Overview
Logistics is evolving from simply managing goods flows to coordinating information, material, financial, and energy flows, demanding cooperative business models. The EU is promoting the development of tools and platforms to enhance information exchange, collaboration and decision support. There have been significant recent developments of cloud collaboration platforms for logistics service providers. However. there remain key opportunities to enhance logistics through cooperative business models, better integration of public authorities and port systems, semantically enabled data exchange for interoperability, and robust change management processes that boost business resilience, responsiveness, and alignment with technological innovation.
The SELIS project developed the SELIS Community Nodes (SCNs), an open-architecture network of logistics communities designed to enhance supply chain collaboration and support green transportation chains across Europe. SCNs enabled secure, cooperative information sharing by linking participants’ existing systems through a lightweight ICT infrastructure, allowing nodes to control data publication and subscription. SELIS integrated diverse logistics perspectives and established a strategic innovation agenda for sustainable logistics, leveraging EU intellectual property from over 40 projects. The platform was tested through eight Living Labs, which provided valuable data for continuous innovation, driving the large-scale adoption of SELIS across pan-European logistics.
Objectives
Produce the SELIS Reference Framework to consolidate the project baseline knowledge and to rationalise and focus project research and innovation activities.
Develop and simulate pan European Green Logistics Strategies (EGLS) Models.
Develop the SELIS ICT Platform and Infrastructure.
Set up a Capacity Building Programme for the EU-wide adoption of SELIS Community Nodes, including a detailed roadmap to strengthen logistics companies’ knowledge and capabilities, focused on three pillars: infrastructure, human capital, and organisational development.
Develop representative SELIS oriented Logistics Solutions for a complementary thematically and geographically diverse set of high impact Living Labs, showcasing the first operational Shared European Logistics Information Space, and allowing direct analysis of the impact and benefits from different stakeholder perspectives, thus stimulating European wide buy-in.
Organise SELIS Communications and Exploitation actions and make Policy recommendations.
eBOS Role in the Project
In SELIS, eBOS led the development of the SELIS Knowledge Base and Observatory to monitor key technologies such as communication platforms, cloud computing, and big data analytics throughout the project. They defined the content structure, focusing on organising APIs, software drivers, and tools, particularly relating to IoT and sensors. eBOS also contributed to creating a taxonomy of high-level Value-Added Services aligned with the Living Labs’ requirements. The knowledge base continuously tracked relevant EU projects, standards, and innovation trends to support SELIS technology advancement and ensure up-to-date, comprehensive information management.
Building on these efforts, eBOS took charge of developing pre-packaged application templates (palettes) based on SELIS business innovations to accelerate value creation for Living Labs and community members. These templates included business object models, semantic entities (ontologies and knowledge graphs), process workflows, and graphical presentation libraries, enabling rapid prototyping of applications. The packaged models leveraged SELIS Community Nodes’ runtimes, connectivity, and data sources, allowing solutions to combine traditional business logic, reactive programming, machine learning, and knowledge graphs, facilitating the transition from prototypes to fully operational business process dashboards.
Alongside these technical responsibilities, eBOS also developed the project’s website.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 690588.
