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.
In 2026, we are planning it at the CNRS offices in Brussels from 14-18th September. While in-person participation is limited to project partners and invited speakers, some of the session will be available for public streaming, more details on this will be provided soon. Find the full programme at a glance here and a more detailed sessions overview below. Please note while the programme is finalised, we reserve the right to tweak it slightly if any needs for that arise.
The Satellite Event: White-Label Platform Beta will take place on Wednesday, the 16th of September 2026. Please note that this session will take place at the OPERAS Headquarters: Quai aux Briques 76 · 1000 Bruxelles, Belgium. Find more info below the schedule table for day 3.
Day 1 (14 Sep)
All sessions are in the main room
14:00 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 | Medium Room | Small Room |
| 9:00-11:00 CET GRAPHIA KG: Technical Update and UI Co-Design | 9:00-13:00 CET GRAPHIA WP2 Development sprint | 9:00-11:00 CET The GRAPHIA Rulebook: Rules of participation to the federation |
| Combined session pairing a technical update on the GRAPHIA knowledge graph with a co-design session for its UI, also involving industrial players. | More info will be provided soon. | 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. |
| 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 (main room) – LUMEN | ||
| 14:15-15:15 CET LUMIS Vision and (live) demonstration | 14:15-15:15 CET SSH Citation API | |
| More info will be provided soon. | 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 | 15:45-17:15 CET Translatathon | |
| More info will be provided soon. | 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 | Medium Room | Small Room |
| 9:00-13:00 CET LUMIS brainstorming | 9:00-10:45 CET Quagga Benchmark | |
| More info will be provided soon. | 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 | 14:00-17:00 CET Podcast Sessions | |
| 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. | More info will be provided soon. | |
| 16:00-17:00 CET Ontology Streamline | ||
| More info will be provided soon. |
Satellite Event: White-Label Platform Beta
Please note that this session will take place at the OPERAS Headquarters: Quai aux Briques 76 · 1000 Bruxelles, Belgium
14:00-17:00 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 | Medium Room | Small Room |
| 9:00-13:00 CET KER Sustainability | 9:00-10:30 CET Next-Gen Instruments, Tools & Workflows | |
| 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. | This session explores how next-generation instruments, tools, and workflows are reshaping the production, integration, and reuse of data in the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH), with a focus on the heritage science domain. Building on the approach developed in GRAPHIA Task 3.1, it will present a range of advanced instruments and tools supporting the full SSH data lifecycle, highlighting their role in enabling the creation of knowledge-graph-ready data. | |
| 11:00-12:00 CET Early curation of metadata and paradata for digital activities using W7 ANAMNESI | ||
| More info will be provided soon. | ||
| 13:00-14:00 Lunch Break | ||
| 14:00-15:30 CET Governance in Practice | ||
| A 90-minute session in two parts. Part 1 is a governance panel: a discussion with experts from distributed and federated platforms (academic and infrastructure communities) on how governance works in practice – decision-making, coordination across components, community involvement. Part 2 is a component-focused discussion: moving from the panel to selected LUMEN components (incl. perspectives for data federation and EOSC integration) to discuss implementation pathways with stakeholders and gather feedback on constraints, adoption, and sustainability. | ||
| 16:00-17:15 CET Live Podcast Interview More info will be provided soon. |
Day 5 (18 Sep)
All sessions will be in the main room.
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 – Individual Partner Exploitation – 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 – End of IPL 2026
If you are interested in the previous IPL that took place in 2025, you can watch the video recordings here.