The End is Just the Beginning: CODECO Closes Its Final Chapter in Munich

The CODECO Final Event and Showcase, subtitled “From Concept to Demonstration and Standardization,” took place on 24 March 2026 at fortiss GmbH in Munich. Consortium partners, researchers, industry stakeholders, and external guests gathered to mark the close of over three years of research and cross-border collaboration. The atmosphere was less one of closure and more one of momentum, as the day was deliberately structured around live demonstrations rather than summaries.

The morning’s World Café sessions gave attendees direct access to the CODECO open-source components in action, including the Automated Configuration Manager, Seamless Workload Migration tools, Privacy Preservation and Decentralised Learning module, and Network Adaptation tools, each presented by the teams who built them. The afternoon then shifted focus to five application pilots spanning smart city infrastructure, connected mobility, adaptive media streaming, decentralised energy management, and autonomous vehicle coordination in manufacturing. Across every domain, the pilots made the same point: flexible, federated orchestration across IoT, Edge, and Cloud is not theoretical. It works, and it is ready to be built upon.

A defining moment of the event was the official launch of Eclipse KuDECO, presented by David Remón of the Eclipse Foundation. What began as an internal CODECO orchestration toolkit is now a fully open, foundation-backed project available to any developer or organisation working across Cloud, Edge, and IoT environments. Alongside it, the CODECO Learning Hub, a structured collection of courses, tutorials, demo videos, and technical documentation, ensures the knowledge developed across 14 consortium partners remains accessible to the wider community.

CODECO ran from January 2023 to March 2026 under Horizon Europe Grant Agreement 101092696, bringing together research institutions, industry leaders, and SMEs from across Europe. The project formally concludes, but the work does not. Eclipse KuDECO continues as a living open-source project, the Learning Hub remains open, and the open-source toolkits are available for the community to extend and build upon. The platform is just getting started.