16–18/09/2025

From 16 to 18 September 2025, the MAASive consortium gathered in Aarhus for its third General Assembly meeting. Over three days, partners reviewed project progress, shared insights from ongoing pilots, and planned the next steps for MAASive’s development.

The programme featured interactive sessions bridging theory and practice, collaborative work on the service catalogue, and the MAASive Serious Game, developed by Centrale Nantes with support from Politecnico di Milano. SmartOpt and Aalborg University presented lessons from the Alpha loop, laying the foundation for the upcoming Beta loop. Aalborg University also introduced the MAASive toolkit, designed to support broader adoption of project results.

A dedicated exchange with the sister project DMaaST (dmaast.eu)—which aims to enhance resilience in manufacturing ecosystems through a MaaS-based platform integrating decentralized knowledge graphs, cognitive digital twins, AI-powered decision support, and sustainability modules—highlighted synergies across initiatives.

Participants also visited Kamstrup and ETK EMS Group, gaining first-hand insights into advanced manufacturing practices. The Aarhus GA meeting successfully consolidated achievements and set a clear direction for the next phase of the project.

GA meeting: DMaaST-MaaSIVE Clustering activites

During the MAASive Consortium Meeting in Aarhus, we had the pleasure of holding a joint virtual exchange session with the team from DMaaST EU Project, our sister EU project in the Manufacturing-as-a-Service landscape.

The session provided a valuable opportunity to:

• Share objectives, methodologies, and initial results from both projects;

• Discuss complementary approaches to enabling service-based, resilient, and sustainable manufacturing;

• Reflect together on future opportunities for alignment and collaboration.

A highlight of the session was the contribution from Kamstrup, who serves as an industrial use case partner in both MAASive and DMaaST EU Project.

Kamstrup shared practical insights on how the synergies between the two projects are already helping them identify pathways to improve operations and explore service-oriented business models.

These cross-project sessions are essential to building a more connected and collaborative research community, while helping industry actors benefit from shared innovation.