euroFMX

European TrUstworthy GeneRative AI & AutonOmisation Frontier Models for Manufacturing-X Competitiveness
Project ID
Funding Organization:
Funding Programme:
HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-DIGITAL-EMERGING-07
Funding Instrument:
Research and Innovation action
Start Date:
01/06/2026
Duration:
48 months
Total Budget:
44,999,622 EUR
ITI Budget:
745,625 EUR

euroFMX aims to establish the first European ecosystem of Generative AI & Autonomisation Frontier Models fit for manufacturing, reinforcing Europe’s competitiveness and strategic autonomy in the digital age. The project is structured along four strategic pillars: Pillar I provides an Industrial AI that acts autonomously, systemically, and at scale setting the path towards a manufacturing-friendly Artificial General Intelligence. Pillar II strengthens the future workforce, bridging AI talent and industrial know-how via large-scale skilling, co-creation and open knowledge communities. Pillar III reclaims European digital and AI sovereignty by delivering industrial-grade, privacy-preserving data spaces and HPC-based AI factories, democratizing access to resources previously dominated by big non-EU companies. Pillar IV optimises frontier GenAI models for manufacturing, introducing physics-informed graph neural networks, multimodal reasoning, and agentic orchestration platforms for trustworthy, interpretable and regulation-ready deployment.

euroFMX will validate its breakthroughs across multiple high-impact pilots, covering machining, robotics, automotive, circular manufacturing, and human-AI collaboration. Overall, euroFMX, advances a EURO 4 EURO strategy: a manufacturing GenAI built in Europe, by Europeans, with European open-source software technology and knowledge, for European industry, and adhering to European values & open standards.

CERTH/ITI is involved in the technical implementation of euroFMX through the provision of core data, platform and agentic AI technologies for trustworthy, sovereign and human-centric Gen-AI for manufacturing. CERTH/ITI, with its expertise on industrial data spaces and digital twins, leads the work on Digital Platforms for Manufacturing Intelligence and Automation that involves turning existing manufacturing platforms into an Integrated Development and Finetuning Environment (IDFE) orchestrating agents through agentic CPPSoS (Cyber-Physical Production Systems of Systems) swarm integration, digital twins and human-in-the-loop workflows along the whole production lifecycle. In parallel, CERTH/ITI co-develops multimodal LLM/SLM-based interaction layers and lifecycle intelligence engines for explainable, context-aware human–AI collaboration on the shop floor and contributes to assessment frameworks for explainability, safety, security, and bias in agentic workplaces. CERTH/ITI is also active in pilot work packages, providing support for data foundries, integration of euroFMX models in TEFs and Industrial Living Labs, and deployment of symbiotic human-AI and autonomous immune-system solutions in real industrial environments. Beyond the technical stack, CERTH/ITI contributes to open call management, impact evaluation and ecosystem building activities, helping grow the euroFMX community, nurture data and GenAI value-chain communities, and align research outcomes with European manufacturing needs and regulatory frameworks.

