5G and Beyond (6G)

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Francesc Wilhelmi

Description of Activities

The adoption of AI in telecommunications systems is expected to foster the investments made not only in connectivity itself, but also in digital infrastructures.

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Open Call Topics
Impact on SMEs (7th Open Call)
AI-native networks can contribute to creating better networks that allow for reducing the digital gap (through pervasive and reliable communications) while being sustainable. As a byproduct of the integration of AI in telecommunications, it is expected that the entrance of new players (e.g., virtual operators, AI experts, over-the-top providers) into the ecosystem will increase the competitiveness of the sector, thus positively impacting the investments in the telecommunications infrastructure.
Impact on society (7th Open Call)
The standardization of AI-native networks would ensure the interoperability principle stated in the Ministerial Declaration of Tallinn.
Open Call
Organisation type
Organization
Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF)
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Francesc Wilhelmi
Proposal Title (7th Open Call)
Towards Trustworthy AI-native Wireless Networks
Standards Development Organisation
StandICT.eu Year
2026
Year
Topic (7th Open Call)

Mehmet Izzet Sağlam

Description of Activities

As part of Release 19, the new IoT NTN work item aims to bridge existing gaps in uplink transmission and store & forward mechanisms, enhancing the integration of IoT into Non-Terrestrial Networks.

Fellow's country
Impact on SMEs (6th Open Call)
Standardizing the Internet of Things (IoT) Non-Terrestrial Network in the 3rd Generation Partnership Project by decreasing the power consumption to maintain mobile connectivity will allow new IoT use cases. Therefore, European SMEs can increase their competitiveness by supporting mobile connectivity for applications or devices with stringent low-power requirements, such as agriculture or energy/water management.
Impact on society (6th Open Call)
The proposed study under my fellowship can decrease the power consumption of user equipment and base stations. Energy price and availability are some of the most critical topics in Europe. Low-power IoT devices with non-terrestrial network connectivity have applications that may benefit society, such as sensors for agriculture, environmental monitoring, and energy/water management in rural areas.
Open Call
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Organization
3GPP Radio Access Network (RAN) Working Group (WG), Turkcell, Teknoloji Araştırma ve Geliştirme A.Ş.
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Mehmet Izzet Sağlam
Proposal Title (6th Open Call)
Advancing European Leadership in 5G Advanced IoT for Non-Terrestrial Networks through 3GPP RAN WG2
Standards Development Organisation
StandICT.eu Year
2026
Year
Topic (6th Open Call)

Marcelo Bagnulo

Description of Activities

With this fellowship, I aim to help complete the standardisation of rLEDBAT in the I Internet Congestion Control Research Group (ICCRG) in the IETF/IRTF and of LEDBAT++ in the ICCRG in the IETF.

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Open Call Topics
Impact on society (5th Open Call)
This activity contributes to achieving 6G's vision. To achieve low latency, 6G will have to embrace the novel Transport protocols that are being adopted in the Internet, notably Quic/BBR, LEDBAT++/rLEDBAT, as they are designed to reduce the latency of the communications. The RXQ project work on the integration of QUIC and rLEDBAT will provide one key missing piece in the toolset to achieve low latency.
Open Call
Organisation type
Organization
Associate Professor, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
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Marcelo
Proposal Title (5th Open Call)
RXQ - rLEDBAT for Quic
StandICT.eu Year
2026
Year
Topic (5th Open Call)

David Artuñedo Guillén

Description of Activities

My contribution has a direct impact in 3GPP Release 19 specifications in the TR 23.946 CAPIF Guidelines. 

 

Open Call Topics
Impact on SMEs (4th Open Call)
By adopting CAPIF, following the guidelines that will be created in SA6, European companies will increase their competitiveness making better products, easier to deploy over 5G Networks, improving their interoperability with commercial solutions from vendors that support CAPIF.
Open Call
Organization
Telefónica I+D. S.A.u.
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Proposal Title (4th Open Call)
Participation in SA6 to support CAPIF Guidelines from ETSI OpenCAPIF
Role in SDO
Standards Development Organisation
StandICT.eu Year
2026
Year
Topic (4th Open Call)

Giovanni Romano

Description of Activities

The priority of my activity is the coordination of the 3GPP activities to update the ITU-R Recommendations on IMT-Advanced and IMT-2020.

