Value proposition

Digital and green transitions of the European manufacturing sector through beyond 5G-enabled technologies and innovation

Zero-enabling smart networked control framework for agile cyber physical production systems of systems (Zero-SWARM), is a project with a total public private investment of almost €10 million launched on the 1st June 2022, aiming to accelerate the uptake of advanced 5G technologies by European manufacturing sector. The project mission is to achieve climate neutral and digitized production via a multidisciplinary, human centric, objective oriented innovative approach resulting in technical solutions for open swarm framework, non-public 5G network, active information continuum and digital twin. In essence, it establishes a unique forum where separately maturing technologies of 5G and cloud-edge continuum, data technologies and analysis (including data spaces and GAIA-X) and operational technology (automation and agility) break their siloes to co-design and co-create through 10 trials.

Zero-SWARM in line with the European Union prioritizes such as the Green Deal and A Europe fit for the digital age brings together 27 organizations from 10 European countries with complementary expertise and skills. The project partners are, CERTH from Greece; Huawei, Luleå University of Technology, from Sweden; ABB, Visual Components, AALTO University, from Finland; nxtControl from Austria; Reepack, Technology Transfer System, Research Wings, Nextworks, from Italy; SICK, Opticoms, EICe, Fraunhofer, RWTH Aachen University, SMS Digital, International Data Spaces Association, from Germany; Accelleran from Belgium; Ubiwhere from Portugal; FundingBox from Poland; AIMEN, Innovalia, S21Sec, i2CAT, Universidad Miguel Hernández, Neutroon, from Spain.

The consortium aims to contribute to the consolidation of Europe’s leading role on sustainable data-driven manufacturing arena, paving the way for boosting the European innovation capacity and creating new market opportunities.