This call aims to establish a pioneering, federated, and sustainable European digital infrastructure for advanced materials research and innovation. The project will interconnect existing and new infrastructures across the EU, enabling access to FAIR data, AI tools, and high-performance computing to accelerate material design, development, and testing. It will support self-driving labs, promote industrial uptake through demonstrator use cases, and ensure long-term sustainability, with strong collaboration between academia, industry, and national ecosystems.

Expected Outcome:

The project is expected to contribute to the following outcomes:

1. Create a pioneer federated digital infrastructure for advanced materials research and development, demonstrating use cases facilitating industrial uptake and offering a feedback loop to academic research;
2. Give researchers from industry and academia access to interoperable, heterogeneous and FAIR data sources and computational tools that support the workflows for the design and development of advanced materials;
3. Address the requirements of experimental workflows for high-quality, well-structured and documented primary data by providing tailored solutions to experimentalists;
4. Provide a framework to support self-driving labs using the digital infrastructure, enabling to use of state-of-the-art AI technologies and predictive modelling techniques in industry and academia;
5. Devise mechanisms for long term sustainability and expansion to future use cases.