The ELTRUN E-Business Research Center through its senior researcher Stavros Lounis, participated in the EFFRA General Assembly 2025, held on March 25th, 2025 in Brussels, Belgium, and its two affiliated events co-organized by EFFRA within the framework of Made in Europe Co-Programmed European Partnership and its projects implemented under Horizon Europe, namely:

• the Data, AI, and Digital Twin convergence for efficient and sustainable manufacturing workshop on March 24, 2025 in Brussels, Belgium, hosted by the Circular TwAIn and RE4DY projects funded under the Horizon Europe
• the Digital Manufacturing Industrial Workshop on March 26, 2025 in Brussels, Belgium, co-organized by EFFRA and the 4ZDMCluster encompassing a number of EU-funded projects focused on zero-defect manufacturing.

In the course of the three events fruitful discussions took place with the event participants, project partners and EFFRA Members and valuable insights and interventions were developed.