Wireless Communication Technologies and Signal Processing – Standardisation and Follow-up/PoCs
Funds 6G physical-layer and radio-access research — spectrum efficiency, massive MIMO, AI-native RAN — aimed at proof-of-concept systems and international standards contributions.
At EUR 21,000,000 across three grants, this topic carries the largest total budget of the nine topics filed under HORIZON-JU-SNS-2025-01, all sharing the 18 September 2025 deadline in the Funding and Tenders Portal; sibling topics elsewhere in the same call range down to single EUR 8,000,000 awards. Award scoring follows the standard Horizon Europe Excellence, Impact and Implementation structure, …
This topic wants physical-layer and radio-access-network research for 6G: energy-efficient waveform and coding design, extreme massive-MIMO and antenna-array techniques, and an AI-native framework using AI/ML for the lower layers of the protocol stack. It also wants algorithms, software and hardware that can feed proof-of-concept and trial systems, plus direct contributions to international standardisation bodies.
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