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Gaia-X Enters Season 2.0 of Data Spaces & Digital Ecosystems​

• Building on the progress of recent years, including 15+ European data spaces, advancing standards, supportive legislation, and maturing federated tooling, Gaia-X is now entering Season Two: a phase focused on consolidation, scale, and operational impact.​
• The priority is to deliver operational, sustainable, and fully federated data spaces that can drive Europe’s industrial competitiveness and drive its future AI leadership—all grounded in trust, interoperability, and digital sovereignty.​
• Data4NuclearX and Decade-X showcased this evolution in practice, demonstrating how strategic sectors such as nuclear energy and aeronautics are already operationalising the Gaia-X Trust Framework to secure their digital futures.​
• As data spaces expand across manufacturing, aerospace, nuclear energy, health, and other strategic domains, Gaia-X now provides the technical and governance mechanisms that allow these ecosystems to interoperate confidently and transparently.

The result: trust becomes automated, ​sovereignty becomes actionable, ​and Europe’s digital future can be built on solid, shared foundations.

Gaia-X Trust Framework 3.0 – “Danube” Release: ​

• The updated Architecture Document (AD) and the new Danube software components define and implement a unified extensibility mechanism that allows arbitrary ecosystem rulebooks to be automated in a technically compatible way. It also enables extended identification schemes, which together provide the technical basis for true cross-ecosystem trust. With this, we are no longer talking about isolated compliance regimes. We are enabling – for the first time ever – a federation of interoperable digital ecosystems.​
• The Compliance Document (CD) delivers new functionality designed to reduce complexity and support scalable descriptions of digital services. The Gaia-X Trust Framework powers this vision by providing verifiable identities, compliance mechanisms, and digital clearing houses that ensure sovereignty, transparency, and cross-border recognition. ​
• Data Space Governance Authorities (DSGAs) can define their own rules, “Bring Your Own Rules” (BYOR), enabling automated compliance with sector-specific or regional regulations.

This framework supports cross-sector ecosystems,​ from mobility and energy to smart cities and manufacturing, ​enabling automated compliance, secure identity management, and seamless service orchestration, ultimately making data sovereignty practical and accessible on users’ own terms.

The Catalogue of Gaia-X Compliant Services on the Market ​

Label Level 3 – First Verified Services Available​

• Highlights how a growing number of services and providers are embracing Gaia-X principles of transparency, interoperability, and trust.​
• From cloud infrastructure to domain-specific data services, the catalogue illustrates how companies can increasingly choose solutions aligned with European values of sovereignty, openness, and verifiable trust, such as Cloud Temple, Thésée DataCenter, OPIQUAD, OVHcloud, and Seeweb, which are the first 5providers with Gaia-X Label level 3 services.​

Launch of a new international hub​

• Gaia-X Hub Digital Trust Canada (DTC), expanding global collaboration.

✨ Summit Theme & Vision

• “Digital Ecosystems in Action”– The official tagline highlighting the real-world impact of data spaces and digital collaboration.
• “AI Meets Trust”– A guiding narrative for #Summit25 discussions, emphasising trust as the foundation for AI innovation across Europe and beyond.

 

🤖 AI & Data Interoperability

• Pioneering Data Space Projects: Two strategic sectors — aerospace and nuclear — are building their digital future on the Gaia-X Trust Framework.
• Generative AI for data interoperability: Showcasing the first approaches of AI’s contribution to solving the semantic interoperability challenges within data spaces (Gaia-X Institute).
• Tools for Data Spaces & Digital Ecosystems: A comprehensive set of tools available to build and scale digital ecosystems and data spaces.

 

🔐 Trust & Governance

• Gaia-X Trust Framework 3.0 – “Danube” Release: Introduction of the first extensibility mechanisms for domain and geographic expansion, allowing the automation of arbitrary ecosystem rulebooks in a technically compatible manner.
• Gaia-X Catalogue of Catalogues: A live showcase of navigating Gaia-X-compliant ecosystems and their services currently on the market.

 

🌍 European & Global Collaboration

• Driving internationalisation through the identification of region-specific regulations, opportunities, and best practices.
• Portuguese Projects Spotlight: Featuring national success stories contributing to the European data ecosystem.
• Gaia-X Hubs Focus: Updates from national hubs advancing regional implementation.

 

📈 Strategic & Economic Outlook

• Data Spaces Ready to Deliver: Demonstrating operational readiness across sectors.
• Evaluate your data-sharing project through the economic model developed by Paris Dauphine University, which distinguishes between the roles of participants and orchestrators within data-sharing ecosystems.

 

🔮 Looking Ahead

• • Eyes on Tomorrow: A visionary keynote to close the summit, setting direction for the future of digital ecosystems — delivered by Catherine Jestin (Gaia-X Chairwoman, Airbus) and Mario Campolargo (Gaia-X Independent Board).