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Latest Presentation of the Smart Networks and Services Joint Undertaking
Peter Stuckmann, Head of the Unit for Future Connectivity Systems of the European Commission, presented the recently created Smart Networks and Services Joint Undertaking to the participants of the 5G Forum 2022 (May 9-13, 2022) and its two strategic pillars 6G research and innovation and 5G deployment actions funded by European or national financing programs.

The public-private budget establishes the necessary financial planning security to proceed with an ambitious R&D roadmap for 6G technology.

The SNS JU aims to ensure industrial leadership for Europe in 5G and 6G and to contribute to accelerate the green and digital transition in the framework of the Horizon Europe programme of the European Union. It will define and implement the research and innovation roadmaps that will enable Europe to take a leading role in the creation of the next generation of smart network technologies and services which will be known as 6G.

The European Commission’s funding to the SNS JU will be 900 million EUR to be matched by the private stakeholders with a contribution of at least the same amount (i.e. at least 1.8 billion EUR in total from the private and public sides for the period 2021-2027).

At its first meeting of 15 December 2021, the SNS JU Governing Board  adopted the SNS R&I Work Programme 2021-2022 with an earmarked public funding of about 240 million EUR. The SNS-JU was officially launched on March 1st, 2022 at the MWC in Barcelona. The event attracted a big audience and provided a good insight on how 6G technologies are expected to revolutionize and support the provision of future digital services towards 2030 with significant positive impact on multiple business sectors as well as the everyday life of citizens. The event included two sessions and was opened by Colin Willcock, Chairman of the SNS JU Governing Board and Chairman of the 6G-IA Governing Board, and by Pearse O’Donohue, Vice-Chairman of the SNS JU Governing Board and Director Future Networks, DG CONNECT, European Commission. The second session was moderated by Peter Stuckmann.

The 6G-IA is the voice of European Industry and Research for next generation networks and services. Its primary objective is to contribute to Europe’s leadership on 5G, beyond 5G and SNS/6G research.

MoU signed between the B5PC and the 6G-IA on Beyond5G (6G) cooperation

On May 2nd, 2022, the Beyond 5G Promotion Consortium (President: GONOKAMI Makoto) and 6G Smart Networks and Services Industry Association (Chairperson: Colin WILLCOCK) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Beyond 5G / 6G

The Beyond 5G Promotion Consortium (B5PC) have promoted the appeal of Japanese Beyond 5G / 6G approaches, and its International Committee of the Beyond 5G Promotion Consortium (chaired by NAKAO Akihiro) has been actively working towards collaboration activities with countries and organizations outside of Japan.

The 6G Smart Networks and Services Industry Association (6G-IA) is the voice of European Industry and Research for next generation networks and services. Its primary objective is to contribute to Europe’s leadership on beyond 5G and 6G research and to full 5G deployment according to the 5G Action Plan. The 6G-IA carries out a wide range of activities in strategic areas including standardization, frequency spectrum, R&D projects, technology skills, collaboration with key vertical industry sectors, notably for the development of trials, and international cooperation.

5GPC and 6G-IA have agreed to sign a Memorandum of Understanding to further promote cooperation on Beyond 5G /6G.

This Memorandum of Understanding is the first to be signed between the Beyond 5G / 6G related organizations from Japan and Europe.

Areas of cooperation, following the Memorandum of Understanding, include:

  1. Exchange of information
  2. Cooperation in following matters
    • Vision of 6G
    • Technology exploitation and dissemination to ensure awareness, understanding and involvement and finally adoption
    • Requirements on 6G
    • Discussions on basic system concepts, architecture and use cases
    • Support for global regulatory process in identification of Frequency bands and spectrum arrangement for 6G technologies
    • Identification of common interest, building of consensus and collaboration to support development of globally harmonised standards
    • Promoting cooperation among European and Japanese R&D organizations and industries
    • Use cases of 6G and other topics.

