Softwareentwicklung Federated Catalogue Enhancements Eclipse XFSC IPCEI-CIS/8ra

Lot: Federated Catalogue Enhancements (FACIS.FCE). The FACIS (Federated Architecture for Composed Infrastructure Services) project, funded under the IPCEI-CIS/8ra initiative, aims to develop a sovereign, interoperable, and secure digital infrastructure to support seamless collaboration between cloud and edge services across Europe. Within this overarching goal, FACIS focuses on enabling trust-based federations by delivering modular and standards-compliant components that facilitate service provisioning, management, and governance in a decentralized ecosystem. In alignment with the objectives of the 8ra initiative-which fosters a resilient, interoperable, and trusted European digital infrastructure-the FACIS project contributes foundational technologies that support cross-border and cross-domain collaboration. A key element of this effort is the enhancement of core federation components such as the Eclipse XFSC Federated Catalogue (CAT). The Catalogue Enhancements aim to evolve the CAT into a more lightweight, flexible, and broadly applicable tool for trustworthy metadata management. By decoupling its implementation from Gaia-X-specific constraints and modernizing its architecture, the enhanced CAT supports a wider range of federated workflows and digital ecosystems. By modernizing the Federated Catalogue, FACIS strengthens the foundation for scalable, trustworthy, and flexible federated data ecosystems. These enhancements empower organizations to manage metadata, offerings, and digital contracts with greater agility and confidence-supporting the next generation of secure, collaborative digital infrastructures across Europe. The purpose of this award is to commission software development services for Lot Catalogue Enhancements by using the Eclipse Project XFSC (Cross Federation Services Components) as the foundation (https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/technology.xfsc).