Discover HaDEA-managed projects at i-ESA 2026

The Made in Europe partnership is one of the major drivers for establishing sustainable and competitive manufacturing in Europe. In this context, Manufacturing-as-a-Service (MaaS) enables businesses to utilise shared manufacturing capabilities across geographical boundaries, allowing distributed service providers to integrate existing resources into a dynamic, digitally connected value network.

For example, a machine manufacturer can upload 3D models of a specific component to the system, which is then manufactured and delivered by a 3D printing service provider with available capacity. As such, MaaS has the potential to reduce waste, increase efficiency (particularly in terms of energy), and reduce costs for both customers and businesses. These benefits contribute to achieving the EU’s Zero Pollution Action Plan and the Energy Efficiency Directive.

i-ESA (Interoperability for Enterprise Systems and Applications) is an international forum that aims to facilitate the development of interoperable enterprise systems across diverse technologies and geographical boundaries. This year’s event will commence with a keynote highlighting HaDEA’s contribution to the field, delivered by Anna Puig Centelles, who is also a panelist in the Building Capabilities for Sustainable Digital Systems discussion. Discover some HaDEA-managed projects that will participate in the 2026 event.

ENACT is developing a Cognitive Computing Continuum that addresses the needs for optimal resource management and dynamic scaling of hyper-distributed applications by harnessing the power of Graph Neural Networks and Deep Reinforcement Learning agents. ENACT also introduces a Data and Object Space for sharing code objects to enhance the development of distributed applications and contribute further on European R&D activities in domains like manufacturing. ENACT drives both fast application development and optimal deployment for manufacturing applications that are distributed from edge devices like sensors to cloud AI services for supply-chain integration in Manufacturing-as-a-Service scenarios.

MaaSAI develops a digital interconnected marketplace, where demand from consumers can be matched to manufacturing capacity providers using autonomous software agents. The proposed technological solution employs smart contracts and blockchain to achieve fast agreements between software agents and implement digital twin solutions for monitoring and analysing real-time information. The project also implements Explainable Artificial Intelligence (xAI) that supports autonomous software agents in negotiating manufacturing capacities between providers and consumers.

MAASive develops a novel toolkit with generalised service-consumer connection and AI-based models that will be used to describe, identify and evaluate manufacturing services in the network. The approach will allow manufacturers to better respond to unforeseen events and changes in supply and demand. The developed approach will also support reorchestration of any active value chain, in case a particular service provider is unavailable, hence increasing the overall manufacturing resilience in case of disruptions. 

MEDUSA develops a novel cross-company data exchange framework that will foster collaboration by allowing companies to share resources and expertise using AI-powered services and digital twins. This novel framework will integrate existing MaaS B2B marketplaces from various manufacturing industries and will act as an AI-based decision support platform that will improve overall production efficiency and reduce the environmental impact of both manufacturing and logistics operations.

M4ESTRO develops a novel end-to-end platform that will offer resilience for the manufacturing sector against disruptive events across its supply chain. The platform will include an AI-optimised manufacturing network that can enable predictive and rapid decision support. Such a solution will not only improve resilience of the European manufacturing industry, but will also provide preparedness to unforeseen risks in distributed manufacturing across full product lifecycles.

MOSAICO develops a collaborative AI platform that will be supported by various AI agents specialised in different aspects of the software development lifecycle. The proposed solution will allow service providers and software developers to achieve efficient interaction between AI agents and human developers that will not only enhance the deployed software quality but also improve productivity by considerably reducing the time needed to deliver and maintain custom-made software solutions.

NARRATE develops an AI-supported digital centralised hub called Intelligent Manufacturing Custodian (IMC), which uses digital twins to provide a more agile and resilient supply chain that can deal with unexpected events and disruptions in the context of manufacturing and logistics. This project will allow supply chain operators to evolve into a self-orchestrated ecosystem that supports decision-making and real-time monitoring connected to production and logistics processes. The project will also contribute to the workshop on Human-Centric AI for European Innovation: Ethics, Resilience and Real-World Impact. 

Background

Horizon Europe is the research and innovation programme of the EU for the period 2021-2027.

Horizon Europe Cluster 4 Digital covers the development of key digital technologies, supporting a green and digital transformation as well as a human-centred ethical development of emerging digital technologies for competitiveness and the European Green Deal.