Brussels, Belgium – 24 March 2025 – Gaia-X, in collaboration with Gaia-X Hub Germany, NTT (NTT Communications and NTT DATA), Fujitsu, T-Systems, deltaDAO, COOPERANTS and Dataspace4Health, will showcase groundbreaking cross-border data collaboration initiatives at Hannover Messe 2025, Hamburg, Germany, 31 March – 4 April 2025. This initiative highlights how Japanese and European companies work together to establish trusted data exchange frameworks that enhance interoperability and drive digital transformation.
As part of the International Open Forum on Data Society, T-Systems, NTT DATA, and Fujitsu are collaborating with various stakeholders to develop a platform that connects European and Japanese Trust Anchors. Utilising Gaia-X Digital Clearing Houses, these companies are prototyping solutions that facilitate seamless and secure data exchange across borders.
Gaia-X and industry leaders drive disruptive innovations in secure data ecosystems, global supply chain collaboration, and sustainability-driven manufacturing. By leveraging trusted digital identity solutions, cross-border data exchange, and real-time machine connectivity, they are transforming industries, enhancing interoperability, and enabling more efficient, secure, and sustainable operations worldwide.
Gaia-X Event Highlights at Hannover Messe 2025
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Enabling Global Data Exchange: Connecting Continents for Seamless Supply Chains
Digital transformation must align with global supply chains, requiring parallel data chains to mirror multi-tier networks and federation of trust. The Global Trust Anchor initiative, an international collaboration based on International Open Forum on Data Society, is piloting a peer-to-peer dataspace transaction using different trust anchors—one based on the EU’s eIDAS framework and one from Japan. The pilot runs on T-Systems’ Build & Operate dataspace-as-a-service, NTT Communications’ Gaia-X framework and Fujitsu Research’s IDYX-TI technology as a notary service, demonstrating cross-jurisdictional data exchange.
The Future of Tires: Unlocking Sustainability through Data Collaboration
Tire waste is a growing challenge—but what if data could help extend tire lifespan and cut costs? GDSO is pioneering sustainability applications that rely on secure, cross-company data sharing. Discover how a shared dataspace infrastructure—where data providers retain control—delivers enhanced data for powering new applications. Learn how this innovation drives sustainability, reduces waste, and unlocks new business opportunities in mobility.
Dataspace Landscape in Germany
The dataspace landscape in Germany is diverse and rapidly evolving. Since digital sovereignty and the development of data spaces gained significant momentum in 2021 with the founding of the Gaia-X Association, the ecosystem has expanded considerably. Now, four years later, we see a vast array of initiatives, organizations, and projects.
At our booth, we will provide an in-depth presentation on the current dataspace landscape, offering key insights into the most relevant initiatives and their classifications within the broader ecosystem.
First Manufacturing-X Demonstrator: Connecting Machines Globally for Trusted & Sustainable Supply Chains
This demonstrator connects machines across continents using Data Spaces compatible with Gaia-X for secure and trustful data sharing. By tracking Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) values in a Digital Product Passport (DPP), it enables transparency, reduces waste, improves recycling, and ensures regulatory compliance. See how real-time machine data exchange drives efficiency and sustainability—setting a new standard for global, data-driven manufacturing.
COOPERANTS: The Gaia-X Data Ecosystem for Aerospace
COOPERANTS is the collaborative alliance in the aeronautics, space and defence sector that solves pressing data exchange challenges by creating a common, fully Gaia-X compliant data eco-system.
For this purpose, COOPERANTS has created a 100% open source and federated landscape, where each participant stay in full sovereignty of their own data. Newcomers are welcome at any time with very limited effort to get on board! As a result, the aerospace industry will increase the efficiency of data sharing, reduce waste efforts, project costs as well as risks of failure, and lower the barriers to prove innovative digital data services within our federated marketplace.
Dataspace4Health -Empowering Healthcare through Secure Data Sharing
Dataspace4Health, a project led by NTT DATA is revolutionising healthcare by building a secure and interoperable data ecosystem for medical research and patient care. This initiative focuses on enabling seamless and trusted data exchange between healthcare providers, research institutions, and patients, all while ensuring data sovereignty and compliance with stringent privacy regulations. Discover how Dataspace4Health is leveraging Gaia-X principles to facilitate collaborative research, accelerate innovation in personalised medicine, and improve patient outcomes through secure, cross-organizational data sharing. Learn how this platform promotes ethical data usage and empowers patients to control their health data, driving a new era of data-driven healthcare solutions.
