On Thursday, June 25 2026, the boostEDIC M&L project partners met online for the first General Assembly. The meeting offered an important opportunity to bring partners together, share updates on ongoing activities and reflect on how the project can continue supporting the development of a more connected, interoperable and data-driven mobility and logistics ecosystem in Europe.
As boostEDIC M&L moves forward, coordination remains essential. The project is designed to support the future European Digital Infrastructure Consortium for Mobility and Logistics — EDIC M&L — and to contribute to the broader objectives of the common European Mobility Data Space. This means working closely with Member States, European institutions, project partners and stakeholders from across the mobility and logistics sectors.
A key message emerging from the General Assembly was the importance of ensuring that future activities are not developed in isolation. Instead, they should build on existing knowledge, connect with relevant European initiatives and help create practical conditions for better data sharing across borders, sectors and systems.
Learning from deployEMDS and real-life mobility data pilots
One of the highlights of the meeting was an informational session on deployed , introduced by Philippe Caldez from Acatech. The session offered partners an overview of the initiative’s work so far and of the practical material that could provide useful insights for the boostEDIC M&L project and the future EDIC M&L.
deployEMDS provided partners with a concrete view of how mobility data space approaches are being explored and tested in different local and regional contexts across Europe. Its work covers nine pilot sites, including Tampere, Stockholm, Flanders Region, Île-de-France, Milan, Budapest, Lisbon, Barcelona and Sofia.
These pilots address a wide range of mobility-data contexts, from public transport and Mobility-as-a-Service to electric vehicle charging, accessibility, traffic data, journey planning and multimodal routing.
This exchange was particularly valuable for boostEDIC M&L, as it showed how data space concepts can be translated into real-life use cases. It also helped underline the relevance of practical experience, tested methodologies and reusable building blocks when developing future European data-sharing infrastructures. Rather than starting from scratch, initiatives such as boostEDIC M&L can benefit from lessons already learned in related European projects. Understanding what works, what needs further development and what can be reused is essential to avoid fragmentation and support a more coherent European mobility data ecosystem.
Interoperability, scalability and trust as common priorities
The discussion also confirmed the importance of several key principles that are central to the future of mobility and logistics data sharing. Interoperability remains one of the main challenges. Mobility and logistics data are often spread across different systems, organisations and countries. Making these systems work together requires shared approaches, common standards, technical alignment and strong coordination between public and private actors. Scalability is another key point. Use cases and solutions should not remain limited to isolated pilots. They should be designed with the potential to grow, connect with other contexts and create value beyond a single organisation, region or country.
Trust is equally important. Data sharing can only work if actors feel confident about how data are accessed, used and protected. Clear governance, transparent processes and a common understanding of roles and responsibilities are therefore essential elements of any future data-sharing ecosystem.
These principles are especially relevant for boostEDIC M&L, whose ambition is to support practical and scalable progress towards a European digital infrastructure for mobility and logistics data.
Strengthening collaboration across the European ecosystem
The General Assembly also highlighted the value of continued dialogue with related European initiatives and stakeholder communities. The mobility and logistics sectors are evolving quickly, driven by digitalisation, new regulatory frameworks, sustainability objectives and the growing role of data in decision-making. In this context, collaboration is not only useful: it is necessary. By connecting with initiatives such as deployEMDS and maintaining strong links with the wider European mobility data landscape, boostEDIC M&L can help identify synergies, avoid duplication and support the reuse of existing knowledge and tools.
This collaborative approach is also important for engaging stakeholders. Public authorities, companies, associations, technology providers and data users all have a role to play in shaping future data-driven services and infrastructures. Understanding their needs, expectations and constraints will be essential to ensure that future activities are relevant, realistic and impactful.
In the coming months, boostEDIC M&L will continue working to strengthen coordination between partners and maintain alignment with the broader European mobility and logistics data ecosystem. The General Assembly confirmed the importance of knowledge exchange, interoperability, stakeholder engagement and collaboration with complementary initiatives. These elements will remain central as the project continues to support the development of the future EDIC M&L and contributes to Europe’s ambition for a more connected, collaborative and data-driven mobility and logistics sector.
