Research collaborations beyond Europe towards 6G
Friday, 6 June 2025, 9:00 – 10:30, room 0.A
Session Chair:
- Adam Kapovits (Eurescom GmbH, INPACE CSA, DE)
- Akihiro Nakao (Univ. Tokyo, JP)
- Emilio Calvanese-Strinati (CEA-Leti, FR)
- Renato Luís Garrido Cavalcante (Fraunhofer HHI, DE)
- James Clarke (Walton Institute, South East Technological Univ., IE)
Development of global standards such as 6G require extensive international dialogues and collaboration. It is a similar story with the Next Generation Internet, where it is essential to exchange views and approaches beyond Europe, to help define the standards and facilitate early prototyping activities to verify the proposed standards are implementable. Recognizing the importance of that aspect the SNS JU Call in 2024 asked for proposals to collaborate closely with Japan and the Republic of Korea on certain topics, yielding to the SNS JU projects 6G MIRAI and 6G ARROWS, respectively. In the NGI sphere, NGI TRANSOCEANIC (EU / US collaboration) and NGI Sargasso (EU / Canada / unfunded US) organise Open Calls to promote collaboration activities.
The motivation of the session is to introduce the new projects and the excellent opportunities for the wider communities offered by open calls. It also gives the opportunity to the new projects to present themselves, learn from the approaches of existing projects, discuss and identify common challenges that such collaborations face. Most importantly, it would kick-start a dialogue with the wider, beyond Europe expert communities to ensure that 6G and Next Generation Internet is shaped together.
Programme
The special session will consist of invited talks, only, from the European projects, and their Japanese, Korean, US and Canadian counterparts. The focus is to go beyond simply presenting the technical scope of the projects and discuss and learn from each other regarding the special challenges that beyond Europe collaborations are facing and how to tackle them successfully.
List of speakers:
- Akihiro Nakao, University of Tokyo, 6G Harmony project,
- Renato L. G. Cavalcante, Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, SNS JU 6G-MIRAI
- Emilio Calvanese Strinati, CEA-LETI, SNS JU 6G ARROWS
- Hazel Peavoy, South East Technological University Ireland, Walton Institute, NGI