Join Gaia-X and its partners in Hall 8, Booth D10, to explore real-world use cases, network with industry leaders, and witness the future of trusted global data collaboration in action.
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About Gaia-X: Gaia-X offers a neutral global digital ecosystem where consumers and providers can conduct business in a trusted, transparent, and secure environment. It provides a competitive alternative to proprietary platforms that impose vendor lock-in and operate in opaque environments regarding data privacy, extraterritorial laws, and security.
Media Contact: Cosmina Gantner, Gaia-X CMO, cosmina.gantner@gaia-x.eu
About Gaia-X Hub Germany: Since its foundation in 2020, the Gaia-X Hub Germany has been the central point of contact for anyone interested in exchanging data in open data ecosystems. Its aim is to support the development of an international data economy that is in line with European values and economic structures. The Gaia-X Hub promotes the development and utilisation of Gaia-X in Germany. As a networking platform, the Hub brings together representatives from science, business, politics and society to exchange experiences, gain insights and jointly put them into practice. More information: https://gaia-x-hub.de/
Media Contact: Manuel Krieg, Communications Officer Gaia-X Hub Germany, gaia-x-presse@acatech.de
About T-Systems: With around 26,000 employees worldwide, locations in over 20 countries and annual sales of approximately EUR 4 billion (2023), T-Systems is one of the leading providers of ICT and digitalisation solutions in Europe. The subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom offers integrated ICT solutions from end to end and thus drives the digital transformation of companies and the public sector. T-Systems is a pioneer at dataspaces since 2018: It is one of the first Gaia-X Digital Clearing Houses. T-Systems provides a core service for Catena-X. And T-Systems runs the operating system for the European Rail Data Space. Find out more: https://dih.telekom.com/en
Media Contact: Kathrin Langkamp, Deutsche Telekom AG, kathrin.langkamp@telekom.de
About deltaDAO AG: deltaDAO AG specialises in building decentralised AI and dataspace ecosystems, focusing on data sovereignty and compliance within the European digital landscape and Gaia-X. deltaDAO has been instrumental in navigating complex data and algorithm-sharing solutions, federating the largest publicly available Gaia-X ecosystem “Pontus-X” (https://www.pontus-x.eu/), and enabling six functional and interoperable Gaia-X Lighthouse projects across the domains space, aerospace, mobility, manufacturing and industry 4.0. deltaDAO is an accredited Gaia-X Clearing House Provider, Gaia-X Member, and offers certified Gaia-X experts.
Media Contact: Kai Meinke, deltaDAO AG, kai@delta-dao.com
About COOPERANTS: With a diverse consortium spanning multiple German states, COOPERANTS (Collaborative Processes and Services for Aeronautics and Space) is driving the digital transformation of the aerospace industry.
The consortium is led by the German Aerospace Center – Space Systems (DLR-RY) and includes major industry players such as Airbus Defence and Space, itemis, and OHB System. SMEs like neusta aerospace, RADIUSMEDIA, ScopeSET, and ZARM Technik contribute their expertise, alongside the startup Valispace. Scientific partners include DLR, the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), the Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology (IWU), and the FZI Research Center for Information Technology.
COOPERANTS is embedded in the initiative of the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection (BMWK) to create innovative and practical applications in the Gaia-X digital ecosystem. The Gaia-X use case “Digital Aeronautics and Space Collaboration Labs,” which was recognised in 2020 as a best practice example in the Industry 4.0/SME domain, laid the foundation for the COOPERANTS lighthouse project, which officially started in early 2022.
Media Contact: Julian Hofhans, julian.hofhans@aviaspace-bremen.de
About Dataspace4Health: Dataspace4Health (D4H) is a project aiming to build a Health Dataspace through interconnecting various stakeholders from the healthcare ecosystem. By creating a secure health dataspace offering Gaia-X compliant services, the project aims to enable new healthcare services and improve patient outcomes. D4H is a collaboration between NTT DATA, Hôpitaux Robert Schuman (HRS), Luxembourg Institute of Health (LIH), the University of Luxembourg, Agence eSanté, and Luxembourg National Data Service (LNDS). The goal is to interconnect various systems from the healthcare sector, offering secure health data to researchers while preserving data ownership and privacy. D4H is based on the EU Strategy for Data and the Gaia-X initiative, which aims to create a federated and secure data infrastructure. This initiative is an innovative step towards the digital transformation of the healthcare sector in Luxembourg and Europe.
Media Contact: Marta Duponselle, marta.duponselle@global.ntt