Quick facts

• Programme: Austrian Reserach Promotion Agency / DLR – Division Society, Innovation, Technology
• Start date: 1 March 2021
• End date: 31 May 2025
• Duration: 51 months
• Total budget: 8,600,000 EUR

About the project

EuProGigant stands for “European Production Giganet for calamity avoiding self-orchestration of value chain and learning ecosystems“, the binational research project for smart and sovereign use of data in the European manufacturing industry. The project is carried out by an Austrian-German project consortium led by the TU Wien and TU Darmstadt, the goal of building a multi-location, digitally networked production ecosystem. As a lightouse project for the Gaia-X initiative, which strives to build an open, European data infrastructure, EuProGigant advances a resilient, data-driven and sustainable industry in Europe. In the ecosystem, which consists of data and infrastructure ecosystems, we show how to practically realize added value for customers and manufacturing companies through value creation based on smart and sovereign use of data. This strengthens European industry and drives the contribution of industry to the sustainable development of Europe.

EuProGigant’s vision is to create a new type of interaction in both value creation and learning ecosystems. This will enable resilient, data-driven and sustainable production to regain and strengthen European leadership in the manufacturing industry.

The project seeks to contribute to a Europe in which companies work together collaboratively and consensually on the basis of shared European values and legal views across national borders. The industrial ecosystem is characterised by the self-organisation of participants, data and services (= self-orchestration) in order to mitigate threats from crisis situations (= calamity avoiding).

To achieve this, companies will operate within increasingly decentralised production infrastructures, such as manufacturing plants and computing resources that can be logged into. In the case of computing resources this will be reflected in the free choice of storage location, access rights and partnerships. Where production takes place and where data is processed and stored is completely transparent. The prerequisites for this are the above-mentioned values, primarily the Gaia-X principles of trust and transparency, interoperability and data sovereignty (more on the project’s values below). By constantly using data, albeit for a fee, companies can adapt much better to new situations, share knowledge and thus also access solutions themselves that have worked for others. The infrastructure also opens up opportunities for new business models with high value creation along the entire data value chain in parallel to the production value chains: Offering own resources such as data, smart services and ideas as digital sales assets creates an additional pillar for one’s own company besides the usual product offering. Such a broad positioning makes it easier for companies to adapt to market changes – they become faster, more adaptable and more resilient.

Project partners

• A1 Digital International GmbH
• ARBURG GmbH + Co KG
• Brinkhaus GmbH
• Concircle Österreich GmbH
• craftworks GmbH
• deltaDAO AG
• DigiCert Inc.
• EIT Manufacturing Central gGmbH
• EIT Manufacturing East GmbH
• Haidlmair GmbH
• Gebr. Heller Maschinenfabrik GmbH
• IGH Infotec AG
• MTU Aero Engines AG
• Pilotfabrik Industrie 4.0 TU Wien
• Plasser & Theurer GmbH
• Posedio GmbH
• PTW TU Darmstadt
• SIMCON kunststofftechnische Software GmbH
• Software AG
• STARK Spannsysteme GmbH
• voestalpine High Performance Metals Gmb
• WFL Millturn Technologies GmbH & Co. KG