NEWS | HAL4SDV

On 8 October 2026, four European research and innovation projects — HAL4SDV, Shift2SDV, CODE4EV and UP2DATE4SDV — came together for a joint workshop.
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On June 25–26, the HAL4SDV consortium gathered in Munich, Germany, for the project’s second official review meeting.
HAL4SDV was represented as a premium partner alongside digital.auto at Bosch Connected World 2026, which brought together over 1700 participants this year.
The HAL4SDV project successfully convened its first External Experts Advisory Board (EEAB) meeting, marking an important step in ensuring continuous improvement and alignment with industry and research expectations.
At the end of April, 2026, the HAL4SDV project was represented at the 17th ITS European Congress 2026 in Istanbul.
On April 22-23, 2026, our partner Tomas Mrovec from VSB – Technical University of Ostrava took stage at the COVESA All Member Meeting and gave the presentation - Shift Education and Research to SDV: VSS implementation in Experimental and Virtual SDV platform.
On 21-23 April, 2026, the HAL4SDV project was presented at OCX Community days in Brussels, Belgium.
On 20th-22nd of April, 2026, HAL4SDV partner Matthias Stammler from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) participated in the DATE 2026 conference, representing the joint collaboration between KIT, UNIMORE, and FZI within the HAL4SDV project.
On the 10th-12th of March 2026, HAL4SDV partner Mario Driussi from Virtual Vehicle participated in the Embedded World 2026 conference and exhibition.
On 24th-25th of February, 2026, the HAL4SDV consortium gathered in Munich for a face-to-face meeting.
On the 17th February, 2026, HAL4SDV partners: University of Oulu, VAMOS Ecosystem, Unikie, and VTT organised an SDV Breakfast in Tampere, Finland.
On the 10th-12th February, 2026, the HAL4SDV project was presented at RTR 2026 conference in Brussels.
On the 28th-29th of January 2026, the HAL4SDV project, represented by Andreas Eckel, Amra Avdic Causevic, and Edin Arnautovic, joined the TechTalk2026 strategic event to share progress toward Software-Defined Vehicles.
On the 27th of January, HAL4SDV project was presented at HiPEAC2026 conference in Krakow, Poland.
On the 3-4 December, 2025, HAL4SDV project was presented at EFECS 2025, the key European event for electronic components, embedded systems, and digital innovation.
On the 8th-9th of October, 2025, HAL4SDV partner Ahmed Khalaf from Aumovio participated in Driving The Future Symposium, hosted by the TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology (Technical University of Munich).
On the 25th September 2025, the HAL4SDV project was presented within the Software-Defined Vehicle (SDV) corner together with the partner projects FEDERATE and Shift2SDV.
This year’s Autonomous main event marked the fifth anniversary of the Spotlight Session “From Concept to Reality: Enabling Safe, Trustworthy, and Software-Defined Autonomous Systems with European Innovation”.
This Autumn, the HAL4SDV consortium recently gathered in Coimbra, Portugal, for a productive Face-to-Face General Assembly Meeting, kindly hosted by project partner Critical Software.
On the 3rd–4th of September, 2025, the HAL4SDV project together with FEDERATE was presented at the INSIDE Connect 2025, organised by the INSIDE industry association in Malaga.
We are pleased to announce that the next HAL4SDV face-to-face meeting will take place on September 16th – 17th, 2025 in Coimbra, Portugal.
HAL4SDV’s joint publication, “Querying Large Automotive Software Models: Agentic vs. Direct LLM Approaches”, has been awarded the Best Paper Award at the 2nd International Generative AI and Computational Language Modelling Conference (GACLM 2025).
The HAL4SDV project Steering Board recently gathered in Vienna at TTTECH to reflect on feedback from the first Review Meeting and discuss the key recommendations moving forward.
HAL4SDV partners recently concluded two exciting days at the 1st Project Review Meeting held at the Chips Joint Undertaking (Chips JU) premises in Brussels.
Project coordinator Andreas Eckel from TTTech took the stage at the European SDV Ecosystem Summit 2025 in Munich
The next edition of EFECS—the European Forum for Electronic Components and Systems—will take place in Malta on December 3–4, 2025, at the Hilton Hotel in St. Julian’s.
On the 28th-29th of January 2025, HAL4SDV was represented at the TechTalk strategic event, which took place in Athens, Greece.
On the 5th of December, 2024, HAL4SDV was featured at EFECS 2024, held in Ghent, Belgium.
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On October 22, HAL4SDV partner Patrick Pype from NXP Semiconductors delivered a compelling presentation
On September 25th and 26th, 2024, the HAL4SDV project recently achieved an exciting milestone with its first face-to-face meeting.
On September 24th, 2024, the HAL4SDV project was showcased at The Autonomous Main Event in Vienna.
This gathering marked a pivotal moment in the project, bringing together the talented and innovative team.
"Driving the Future: The Rise of Software-Defined Vehicles."
On the 24th of September 2024, HAL4SDV project Coordinator Andreas Eckel will present the project at The Autonomous Main event
Second meeting dedicated to starting Transversal activities focusing on specific, dedicated topics of the HAL4SDV project.