Fellow's country
Open Call Topics
Impact on SMEs (4th Open Call)
European SMEs started to be quite active in 3GPP with the specification work of 5G, especially on aspects relevant to Verticals. In particular, SMEs are quite active in IMT-2020 satellite aspects and can benefit from the inclusion of 3GPP solutions in global standards defined by ITU.
Impact on SMEs (6th Open Call)
European SMEs started to be quite active in 3GPP with the specification work of 5G, especially on aspects relevant to Verticals. In particular, SMEs are quite active in IMT-2020 satellite aspects and can benefit from the inclusion of 3GPP solutions in global standards defined by ITU.
Novamint as an SME directly benefits from this grant allowing me to attend the 3GPP workshop on 6G during the RAN plenary in March.
Impact on society (4th Open Call)
Satellite communications are a key enabler to provide inclusion by reaching remote areas and ensure safety and communications during disasters. It is important that standardised solutions are made available (e.g., via 3GPP) and then made into ITU Recommendations which provide the Regulatory framework for a large number of countries.
Impact on society (6th Open Call)
Satellite communications are a key enabler to inclusion by reaching remote areas and ensuring safety and communications during disasters. Satellite IoT is another important market allowing low cost monitoring of goods and environment in remote areas, thus fully complementing the terrestrial networks.
Open Call
Organisation type
Organization
Novamint Ltd
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Giovanni Romano 3GPP Expert	Novamint Ltd United Kingdom
Proposal Title (4th Open Call)
3GPP ITU-R Ad-Hoc Convenor
Proposal Title (6th Open Call)
Recommendations M.2012 on IMT-Advanced aka 4G, and M.2150 on IMT-2020 aka 5G and to the new Recommendation on IMT-2020 satellite
Role in SDO
Standards Development Organisation
StandICT.eu Year
2026
Year
Topic (4th Open Call)
Topic (6th Open Call)

Muslim Elkotob

Description of Activities

With this work, I focus on enabling collaborative ecosystems and models among ICT stakeholders that allow energy saving and a positive environmental and societal footprint, bridging use case workflow and ecosystem design in a way that allows data-driven collaboration and performance increments.

Fellow's country
Open Call Topics
Impact on SMEs (2nd Open Call)
This work fosters an inclusive mindset by opening the floor for smaller players, SMEs, and new entrants into the ecosystem to collaborate with the larger players.
Impact on society (2nd Open Call)
The work done in this funded project has societal impacts such as, improving the business ecosystem and its evolution via collaborative models where stakeholders have win-win approaches for energy saving and collective benefit.
Open Call
Organisation type
Organization
Principal Solutions Architect and Standardisation Expert, Vodafone
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Muslim
Proposal Title (2nd Open Call)
Multi-Criteria Intelligent Resource Allocation for Sustainable Poly-CSP Environments
Role in SDO
Standards Development Organisation
StandICT.eu Year
2026
Year
Topic (2nd Open Call)

Alojz Hudobivnik

Description of Activities

Standardisation work continues with the integration of new technologies, new insights, and new requirements of different verticals. It is very important that EU science, industry, and also users are well represented and engaged in this process. 

Fellow's country
Open Call Topics
Open Call
Organisation type
Organization
AH.TS Alojz Hudobivnik s.p.
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alojz
Proposal Title (3rd Open Call)
ITU-T SG13 2024
Standards Development Organisation
StandICT.eu Year
2026
Year
Topic (3rd Open Call)

Alexandru Vulpe

Description of Activities

Developing a standard specifically tailored to AI-based network applications in cellular networks would provide a unified framework, promoting consistency, compatibility, and efficient utilisation of resources.

