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Wireless ICT

Wireless ICT
Wireless ICT

Context

The leading global status of the wireless 5G - and beyond - technologies remains in the hands of a few key players. However, Europe has the opportunity to become a leader in the uptake and utilisation of wireless technologies with applications in sectors including health, sustainable factories, autonomous vehicles, and smart cities/regions. In the future, these sectors will benefit from virtually unlimited wireless connectivity, improving industries’ productivity. New wireless technologies must support the sustainable, energy- and resource-efficient, and secure implementation of new solutions. As part of the S3 Thematic Platform for Industrial Modernisation, the Wireless ICT partnership will promote investments in the field.

Year established: 2020

Regions (lead and partner)

  • Leading regions: Norrbotten (SE), Northern Ostrobothnia (Pohjois-Pohjanmaa (FI)
  • Participating regions: Northern Savonia (Pohjois-Savo) (FI), North Brabant (NL), Flanders (BE), Baden-Württemberg (DE), Emilia Romagna (IT), Lombardy (IT), Catalonia (ES), Western Greece (EL), Wielkopolski (PL)

Mission

The partnership’s mission is to help develop and implement a common strategy enabling investments in the field of fast and energy- and resource-efficient wireless ICT. The focus will be on:

  • Health
  • Smart Manufacturing
  • Autonomous vehicles: Wireless ICT products and services supporting autonomous vehicles operating in the air, on the ground or water surface, underground or below sea level
  • Smart cities/regions

Objectives

Specific objectives of the partnership are:

  • To join forces to scale up vertical (thematic) pilot cases into full-scale cross-European value chains and sustainable business cases, aiming to industrial pilots utilizing fast, reliable, secure, and energy-efficient wireless ICT.
  • To listen carefully to the needs of the companies.
  • To foster the active participation of regional governments will ensure alignment between the business and the societal challenges thus making the value chains robust on a long-term perspective.
  • To promote the active participation of academic institutions will ensure flexibility within the partnership thus making it sustainable in the long term.

Main activities

The following thematic working groups have been outlined to organise the activities of the partnership:

  • Health
  • Smart manufacturing
  • Autonomous vehicles
  • Smart cities/regions

Organisations involved

Belgium:

  • Flanders Make (BE)

Finland:

  • Council of Oulu Region, Northern Ostrobothnia (FI)
  • University of Oulu (FI)
  • Savonia University of Applied Sciences (FI)
  • University Of Eastern (FI)

Germny:

  • Region of Western Greece (EL)
  • University of Patras (EL)

Greece:

  • Reutlingen University (DE)

Italy:

  • ART-ER (member of the Steering Committee, consortium of the Emilia-Romagna regional government and research centers)(IT)
  • Clust-ER MECH (member of the working groups smart manufacturing/autonomous vehicle)(IT)
  • Clust-ER HEALTH (member of the working group health)(IT)
  • Clust-ER INNOVATE (member of the working group smart cities/region)(IT)
  • Technical University of Milan (IT)

Poland:

  • Poznan University of Technology (PL)

Spain:

  • i2cat (ES)

Sweden:

  • Region Norrbotten (SE)
  • Lulea University of Technology (SE)

The Netherlands:

  • Brainport Eindhoven (NL)

Shared smart specialisation areas

Wireless ICT, health and life science, printed electronics, cloud computing, open-source software, energy and resource efficiency, sustainable mobility, data-processing, advanced manufacturing, intelligent transport systems, cyber security, defence, digital transition, green transition, and circular economy

Related projects

  • 6G XR - 6G eXperimental Research infrastructure to enable next-generation XR services, the project develops an experimental multisite Research Infrastructure (RI) to provide a validation platform for various 6G use cases in 2023-2025.
  • AMBITIOUS - Advanced CoMputing Continuum Solutions for Boosting DigITalization acrOss EUropean RegionS, the project AMBITIOUS aims to advance the state of the art in AI, 5G and IoT and to promote interregional collaboration and commercialization. Start: October.2023, Duration: 3 years I3 (I3-2021-INV1 (Innovation investments Strand 1)) project, https://ambitious-project.eu/

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Latest news and upcoming events

The Wireless ICT participated in the following events in 2023-2024: