With the inclusion of new partners joining the consortium, the AMBITIOUS project will span across nine regions from five countries in Europe. These regions include Norrbotten County in Sweden, North Ostrobothnia and North Savonia in Finland, North Brabant in the Netherlands, Emilia Romagna and Lombardy in Italy, and Western Greece, Attica, and Central Greece in Greece.

Currently all consortium members participate in the S3 partnership Wireless ICT (Inforegio - Wireless ICT).

The project offers significant benefits to LDR/TR regions by deploying a shared technological infrastructure that enhances local SMEs' access to advanced computing resources (e.g., Cloud-Edge-IoT continuum), AI-driven forecasting tools, and secure data-sharing mechanisms. This levels the playing field and supports new business models in traditionally underserved areas.

Several partners had previous research and business collaboration, although new collaborations are being established during the project and in the implemetation of use cases.

AMBITIOUS is supporting the creation of links between public authorities (regions, authorities), industry stakeholders (SMEs, larger enterprises), academic institutions and citizens, and will promote both the interregional exchange of technological know-how and the deployment of novel business models, for original partners as well as for “new partners” of the partner extension.

This project aims to equip all partners in general, and SMEs in particular, with novel fundamental technological solutions related to computing continuum infrastructures, data analytics mechanisms, AI-enabled prediction techniques, and secure data exchange, that will significantly advance their own technological solutions, but will create new collaboration possibilities with other SMEs, as well as currently unforeseen interregional business opportunities.

The core of the project is focused on scaling-up digital innovations (currently at minimum TRL 6), demonstrators of state-of-the-art technologies such as data analytics, AI-enabled prediction mechanisms, 5G, computing continuum and IoT sensing capabilities, plus contributions to the overall of the digital value chain, by supporting collaboration between different EU member states, SMEs and the academia and, in particular, via facilitating market uptake and scaling-up of innovative R&D results. It is expected that some use cases will reach TRL 9.

The project aligns with the EU priority "A prosperous and competitive Europe", specificially in the sub-priorities:

• bolstering the EU’s competitiveness
• making a success of the green and digital transitions
• promoting an innovation- and business-friendly environment
• advancing together

AMBITIOUS fundamental infrastructure will be provided via the deployment of technological pillars, which will interact with existing services towards supporting the envisioned functionalities.

These use-cases will be evaluated “in-situ" at regional /inter-regional demonstration sites, that will act as our “success stories” and which will attract new stakeholders​.

• Pillar 1: AI-enabled Data analytics and forecAsting​ (AIDA)
  • AIDA.UC 1: Surveillance/Monitoring of controlled areas​
    • Developing and validating an AI-enabled surveillance and forecasting system that enhances situational awareness and operational efficiency in controlled outdoor environments.
    • Implementation sites: Patras Mega Yacht Marina and Egaleo Public Park (Greece)​
  • AIDA.UC 2: Smart Water Management
    • The aim is to develop novel AI operators for advance analytics, specifically: descriptive, diagnostic, predictive and prescriptive analytics.
    • Implementation sites: Patras Mega Yacht Marina, Egaleo Public Park (Greece), Savonia UAS Kuopio (Finland)
  • AIDA.UC 3: Precision Agriculture
    • Overall goal of the use case is to provide farming management for precision agriculture purposes based on observing, measuring, and responding to variability in crops, aiming to increase yield and efficiency.
    • Implementation sites: Western Greece (Greece)
  • AIDA.UC 4: Intelligent Living-as-a-Service
    • Overall goal of the use case is to enhance the portfolio of care giving providers with innovative digital services
    • Implementation sites: Frontida Zois elderly care centre, ​Patras, and Elders’ care centre of the Municipality of Egaleo (Greece)
  • AIDA.UC 5: Innovative Digital Technologies for Real-time Monitoring
    • Overall goal of the use case is to complement and extend existing technologies with missing features:​ Ultra-high bandwidth sensor data streams​, UAVs with sensing real-time using 5G​, Application for data analysis and fusion using AI​, Real-time Digital Twins
    • Implementation sites: Patras Marina (Greece)
• Pillar 2: Cooperation and Data Security in Health & Wellbeing Applications (AGORA)
  • AGORA. UC1 Telemedicine Platform for Continuous Remote Monitoring and Patient Support
    • Overall goal of the use case in lay on extend the use ARIA telemedicine platform to frail elderly patients ​
    • Implementation sites: Hospital Santa Maria delle Croci - Ravenna (Emilia-Romagna Region, Italy)​
  • AGORA.UC2 Pediatric Cardiac Arrest Support Management (PediAppRREST)
    • Overall goal of the use case in lay on develop and refine an interactive tablet app that supports pediatric resuscitation training, helping healthcare professionals improve learning outcomes and clinical performance​
    • Implementation sites: ongoing

The mechanism of FSTP has been replaced with “Partner Extension”.

Following the launch of an open call, see https://ambitious-project.eu/partner-extension1, a total of 26 applications were received, from all across Europe, including Sweden, Finland, Italy, Greece, the Netherlands, Hungary, Austria, Romania, and Bulgaria

10 new SMEs have been selected to join the consortium.

The new SMEs are represented by 6 SMEs from Greece, 1 from Italy, and 2 from Finland, and 1 from Sweden.

This provides an opportunity for new SMEs to collaborate on innovative digital solutions, access advanced infrastructure like 5G testbeds, and contribute to cutting-edge use cases across various sectors, including smart agriculture, digital health, and water management.

Each new partner should plan for a budget of 85,000 €. The funding rate is 70 %, indicating a funding of 59,500 € per partner.

As pilot projects continue and use cases are implemented, the first results are expected by mid-2026. By September or October 2026, these results will be validated and presented at the final meeting.