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📖 The SNS JU Journal 2026 is here!

Packed with the latest achievements, milestones, and insights shaping Europe’s journey towards 6G.

This year’s edition brings together the work of projects funded by the Smart Networks and Services Joint Undertaking (SNS JU), highlighting the scale and progress of European 6G research and innovation:

🔵 100 projects
🔵 5,415 researchers
🔵 2,000+ contributions to global standards

🚀 OPTIMUS-6G is also featured in the SNS JU Journal 2026, alongside other European research and innovation projects, showcasing its vision and objectives as part of Europe’s evolving 6G ecosystem.

At a pivotal moment for European 6G development, the Journal highlights the progress of SNS JU-funded projects, their contributions to technological innovation, and their role in bridging the gap between research and investment.

🌐 Explore the SNS JU Journal 2026 and discover the projects shaping the future of European connectivity!

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The OPTIMUS-6G project was presented at the SNS JU Call 4/5 Projects Introduction Webinar by Dr. Nikolaos Petroulakis, Project Coordinator. The presentation provided an opportunity to introduce OPTIMUS-6G to the wider European 6G community, highlighting its vision, objectives, key technological enablers, and targeted use cases. 🚀

Organised by the Smart Networks and Services Joint Undertaking (SNS JU) and the SNS CO-OP, the webinar brought together projects from the latest calls to share their ambitions and contribute to the European 6G research and innovation landscape.

👏 The event provided a valuable platform for knowledge sharing and collaboration across the SNS community, supporting the exchange of ideas and strengthening connections among projects working towards the future of 6G connectivity.

Looking forward to advancing our project’s objectives together with the OPTIMUS-6G consortium and contributing to the future of 6G connectivity! 🌐

🔗 Learn more about the webinar: https://lnkd.in/dxp4N8Mn

We are excited to announce that OPTIMUS-6G is sponsoring the 5th Edition of the hashtag#ANMS Workshop, co-located with International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM) 2026! For us, this is more than sponsorship. It is the first step towards building a lasting connection with the hashtag#ANMS research community. 🤝

In the coming years, we aim to turn this engagement into active scientific contributions, using hashtag#ANMS as a valuable venue to share and discuss the initial results of OPTIMUS-6G with researchers working on autonomous and intelligent network management.

We look forward to engaging with the community and, in future editions, bringing OPTIMUS-6G research to the workshop through papers, discussions, and knowledge exchange.

📍 Discover ANMS: https://lnkd.in/dw6TYJP7
📍 CNSM 2026: https://lnkd.in/epQjEAx6

🚀 On 6–7 October 2026, the 2nd Plenary Meeting and the 1st Technical Workshop of OPTIMUS-6G took place at the Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH)!

The first day brought partners together to review the project’s progress, including updates on ongoing Work Packages and Tasks. The meeting kicked off with Project Coordinator Dr. Nikolaos Petroulakis who presented the overall project status, followed by Technical Manager Vasileios Theodorou, PhD, who highlighted the technical objectives and pathways to achieve them. Partners then shared further technical updates and progress on their activities and impact maximization.

📡 Partners also had the opportunity to visit ICS-FORTH’s premises and 5G-enabled mobile testbed, exploring the infrastructure supporting our research activities towards #6G deployments.

🔧 On 7 October, the 1st OPTIMUS-6G Technical Workshop focused on the project’s architecture, #digitaltwin, and #raytracing tools. Partners also presented testbed setups and demos for smart factories, visual light communications, and healthcare wearable sensors, alongside discussions on #AI-driven network intelligence and communication optimization.

👏 A big thank you to all partners for their valuable contributions and fruitful discussions!

We look forward to continuing our collaboration and meeting again at IMEC ’s premises in Spring 2027! 🚀

OPTIMUS-6G at the ETSI Open-Source Operator Platform (OpenOP) Plenary Meeting, hosted by Intracom Telecom in Athens, Greece on 23 July 2026.

The meeting was led by the Chair of ETSI OpenOP, Vasileios Theodorou, PhD, from Intracom Telecom, who also serves as the Technical Manager of OPTIMUS-6G. He was joined by Dimitris Gogos, Vasiliki Parousidou, and Kostas Chartsias from Intracom Telecom, who presented the latest developments and ongoing activities within ETSI OpenOP, highlighting the initiative’s progress and its growing ecosystem.

The plenary was also attended by OPTIMUS-6G Project Coordinator Nikolaos Petroulakis and Dissemination Manager Simos Symeonidis, PhD. Their participation reflects the project’s commitment to engaging with the standardization community, following emerging technologies and open-source developments, and identifying opportunities that may benefit the project’s future activities.

Active engagement with standards development organizations is a key objective of OPTIMUS-6G, ensuring that the project’s research remains aligned with the evolving European 6G landscape while contributing to the broader communications ecosystem.

🚀 We have officially kicked off OPTIMUS-6G with a virtual meeting full of energy, collaboration, and motivation!
Our Project Coordinator, Dr Nikolaos Petroulakis (FORTH) presented the overall project vision and roadmap, setting the stage for the exciting work ahead. Consortium partners then introduced their respective work packages and Tasks, aligning our expertise and defining our collective objectives.

We were also pleased to welcome our Project Officer, Tambiama Madiega, who highlighted the role of OPTIMUS-6G within the Smart Networks and Services Joint Undertaking (SNS JU), providing valuable insights into the strategic vision and direction of Europe’s next-generation communication networks.

🌍 Zero travel emissions, maximum momentum. With our targets set and our collaboration underway, our European innovation journey has officially begun.

We’re already looking forward to our first in-person consortium meeting, which will take place this October at the Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH) premises in Heraklion, Crete. It will be a great opportunity to strengthen our collaboration and continue driving the project forward.

Stay tuned as we share updates and milestones from our journey to help shape the future of 6G communications.

OPTIMUS-6G will hold its virtual kick-off meeting on 10 July 2026, bringing together the project partners for the first joint coordination session.

The meeting will provide the opportunity to introduce the consortium, discuss the project’s objectives, review the initial work plan, and align partners on the next steps. OPTIMUS-6G focuses on advancing 6G-enabled IoT networks for unlicensed spectrum operations across the computing continuum, combining multi-band communications, AI-driven orchestration, and network digital twin technologies.

The virtual kick-off will mark the beginning of the project’s collaborative activities toward the development and validation of the OPTIMUS-6G framework across industrial, healthcare, and campus network use cases.