Market trends show advanced usage of safety-critical systems with novel services based on smart data analytics. Customers require continuous updates to applications and services and seek lower cost (Bill-of-Material, BoM) and easy to install solutions (maintenance) for safety-critical cyber-physical systems (CPS). To respond to these trends, TRANSACT will leverage edge and cloud technologies and establish business partner eco-systems to enhance safety-critical systems in regulated environments. TRANSACT will transform local safety critical CPS into distributed safety-critical CPS solutions with a heterogeneous architecture composed of components along a device-edge-cloud continuum. The distributed solutions incorporating data and cloud services will simplify the CPS devices, reducing their software footprint, and consequently their BoM and Lower of Cost or Market. By also integrating AI services into distributed CPS, TRANSACT will enable fast development of innovative value-based services and business models leading to faster market introduction in the various multi-billion euro markets addressed by TRANSACT. GUT will contribute to the strengthening of industrial competitiveness, growth and sustainable development of companies by developing and implementing components for secure and reliable communication and localization within the industrial environments. In addition dedicated wireless communication and localization mechanisms that utilize sensors with extended capabilities with regard to the physical layer are considered to be examined and demonstrated within different demonstrators. GUT will prepare an unmanned surface vessel with integrated dedicated components (sensors, actuators, communication components) for implementation, testing, validation and verification of AI Edge-Cloud solutions in the maritime domain. The tasks of GUT will include disseminating knowledge about the project and its results through publications, as well as the activity of the project website and social media. All of the above GUT tasks are in line with the strategy of the Research University.