Telemetry, Analytics, and Automation platform services.
This PoC underscores COP-PILOT’s commitment to scalable, automated, and reliable service delivery across multiple sectors.

ICTC 2025
2025-11-15 - 2025-11-16 | Jeju Island, Korea, Democratic People's Republic of
The COP-PILOT project was proudly represented at the International Conference on ICT Convergence (ICTC) 2025, held on 15–16 October in Jeju Island, Korea – a global forum for exploring the future of digital transformation and intelligent networks.
Dr. Jing Li, Associate Director at the University of Bradford, delivered a presentation titled “Key Value Indicators for 6G: Evaluating Economic, Social, Environmental, and Service Quality Impacts through Performance Metrics and Sustainability Assessment.”
Her talk addressed one of the most pressing questions in the transition towards 6G networks: how to measure the true value of next-generation connectivity, not just in terms of performance, but through its economic, social, environmental, and service quality impact.

Dr. Li introduced a framework for mapping Key Value Indicators (KVIs) to Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) across multiple industry verticals. The proposed model integrates technical performance, societal value, and environmental sustainability, helping policymakers, researchers, and industry stakeholders ensure that future networks deliver net-positive outcomes across all dimensions.
In addition, Dr. Li participated in the panel discussion “AI for 6G and Beyond: Intelligent Networks and Digital Twin Synergies,” contributing to debates on how AI-driven analytics and digital twin technologies can unlock intelligent, resilient, and sustainable communication systems.
The discussions were centred on the project’s desired impact and its evaluation framework from non-technical perspectives, in line with COP-PILOT’s objective to enhance the sustainability, societal, and business impact of next-generation IoT and edge computing services across various domains.

EuroTech Day 2025
2025-11-18 | Peso da Regua, Portugal
On 18 November 2025, Terraview and OneSource will jointly perform the first demo activity under COP-PILOT’s Cluster 4, at the EuroTech Day 2025 conference.
The demo will showcase Use Case 4.2 (Water Utilisation Efficiency) and marks the first integration of the Terraview and Onesource domains, demonstrating cross-domain interoperability using COP-PILOT.
The demonstration will feature a live integration of soil and weather sensor data into the Terraview analytics platform, developed in collaboration with COP-PILOT. It will illustrate how real-time environmental data can enhance precision agriculture through advanced analytics, interoperability, and automation.
This constitutes a piloting activity within COP-PILOT, showcasing the platform’s ability to support seamless IoT data management, application onboarding, and infrastructure orchestration. The demonstration integrates key COP-PILOT technologies, including FIWARE-based data management, OpenSlice orchestration, SIF-secured inter-domain communication, and Maestro.
Together, these components exemplify how COP-PILOT enables interoperable, scalable, and secure digital solutions in precision agriculture.

V2G Leaders event
2025-11-20 | Brussels, Belgium
COP-PILOT Cluster 3E Successfully Showcases Energy Ambitions at V2G Leaders Europe Event
On November 20th, COP-PILOT consortium partners from Cluster 3E and from Digital for Planet (D4P) attended the high-profile V2G Leaders Europe event in Brussels.
The team actively promoted their work via a dedicated stand and poster, engaging with cross-sector leaders in Energy, Mobility, and Digital. A core objective of the showcase was to explore and discuss the integration of Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) and bidirectional charging technologies within the Cluster 3E framework.
This engagement demonstrated how COP-PILOT’s energy initiatives directly support key European priorities, particularly the drive for enhanced interoperability, flexibility, and resilience in energy infrastructure.
The COP-PILOT team also successfully connected with important complementary initiatives, including O-CEI Horizon and #CEISphere, fostering future collaboration opportunities in the energy sector.

IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference 2026
2026-01-09 - 2026-01-12 | Las Vegas, United States
From 9–12 January 2026, OneSource (ONE) will participate in the IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC) 2026, held in Las Vegas, NV, USA. At this flagship IEEE event, which brings together leading researchers, industry experts, and practitioners in communications, networking, and consumer technologies, ONE will present the paper “Resource-and-Latency-Aware PSO — A Novel Algorithm for Intelligent and Contextual Cloud-Native Resource Scheduling.” In addition, ONE will deliver a live demonstration titled “RALA-PSO: Intelligent Scheduling of Cloud-Native Applications.”
The presented work directly contributes to the COP-PILOT project’s objectives on intelligent orchestration across distributed and heterogeneous infrastructures. The proposed Resource-and-Latency-Aware PSO (RALA-PSO) algorithm introduces a context-aware scheduling mechanism that optimises resource allocation and latency in edge-to-cloud environments, a core area of innovation within COP-PILOT and proactive SLA mechanisms.
Participation in IEEE CCNC 2026, a premier IEEE event bringing together global leaders in communications, networking, and consumer technologies, provides a significant platform for disseminating COP-PILOT’s research to both academic and industrial audiences. Beyond technical dissemination, participation in CCNC 2026 strengthens COP-PILOT’s international visibility and positions COP-PILOT as a contributor to the evolution of next-generation IoT and edge-to-cloud orchestration frameworks.

ITF Automationsdagar 2026
2026-02-03 - 2026-02-04 | Sollentuna, Sweden
Automationsdagarna (Automation Days), organised by Instrumenttekniska Föreningen, brought together industry experts to discuss the future of industrial automation and to award Sweden’s annual Automation Award. At the event, Predge AB was represented by Wolfgang Birk, who delivered an invited talk on “Predictive Maintenance and the industrialization perspective.”
In his presentation, Wolfgang Birk examined why predictive maintenance, despite its promise to improve efficiency and reduce costs, still faces challenges in large-scale industrial deployment. He highlighted the role of digitalisation and integrated condition-monitoring data as key prerequisites and discussed how technological and human factors often limit broader adoption. As part of the talk, the COP-PILOT use case UC1.3 was presented to illustrate current limitations and to demonstrate how COP-PILOT technologies can support improved scalability, reliability, and more flexible integration of industrial data sources.
Wolfgang Birk also participated in a panel discussion addressing the growing shortage of expert staff in industry. The discussion explored how AI and advanced automation solutions can help mitigate this challenge, particularly as experienced professionals retire and fewer young specialists enter the field. In this context, increasing automation in areas such as system roll-out, data integration, and solution management, key aspects reflected in COP-PILOT UC1.3, were highlighted as an important step toward more resilient and scalable industrial operations.

PatrasIQ 2026
2026-02-27 - 2026-03-01 | Patra, Greece
At the end of February 2026, partners from the University of Patras and P-NET participated in PatrasIQ, a major annual exhibition dedicated to innovation and technology transfer that brings together universities, research centres, and industry to showcase cutting-edge research and foster collaboration. Held in Patras, Greece, the event gathered regional, national, and international exhibitors from multiple sectors.
During the three-day exhibition, the team presented COP-PILOT Horizon at the Patras5G stand, highlighting the project’s mission, platform architecture, and the integration of its technical clusters. The presentation emphasized how COP-PILOT enables cross-sector applications through a unified framework for onboarding, orchestration, and management across the Edge-Cloud continuum. The demonstrations attracted strong interest from visitors and industry stakeholders, generating discussions on the role of interoperable platforms in advancing connectivity and supporting scalable digital innovation across sectors.

NorthStar Community Meeting on March 11–12
2026-03-11 - 2026-03-12 | Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
On 11 March, ThingWave AB participated in the NorthStar Community Meeting at Luleå University of Technology in Sweden, where it presented an early prototype developed within the COP-PILOT Horizon Europe project.
The demonstration showcased how COP-PILOT technologies are being applied to improve safety in underground mining environments. The prototype implemented a geofencing concept, where data from a ThingWave RBM-XR bolt sensor triggered physical visual alerts to enhance hazard awareness.
During the live demonstration, CEO Jens Eliasson simulated load and elongation on the instrumented rock bolt. The sensor data was used in real time to control an LED strip, visually indicating risk levels within the geofenced area. As stress increased, the lighting changed from green to yellow and then to red, providing an immediate and intuitive warning of potentially dangerous conditions.
This use case illustrates how COP-PILOT integrates Industrial IoT, sensing technologies, and advanced connectivity such as 5G to deliver real-time monitoring and early warning systems. The demonstration highlighted the project’s role in advancing smart, connected safety solutions for industrial environments, particularly in high-risk sectors such as underground mining.

