Innovation Prototyping Lab 2026 – Where Minds Connect and Innovation Emerges

Event Details

The Innovation Prototyping Lab (IPL) is a co-creation event that brings together the GRAPHIA and LUMEN communities for a dynamic week of collaboration, creativity, and connection.

Day 1 (14 Sep)

All sessions are in the main room (CNRS) and live streamed

14:00 – 14:15 CET Welcome and Intro – GRAPHIA

14:15-15:15 CET – T4.3 Modules – This workshop aims at presenting the current state of implementation of three T4.3 modules: AI-based classifier, Autotagger NLP and Language Identification. The former is a module that performs automatic subject classification of input documents (e.g. publications from GoTriple), while the second is a module responsible for the extraction of named entities and properties from publications’ fulltext. Finally, the Language Identification service returns, given a textual input, the language in which it is written, together with the probability of this prediction, which can be used to filter possible uncertain results (which are usually wrong predictions) or give a “confidence” score to the user.

15:45-17:00 CET – Readiness Mapping for GRAPHIA Use Cases and Pilots with the OPERAS Innovation Lab Framework – This 90-minute hands-on session tests the OPERAS Innovation Framework (10 criteria for assessing innovative SSH outputs), developed in D4.1 of OPERAS-PLUS, against real GRAPHIA use cases and pilots. Use case owners apply the framework to their project in small groups. Then together, co-design a readiness map – a visual self-assessment instrument (not TRL-based) that each team can take away and continue using. The session also generates structured feedback on the framework itself, feeding into an updated version (v2) for the future.

Day 2 (15 Sep)

Main Room (CNRS), live streamed	Medium Room (CNRS)
9:00-11:00 CET – GRAPHIA Knowledge Graph: Technical Update and UI Co-Design Combined session pairing a technical update on the GRAPHIA knowledge graph with a co-design session for its UI, also involving industrial players.	9:00-13:00 CET – WP2 Development sprint More info will be provided soon
11:00-13.00 CET – What interface(s) for the GRAPHIA Federated Knowledge Graph? From Quagga Agent and Beyond The idea of this workshop is to continue the brainstorming about KG interfaces that was started at IPL 1. The starting point for the workshop will be the conversational interface to GRAPHIA’s federated KG that the Quagga agent offers. Participants will have a chance to test it and give feedback on it. Then, the co-design part will open a guided brainstorm to imagine future KG interfaces to be developed beyond Quagga’s conversational interface.	/
13:00-14:00 CET  Lunch Break
14:00-14:15 CET – Welcome and Intro – LUMEN	/
14:15-15:15 CET – Building LUMIS: Vision and Early Capabilities LUMIS is a collaborative environment that orchestrates open-source tools to build, manage, publish and maintain FAIR-by-design semantic artefacts, following industrial standards, methodology and best practices. LUMIS is currently in development, working toward an MVP ready for beta testing.  This session gives a first live look at its capabilities ahead of that milestone.	14:15-15:15 CET – An introduction to the SSH Citation Index API This workshop aims at presenting to the consortium the SSH Citation Index API. Considering that it is due as a deliverable at M24, the feedback we will receive will be extremely useful for finalising the deliverable. The aim of the workshop is to present the API’s functionalities, demonstrates its usage, and gather additional requirements from stakeholders.
15:45-17:15 CET – EOSC Innovation Centre: KER Introductions and Panel Short introductions to LUMEN’s four Key Exploitable Results (White-Label Platform; Federation of Platforms; LUMIS; EOSC Innovation Centre) followed by a moderated panel discussion.	15:45-17:15 CET – Quagga-Benchmark Translatathon An organised translation effort aimed at translating already collected competency questions from Quagga into other languages. The idea is to leverage the linguistic diversity in the consortium and try to make Quagga data available in languages other than English (when possible, and based on language competencies available).

Day 3 (16 Sep)

