At the MATISSE General Assembly in Rome in March, over 50 members met to strengthen the MATISSE framework for the model-based development of trustworthy digital twins. The meeting opened with the first MATISSE hackathon, in which LieberLieber’s team took 2nd place.
During the hackathon on the first day of the meeting, use case providers and solution developers worked together to create prototypes for architectural solutions to nine real-world challenges. An important goal here is the model-based development of trustworthy digital twins.
The LieberLieber team (Konrad Wieland, Robert Sicher) consisted of representatives from Siemens (Juliana Kainz, Danilo Valerio, Richard Comploi-Taupe, Dominik Gorickic), the University of Innsbruck (Philipp Gritsch) and the Johannes Kepler University Linz (Luca Berardinelli). The three winners were selected following the teams’ presentations on the basis of innovation, feasibility and potential impact. Konrad Wieland comments: ‘We are very proud of our 2nd place in the MATISSE Hackathon on digital twins. Our approach to the use case ‘Optimisation of microgrid control via a digital twin’ seems to have convinced many of those present. This gives us even more energy to continue working on our highly topical task.’ The busy day ended with a joint dinner, where the participants celebrated the winners of the hackathon in a relaxed, convivial setting.
Open door event and technical workshops
On the second day, over 20 external stakeholders were welcomed to the MATISSE open door event, which was dedicated to knowledge sharing and networking. In a workshop led by Alessio Bucaioni (MDU) and Luca Berardinelli (JKU), the key concepts of Digital Twin Engineering and Model-Driven Engineering were presented. In the subsequent feedback session, external and internal participants exchanged their findings in order to plan the next steps.
The MATISSE partners used the afternoon for a kick-off workshop on the architecture to be developed, followed by another workshop on the partners’ utilisation plans.
The final day was dedicated to the strategic direction and coordination of the large-scale project. After the first hackathon and the open day, the MATISSE community is now confidently looking ahead to the next plenary session in September 2025 and the further path to trustworthy and interoperable digital twin solutions.
