TENSOR Final Conference

Despite severe weather forecasts and challenging circumstances, the TENSOR consortium and nine fellow EU-funded projects gathered in Athens on December 5th, 2025, creating a truly unique and inspiring event!

During the Final Conference, special presentations on key aspects of TENSOR took place. Starting with welcoming the participants, our project’s coordinator Netcompany provided a brief overview of the project. The technical coordinator CERTH, took the floor and fully detailed TENSOR’s technologies and implementation strategies highlighting the architecture and all incorporated advancements. After this session live demonstrations took place explicitly dedicated for TENSOR’s UC1, UC2 and UC3 leaded by the UC technical partners Netcompany, FORTH, CERTH which created live example cases to fully narrate all participants to the step-by-step process reaching results based on example data the tech partners had prepared for the event.

An insightful session by the pilots’ leader ZITiS and pilot representatives MOI, PCR, PJ, sharing their perspectives and insights regarding the value of TENSOR’s technologies in their operational environment was a major highlight of the events activities.

A specific section detailing ethics and compliance led by Eticas, sparked the discussion among the participants and most importantly the other EU projects present, focusing on common challenges under the implementation of the projects.

Since an impressive number of EU projects mostly under Cluster 3 had accepted their invitations to participate in TENSOR’s final event a key session Cross-Project Reflections & Interactive Discussion: Challenges, Insights and Lessons Learned was planned for the event was an interactive survey focusing on challenges, key outcomes and barriers utilizing mentimeter platform.

TENSOR’s Final Conference honoured by the high interest of other projects to attend, had special clustering session incorporated for the second part of the day’s activities, bringing together experts, academics, practitioners from 9 EU funded projects, AVALANCHE, FLEXI-cross, ODYSSEUS, SafeTravellers, AutoBorder, IAMI, EINSTEIN, PopEye and ARMADILLO. The representatives were highly interested in TENSOR’s outcomes and key highlights and provided thorough details of their project’s implementation status emphasizing and highlighting their perspectives and insights. Summarizing the projects insights and idea exchange a major challenge that was common for all was data acquisition with second biggest challenge interoperability capacity followed by reliability.

All projects agreed that a common standardized ground is needed at a EU level as well as actions for alignment in legal and ethical compliance.