Introduction Due to their complexity, many processes cannot be automated or not completely automated by conventional technical solutions, because the operational control of these processes

Musculoskeletal pain has increasingly become a condition prevalent in the last 40 years, and the reason is mostly associated with sedentary behaviour and physical dormancy1.

As the COVID-19 pandemic is still ongoing and has led to an unprecedented shutdown of public and economic life throughout European countries, the virus also

DIH4CPS aims to develop a network of DIHs in the Embedded and Cyber Physical Systems domain, by identifying and materializing service-based collaboration processes among them.

Between 15-17 January all 33 partners of the project met in Lisbon to kick-off the project called Fostering DIHs for Embedding Interoperability in Cyber-Physical Systems