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EUCLORA is a non-profit research alliance safeguarding the long-term continuity of Europe’s operational cloud fabric by building open software and stewarding it through shared governance and institutional commitment.
EUCLORA – European Cloud Computing Research Alliance – a European research alliance focused on the long-term operability, governance, and evolution of Europe’s operational cloud fabric.
EUCLORA coordinates research and shared development across Europe’s operational cloud fabric and multi-cloud federation, supported by governance models that ensure long-term autonomy, accountability, and evolution in the European context.
EUCLORA uses “European cloud sovereignty” to mean the condition in which cloud infrastructure can be operated, governed, and evolved within the European Union under effective EU control, subject only to EU law, without reliance on any single vendor, platform, or external authority.
EUCLORA focuses on the structural conditions needed to sustain this sovereignty over time.
EUCLORA is established as a permanent, neutral research alliance to build and steward the open software foundations of Europe’s operational cloud fabric – the combined substrate and control layers – through shared governance and long-term institutional commitment.
Its role is to coordinate research, governance, and shared reference architectures across public institutions, academia, and industry – without acting as a commercial provider.
EUCLORA supports the development and maintenance of open reference architectures for Europe’s operational cloud fabric – substrate, control, and federation layers – including InnoFabric as a shared open software foundation.
These architectures guide interoperable implementations across Europe, enabling diverse cloud environments to operate under common governance principles while remaining locally operated and accountable.