Country
Romania
Fellow's country
Open Call Topics
Open Call
Organisation type
Organization
Contributor - University Politehnica of Bucharest
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vulpe
Proposal Title (1st Open Call)
Contribution to AI-based Network Application standardisation in 5G and beyond
Standards Development Organisation
Topic
5G & beyond 6G
StandICT.eu Year
2026
Year
Topic (1st Open Call)

Ranganai Chaparadza

Description of Activities

The main challenge is related to addressing 5G security challenges towards Resilience to Attacks in 5G Networks.

Country
Germany
Fellow's country
Open Call Topics
Impact on SMEs (6th Open Call)
This NIST MDKP PWG GAFB Standard being developed for the New Ecosystem on Multi-Domain Knowledge Planes Driven Networking Era in 5G & 6G presents a tremendous opportunity for the adoption and use of global standards developed in Europe by ETSI in the USA market to steer commerce and open up new collaborations opportunities between USA and Europe stakeholders for commerce and innovation of services and GANA KP Platforms products by industrial players in these markets. This also has the effect of strengthening Europe's position in global standardisation initiatives thanks to the adoption of ETSI standards in the US for global reach and use outside Europe. Stakeholders benefit as follows: Telecommunications network operators/CSPs, Private Enterprises, Government Institutes, SMEs, or Research Institutes can expose network capabilities for use by other authorised parties when available within certain times for specific incentives (e.g., monetisation of the resources usage).
Impact on society (6th Open Call)
The following objectives of the NIST MDKP GAFB Specification provide unique Use Cases for 5G, 6G and Future Networks:
“Requirements for Enablers for Cross-Industry Sectors End-to-End (E2E) Services Innovation and Delivery Agility” that facilitate the leveraging of dynamic resources and assets availability in various sector domains when they are discoverable for use in dynamic on-demand network(s) and differentiated connectivity services formations; and/or application-layer service innovation, composition and delivery using the newly formed networks and connectivity services or ones already available such that they can serve the needs of the targeted application layer service(s).
New ecosystem on Cross-Industry Sectors End-to-End (E2E) Services Innovation and Delivery Agility (i.e., coined the “MD_KPs_Feds_For_5GnB ” Ecosystem) in which ETSI GANA Knowledge Plane (KP) Platforms (based on the ETSI TS 103 195-2) as Distributed Open Platforms (DOPs) that enable federated Autonomic/Autonomous Networking (ANs) should play role as anchors for the ecosystem, together with DOPs on the higher level, namely: Service Federation Orchestration & Autonomic Management & Control Platforms that dynamically place demands for differentiated and federated network connectivity services on the GANA (KP) Platforms.

This NIST MDKP PWG initiative presents a tremendous opportunity for the adoption and use of global standards developed in Europe by ETSI in the USA market to steer commerce and open up new collaborations opportunities between USA and Europe stakeholders for commerce and innovation of services and GANA KP Platforms products by industrial players in these markets. This also has an effect of strengthening Europe's position in global standardisation initiatives thanks to the adoption of ETSI standards in US for global reach and use outside Europe. A New Ecosystem is emerging from the NIST Specifications which have potential to reduce Carbon Emissions, thanks to Nework Sharing.
Organisation type
Organization
Senior Advanced ICT Technologies Consultant and Standardisation Expert on Evolving and Future Network Technologies, Altran Capgemini
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ranganai
Proposal Title (1st Open Call)
Phase-2: STD Gen Framework: X-Dom Federated ETSI GANA KPs for 5G E2E Autonomic Security Man &Control
Proposal Title (3rd Open Call)
ITU-T FG-TBFxG Testbeds Federations Reference Model APIs Invocations Framework & Security Framework
Proposal Title (6th Open Call)
Specifications by the NIST MDKP PWG
Standards Development Organisation
Topic
5G & beyond 6G
StandICT.eu Year
2026
Year
Topic (1st Open Call)
Topic (3rd Open Call)
Topic (6th Open Call)