SoFtwarE DefinEd vehicle suppoRt And coordinaTion projEct

Project Information

FEDERATE

Grant agreement ID: 101139749

DOI

10.3030/101139749

EC signature date 29 September 2023

Start date 1 October 2023

End date 30 September 2026

Funded under

• Digital, Industry and Space

Total cost

€ 1 999 996,25

EU contribution

€ 1 999 996,25

Coordinated by

AVL LIST GMBH
Austria

Periodic Reporting for period 2 - FEDERATE (SoFtwarE DefinEd vehicle suppoRt And coordinaTion projEct)

Reporting period: 2024-10-01 to 2025-09-30

Summary of the context and overall objectives of the project

The European Commission, together with industry, research institutions, and governments, is driving the transformation toward carbon-neutral, safe, and affordable mobility through the Vehicle-of-the-Future initiative under the EU Chips Act, and the recently (2025) established European Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Alliance (ECAVA).
A key element of this initiative is the creation of a Software-Defined Vehicle (SDV) ecosystem based on open standards and collaborative innovation.
Launched in 2023, the FEDERATE project supports and coordinates this effort by bringing together automotive manufacturers, suppliers, technology providers, and research organizations across Europe. Its mission is to foster a vibrant community that accelerates the development of SDV technologies through pre-competitive collaboration and open-source solutions. FEDERATE supports technical and organisational alignment, publishes vision and roadmap documents, and organizes conferences and workshops to ensure efficient collaboration and knowledge sharing among stakeholders.
By enabling cooperation on common software components, interfaces, and tools, FEDERATE helps overcome barriers to participation and promotes a structured approach to SDV deployment. The project also supports research and innovation projects within the Chips Joint Undertaking and Horizon Europe framework, ensuring synergy with 2Zero, CCAM, hardware developments and Europe’s broader digital strategy.
Through these actions, FEDERATE is laying the foundation for a sustainable, competitive, and collaborative SDV ecosystem that will shape the future of mobility in Europe.

Work performed from the beginning of the project to the end of the period covered by the report and main results achieved so far

Executive Summary
The project had its kick-off on October 4th, 2023 with a General Assembly (GA) F2F Meeting in Munich. The project internal infrastructure (project office, e-mail lists, project SharePoint etc.) was established in M1, followed by the project communication infrastructure (website, LinkedIn and YouTube Channel etc.) later in 2023. All WPs are operating as planned, and partners collaborate in periodic meetings (weekly or bi-weekly) as scheduled. A GA (all consortium members) info meeting is held once a month, to spread project-wide info and updates. Weekly core team meetings in between are used to manage the project and align activities.

The milestones defined in the description of work (DoW) for Y1 have been met
• Milestone 1: Risk management plan; planned for: M6; checkpoint: D1.2 submitted on 28-MAR-2024 via ECAS
• Milestone 2: First Year Review; Planned for: M12; Checkpoint: Vision document was released and posted on the project website on 12-APR-2024; a list of Building Blocks (BB´s) exist on GitHub since APR-2024; deliverable D4.4 Strategic Roadmap - First Version submitted on 8-OCT-2024 via ECAS
• Milestone 3: 1st European SDV community conference; Planned for: M12; Checkpoint: 1st FEDERATE Networking day was held on 23-SEP-2024 with more than 100 registered participants

Major achievements in Y1 include
• a White Paper (Vision and Roadmap) outlining the SDVoF has been published together with the SGG on FEDERAT's website on 12-APR-2024
• a common structure for software in SDV stacks, which is well accepted and applied in SDVoF projects, associated initiatives and private public partnerships
• an open repository to collect descriptions of BBs (GitHub), with entries for SDVoF In-vehicle stack, SDVoF cloud stack and SDVoF toolchain ()
• common glossary and terms which are shared with other projects (submitted deliverable D2.5 “Glossary (incl. layer structure))“

Within the reporting period, 15 deliverables were planned and have been submitted
• D1.1 First Project report
• D1.2 Quality and Risk Management Plan
• D5.3 Dissemination plan
• D5.8 Data management plan
• D2.1 First Report of high level requirement list
• D2.4 Vision Document
• D2.5 Glossary (incl. layer structure)
• D2.6 First Technology Forecast Report
• D3.1 First Prioritized backlog report
• D3.4 First Orchestrated backlog report
• D4.1 Initial Recommendations for building block realization
• D4.4 Strategic Roadmap - First Version
• D5.1 Stakeholder engagement strategy
• D5.5 First Dissemination and Communication Activities report
• D5.9 First Year data management report (this document)

Progress beyond the state of the art and expected potential impact (including the socio-economic impact and the wider societal implications of the project so far)

As FEDERATE is an Coordination and Support Action, the intended results are described in the objectives as
Objective 1: Collect and evaluate future trends (automated driving, V2X, EdgeAI at the SDV and the connected infrastructure) to identify and details those of relevance for SDV, and derive high-level requirements for stakeholders (industry, government, research and community). In addition, definitions are deduced for common non-differentiating building blocks (software components, containers, SDKs, services, ...) that are reusable and scalable across departments and companies, taking into account already existing high level requirements from the stakeholders and those already worked out in the Sherpa Governance Group (SGG) meetings.
Objective 2: Derive a common understanding (glossary) about building blocks in a layered service-oriented architecture with harmonized interfaces and required functionalities and features by organizing workshops with stakeholders and the community, and to strengthen the collaboration.
Objective 3: Prepare and maintain a roadmap on how to create the identified non-differentiating building blocks of an open Software-defined vehicle Ecosystem. Identify and advise relevant RDI funding programs for missing building blocks, tools and technology developments.
Objective 4: Help to create a vibrant SDV community in Europe and furthermore, monitor the performance of the CSA initiative by evaluating the activities as well as the support of the stakeholders and the community during the project lifetime.
Objective 5: Foster an European initiative, which continues the work of the CSA (FEDERATE) to orchestrate a strong open European collaborative community in maintaining and developing a European Software-defined vehicle Ecosystem.

During Y1, FEDERATE has achieved major achievements along all of these objectives. Results are all open access and published on FEDERATE's website (https://federate-sdv.eu/)
Objective 1: as published in D2.6 (First Technology Forecast Report) and D2.1 (First Report of high level requirement list)
Objective 2: as published in D2.5 (Glossary (incl. layer structure))
Objective 3, as published in D2.4 (Vision Document), D4.1 (Initial Recommendations for building block realization) and D4.4 (Strategic Roadmap - First Version)
Objective 4: as published in D5.1 (Stakeholder engagement strategy) and D5.5 (First Dissemination and Communication Activities report); in addition, organized and hosted the First SDVoF Networking Day (Vienna)
Objective 5: support of the SDVoF Sherpa Governance Group (SGG) through preparation, moderation and hosting

Overview - FEDERATE in a Nutshell

SDVoF Networking Day Announcement