Agrotica
2026-03-12 - 2026-03-15 | Thessaloniki, Greece
Our partners from AgroApps participated in the 31st Agrotica, the largest biennial agricultural trade fair in Greece and one of the top five agricultural exhibitions in Europe, bringing together thousands of professionals, companies, and innovators from across the agricultural sector.
During the four days of the exhibition in Thessaloniki, the AgroApps team presented COP-PILOT at their stand, highlighting the project’s mission and showcasing the opportunities offered through the COP-PILOT Open Call.

The team also emphasized the ongoing work in Cluster 3A, led by AgroApps, focusing on the development of a Collaborative Open Platform that will enable different technologies to operate as one system, helping farmers manage a unified digital environment and integrate IoT, edge computing, and robotics.

Jornadas Técnicas | Wine Next Generation
2026-03-19 | Vilafranca del Penedès, Spain
COP-PILOT at Wine Next Generation Technical Days
JIG, our partner in COP-PILOT Cluster 4, participated in the Wine Next Generation Technical Days at the Hub de Digitalización y Vino – FEV, organized by the Spanish Wine Federation.
During the event, JIG presented the COP-PILOT project and showcased the Pilot 4.1 demonstration, engaging with wineries and technology companies. The sessions provided valuable insights and comprehensive feedback on the project’s functionality, security, and practical utility, supporting the ongoing development and refinement of the Cluster 4 solutions for smarter, more sustainable viticulture.

Bridge General Assembly 2026
2026-03-23 - 2026-03-24 | Brussels, Belgium
COP-PILOT at the BRIDGE General Assembly 2026
COP-PILOT attended the BRIDGE General Assembly 2026 as an observer project, represented by Digital for Planet and Nova Telecommunications. During the event, the team actively participated in the Consumer and Citizen Engagement and Business Models working groups, moderating two sessions and sharing updates on ongoing activities.
The project also promoted its 1st Open Call, distributing leaflets and flyers to attendees, including project coordinators and European Commission representatives, to raise awareness and encourage submissions.

Open Community for Research (OCR) 2026
2026-04-23 | Brussels, Belgium
Special workshop:
Open‑Source Strategies for Europe’s Sovereign Digital Infrastructure – Striving for industrial European open-source platforms

The COP-PILOT Horizon project will participate in the Open Community for Research 2026, a two-day event co-located with the Open Community Experience 2026, organised by the Eclipse Foundation. The event brings together researchers, industry representatives, and policymakers to explore how open-source collaboration can accelerate the translation of research into scalable, interoperable digital solutions.
Rolf Riemenschneider, Project Officer for both O-CEI Horizon and COP-PILOT Horizon, will share insights on the policy and strategic importance of open-source ecosystems for Europe’s digital sovereignty. His presentation will highlight how collaborative development models, standards-driven platforms, and open-source infrastructures contribute to building a sovereign European software stack that supports innovation, interoperability, and secure cross-sector data exchange.
George Katsikas, COP-PILOT’s Technical Coordinator, will provide a detailed introduction to the project, presenting the vision for a Pan-European standardized marketplace of services across five heterogeneous vertical sectors. He will explain the open-source reference architecture underpinning the project, covering telco, cloud, edge, and AI domains, and demonstrate how the COP-PILOT platform maps to this architecture. His talk will also highlight how COP-PILOT is laying the foundation for future European flagship initiatives, such as Euro-3C, and contributing to the long-term development of interoperable, standards-based European digital infrastructures.
Through these presentations, COP-PILOT will showcase how open-source collaboration, a standardized platform approach, and cross-sector integration are key to driving sustainable innovation and digital sovereignty in Europe.

