We build fair, sovereign and value-adding data spaces

The Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering ISST develops data space technologies for sovereign data exchange and builds pioneering data ecosystems with its partners.

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Our departments

Information on the various subject areas of our departments

Healthcare

Industrial Manufacturing

IT Service Providers

Mobility & Smart Cities

Data space initiatives

We work with these projects and networks

Sphin-X: One data space for health

Gaia-X AISBL: A federated and secure data infrastructure for Europe

International Data Spaces Association (IDSA) - Alliance for the future of the data economy

Data Spaces Support Center - Support for data space initiatives in Europe

European Alliance for Industrial Data, Edge and Cloud

Catena-X: An open data ecosystem for the automotive industry

Construct-X: Simplified information processing on construction sites

Manufacturing-X: Initiative for the digitalization of industrial supply chains

Factory-X: A sovereign data space for mechanical and plant engineering

Aerospace-X: The data space for the aerospace industry

Mobility Data Space: The data marketplace for the mobility sector

Health-X dataLoft: A legitimized, open and federated platform for health data

Eclipse Dataspace Working Group: Open source software for data spaces

IDERHA: Integrating health data

NEWS

Presse Release

Removing Corporate Data
from AI Models

Fraunhofer ISST and Fujitsu Research
at the Hannover Messe 2026

Press Release

Podcast

New Episode: Data as the medicine of the future? Securely share health data with Sphin-X #24

(German only)

to the podcast

Messe

DMEA 2026: Connecting Digital Health

Fraunhofer ISST presents examples of current data room projects

zur Veranstaltung

Event

Hannover Messe 2026: Think Tech Forward

Fujitsu Research and Fraunhofer ISST demonstrate how decentralized AI can forget

To the event

Video series

Institute Director Prof. Dr.-Ing. Boris Otto on Digital Twins

(English subtitled)

to the video series

Press Release

NeoNephos Foundation Welcomes BWI GmbH, SUSE LLC, and Fraunhofer ISST as Members

Press release

Whitepaper

Verifiable Credentials-Based Decentralized Master Data Management in Data Spaces

Enabling Trusted Master Data Exchange Across Organizational Boundaries

Download [PDF]

Whitepaper

Whitepaper »International Strategies Toward the Data Economy«

A Comparative Analysis

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Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering ISST

Speicherstraße 6
D-44147 Dortmund
Phone +49 231-97677-0

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Publications

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