As Europe creates a pathway for the understanding and development of the Cloud, Edge and IoT Continuum and supporting research and innovation initiatives to develop applications across the continuum, the paradigm also incorporates development of swarm and decentralized applications. In edge computing scenarios where there is a need for decentralized decisionmaking and coordination among edge devices, swarm computing principles can be applied; such a decentralized and selforganizing concept and architecture fit particularly well hyperdistributed, sovereigntyenabling, heterogeneous data management challenges, such as the ones found in European Data Spaces. Additionally, edge devices can act as agents in a swarm, collectively making decisions and adapting to changing conditions without relying on a central controller.

In this session, we will bring together the 5 Horizon Europe projects answering to the swarm computing call and are addressing the everincreasing complexities of developing correct and performant heterogeneous swarm systems.