CEI-Sphere Open Consultation on Industrial Optimisation & Productivity
2026-04-27 09:00 - 10:30 (Europe/Paris) | Online
On 27 April 2026, the COP-PILOT project will participate in the CEI-Sphere open consultation on Industrial Optimisation & Productivity, organised by INSIDE Industry Association.
CEI-Sphere brings together three complementary domains (Industry, Energy, and Mobility) to foster collaboration across Europe’s Cloud-Edge-IoT ecosystem. Within the Industry sphere, INSIDE is convening this consultation to engage key stakeholders from large-scale initiatives such as COP-PILOT Horizon and O-CEI Horizon.
The session aims to explore the challenges and opportunities associated with the commercial adoption of Cloud-Edge-IoT (CEI) solutions emerging from Europe’s Large-Scale Pilots. A particular focus will be placed on strengthening the Edge-to-Cloud Continuum (E2CC) and identifying key gaps, barriers, and future priorities for scaling industrial uptake.
Through its participation, COP-PILOT will share insights from its pilot activities and contribute to discussions with ecosystem stakeholders, supporting the development of a more open, competitive, and innovation-driven European CEI landscape.

Digivit 2026
2026-04-29 - 2026-04-30 | Lerma, Spain
JIG will take part in the session “Digital Winery and Fermentation 4.0” at DIGIVIT 2026, presenting the COP-PILOT Horizon project. The presentation will outline the project’s objectives, JIG’s role, and how digital innovation can drive sustainability and efficiency in the wine sector.

DATA-Introduction of ETSI SDGs to TC DATA and Presentation from SDG OpenSlice
2026-05-05 | Online
UBITECH presented its contribution to the COP-PILOT project, focusing on extending ETSI SDG OpenSlice to enable data-aware, secure multi-domain orchestration for telco-edge environments. During the presentation, Georgios P. Katsikas from UBITECH discussed the evolving compute–network–data continuum and highlighted the need to bridge the gap between orchestration platforms and data space ecosystems.
The presentation described OpenSlice as a Telco Edge–ready orchestration platform capable of multi-domain service orchestration with built-in security and extensibility through pluggable controllers. A key focus was integrating “data-awareness” into orchestration processes, enabling data services to be dynamically combined with compute and network resources while respecting policy and data-sharing constraints across domains.
COP-PILOT was presented as a large-scale European initiative where OpenSlice plays a central architectural role in supporting federated orchestration across multiple vertical sectors, including smart cities, energy, agriculture, manufacturing, and mining. The presentation also highlighted the project’s distributed marketplace of orchestration services and its use of federated data infrastructures and secure networking technologies to enable policy-driven and secure data exchange across domains.
For more information, read this article.

Privacy-Enhancing Technologies for Information Security in Edge-Cloud Applications
2026-05-19 14:30 - 16:00 | Online
As Cloud–Edge–IoT (CEI) ecosystems continue to evolve across Europe’s digital landscape, the need to securely share, process, and govern data across distributed environments has become a central challenge. While edge computing strengthens local data control and confidentiality, many advanced applications still require cross-domain data exchange and aggregation to deliver meaningful insights and ensure operational efficiency.
In this context, Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs) are increasingly recognised as a key enabler for reconciling data usability with data protection, sovereignty, and trust. By embedding security and privacy mechanisms directly into system architectures, PETs support a “security and privacy by design” approach for next-generation digital infrastructures. However, their real-world adoption requires careful integration of technical, regulatory, and application-specific considerations.
COP-PILOT Horizon will contribute to the upcoming CEI-Sphere webinar, joining forces with O-CEI Horizon and other leading initiatives to explore how these challenges are being addressed in practice within large-scale, operational environments.
The project will share insights from its Large-Scale Pilot activities, highlighting hands-on experience in deploying CEI solutions across complex, multi-actor ecosystems. These experiences will illustrate how secure data sharing, interoperability, and trust can be achieved in real-world conditions, beyond theoretical frameworks.
The webinar will feature:

