📋 Tender Overview
All eleven GAIA X projects that the Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection (BMWK) funded were concluded with application-related results. As planned, the funded teams have developed trustworthy data rooms and smart services for various industries. The areas of education, finance, health, construction, mobility, aviation and space travel, maritimes and the public sector were represented. The promotion of the eleven GAIA X projects amounted to around 132 million euros by 2025. The Federal Network Agency carried out the GAIA X promotion competition on behalf of the BMWK.
The applications and data spaces developed in the composite projects have a high potential for exploitation. For example, data rooms were developed in which patient data can be used safely and efficiently for scientific purposes. A project in construction has promoted the digitization of construction planning and approval processes. The multilingual AI language model Teuken-7b was developed and published in a cross-application project. It enables sensitive company data or personal data to be used according to the highest European data protection and security standards.
The projects are now working on making their results usable over the end of the term and transferring them to further industries and applications. The resulting data rooms and smart services create new opportunities to safely exchange data - for companies and organizations, but also for consumers. This enables data -based business models that are transparent and safe and always leave citizens control of their data.
GAIA-X is an open framework for building up a competitive and trustworthy data infrastructure for Europe. The goal is a digital data ecosystem in which data can be shared and linked to each other via open interfaces according to defined EU standards. The result is not a new cloud infrastructure, but a federated system of data in which many different cloud providers and data owners can connect based on common standards.
For reading BMWK (01.04.2025): GAIA-X projects for European data infrastructure successfully completed
Source:
BMWK
Editor:
04.04.2025
By Luis Franke, VDI Technology Center GmbH
Countries / organizations:
Germany
EU
Topics:
Financial support
Information and communication
Infrastructure
