Welcome to the Fifth Edition of the WILSON Newsletter!
Dear WILSON Community,
Since our last edition, WILSON has been busy. We co-organised our first public workshop in Eindhoven, published new research, presented the project at major European events and reached the final of the .eu Web Awards. In this edition, we look back at these highlights and invite you to our next big event in Switzerland. Let’s dive in! |
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📅 Save the Date: HSLU Data Space Forum – 17 November 2026, Lucerne |
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| After a successful first workshop in Eindhoven, WILSON is heading to Switzerland! Together with Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU), we are co-organising the 5th HSLU Data Space Forum, alongside the project’s 4th General Assembly (17–18 November 2026).
As data becomes an increasingly important resource, organisations face a key question: how can they share and use data across organisational boundaries without giving up control over it? The forum will look at how data spaces are moving from concept to practice, with concrete initiatives, live demonstrations and practical experience.
Programme highlights: Key questions: How can data spaces enable data sovereignty? How can we build successful data ecosystems? How can data be made available for multiple use cases while maintaining control? What does the future of trusted, cross-organisational data sharing look like?
📅 17 November 2026 | 14:00–18:00 CET
📍 HSLU Technik & Architektur, Technikumstrasse 21, 6048 Horw, Switzerland + online
The speaker line-up will be announced soon. Stay tuned! |
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🏆 WILSON is a Finalist in the 2026 .eu Web Awards! |
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The WILSON website is one of five finalists in the Sustainability Champion category of the 2026 .eu Web Awards, organised by EURid. This year’s edition received 193 nominations from 22 countries. Public voting is open until 31 October 2026, and the winners will be announced online on 4 November 2026.
🔗 Vote for WILSON |
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🌍 Looking Back: Data Spaces for Construction – Eindhoven, 21 May 2026 |
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WILSON and the NWO KIC UPSCALE project jointly organised the “Data Spaces for Construction” workshop at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). Researchers and industry stakeholders explored how interoperable, secure and trustworthy data sharing can support both smart building operations and circular material value chains. The programme included keynotes by Frank Hermans (InnoTractor) and Prof. Markus König (Ruhr University Bochum), tech demonstrator sessions, and discussions across business, governance and technical tracks.
🎬 You can watch the Welcome & Keynotes and Tech Demonstrators. |
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WILSON General Assembly at TU/e |
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Right after the workshop, partners met at TU/e for the General Assembly. They reviewed project progress and technical updates on digital twins, data interoperability and lifecycle data solutions. Interactive workshops and demos covered use-case progress across the pilot countries. Many thanks to TU/e for hosting. |
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📅 WILSON on the Road: Recent Events and Conferences |
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Our team has been busy sharing the latest project developments at key events: |
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• 5th 4TU/14UAS Research Day (Enschede, 15–16 April): TU/e presented work on the Digital Building Logbook and validated it with Italian pilot BIM data.
🔗 For more details |
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• Digital Building of the Future – FHI National Event (Leusden, NL, 3 June 2026): Prof. Pieter Pauwels (TU/e) gave an invited talk titled “Your building, your data”. He gave an overview of how building data such as point clouds, 3D models and system data is used across building automation, circular reuse of materials and site logistics. He also looked at how secure, interoperable access to building data could become easier in the near future. 🔗 Read more about our participation |
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• Circular Society Co-Creation Event 2026 (Driebergen, NL, 3 June 2026): Prof. Pieter Pauwels (TU/e) joined the speaker line-up of this co-creation event. It was organised by the Institute for a Circular Society of the EWUU Alliance and brought together researchers and societal stakeholders to shape interdisciplinary ideas for a circular society.
🔗 Read more about speakers
📎 Read more about track |
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• EU Sustainable Energy Week 2026 (Brussels, 9–11 June): Ravi Sharma (TU/e) represented WILSON at the Smart Energy Cluster stand, met stakeholders from the EC, CINEA and industry, and met the WILSON Project Officer.
🔗 Read more about our participation |
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• EC3 Technical Workshop (Corfu, 14–15 July): TU/e co-organised a workshop on building data hubs for circular material flows with UPSCALE and TKI Dinalog.
🔗 For more details |
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• SASBE 2026 (Cambridge, 22–24 July): A WILSON paper by TU/e was accepted at the conference.
🔗 For more details |
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• PropTech Connect (London, 9–10 September): Fergus Trim from Broadoak Asset Management represented WILSON and explored AI-enabled solutions for property and asset management.
🔗 Read more about our participation |
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• 5th Built4People Stakeholders Forum (Brussels, 7 October): Paola Mazzucchelli (CIRCE) represented WILSON at the forum, which brought together policymakers, industry and researchers to discuss how innovation and collaboration can build a more resilient European built environment.
🔗 Read more about our participation |
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🤝 Partner Spotlight: IDSA Tech Talk |
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Our partner IDSA hosted a Tech Talk on 10 September 2026 introducing the Data Spaces Standardization Landscape v2.0 position paper and opening the discussion towards version 3.0.
🔗 For more details |
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#8, WILSON Patent Analysis Report: This release gives an overview of the IP landscape in data-driven building and energy management. It covers technology trends, key players and global patenting activity, and helps guide the protection of WILSON’s Key Exploitable Results.
🔗 Read the full press release |
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#9, The EU Data Act and the Future of Building Data Spaces: Why It Matters for WILSON: This release explains how the Data Act’s principles align with WILSON’s federated digital twinning, interoperable data spaces and Personalised Data Hubs (PDHs).
🔗 Read the full press release |
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WILSON partners have recently published a new scientific contribution that advances secure, privacy-aware data sharing in smart buildings.
SmartData Interlock: An Access Control Architecture and Data Exchange Model for Secure Data Ecosystem in Smart Buildings
Published in IEEE Transactions on Privacy (2026) by TU/e. The paper presents a privacy-aware, sovereignty-aware access control and data exchange framework for smart buildings that combines PDHs with a graph-based access control model.
🔗 Read the full article here |
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Stay Connected! Follow us on our social media channels and visit our website for the latest updates and insights from the WILSON project. Let’s shape the future of sustainable, data-driven built environments together!
Thank you for being part of our journey! |
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