A presentation of a PET study developed by Fraunhofer ISST, providing a structured approach for selecting and implementing PET strategies in edge–cloud systems
Practical insights from the COP-PILOT and O-CEI Large-Scale Pilots, showcasing real-world deployment experiences in CEI environments
A panel discussion on secure, scalable, and trustworthy Cloud–Edge–IoT architectures supporting Europe’s digital transformation

By bridging research and deployment experience, COP-PILOT aims to contribute to a deeper understanding of how PETs can be effectively implemented to enable secure collaboration, data sovereignty, and innovation across distributed infrastructures.
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Euro Mine Expo 2026
2026-05-26 - 2026-05-28 | Skellefteå, Sweden
OSCH Group, partner in Cluster 1 – Industry (Mining), will attend Euro Mine Expo 2026. On this occasion, HOSCH Group will represent COP-PILOT through the following activities:

Communicating COP-PILOT’s objectives and the progress of Cluster 1 use cases to mining industry professionals and technology stakeholders
• Engaging with industry representatives to gather market insights and technological feedback
• Distributing promotional and informational materials about the project and its collaborative open platform
• Identifying potential adopters, follow-on collaboration opportunities, and relevant stakeholders for ongoing dissemination activities

Euro Mine Expo is a highly relevant venue for Cluster 1, given its strong focus on mining technologies and its proximity to the region where COP-PILOT pilots are being deployed.

Code the Continuum Hackathon
2026-06-30 - 2026-07-01 | Cagliari, Italy
COP-PILOT Horizon, together with the Eclipse Foundation, CEI-Sphere, and O-CEI Horizon, will co-organize the Code the Continuum Hackathon, taking place on 30 June–1 July 2026 at the University of Cagliari.
The event will bring together students, developers, researchers, innovators, and open-source communities to collaborate on practical challenges across the cloud–edge–IoT continuum. Participants will engage in hands-on activities linked to key domains such as energy, mobility, and industry, working with real use cases and pilot environments.
The hackathon will provide a collaborative space for experimentation, knowledge exchange, and the exploration of open technologies, interoperability, and reusable solutions across large-scale pilots. Further details on thematic tracks and participation will be announced soon.
Through this initiative, COP-PILOT aims to foster cross-community collaboration, promote open-source innovation, and support the development of interoperable solutions within Europe’s evolving computing continuum ecosystem.
Register here to attend.

DIGITAL 2026
2026-07-05 - 2026-07-09 | Nice, France
COP-PILOT at DIGITAL 2026 – Special Track on Digital Inclusion and Societal Participation (DISP)
COP-PILOT Horizon will co-organise, together with the 6G-VERSUS and SUSTAIN-6G Horizon Europe projects, the Special Track on Digital Inclusion and Societal Participation (DISP) at DIGITAL 2026: Advances on Societal Digital Transformation, taking place from 5–9 July 2026 in Nice, France. The track is chaired by Dr. Amizan Omar (University of Bradford).
The DISP track provides a dedicated forum to explore how emerging digital infrastructures (such as edge computing, IoT, and AI-orchestrated platforms, including those developed within COP-PILOT) shape the conditions for societal participation. It moves beyond traditional notions of digital inclusion to critically examine structural dynamics such as data representation, access asymmetries, and the societal implications of large-scale digital deployments.
From a COP-PILOT perspective, the track is directly aligned with the project’s vision of interoperable, cross-domain platforms. It investigates how advanced digital ecosystems influence civic engagement, equity, and justice in increasingly automated environments, and how these systems can be designed to better reflect diverse societal needs.
The track welcomes contributions from researchers, innovators, and practitioners addressing topics such as inclusive digital transformation, societal impacts of future networks, digital inequalities, responsible AI, participatory approaches, and sustainability in digital innovation.

Submission deadline: 1 May 2026
More information and submissions: https://www.iariasubmit.org/conferences/submit/newcontribution.php?event=DIGITAL+2026+Specia|
Conference: DIGITAL 2026
Track details: DISP.pdf
