CODECO’s Validation and Experimentation Challenges are a initiative set to be promoted in 2025 under the scope of WP7 and the project’s IRCEP. The aim of these challenges is for partners to propose validation and experimentation activities within the CODECO framework, similar to an Open Call process. These challenges are to be undertaken by target groups such as SMEs, Researchers, Startups. CODECO partners listed specific challenges, their objectives and how to deploy them from a technical perspective and the key target groups.