European Commission
AI Platform for Europe – Sovereign, Scalable, Future-Proof
Industry: Public Sector & Government
The European Commission is driving one of Europe’s key initiatives for trustworthy AI with the AI-on-Demand (AIOD) platform.
This platform provides businesses, research institutions, and public organizations with unified access to verified AI resources. As a central marketplace for AI tools, data, and services, it strengthens Europe’s innovation ecosystem. As part of the DeployAI program, a secure, sovereign, and scalable infrastructure was developed to power the platform’s marketplace, DevOps environment, and operational backbone.
Status quo
Before the AIOD platform, Europe lacked a centralized access point for AI services, tools, and data.
Fragmented offerings severely limited cross-border collaboration. Startups and SMEs struggled to access existing AI resources or deploy their own services efficiently. A lack of standards, limited visibility, and a highly fragmented infrastructure posed major barriers to building a competitive AI ecosystem for Europe.
The challenge
The European Commission needed a scalable, cloud-based platform architecture that delivers maximum security, compliance, and availability.
The solution had to enable secure identity and access management, simplify developer collaboration through a centralized AI DevOps environment, and ensure reliable AI service deployment. The challenge was not only to meet these requirements technologically but also to fully comply with European data sovereignty, privacy regulations, and operational security standards — while scaling to support thousands of users from research, industry, and government.
The solution
The platform architecture is designed to integrate all core components — from identity and access management to the AI services marketplace and the DevOps environment — within a fully sovereign infrastructure.
Its backbone is a private cloud environment operated entirely within Europe, meeting the highest standards for data protection, compliance, and operational resilience. It provides a secure foundation for deploying, managing, and running AI models, services, and datasets. A scalable compute and operations layer enables automated deployment workflows and seamless orchestration of complex AI workloads.
This architecture ensures maximum flexibility and scalability for research institutions, enterprises, and public sector organizations.
The result
The AIOD platform now provides the European Commission with a single, trusted access point for AI resources.
Startups, SMEs, research institutions, and public organizations benefit from a unified DevOps ecosystem, standardized deployment processes, and an infrastructure that fully aligns with Europe’s data protection, security, and sovereignty requirements.
The platform strengthens Europe’s innovation landscape, fosters cross-border collaboration, and sets a new standard for secure AI operations in the European ecosystem.
Technical
Highlights
Even complex projects can be summarised in clear technical terms. Key figures and distinctive features provide insight into the concrete implementation – measurable, tangible, and transparent.
- AIOD platform architecture including identity, access management, and marketplace integration
- Central DevOps environment for AI development and service deployment
- Infrastructure operations within the CONVOTIS Private & Sovereign Cloud
- Scalable compute and operational resources for dynamic workloads
I would like to thank José Lopez and the CONVOTIS team for their expertise and strong commitment, which played a key role in the successful implementation of DeployAI. Their contribution was particularly critical in building the DevOps infrastructure, the AI marketplace, and the enterprise-grade platform – all of which were fundamental to the success of the project.
Joachim Köhler, project coordinator of DeployAI and head of the department I Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems (IAIS)
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