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Commission selects consortium for middleware platform 'Simpl'

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The European Commission has selected a consortium that will develop ‘Simpl', a secure middleware platform that will serve as infrastructure and support data access and interoperability among for Common European Data Spaces.

Simpl aims to create a secure, trustworthy platform for data sharing, and supporting cloud-to-edge federations and Common European Data Spaces. The Data Spaces will create data ecosystems that users in similar sectors will will be able to access in an efficient and safe manner. Simpl will give data providers full control over who accesses their data facilitate the exchange of information between cloud infrastructures, systems, and applications in an easy, trustworthy, and secure manner.

The consortium was awarded a €41 million contract to develop the middleware platform. Led by Eviden Belgium, it consists of Aruba (Italy), Capgemini Nederland (The Netherlands), Engineering International Belgium (Belgium), IONOS (Germany), and COSMOTE Global Solutions (Belgium).

In the coming three years, the consortium will

  • develop Simpl-Open, the open-source software that will power data spaces and other cloud-to-edge federation initiatives,
  • design Simpl-Labs, an environment for data spaces to test the open-source software and assess their ability to work with Simpl, and
  • design Simpl-Live, data spaces - the Public Procurement Data Space, the European eHealth Data Space, the Language Data Space, the Smart Communities Data Space, the European Open Science Cloud, and Destination Earth. 

More information about Simpl can be found on the dedicated website of the European Commission.

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