SYNTACTIC

a holiStic sYNThetic dAta lifeCycle plaTform towards next-gen auto-complIanCe
Project ID
Funding Organization:
European Commission / Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology
Funding Programme:
HORIZON-CL4-2025-03
Funding Instrument:
HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-DATA-13 / Innovation Actions
Start Date:
01/07/2026
Duration:
36 months
Total Budget:
9,321,814 EUR
ITI Budget:
381,250 EUR
Scientific Responsible:

SYNTACTIC will deliver a European “one-stop-shop” platform that makes synthetic data reliable, compliant, and fit-for-purpose across sensitive, data-scarce domains. Anchored in Area 3 (advancing synthetic data generation and validation), and complementary to Areas 1 & 2 (data governance and infrastructure interoperability), the platform integrates five coherent toolboxes over a FAIR-by-design lifecycle: (i) Synthetic Data Generation with multi-modal, privacy-preserving GenAI, digital-twin augmentation, model unlearning, robustness and explainability; (ii) Regulatory Auditing & Management providing automated checks against GDPR, the AI Act and the Data Act, legal- to-technical translation, and auditable DPIA/FRIA workflows; (iii) Data Lifecycle Management with provenance, curation, versioning, annotation and benchmarking against real-world data; (iv) Cybersecurity enforcing zero-trust, threat intelligence and DevSecOps; (v) an Interoperability Gateway that connects securely and semantically to European Data Spaces and relevant initiatives (e.g., Regulatory Sandboxes, AI-on-Demand); and (vi) a dedicated Knowledge Hub providing guided workflows, training modules and best practices, boosting AI literacy and compliance awareness among European SMEs and professionals. SYNTACTIC will be designed, integrated and continuously in an agile methodology, validated through six pilots spanning telecommunications, maritime, Green Deal/industry compliance, finance, aerospace (IRIS²) and healthcare, demonstrating measurable gains in data quality and representativeness, bias mitigation, regulatory alignment and secure data-space interoperability. By coupling advanced generative modelling with compliance-bydesign and EU-grade interoperability, SYNTACTIC will reduce the cost and time of compliance, increase access to high-quality synthetic datasets, and strengthen Europe’s data sovereignty and competitiveness in AI, with results that are reusable beyond the project lifetime. CERTH is leading the development of Synthetic Data Generation Toolkit which is one of key outcomes of SYNTACTIC.

Consortium

NTT DATA SPAIN, SL (NTTDES), Spain
NTT DATA ITALIA SPA (NTTDIT), Italy
ETHNIKO KAI KAPODISTRIAKO PANEPISTIMIO ATHINON (NKUA), Greece
UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE CATALUNYA (UPC), Spain
ADVANCED COMPUTING SPAIN SL (BULL), Spain
FOUR DOT INFINITY INFORMATION AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS SOLUTIONS PRIVATE COMPANY), Greece
SUITE5 DATA INTELLIGENCE SOLUTIONS LIMITED (S5), Cyprus
SP3 INSPIRING SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS SL (SP3), Spain
ETHNIKO KENTRO EREVNAS KAI TECHNOLOGIKIS ANAPTYXIS (CERTH), Greece
Zerofect GmbH (Zerofect), Switzerland
INFORMATION CATALYST FOR ENTERPRISE LTD (ICE), United Kingdom
EREVNITIKO PANEPISTIMIAKO INSTITOUTO SYSTIMATON EPIKOINONION KAI YPOLOGISTON (ICCS), Greece
XLAB RAZVOJ PROGRAMSKE OPREME IN SVETOVANJE DOO (XLAB), Slovenia
GLOBAZ, S.A. (LOBA), Portugal
E-LEX – STUDIO LEGALE (E-LEX), Italy
GREEN DEAL DATASPACE E.V. (GDDS), Germany
MITIS KYVERNOCHOROS ANONYMI ETAIREIA TECHNOLOGIAS LOGISMIKOU KAI ILEKTRONIKON SYSTIMATON (METIS), Greece
ALPHA TENSOR TECHNOLOGIES LTD (ALPHA), United Kingdom
OHB HELLAS MONOPROSOPI ETAIREIA PERIORISMENIS EFTHINIS (OHB Hellas), Greece
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, DUBLIN (NUIDUCD-CeADAR), Ireland
NETCOMPANY S.A. (NETCOMPANY S.A.), Luxembourg
SYNTHO BV (SYNTHO BV), Netherlands
ENGINEERING – INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA SPA (ENG), Italy
INTERNATIONAL DATA SPACES EV (IDSA), Germany
DATA AI AND ROBOTICS DAIRO (BDVA), Belgium

Contact

Dr. Dimosthenis Ioannidis
(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 257750
Fax: +30 2310 474128
Email: djoannid@iti.gr