Turin, Italy – From 16 to 20 March 2026, partners of the INVERSE project came together at CRF (Centro Ricerche FIAT) in Orbassano (TO), near Turin, for a consortium-wide Integration Week. The meeting ran throughout the week (Monday–Friday), enabling teams to work side-by-side on technical integration, align across work packages, and validate developments directly on site.
Why the Integration Week matters
Integration Weeks are a key event in collaborative projects like INVERSE: they help transform strong individual results into connected, interoperable systems. During the week at CRF, partners focused on bringing components together and tested interfaces across work packages, addressing open technical questions in real time and accelerating progress through hands-on collaboration.
Having many technical teams in the same place speeds up decision-making and problem-solving. The Orbassano Integration Week supported:
- Faster cross-partner debugging and interface testing through direct collaboration on site
- Better alignment on milestones and next steps, with quick feedback loops across work packages
- Real-time validation of work package outputs in the practical environment provided by CRF
Beyond the technical goals, the week also created valuable space for in-person connection. With teams distributed across several European countries, meeting face-to-face helped strengthen collaboration and shared understanding—an essential ingredient for effective integration work.
Use Cases, General Assembly & Exploitation Workshop (18 March 2026)
In the middle of the Integration Week, the consortium held its General Assembly & Exploitation Meeting on 18 March 2026 at CRF. The agenda included a visit to CRF facilities and the use case, followed by General Assembly discussions and an Exploitation Workshop.
The on-site tour helped ground the discussions of the week in a real industrial environment and connected the integration work directly to the practical application setting at CRF.
Partners used the General Assembly to align on project governance and next steps, including a short overview of the upcoming time in the project.
The Exploitation Workshop by SEZ then focused on IP protection and advancing clarity on ownership across the project’s Key Exploitable Results (KERs) – supporting a structured pathway from research output to future impact.
Thank you to our hosts and partners
A warm thank you to our hosts at CRF, especially Davide Masera, for supporting the week with excellent organization and on-site logistics.
And thank you to every partner team contributing throughout the week – through technical integration work, open knowledge exchange, and constructive collaboration.