On October 29th 2015, in Ispra, at the inauguration of the European Interoperability Centre for Electric Vehicles and Smart Grids, the demo of the real‐time integrated co‐simulation platform has been presented. The demo sets the path towards the set‐up of a federation of EU labs, located in different member states, with at least a node in each EU country, allowing for a cost‐effective sharing of HW and SW facilities at EU level in the smart grid sector. The centre was inaugurated in the presence of the Vice President of the European Commission for Energy Union Maroš Šefčovič and the USA counter partners from US Department of Energy, the US Argonne National Laboratory and other high level guests.