on 04-04-2022
NetWorld2020, currently the NetWorld Europe, coordinates inside Europe industrial research and development on future communications, with the ambition of sustaining European leadership in mobile communications.
The Steering Board includes manufacturers such as Nokia, Siemens, Ericsson, and Thales Alenia Space, operators such as Telefonica, France Telecom, and Telenor, and research institutions where IT is included, and its actions cover aspects as research topics, interrelation with vertical industries, promoting research in SMEs, and interconnecting with other communities (such as satellite, software or IoT).
After this nomination, IT has been designated in 2016 as Chair of the Steering Board and has seen its mandate renewed in later years. This has been a major event, with an academic leading for the first time the ETP.
Anchored in this context, IT moved to lead a large set of initiatives to structure European Research and led the change of the ETP into a new format, Networld Europe, and higher involvement with standardization bodies (like ETSI and CCSA), and vertical efforts.
A set of international events, the Visions for Future Communication Summit, has been developed, where European researchers share ideas about future topics. These ideas have been expanded formally into a Scientific Research and Innovation Agenda, representing the ideas and priorities inside Europe.
As a corollary to all this international work, IT has been actively involved in the small group writing the work program of the Smart Networks and Services Joint Undertaken (a cooperation between the community and the European Commission), setting the research priorities inside Europe.
Rui Aguiar (IT Aveiro)