Consortium

POLITECNICO DI MILANO, IT
CONSULTORES DE AUTOMATIZACION Y ROBOTICA SA, ES
ASOCIACION DE EMPRESAS TECNOLOGICAS INNOVALIA, ES
FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG EV, DE
TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT EINDHOVEN, NL
VERBAND DEUTSCHER MASCHINEN- UND ANLAGENBAU (VDMA), DE
THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, UK
ETHNIKO KENTRO EREVNAS KAI TECHNOLOGIKIS ANAPTYXIS, GR
BOSCH GLOBAL SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGIES GMBH, DE
IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE, UK
NETCOMPANY S.A., LU
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA, IT
PHILIPS CONSUMER LIFESTYLE BV, NL
prostep ivip e.V., DE
LEONARDO – SOCIETA PER AZIONI, IT
KARLSRUHER INSTITUT FUER TECHNOLOGIE, DE
SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES SAS, FR
Industrial Digital Twin Association e.V., DE
CELONIS SE, DE
AVL LIST GMBH, AT
SWITZERLAND INNOVATION PARK BIEL/BIENNE AG, CH
ATLANTIS ENGINEERING AE, GR
UNIVERSITETET I OSLO, NO
INSTITUT FÜR ANGEWANDTE SYSTEMTECHNIK BREMEN GMBH, DE
GHI HORNOS INDUSTRIALES, SL, ES
MONDRAGON GOI ESKOLA POLITEKNIKOA JOSE MARIA ARIZMENDIARRIETA S COOP, ES
ASOCIACION DE INVESTIGACION METALURGICA DEL NOROESTE, ES
OPENNEBULA SYSTEMS SL, ES
COMAU SPA, IT
TTS TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER SYSTEMS SRL, IT
ARENA2036 E.V., DE
BEFESA ALUMINIO SLU, ES
CORE KENTRO KAINOTOMIAS AMKE. GR
SIEMENS SRL, RO
28DIGITAL, BE
ENGINEERING – INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA SPA, IT
KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN, BE
CINECA CONSORZIO INTERUNIVERSITARIO, IT
PRIMA INDUSTRIE SPA, IT
CEFRIEL SOCIETA CONSORTILE A RESPONSABILITA LIMITATA SOCIETA BENEFIT, IT
UNPARALLEL INNOVATION LDA, PT
FILL GESELLSCHAFT MBH, AT
TRIMEK SA, ES
CHALMERS TEKNISKA HOGSKOLA AB, SE
ASOCIACION PARA DESARROLLO DE LA ECONOMIA DEL DATO, ES
SOFTWARE QUALITY SYSTEMS SA, ES
SUITE5 DATA INTELLIGENCE SOLUTIONS LIMITED, CY
SCUOLA UNIVERSITARIA PROFESSIONALE DELLA SVIZZERA ITALIANA, CH
COMMISSARIAT A L ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES, FR
Generative Robotics, BE
DAWEX SYSTEMS, FR
AUMOVIO GERMANY GMBH, DE
CESKE VYSOKE UCENI TECHNICKE V PRAZE, CZ
IDC NORDIC A/S, DK
TXT E-TECH SRL, IT
SITAV SPA, IT
IVSZ DIGITALIS VALLALKOZASOK SZOVETSEGE, HU
HOCHSCHULE FUR WIRTSCHAFT UND RECHT BERLIN, DE
DATA AI AND ROBOTICS DAIRO, BE
INDUSTRY COMMONS FOUNDATION (INSAMLINGSSTIFTELSE), SE
DGS SPA, IT
INTERNATIONAL DATA SPACES EV, DE
DATAPIXEL SL, ES
SYXIS VSI, LT
EIT MANUFACTURING SOUTH SRL, IT
UNIMETRIK SA, ES
SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC AUTOMATION GMBH, DE
UNIVERSITAT KOBLENZ, DE
FONDAZIONE POLITECNICO DI MILANO, IT
VDE VERBAND DER ELEKTROTECHNIK ELEKTRONIK INFORMATIONSTECHNIK EV, DE
AUMOVIO CZECH REPUBLIC SRO, CZ
TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE AUGSBURG, DE

Contact

Dr. Dimitrios Giakoumis
(Scientific Responsible)
Building A - Office 1.9

Information Technologies Institute
Centre of Research & Technology - Hellas
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Email: dgiakoum@iti.gr

Dr. Dimosthenis Ioannidis
(Scientific Responsible)
Building A - Office 2.8

Information Technologies Institute
Centre of Research & Technology - Hellas
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Email: djoannid@iti.gr

Dr. Konstantinos Votis
(Scientific Responsible)
Building A - Office 2.8

Information Technologies Institute
Centre of Research & Technology - Hellas
6th km Harilaou - Thermis, 57001, Thermi - Thessaloniki
Tel.: +30 2311 257722
Fax: +30 2310 474128
Email: kvotis@iti.gr