Engineering Digital Twins (EDT) is a national research programme funded by France 2030 (ANR-25-APJN-0001), led by Inria under the direction of Pascale Vicat-Blanc and Benoît Combemale.

Our mission: to build the science of Engineering Digital Twins.

Digital twins are transforming the way we design, operate, and optimise physical systems — from energy networks to territories, from vessels to bioreactors. Yet their engineering remains an open challenge: how do we hybridise physical models and AI? How do we ensure their reliability? How do we make them interoperate at scale?

EDT tackles these fundamental questions through 5 focused research projects:
→ CATALYST — Model hybridisation & management
→ DTCompose — Architecture, composability & interoperability
→ TwinOps — Methodology, development lifecycle & languages
→ Synchronic — Digital coupling & gateway
→ GENUINE — Human–Digital Twin interactions

The programme draws on 40+ real-world use cases spanning energy, industry, space, geography, biology, and environment — contributed by a consortium including Inria, CEA, CNRS, IGN, IFPEN, INRAE, IMT, CNES, CETIM and an industrial Usage Council.

EDT is developing Artemis, an open-source platform for Engineering Digital Twins, and training the next generation of researchers through an ambitious doctoral programme.

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