Discover in the recap how the FACIS event on 24.11.2025 in Berlin advanced Europe’s digital sovereignty with a unified framework for multi-provider Service Level Agreements.
New Call for Tenders
FACIS, a project of the 8ra initiative, launches five new tenders for November 2025 – inviting contributions to Europe’s secure and interoperable digital future.
Emma Wehrwein’s Talk at “Frau macht Digital” on Europe’s Digital Future
At Frau macht Digital in Frankfurt, Emma Wehrwein, FACIS project lead, revealed why collaboration, trust, and open systems are the keys to Europe’s true digital sovereignty.
Press Release | FACIS Launches First Call for Tenders for Digital Contracting Service (DCS)
FACIS, part of EU initiative 8ra, is launching its first public call for tenders and is looking for partners to implement the technical specifications that has have already been developed for the Digital Contracting Service (DCS).
FACIS complements LEAM in Powering Europe’s Digital Infrastructure for AI
With the recently started project LEAM, another lighthouse project for high performance European digital ecosystems and AI innovation has started. The session with Ernst Stöckl-Pukall and Henrik Schunk, moderated by Andreas Weiss at the TechRiders Festival on 3 July 2025, showed the relevance of 8ra and Manufacturing-X to scale AI, supported by LEAM deliverables. LEAM demonstrates how open-source technology can foster secure and sovereign AI models, scalable digital infrastructure, and industry business cases in Europe.
Workshop Day in Frankfurt | 10 June 2025 | Recap
The FACIS community met in Frankfurt to actively shape joint standards and elaborate new services for multi-cloud ecosystems. Find out more!
Finding a Common SLA Language | #1 Workshop Recap on Joint SLA Governance for Service Providers
What are the key factors in developing multi-provider SLAs that are suitable for federated infrastructure and business services? This was the central question of the first FACIS workshop in Cologne.
Press Release: eco Association to Lead the New 8ra FACIS Project
Eco leads the FACIS project management to advance open-source, interoperability, and Europe’s federated cloud-edge infrastructure.