• Human-centric innovation supported by technologies like exoskeletons, digital twins, collaborative AI, and XR, ensuring safety, efficiency, and fairness by design.
  • Empowerment of workers in dynamic work environments through co-creation, social innovation, and participation in living labs.
  • Emergence of new job profiles, requiring digital, social, and green skills, supported by continuous learning and certification.
  • Industry 5.0 spirit, enhancing human-machine collaboration, fostering innovation from young professionals and new actors (e.g., fablabs).
  • Development of a trustworthy, inclusive internet based on European values, decentralisation, and user control over data and identity.
  • Ethical and transparent AI, compliant with the AI Act, eliminating bias, improving robustness, and advancing cognitive AI (symbolic + data-driven learning).
  • Generative AI focus, through foundational models and language technologies, with broad applications in media, industry, and public services.
  • Support for SMEs and startups to access and develop AI, robotics, photonics, and high-performance computing.
  • Digital commons and open-source ecosystems based on collaboration and European sovereignty.
  • New software engineering and AI-driven low-code tools to close the digital skills gap and enable open distributed systems.