CENTRIC published in the SNS JU Journal 2024!

In January 2024 the Smart Networks and Services Joint Undertaking (SNS JU) launched its second portfolio of 28 additional research, innovation, and trial projects for a total of 63 SNS projects (35 call 1 projects launched in January 2023 and 28 call 2 projects launched in early 2024).

All the 63 projects are critical in establishing a solid research and innovation (R&I) foundation for Europe, defining the next-generation networks.

With a combined funding of around 382 million EUR under Horizon Europe, this project portfolio aims to build a first-class European supply chain for advanced 5G systems and Europe’s 6G (6th Generation Wireless Systems) technology capacities.

The Research and Innovation (R&I) projects will develop smart communication components, systems, and networks for 6G, tracing both an evolutionary path through further enhancements of 5G advanced technology as well as a more revolutionary path by investigating the benefits of promising technological enablers. Technology validation initiatives will develop SNS experimental infrastructures and carry out large-scale SNS trials and pilots in several business and industrial vertical sectors. R&I projects will be supported by CSAs.