Européen
6G-BRICKS 2nd Open Call
6G-BRICKS aims to offer a trusted, agile and evolvable 6G experimentation facility, federating two experimentation platforms in Belgium (KUL) and France (EUR) from previous 5G-PPP initiatives under a Core Site (ISI/ATH) acting as the facility entry point, and offering Public Cloud and experimentation services. The Facility will be accessible by third-party consortiums, vertical application owners, as well as experimenters from the vertical and component industry.
The facility will showcase a disaggregated Management Plane and Operations Support System, to support extendibility, evolvability, and multi-tenancy, going well beyond centralized Cross-Domain Service Orchestrators (CDSOs) and OSS/BSS systems typically supported in 5G-PPP experimentation platforms. The 6G experimentation facility architecture is available here: https://6g-bricks.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/6G-BRICKS-Architecture.pdf.
The objective of the Open Calls is to validate the capabilities, functionalities and performance of the 6GBRICKS experimental facility in extended domains which will complement those of the internal Use Cases.
Innovation Area 1: Network-controlled open RIS platform
Innovation Area 2: Distributed CFmMIMO processing and synchronization
Innovation Area 3: Multi-band and mmWave CFmMIMO
Innovation Area 4: Communication and sensing: RIS and cell-free based approaches
Innovation Area 5: Explainable AI and Machine Reasoning for Unified, Zero Touch Orchestration
Innovation Area 6: Platform as a Service Abstraction for a self-synthesized compute continuum
The maximum funding per beneficiary is €60.000 and the
maximum funding per sub-project is €120.000. The duration of the sub-projects is up to 6 months.
The final beneficiaries will receive the funding as follows:
– Stage 1: POC definition (up to EUR 18K)
– Stage 2: Technical or use case development and execution (up to EUR 84K)
– Stage 3: Technical integration and testing (up to EUR 18K)
Beneficiaries must be consortia composed of up to 2 legal entities SME and/or Big Company and/or RTO acting as technology providers and/or application providers for use case implementation. All organizations have to be established in any of EU Member States and their Overseas Countries and Territories (OCT) or Horizon Europe Associated Country.
The open call proposers are encouraged to contact the 6G-BRICKS consortium and communicate their intentions to verify the feasibility of the proposals intended for implementation within the project’s scope. This will also allow them to receive initial feedback on the planned activities outlined in the proposal. To perform the feasibility check, a description of the planned experiment (up to one page in length) must be sent to opencalls@6g-bricks.eu, using the template provided below. Please send the Word document (not PDF) and include the short name of the proposal in the email subject line or the first line of the email text. Proposals submitted without passing the feasibility check will be automatically rejected.
Deadline for feasibility check : November 11th 2024.