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Welcome to our first newsletter!This first newsletter highlights the project’s expanding influence through publications, key events and strategic collaborations that are helping to shape a sustainable 6G future. SUSTAIN-6G will be hosting a booth at the upcoming EuCNC & 6G Summit 2025—one of the most visited Summit in next-generation telecommunications. The project will showcase several demonstrations, alongside dedicated workshops on operational sustainability and on Key Value Indicators (KVIs) and societal sustainability. This edition presents recent engagements, including the second Plenary Meeting held at Siemens’ premises in Munich and an engaging panel at 6GForge 2025, where consortium members explored the question: Is sustainability the main benefit of 6G? In addition, the newsletter covers research publications, and collaborative initiatives— in driving a greener and more efficient digital transformation. |
SUSTAIN-6G project introduction: a Lighthouse ProjectSUSTAIN-6G, a Lighthouse Project within the European SNS JU, promotes holistic sustainability in 6G by addressing six key objectives. It maps the 6G landscape, compiles state-of-the-art solutions, and identifies sustainability needs. The project defines goals, integrates 6G with vertical use cases to reduce environmental impact, and develops a Sustainability Management Plan (SMP). It also validates sustainable 6G technologies and provides guidelines for future development. |
• GreenDays. (2025, 26 mars). Session industriels - Olivier Bouchet - Projet Européen SUSTAIN 6G: Prochaine Génération réseau mobile intégrant le développement durable , in GreenDays 2025 in Rennes, France. [Video]. Canal-U. https://www.canal-u.tv/162901.
• Gallego Sánchez, A., & Tsai, B. (2025). Rebuilding the Tower of Babel: A Choreography for the Management of Complex Solutions. KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe – Cloud Native Telco Day, London, UK. https://static.sched.com/hosted_files/colocatedeventseu2025/f3/Rebuilding%20the%20Tower%20of%20Babel.pdf
• Cappelle, J., Van der Perre, L., Fitzgerald, E., Ravyts, S., Gajda, W., De Smedt, V., Cox, B., & Callebaut, G. (2024). IoT on the road to sustainability: Vehicle or bandit? arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.20706
• Koskela, A., & Mohammadi, J. (2024). Auditing differential privacy guarantees using density estimation. arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.04827
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SUSTAIN-6G is proud to engage in EuCNC & 6G Summit 2025, a premier event in telecommunications, bringing together leading researchers, industries, and policymakers to explore the future of 6G and advanced networks. As part of our contribution, SUSTAIN-6G will hold a booth with three demos from our partners QAMPO, WINGS, ORANGE, NOKIA and B-COM. The project will also be active in two workshop sessions: one on operational sustainability and another on KVIs and societal sustainability. This event, supported by the European Commission and major industry associations, offers a global platform to showcase cutting-edge research and innovation in sustainable 6G technologies. We look forward to collaborating with experts and demonstrating how sustainability can drive the next generation of communications. |
SUSTAIN-6G Second Plenary Meeting hosted by Siemens in Munich: A Three-Day of Innovation and Sustainability in 6G The second SUSTAIN-6G Plenary Meeting, held from April 1–4, 2025 at Siemens in Munich, brought together experts and partners to align 6G innovation with sustainability goals. Over three days, participants explored key use cases, technical enablers, and strategic planning through workshops, discussions, and collaborative sessions. Focus areas included Smart Grid, Agriculture, and eHealth, with strong emphasis on bridging research and real-world impact. The event also featured planning around communication, standardization, and testbeds, supported by informal networking moments. The meeting reinforced the consortium’s commitment to advancing sustainable 6G development. |
Is sustainability the main benefit of 6G? - 6G Forge event: Firing Up a (R)evolution! This question was at the center of a key session at 6GForge 2025 on Tuesday, 15 April, featuring Mauro Renato Boldi, Project Manager at Telecom Italia Lab and a leading member of the SUSTAIN-6G consortium. Held at EURECOM in Sophia Antipolis and streamed online, the session explored whether the true legacy of 6G will go beyond business models and technical innovation to deliver meaningful environmental impact. The SUSTAIN-6G project, launched under the EU Horizon Europe SNS JU Sustainability Lighthouse call, brings together 24 partners from 10 countries—including major telecom operators, academic institutions, and SMEs—to ensure sustainability is a foundational element of next-generation networks. Boldi’s participation underscored the consortium’s commitment to making 6G not just faster and smarter, but greener. |