Both 5GPC (b5g_consortium@soumu.go.jp) and 6G-IA (Office@6g-ia.eu) seek to co-host webinars or investigate joint research projects, based on this MoU. Moreover, both will continue to explore further collaboration opportunities with other countries and organization.

Successful online 8th Global 5G event
The 8th Global 5G Event on 5G Empowers the Digital Economy was successfully held online on 14th and 15th October 2021. China IMT-2020（5G）Promotion hosted this Event with the other six leading 5G organizations from Brazil, Europe, India, Japan, Republic of Korea and the Americas region.
The global 5G event is one of the key platforms worldwide for mobile communication and related industries to release 5G achievements, conduct exchanges and build consensus, which provides strong support for the establishment of global unified 5G technology standards and the industrial ecosystem, and has a far-reaching impact on the future development of 5G.
During the two-days’ event, 32 invited speakers gave excellent presentations and insightful discussions around 5 topics: 5G Trends and Policies, Beyond 5G, 5G Commercialization, 5G Solutions for Vertical Industries and 5G for Pandemic Control.
The 9th Global 5G Event will be hosted by Japan 5GMF in 2022 fall.

  • Ms. Zhiqin Wang, Chair of IMT-2020（5G）PG, said: “As 5G is being commercialized worldwide, 5G development has moved from the R&D phase to the large-scale application phase. How to turn the grand vision of 5G into reality, so that 5G can empower different industries, add intelligence and create value for them? This requires the common wisdom of the global industry. With the Global 5G Event, the sparks of innovation will fly. The 8th Global 5G Event offers an opportunity to exchange experiences in 5G network construction and industry applications, gather consensus on the evolution of technologies and standards and development policies, and accelerate the development of 5G-enabled digital economy.”
  • Dr. Colin Willcock, Chair of the 5G IA Board, said： “After the long period of disruption and tragedy caused by the covid virus, the 8th Global 5G event presented a unique opportunity to bring the global 5G community together again, to better understand the status of 5G around the world and look to the future beyond 5G.”
  • Mr. Chris Pearson, President of 5G Americas, stated: “Through the collaboration of the leading 5G associations in the Americas, Brazil, China, Europe, India, Japan and South Korea, the 8th Global 5G event continued to be an important conference to share technical, regulatory and market information for the growing 5G wireless industry”
  • Mr. Dong Ku Kim, Chair of the 5G Forum executive committee, said: The 8th Global 5G Event in China is a great event to see the 5G business status in the MOU partners, where we can share what would have driven 5G to weave into vertical industries. and what all of these efforts have brought to the 5G ecosystem
  • Prof. Emeritus Susumu Yoshida, Chair of the 5th Generation Mobile Communications Promotion Forum (5GMF), stated, “The presentations and the discussions at this 8th Global 5G Event were extremely stimulating, timely and useful, reflecting ongoing world-wide developing of 5G networks, and we are sure they will accelerate further developing of full performance 5G, its evolution, and discussions towards 5G-Advanced and Beyond 5G.”
  • Prof. José Marcos C. Brito, General Secretary of 5G Brasil, said: “First, we are happy for the return of the 5G Global event, after the interruption caused by covid. This year, the 8th 5G Global event brought us important updates on the status of 5G implementation in the world, considering the most diverse aspects, like: 5G trends and policies, 5G commercialization, 5G solutions for vertical industries, and 5G against Covid-19. This year we also started to discuss about 6G networks, which are already starting to be analyzed in several research projects. In short, a unique and fundamental event to understand the present and future of mobile communications networks in the world.”
  • Mr. N G Subramaniam, Chair of TSDSI, stated: “ After TSDSI signed the Accession Agreement to the Multilateral MoU in September 2020, this 8th Global 5G Event is the first one in which TSDSI is taking part with great interest. As India looks to deployment of 5G technologies in step with the rest of the world, sharing of results and experiences from pilots, trials and deployments in diverse markets will help bringing experiences from our respective regions to a common platform. We value the opportunity of articulating India market requirements, local innovations and standardisation efforts in this important conference”.

