FAME Pilots Showcase 2025 – Part 1: How FAME Is Shaping the Future of Sustainable, Data-Driven Finance
On 13 November 2025, the FAME Project welcomed 29 participants to the first session of its Pilots Showcase Series, a morning dedicated to exploring how FAME’s technologies are transforming financial decision-making, climate risk analysis, and industrial data monetisation across Europe.
What unfolded over the next 90 minutes was more than a pilot update—it was a journey through the emerging reality of data as a tradable asset, and a glimpse into how FAME’s federated marketplace is enabling that future.
Setting the Stage: Why FAME Exists
The session opened with a grounding question from Dr. John Soldatos (Innov-Acts): “How do we create value from data in a world where data assets are exploding, yet remain extraordinarily difficult to share or monetize?” His answer set the tone for the rest of the event.
Today, organizations generate more data than ever. AI models depend on it, business decisions rely on it, and regulations increasingly govern it. Yet, there is still no seamless, trusted, and interoperable way to monetize data assets—whether these are datasets, AI models, analytics services, or predictive tools.
FAME was built to change that.
Dr. Soldatos introduced the FAME Data Marketplace, a secure and decentralized environment where data assets:
- Are tokenized into standards-compliant digital assets.
- Maintain data sovereignty, with full owner control.
- Are discovered and traded through a federated, FAIR-aligned catalog.
- Follow EU compliance frameworks (Data Act, GDPR, AI Act).
- Use transparent smart contracts for pricing, access, and provenance.
It was a strong vision: a marketplace built for the complexities of financial and industrial data—yet designed to work as intuitively as the digital platforms we use daily.
Pilot 5 – Bringing Transparency to ESG Scorecards and Portfolio Optimization
Led by JRC Capital and KM3, Pilot 5 addressed a central challenge in sustainable finance: How can ESG investing be made transparent, explainable, and customizable? Financial professionals increasingly need trustworthy ESG data, but often face a variety of barriers. These include fragmented sources, proprietary scoring methods, low transparency, limited integration with traditional financial models.
Pilot 5’s solution, integrated directly into the FAME Marketplace, consisted of two major innovations:
- ESG Online Reporting & Ranking Engine: An AI-driven engine that aggregates ESG and market indicators, screens them through configurable multi-criteria models, and produces ranked ESG asset lists.
- ESG-Aware Portfolio Optimization: Users define their investment and sustainability preferences; the system matches them to one of several optimized ESG portfolio templates.
The message of the pilot was clear: ESG tools can be transparent and tailored, if built on a platform designed for trustworthy data exchange.
Pilot 6 – Climate Predictions You Can Actually Use
Pilot 6, led by environmental statisticians and climate-modeling experts from The Norwegian Computing Centre, shifted the focus from finance to physical climate risk. Their key question: If climate change reshapes financial risk, how do we provide meaningful, localized, and scientifically sound climate analytics?
Climate data is abundant, but not usable without extensive post-processing. Pilot 6 showcased how FAME enables the creation and monetization of climate-aware analytics:
- Climate-Aware Real Estate Pricing: Localized climate projections revealed expected 10–15% declines in property values in parts of California due to extreme heat.
- Extreme Event & Storm Loss Analytics: Regional storm-loss estimates produced new data assets useful for insurers and reinsurers.
- Climate Sentiment Index: A machine-learning model analyzing 20 years of climate-related news to capture how climate awareness impacts stock performance.
These use cases demonstrated that climate risk can be translated into financial insight, and that FAME provides the mechanisms needed to distribute those insights across the ecosystem.
Pilot 7 – Turning Industrial IoT Data Into High-Value Assets
Led by Motor Oil Hellas, Pilot 7 explored one of the most complex data environments: industrial IoT. With more than 8 TB of historical refinery sensor data, 2 million daily readings, and measurements across temperature, pressure, vibration, etc., Pilot 7 sought to answer a difficult but vital question: How can industrial operational data be transformed into monetizable, trustworthy digital assets?
Their two use cases illustrated the potential:
- Data Quality Assessment & Price Formation: Data assets receive objective quality scores (accuracy, completeness, consistency, volume), enabling transparent and fair valuation.
- Predictive Maintenance & Anomaly Detection: Using LSTM models and explainable AI, the pilot reduced unplanned downtime by 35%—creating high-value predictive analytics assets ready for trading on FAME.
Their takeaway: Industrial data becomes an asset class only when paired with quality assessment, transparency, and secure trading infrastructure, exactly what FAME delivers.
A Walkthrough of the Marketplace
The event concluded with a guided demonstration of the FAME Data Marketplace led by the University of Piraeus:
- Organization onboarding through the FAME Federation Governance Application (FFGA).
- Searching and purchasing assets through the Data Assets Catalog (FDAC).
- Publishing data assets using tokenization and smart contracts.
- Exploring learning resources through the FAME Learning Centre.
Participants were invited to explore the marketplace and onboard themselves and their organizations.
What Comes Next: Join Us on November 20th for Part 2
The story doesn’t end here. On Thursday, 20 November 2025, the FAME Pilots Showcase continues with Part 2, focusing on the innovations behind:
- Pilot 1 – Financial Recommendation Engine for Families: AI-driven, personalized financial recommendations integrated into Universo’s customer ecosystem.
- Pilot 2 – Embedded Financial Services in a Citizen Wallet: Enhancing everyday public services, such as transportation and parking, by embedding financial capabilities directly into citizen applications.
- Pilot 3 – Personalized Collaborative Intelligence: Combining data from multiple organizations to deliver more accurate embedded financial services, under a secure, privacy-preserving “facts-as-a-service” model.
- Pilot 4 – EU Funds Application Process Made Easy: Automating financial advisory workflows so banks can better support SMEs receiving public funding.
Together, these pilots demonstrate how the FAME Marketplace is enabling solutions in embedded finance, collaborative intelligence, and AI-driven financial services. In Part 2, we will showcase the transformative impact on financial services, citizen engagement, and public funding workflows.
Register here for the FAME Pilots Showcase Part 2.
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Author: Bryan Lineweaver (Inneürope)
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