6G-REFERENCE is proud to announce our first signed collaboration with NGI Sargasso, a European Commission-funded cascade funding program dedicated to fostering innovation and strengthening collaboration between the European Union, the United States, and Canada in the field of next-generation internet (NGI) technologies.
This partnership has been signed through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), in which NGI Sargasso, represented by their coordinator, European Science Foundation (ESF), and 6G-REFERENCE, represented by ours, Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), will provide visibility and promotion to the outreach activities of both projects around efforts and contributions to ICT Standards to the projects’ extensive network of stakeholder communities and main digital channels and outlets. Also, we can cooperate on joint webinars or any other event of mutual interest to keep building a more digital and connected Europe under the values of trust, security and inclusion, with a human-centric approach.
NGI Sargasso: Empowering Next Generation Internet Innovation Connecting Continents
NGI Sargasso promotes the developing of a unique collaborative ecosystem to harvest Europe-United States and/or Europe-Canada technology breakthroughs that aim to revolutionize the Next Generation Internet (NGI) technologies, services and standards. They also aim to contribute to the evolution of the Internet according to a human-centric approach of the Internet commons, following to the NGI initiative values of openness, inclusivity and sustainability.
The program has funded +50 projects of NGI Sargasso Innovators with a total budget of €4.8 million in the following topics:
- Trust.
- Data sovereignty.
- Digital identity.
- Internet architecture & renovation.
- Decentralized technology.
- Interoperability & standardization.
- New internet technology.
6G-REFERENCE: Developing Integrated Circuit and Antenna Component Solutions and Deploying 6G Hardware Enablers
6G-REFERENCE envisions a future where urban areas are equipped with sustainable solutions that can cope with the ever-increasing traffic demands and population densification, while providing disruptive capabilities like the materialization of the internet of sense. 6G-REFERENCE will develop integrated circuit and antenna component solutions, including dynamic frequency filtering and modulated radiation, to enable efficient spectrum coexistence schemes. The project will also deploy practical hardware enablers in terms of low complexity, cost and power consumption that could end up constituting a reference design for future 6G-distributed radios.
Part of the Smart Networks and Services Joint Undertaking (SNS JU), 6G-REFERENCE is formed by ten research and industrial partners from eight European countries coordinated by Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC): University of Twente, CEA Leti, imec, ETH Zürich, University of Birmingham, Ericsson, Anteral, AUSTRALO and ACP AG.