Global 5G Events MoU signatories:

The Smart Connectivity Digital Innovation Hub Network monthly activity report
SCoDIHNet has performed a number of activities in May 2022 among those, we can highlight the following ones:

  • Cooperation with African DIHs together with the 5 ICT58 projects funded under the Horizon 2020 program. A MoU is under discussion and should be signed soon.
  • Cooperation with the Enterprise Europe Network in order to promote 5GPPP project results and facilitate replicability at regional level. A MoU is under discussion and should be signed soon
  • Contribution to the European Economic and Social Committee opinion paper on DIHs and SMEs
  • Relation with the new Partnership for Regional Innovation launched by the Commission on the 17th of May (https://s3platform.jrc.ec.europa.eu/pri) with the objective to facilitate development of innovations and pilots at regional level

SLICES workshop “Scientific Instruments to support digital infrastructure science”  @IFIP Networking Conference 2022
Catania, Italy- June 13 @14:00-17:30

SLICES organises a Workshop on “Scientific Instruments to support digital infrastructure science” @ IFIP Networking Conference 2022 and calls for papers. The workshop will follow a full day structure. The Workshop programme is structured for a full day withTalks/Panels in the workshop session, complemented with demonstrations if this is made possible. This workshop also continues the work started in the INFOCOM 2019 “Workshop on Experimentation Meets Platforms: A Survey of macro trends in mobile communication research and its impact on future testbed development”. 

More details here:  https://www.eucnc.eu/programme/workshops/workshop-7/; https://slices-ri.eu/events/empowering-transatlantic-platforms-for-5g-advanced-and-6g-networks/

 

5G-LOGINNOV, FUDGE 5G and AFFORDABLE5G Joint Technical Workshop
Online event – June 16 @13:00-15:15 CEST

The combined event “Accelerating 5G Innovation in Europe. Challenges and Opportunities for Private Networks focusing on CAD, Transport & Logistics, Smart City, Manufacturing” addresses technology-specific topics and plan to discuss in detail the implementation of 5G technologies to contribute to the debate about the advancement in the adoption of 5G technologies in several sectors. 5G-LOGINNOV, FUDGE-5G and Affordable 5G projects matured their 5G-expertises in relation to the optimisation of traffic operations at ports and logistics, the delivery of a solution covering the needs of private and enterprise networks and the definition of a 5G architecture for private networks allowing interoperability and customization for industry verticals.

Register here: https://forms.gle/5GU2jVEzVhF66BRD7

Programme available here: https://5g-loginnov.eu/wpcontent/uploads/2022/05/Agenda_website.pdf

After filling in the form, you will receive the link to join the online workshop.

Webinars for  Trial Sites
Online events – June 20 @15:00-16:30 CEST French Site / June 22 @10:00-11:30 CEST German Site / June 30 (details communicated soon)

5G-MOBIX trial sites include two Cross-Border Corridors (Greece-Turkey and Spain-Portugal) and six local Trial Sites in France, Germany, Netherlands, Finland, China and South Korea, which are bringing complementary insights to the cross-border issues trialled at the Corridors. Together, they have been assessing the added value of 5G connectivity for connected and Automated Mobility (CAM) services and functionalities in cross-border conditions.

The local Trial Sites have completed their work, some public demonstration events were organised to showcase the results, and these Trial Sites are now holding “catch-up” online sessions for wider audiences during which videos of the demonstrations and/ or trials will be played and commented. The Trial Site teams will present their results and lessons learnt and answer all questions in relation.

  • The webinar for the French Trial Site will take place on 20 June 2022, 15:00-16:30 CET (details & registration). The French Trial Site contributions are related to service continuity and dynamic communication quality aspects for the infrastructure-assisted advanced driving use case. The webinar will present the outcome of their trials and results obtained in relation.
  • The German Trial Site is holding a webinar to present the outcome of their trials and results obtained. The 5G-MOBIX Trial Site in Berlin looked into the benefits of 5G services in providing extended sensor data to address QoS limitation of current 4G networks, namely for platooning use cases with SAE L-4 vehicles.
  • The Korean webinar is shecduled on June 30. Details will be communicated soon.
  • The dates for the Finnish, Dutch and Chinese Trial Sites webinars will shortly follow. The Corridors will have their turn after the summer. Stay tuned for related information.

