On 16 June 2021, Henk Mulder, chairman of the FEDeRATED Semantic Modelling Group *SMG), presented the progress of the SMG to the IPIC conference - International Physical Internet Conference. In his presentation, he elaborates on why FEDeRATED is putting so much effort into further developing a semantic model and tools and what the Semantics Model is for. See his presentation here , His presentation is also available in the library

The FEDeRATED project has started a serial on various aspects of data sharing.  The interrelation between data sharing and logistics is elaborated in an article written by Codognotto: Logistics 4.0, the new future of the  supply chain. 

The FEDeRATED Consortium meeting decided on 28 May 2021 to start a working group on Governance and Legal Affairs under the guidance of Puertos del Estado, . 

For Governance the focus is on defining the roles and responsibilties of the members as well as defining the decision-making mechanisms. For the legal issues, the focus is to establish the applicable legislative framework with an international and European perspective and to analyse how it affects the development and implementation of a federative platform.

It has been proposed that five types of Governance be considered, namely:

• Institutional Governance
• Platform Governance
• Service Governance
• Security
• Technical Governance

In addition the study will consider developing an incentive model in order to try and maximize the use and benefits of the federative platforms.

More information  is available here    

The FEDeRATED partners are developing and executing 21 Living labs. An overview is available