EUCLORA (European Cloud Computing Research Alliance AISBL) is a European non-profit research alliance established to provide long-term institutional stewardship for Europe’s operational cloud fabric – the combined substrate and control layers that underpin cloud infrastructure.
Its purpose is to ensure that hyperscaler-scale cloud capability in Europe remains operable, governable, and evolvable over time, independently of individual vendors, platforms, or product lifecycles.
EUCLORA operates as a neutral coordination and stewardship body, bringing together research, public-sector perspectives, and industry expertise around open-source software, shared governance, and durable infrastructure foundations.
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.
Where helpful, EUCLORA aligns its design targets and assessment language with the European Commission’s Cloud Sovereignty Framework (including the SEAL levels):
Vision
A Europe where cloud infrastructure remains continuously operable and accountable – and where critical capabilities can be sustained, improved, and governed in the European public interest over decades.
Mission
To build and steward open-source infrastructure software and reference architectures for Europe’s operational cloud fabric, and to anchor them in durable governance and institutional commitment so improvements can propagate and compound across the European cloud ecosystem.
In practice, EUCLORA will:
- steward InnoFabric as a shared open software foundation for the substrate, control, and federation layers;
- coordinate shared research and development across participating organisations;
- define and maintain auditable metrics and benchmarks for operational capability;
- support reference deployments and neutral test environments that make interoperability and performance measurable.
Founding context
EUCLORA was initiated by long-time European technology entrepreneurs with extensive experience in building and operating large-scale internet infrastructure, and with a shared commitment to public-interest technology and European digital sovereignty.
The Alliance is established as an independent, permanent institution, distinct from any single commercial entity, and designed to evolve over time through broad participation and shared governance.
Camilla Ley Valentin
President · Founding contributor · Strategy, governance, and digital policy
Camilla Ley Valentin is an experienced technology leader, entrepreneur, and advisor across public and private sectors.
She is a co-founder of Queue-it and has led strategy, people, and operations through periods of international growth. Her work focuses on digital policy, inclusion, and cross-sector collaboration, with a strong emphasis on ensuring that shared European digital infrastructure is developed responsibly and sustainably.
Niels Henrik Sodemann
Treasurer · Founding contributor · Architecture, infrastructure, and operations
Niels Henrik Sodemann has nearly three decades of experience designing, scaling, and operating critical internet infrastructure.
He is a co-founder of Queue-it and has worked extensively on large-scale, high-availability systems used globally. His current focus is on open European cloud architecture, including the substrate and control layers required for public-interest digital infrastructure.
For enquiries related to EUCLORA, please write to hello@euclora.org.