We build fair, sovereign and value-adding data spaces - Fraunhofer ISST

The Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering ISST develops data space technologies for sovereign data exchange and builds pioneering data ecosystems with its partners.

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Our departments

Information on the various subject areas of our departments

Healthcare

Industrial Manufacturing

IT Service Providers

Mobility & Smart Cities

Data space initiatives

We work with these projects and networks

Sphin-X: One data space for health

Gaia-X AISBL: A federated and secure data infrastructure for Europe

International Data Spaces Association (IDSA) - Alliance for the future of the data economy

Data Spaces Support Center - Support for data space initiatives in Europe

European Alliance for Industrial Data, Edge and Cloud

Catena-X: An open data ecosystem for the automotive industry

Construct-X: Simplified information processing on construction sites

Manufacturing-X: Initiative for the digitalization of industrial supply chains

Factory-X: A sovereign data space for mechanical and plant engineering

Aerospace-X: The data space for the aerospace industry

Mobility Data Space: The data marketplace for the mobility sector

Health-X dataLoft: A legitimized, open and federated platform for health data

Eclipse Dataspace Working Group: Open source software for data spaces

IDERHA: Integrating health data

NEWS

Whitepaper

Data Trustees in the Building Sector—From Concept to Implementation

(german only)

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Podcast

New Episode: Schneller gesund mit vernetzten Daten? Wie DISTANCE:PRO Gesundheitsdaten nutzbar macht #30

[German]

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© FAZ

Article

Co-Creation as Europe's Opportunity in AI

Op-ed by Boris Otto and Felix Dinnessen (Deloitte) in the F.A.Z. Digital Economy (German only)

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Whitepaper

Quantifying the Intangible

A Practitioner Framework for Enterprise Data Valuation

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Press release

Sovereign Cloud-Edge Services for Europe’s Technological Independence

Sustainable multi-provider cloud-edge continuum for Europe

Press release

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Video series

Institute Director Prof. Dr.-Ing. Boris Otto on Edge-Cloud-Continuum for Smart Data Ecosystems

(English subtitled)

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Bericht

Innovation through Smart Data Ecosystems.

Annual Report 2025

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