Driving Sovereign Cloud and AI Innovation Through Strategic Initiatives
Innovation Priorities
Use Cases
Industry Alliances
Partners
Innovation Priorities
We’re actively involved in a range of collaborative initiatives led by industry, research, and public sector partners, focused on advancing cloud, edge, and AI technologies. Within these programs, we contribute to the development of sovereign and next-generation infrastructure for enterprises, telecom operators, and public sector organizations.
These initiatives range from large-scale European programs to focused technology validation projects, helping transform research and collaboration into production-ready solutions and validated architectures.
- Active Projects
- Completed Projects
IPCEI-CIS | 8ra
(2025-2028)
European programme involving 12+ Member States and 100+ partners, advancing sovereign cloud-edge technologies.
Role: Direct Participant & Chairing Company of the Industry Facilitation Group
Program: NextGenerationEU / UNICO IPCEI (Spanish Government)
Budget: 1.2 billion EU
O-CEI
(2025-2028)
European initiative driving the adoption of advanced energy optimization solutions to strengthen competitiveness and strategic autonomy.
Role: Participant
Program: HORIZON-CL4-2024
Budget: 23,140,063 EUR
NEXUSFORUM
(2024-2026)
European initiative strengthening collaboration between industry, research, and policy stakeholders in the cloud-edge ecosystem.
Role: Participant
Program: Horizon Europe
Budget: 1,999,500 EUR
CISERO
(2024-2026)
Coordination and Support Action enabling the adoption and exploitation of IPCEI-CIS outcomes across the European cloud and edge ecosystem.
Role: ParticipantProgram: Digital EuropeBudget: 2,992,215 EUR
EMERALD
(2023-2026)
Cybersecurity-focused project enabling continuous compliance and certification of cloud services through automated evidence management.
Role: Participant
Program: Horizon Europe
Budget: 5,498,900 EUR
CASANDRA
(2025-2028)
Industrial innovation project developing intelligent and autonomous manufacturing through digital twins and distributed data integration.
Role: Participant
Program: CDTI Transmisiones
Budget: 871,152 EUR
6G-SANDBOX
(2023-2025)
European experimental platform supporting validation of next-generation 5G and 6G technologies through modular, cloud-native infrastructure.
Role: Participant
Program: SNS Joint Undertaking
Budget: 8,546,551 EUR
COGNIT
(2023-2025)
Research and innovation project focused on developing an AI-powered Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) framework for the cloud-edge continuum.
Role: Project Coordinator
Program: Horizon Europe
Budget: 5,962,092 EUR
ONEedge5G
(2024-2025)
Industrial research initiative advancing AI-powered, zero-touch orchestration for scalable, low-latency 5G-Advanced edge computing.
Role: Single Beneficiary
Program: UNICO i+D 6G
Budget: 1,840,000 EUR
ADV 5G TWN
(2023-2025)
Innovation project aiming to build a 6G laboratory for real-time industrial digital twins using advanced IoT, edge/cloud computing, and AI/ML.
Role: Contracted by UPV to execute a part of the integrated project
Program: UNICO I+D 6G
Budget: 121,000 EUR
CLOUDLESS
(2023-2025)
Initiative developing a decentralized platform for secure, event-driven data sharing across the cloud-edge continuum.
Role: Contracted by UC3M to execute a part of the integrated project
Program: CLOUDLESS: Edge information computing platform
Budget: 2,351,607.14 EUR
6G-ENABLERS
(2023-2024)
European research project advancing AI-driven 5G/6G automation, secure service ecosystems, and cloud-edge orchestration.
Role: Contracted by I2CAT to execute a part of the integrated project
Program: UNICO I+D 6G
Budget: 324,824.50 EUR
6G-EDGEDT
(2022-2024)
European research program building an ecosystem for Massive Digital Twinning at the hyper-distributed network edge for B5G/6G networks.
Role: Contracted by UC3M to execute a part of the integrated project
Program: UNICO I+D 6G
Budget: 239,731.25 EUR
ONEedge
(2019-2022)
Innovation program advancing OpenNebula with vendor-neutral multi-cloud and edge capabilities for unified infrastructure management.
Role: Single Beneficiary
Program: EIC Accelerator
Budget: 2,143,735 EUR
Helix Nebula
(2016-2018)
European cloud computing project enabling large-scale e-science through distributed cloud infrastructures and pilot applications.
Role: Technology Provider
Program: Horizon 2020
Budget: 6,770,127 EUR
BEACON
(2015-2017)
European research and innovation project advancing technologies for cloud federation and multi-cloud networking.
Role: Task Leader
Program: Horizon 2020
Budget: 435,625 EUR
Innovative Use Cases
We’re collaborating with many companies in multiple industries to solve the technological challenges of incorporating edge resources and microDCs as part of their corporate infrastructures and services, and of defining innovative business models and go-to-market strategies.
Telecom/5G
Helping telco operators meet their multi-access edge computing, RAN, and NFV requirements.
Manufacturing
Implementing Industry 4.0 strategies using smart and energy-efficient on-premise IoT/edge resources.
Transportation
Managing the secure deployment of edge applications on resource-constrained, mobile enviroments.
Energy
Supporting new business cases implemented by green cloud/edge infrastructure providers.
FTTx
Helping connectivity providers design and commercialize new Edge-as-a-Service solutions.
Home & Retail
Solving the challenges of managing hundreds of thousands of highly-distributed IoT/edge locations.
Industry Alliances
OpenNebula participates in key industry alliances that promote interoperability, open standards, and sovereign digital infrastructure.
Innovation Partners
These are some of the companies and organizations we collaborate with across strategic initiatives and industry projects.
Contact Us
Interested in collaborating on sovereign cloud and AI initiatives? Get in touch with our team.