The webinars will also include video demonstrations of the tested solutions and a Q&A session to exhaust all questions on our experts’ work and lessons learnt.

Colin Willcock, chairman of the 6G-IA @Cloud 5G LIVE
Online event – June 23 @12:00 (UK Time)

Brought to you by BizClik Media Group and part of TECH LIVE LONDON, the hybrid event held between 23rd-24th June also features Cyber LIVE, Technology & AI LIVE, March8 LIVE and is broadcast live to the world.

The world’s leading Telecommunications and Data Centre executives will come together in London to discuss their strategies and the future of the industry.

With a focus on creating actionable inspiration and real-world partnerships, the conference agenda includes several stages of talks by global industry leaders, centred around a fully catered networking area.

The draft agenda is here. Colin Willcock, Chairman of the 6G-IA will present stakes and challenges for 6G in Europe at 12:00 pm (UK time) on June 23rd.

Please also register online here and stay tuned.

SLICES-SC Summer School
July 19-21 @07:00-17:00

This three-day school will take a deep-dive into some of the available open-software and hardware solutions for building experimental telco networks that can be used by researchers to develop innovations leading to 6G network architectures in initiatives such as SLICES-RI, PAWR, Fabric and Horizon Europe SNS JU. A key objective of the school is to highlight cloud-native tools leading to fully converged cloud and telecommunication infrastructures. We will cover initiatives including O-RAN, ONF Aether/SD-Fabric/SD-RAN, OpenAirInterface RAN and Core, Mosaic5G, Magma and related cloud-native frameworks based on Kubernetes. In addition, for newcomers to the 3GPP ecosystem, we will also provide a crash course on 3GPP networks and protocols. Current lecturers are from key players in the experimental wireless research community : Sorbonne Université, NITOS, EURECOM, INRIA, CNR, PAWR, FABRIC, ONF, …

More details here.

9th Global 5G Event
Tokyo, Japan – September 20-21

The 9th Global 5G Event will be hosted by Japann 5GMF  on 20 and 21 September 2022 in Tokyo (Hotel New Otani Tokyo).

The meeting will contribute to mutual understanding and cooperation among stakeholders in Japan and overseas regarding the status and issues related to the advancement of 5G in each country for the dissemination and deployment of 5G commercial services after the start of the service.

AIOTI Signature Event: Societal Impact and Opportunities for the Green Digital Twin Transition
Brussels, Belgium  – September 27 @08:00-17:00 CEST

The Green Deal wants to decouple economic growth from resource use by 2050, and transform ‘linear’ take-make-discard industrial value chains into virtuous models that design waste and pollution out of the process, keeping products and materials in use for longer and helping to regenerate ecosystems.

At this event, we will explore how, exactly, are digital solutions enabling sustainability gains? Are they contributing to the EU’s green growth now? And what more can be done to stimulate green growth through digitisation? How can IoT and Edge computing contribute achieving to Green Deal and digital twin transition objectives.

For more details, please visit event webpage: https://aioti.eu/aioti-signature-event-2022/. The event will take place in the Thon Hotel Bristol Stephanie, Avenue Louise 91/93, 1050 Brussels.

CfP Next Generation networking and Internet @ The 5G IEEE Future Networks World Forum
Brussels, Belgium  – October 12-15 @08:00-17:00 CEST

Papers are called for “Next Generation networking and Internet” @ The 5G IEEE Future Networks World Forum

  • Paper Submission: 15 June (Extended)
  • Notification: 30 July 2022
  • Camera Ready and Registration: 30 August 2022

More details here.

The editor of the 5G PPP newsflash on behalf of the 6GStart Project is Carole Manero, IDATE, 601 rue Georges Méliès, 34000 Montpellier, France.
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