The 6G-REFERENCE Team Gathers in Lund to Strengthen Demonstrations and Maximise Project Impact
The 6G-REFERENCE consortium came together in person for a meeting hosted and organised by project partner Ericsson in Lund, Sweden, on 22 and 23 September 2026. The agenda focused on advancing the project’s demonstrations and discussing how its results can have a lasting impact, particularly through communication, dissemination and exploitation activities, as the project enters […]
The 6G-REFERENCE Partners Meet in Pamplona to Review the Project Progress and Advance the Demo Cases
On the 14th of April 2026, the 6G-REFERENCE consortium gathered in Pamplona (Spain). Hosted by Alejandro Astibia and Javier Jiménez at Anteral facilities, the meeting focused on reviewing the project’s progress and defining the next steps to develop innovative hardware solutions for future 6G systems through three demonstration cases. This is the fifth in-person meeting […]
The Invisible Engines of 6G: Four SNS JU Projects Shaping the Hardware for our Connected Future
When you hear about 6G, you might picture futuristic gadgets and lightning-fast speeds. But the true story of 6G is not just about what you can see. See it as a quiet revolution happening at the microscopic level, in the hardware that will turn tomorrow’s networks into living, breathing systems that can sense, think, and […]
6G-REFERENCE Selected Among the Top-10 Key Achievements of SNS JU Projects
The 6G-REFERENCE consortium is proud to announce that its pioneering work on Time-Modulated Array (TMA) technology, led by the Electronics Lab at ETH Zürich, one of our partners, has been selected among the Top-10 Key Achievements of the Smart Networks and Services Joint Undertaking (SNS JU) for 2025 in the Category 1: ‘Significant Technology Development’. […]
6G-REFERENCE Partners Meet in Birmingham to Advance Integrated Demonstrations
The 6G-REFERENCE consortium gathered in Birmingham (United Kingdom) on the 21 and 22 October 2025 for a face-to-face meeting organised by Yi Wang, Professor of Microwave Engineering at the University of Birmingham, one of our partners. The event brought together leading researchers and engineers from across Europe to align on the project’s integrated demonstrations and […]
6G-REFERENCE Starts a Collaboration with NGI Sargasso, the EU Program Building Bridges Across Continents for the Future of the Internet
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 […]
The 6G-REFERENCE Consortium Gathers in Enschede in our Third Meeting to Discuss our Half-Way Report Status and Demo Definitions
The 6G-REFERENCE partners landed in Enschede, the Netherlands, on the 28th and 29th of April to gather in our third face-to-face meeting, organized in this occasion by our Technical Manager, Eric Klumperink, Associate Professor at the University of Twente, to review the 6G-REFERENCE project status of our half-way reports and demo definitions. During our discussions […]
6G-IA Women in Telecommunications and Research (WiTaR) Working Group Publishes their 2024 Activity Report
The “Women in Telecommunications and Research (WiTaR)” Working Group was founded in 2023, but the initiative stemmed from the H2020 project Hexa-X, in which a group “Women in Hexa-X” was created in 2020. This group gathered participants from the Hexa-X project interested in promoting diversity in the ICT (Information and Communication Technology) area, and in […]
The 6G-REFERENCE Partners Meet in Person for the Second time in Zurich to Review the Project Status
The 6G-REFERENCE consortium met for two days in Zurich (Switzerland) on the 5th and 6th of November 2024 in the Second 6G-REFERENCE Face-to-Face Meeting, hosted by our partner ETH Zürich, led by Hua Wang, Full Professor and Principal Investigator, to review the project status, about to complete its first year, and to plan the next […]
What is 6G-REFERENCE? The EU Project Deploying 6G Sustainable Solutions for Cell Free Coherent Communications and Sensing
The United Nations estimated that 68% of the world population is projected to live in urban areas by 2050. The vision of 6G-REFERENCE is that cell-free joint communication and sensing systems operating at the 10-15GHz range will play a vital role in future 6G networks, especially in urban scenarios where 6G will need to rely […]