Main Room (CNRS), live streamed	Medium Room (CNRS)
9:00-13:00 CET – LUMIS Workshop: Beyond MVP LUMIS is a collaborative environment for building and managing FAIR-by-design semantic artefacts, currently in development toward an MVP for beta testing.  This 4-hour workshop looks past that MVP: participants will review the remaining scope, evaluate its business criticality, estimate effort, and jointly prioritise what shapes the 2027 roadmap and beyond	9:00-10:45 CET – Quagga Benchmark Curation of natural language phrases automatically generated from sparql by an LLM. This curation phase is part of the work on the Quagga benchmark being carried out in T4.1.
	11:00-12:30 CET – GRAPHIA Business Portfolio The consortium has agreed that GRAPHIA will not deliver a single business plan but a portfolio of business models, one per KER or cluster of KERs. The four sustainability modes already on record are marketplace listing with community maintenance (KER1, KER5), collaborative open-source stewardship (KER2, KER4), institutional anchoring by RI partners (KER3), and fee-based consultancy and use-case licensing (KER6 and per-case exploitation). This 90-minute working session takes the four sustainability modes and works each in turn.
13:00-14:00 CET  Lunch Break
14:00-15:30 CET – Industry Panel The panel discussion will include industry use cases representatives from the Industry Hub to further discuss the established use cases and explore opportunities on expanding them as well as explore new use case ideas. This will also give the opportunity to the audience to provide their feedback and also define further the value proposition for industry partners.	14:00-16:00 CET – The GRAPHIA Rulebook: Rules of participation to the federation The GRAPHIA Rulebook defines the terms of reference–including governance, function, principles, roles, and scope–of the federation in order to guide its operations and ensure sustainability. As GRAPHIA T5.1 develops the Rulebook in close collaboration with the whole consortium, this workshop will be a validation exercise where GRAPHIA stakeholders may discuss the Rulebook contents.
16:00-17:00 CET – Live Podcast Interview	16:00-17:00 CET – Ontology Streamline – How Far Can we Delegate? LUMIS is a collaborative environment aims to make ontology engineering more accessible. This session starts with the basics: what an ontology is, how it’s built and used, then opens the floor to discuss which parts of ontology development could be delegated from experts to business owners or non-experts?

Satellite Event: White-Label Platform Beta

Please note that this session will take place at the OPERAS Headquarters: Quai aux Briques 76

13:00-17:00 CEST

This session provides a comprehensive overview of the White-Label Platform and its Beta version, followed by a dedicated discussion with prospective users to gather early-stage development insights. Following the break, participants will engage in hands-on testing to evaluate the interface and initial functionalities.

Day 4 (17 Sep)

Main Room (CNRS), live streamed	Medium Room (CNRS)
9:00-10:30 CET – Early Curation of Metadata and Paradata for Building Knowledge Graph Compliant Datasets in Heritage Science Application This session explores how next-generation instruments, tools, and workflows are reshaping the production, integration, and reuse of data in SSH, with a focus on the heritage science domain. Building on the approach developed in GRAPHIA WP3, it will present a range of advanced instruments and tools supporting the improvement of SSH data lifecycle with semantically enriched datasets. In particular, three demos will be delivered: the workflow for enriching the catalogue of next-gen SSH instruments and tools through SSHOC, and ANAMNESIS a W7 based metadata management platform dedicated to data provenance. Finally the mobile application Dür.air for digitisation activities will be showcased to demonstrate how next gen tools with built-in semantic layers can deliver Knowledge Graph ready data.	/
11:00-13:00 CET – LUMEN KERs Unique Value Proposition This session is a combined workshop and sprint to first brainstorm contents of individual partner exploitation plans and then a co-working sprint session wherein a representative from each partner drafts their exploitation plan using a template from the Horizon Results Booster service.	/
13:00-14:00 CET  Lunch Break
14:00-16:00 CET – LUMEN KERs Sustainability & Governance 1 This session is a workshop focused on sustainability and governance that aims to refine KER sustainability plans, identify governance model(s), and identify key actions to realise sustainability & governance plans for the WLP (+ components), LUMIS, Data Mesh Framework, and EOSC Innovation Center. This session builds on the KER sustainability plans developed through the first half of 2026 and develops content for D7.2.	/

Day 5 (18 Sep)

All sessions will be in the main room (CNRS) and live streamed.

09:00-10:30 CET – Dissemination 2027 – Produce a domain-specific, community-owned engagement and dissemination plan for 2027 – In 2027, the project enters its final year needing more than technical readiness, it needs communities that are activated, confident, and equipped to engage with its outputs beyond the project lifecycle. It is important to continue exploring how the Scientific Domain Communities (SSH, Mathematics, ESS, Molecular Dynamics) can bridge LUMEN’s Key Exploitable Results or Outcomes and real scientific communities. This 90-minute sprint is designed not to inform domain committee members, but to work with them as co-designers of a 2027 dissemination and engagement strategy. The outputs produced during the session feed directly into WP8 planning. for 2027

11:00-13:00 CET – LUMEN KERs Sustainability & Governance 2 – This session is a workshop focused on sustainability and governance that aims to refine KER sustainability plans, identify governance model(s), and identify key actions to realise sustainability & governance plans for the WLP (+ components), LUMIS, Data Mesh Framework, and EOSC Innovation Center. This session builds on the KER sustainability plans developed through the first half of 2026 and develops content for D7.2.

13:00-14:00 CET  – Lunch Break – End of IPL 2026

If you are interested in the previous IPL that took place in 2025, you can watch the video recordings here and read more info about it here.