Within the VARIES project 23 partners from seven European countries work on maximizing the potential of variability in safety critical embedded systems, which underlie additional requirements. Therefore, the VARIES project team will develop an extensible reference platform for the “Variability Management”.

The BMBF funded project Software Platform Embedded Systems XT (SPES_XT) is composed of 21 partners from industrial companies and research institutions working on topics like the seamless, methodic and tool-based integration of model and analysis technologies into the development process of embedded systems.

Quality of life in an urban environment depends strongly on ecological, social and mobility aspects. Based on these assumptions, the GeMo project develops innovative processes and applications for enabling the collaborative use of different mobility resources - especially in the area of electric mobility.

The On-Board Computer System Architecture (OBC-SA) project is developing an architectural framework for future on-board computer systems to enable the modular integration of systems with different performance and functional characteristics into the IT infrastructure of a spacecraft.

In the ASCENS (Automatic Service-Component Ensembles) project, researchers from SQC are collaborating with scientists from across Europe in an attempt to develop theories of self-organisation of sensor networks. One Example is a traffic management system which integrates information from all available resources.

The SPRINT project - short for Software Platform for Integration of Engineering and Things - aims at overcoming the challenges presented by today's silo'ed approach, where the actual integration and testing of various components is only possible once a system can be completely assembled.

The changes in energy policy pose new challenges to the power grid. Thermal power stations, windmills, photovoltaic plants as well as energy accumulators shall all be fed into the power supply system without causing any fluctuations. The control of such decentralized systems is performed using the VHPready standard.

In the automotive sector, AUTOSAR with its current release 4.1 is constantly gaining in importance. Thanks to an increasing degree of maturity, more and more OEMs – and therefore also suppliers – adapt their processes to AUTOSAR and produce AUTOSAR-conform control units, software components, basic software modules, or corresponding tools.

TTCN-3 is a standardized technology for test automation and a language for the specification of exchangeable software tests. It was designed by the European Telecommunication Standards Institute (ETSI). In the OT3-Project, Fraunhofer FOKUS has made available an open source implementation of language and of execution interface as well as execution environment.

The ReqMech project intends to develop and deliver a Requirements Engineering Framework that enhances the product development process of small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) in the field of mechatronics.

In the BMBF-funded research project “BIZWARE”, a consortium of two research institutions and eight industry partners from Berlin develop a “model and software factory”. Different software applications are modeled, generated and executed on the basis of domain specific languages (DSL).

The REMICS project deals with the issues of migration of existing applications to a Cloud environment using MDE technologies. The System Quality Center (SQC) is concerned with the quality assurance in the migration process and the creation of an adequate model-based tool environment.