SUSTAIN-6G Project Introduction: Driving Sustainability in 6G On Monday, 17 February 2025, Christoph Schmelz, Project Coordinator at Nokia, introduced the SUSTAIN-6G project during the SNS Webinar – Introducing the Call 3 projects (Part 2 of 2). This event showcased key projects under various streams, including sustainability, AI reliability, and microelectronics. SUSTAIN-6G, part of Stream B7 – Sustainability Lighthouse, aims to integrate sustainability into 6G technology development. |
6G: Values, Social Impacts, and Sustainability – Expanding the 6G Conversation with Young Voices (Italian High School Students) In February 2025, CyberSocial Lab. (CSL) returned to Liceo Scientifico Albert Einstein in Palermo to conduct the second installment of its educational initiative on 6G technologies, expanding on a previous engagement from October 2024. Reaching 139 students, the workshop—titled “6G: Values, Social Impacts, and Sustainability”—introduced the SUSTAIN-6G project and deepened the dialogue around the ethical, societal, and environmental implications of 6G, complementing the goals of the 6G4Society CSA project. Led by CSL with support from the school’s faculty, especially Professor Massimiliano Nigrelli, the two-day event offered a multidisciplinary exploration of 6G, beginning with a historical overview of wireless innovation and progressing into critical group activities on applications in healthcare and mobility. Students engaged in debates, examined impacts through lenses of equity and sustainability, and proposed context-specific use cases for their city. The workshop empowered students to see technology as a socially shaped tool, underscoring the importance of youth participation in guiding responsible innovation and ensuring future networks align with real societal needs. |
SUSTAIN-6G Project Highlights Sustainability in 6G at Hexa-X-II Workshop The SUSTAIN-6G Lighthouse project participated at the 6G Series Workshop organized by Hexa-X-II, held virtually on February 11-12, 2025. Representing the project, Christoph Schmelz (Nokia), the project coordinator, presented insights on “The holistic sustainability perspective for 6G“ during the session focused on Radio evolution and innovation for 6G. This global and fully virtual workshop open to all, organized by Hexa-X-II and other European projects from SNS JU, brought together key stakeholders from across the globe, including policymakers, industry leaders, and researchers, to discuss the future of 6G technology. The event featured perspectives from regions such as Europe, China, Korea, Taiwan, India, Japan, and North America, addressing key value indicators, system architecture, network management, and sustainability considerations for 6G. |
Eurescom Message Interview with SUSTAIN-6G Project Manager: “Ask the experts: from Vision to Practice” In a compelling discussion featured in Eurescom Message, Lars Christoph Schmelz, Nokia’s Project Manager for the Horizon Europe Sustainability Lighthouse project “SUSTAIN-6G,” provides a deep dive into the integration of sustainability into 6G technology. His insights shed light on how the next-generation mobile network can be designed to be both powerful and environmentally responsible. |
SUSTAIN 6G project: "a 6G not only pushed by technologists, a 6G for the people" The final meeting of the BEL6GICA project and the related video marks the culmination of incredible collaboration and innovation at the Belgian level! This project and the video (2:40) was a way to push forward the 6G vision defended by the SUSTAIN 6G project: a 6G not only pushed by technologists, a 6G for the people. A sustainable 6G, but not only. More importantly, a 6G for sustainability: environmentally friendly, economically viable and socially beneficial. |
SUSTAIN-6G contributed to the ETSI AI Conference: How Standardization is Shaping the Future of AI With an invited talk on "Emerging and Transformative Trends in AI/ML Applications for 6G Networks and Services: Insights from Academia" on February 5, 2025, delivered by Emilio Calvanese Strinati (CEA). The talk explored cutting-edge AI/ML advancements in 6G, emphasizing intelligent, adaptive, and autonomous systems that go beyond connectivity to enable semantic communications, context-aware decision-making, and sustainable network management. It highlighted how AI-native 6G will transform interactions across physical, cyber, and sapience spaces, redefining time perception, digital synchronicity, and real-world causality to unlock new services and applications. |
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