IEEE WPMC 2026 CONASENSE Workshop “Advancing 6G via International Research to Standardisation Synergies” | 8.11.2026

Advancing 6G via International Research to Standardisation Synergies

Joint Workshop — Horizon Europe INSTAR Project & 6G CONASENSE Platform

About the workshop

The COmmunication, NAvigation, SENsing and SErvices (CONASENSE) platform and the Horizon Europe Cooperation and Support Action INSTAR are complementary initiatives that aim to advance both research excellence and pre-normative standardisation impact for 6G and beyond. This joint half-day workshop, co-organised at IEEE WPMC 2026, reflects their shared ambition to bridge exploratory research and global standardisation, ensuring that future 6G systems are innovative, interoperable, and societally relevant.

INSTAR is an EU-funded project that supports the implementation of Europe’s Digital Partnerships and the EU–US TTC by working together with Australia, Canada, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and the USA to drive international common standards for AI, Cybersecurity, Digital ID, Quantum, IoT, 5G, 6G and data technologies. It mobilises cross-domain expertise and international coordination to shape future standards across key technological workstreams, and systematically links academic research outcomes with standardisation trajectories in ETSI, 3GPP, IEEE, and broader cross-SDO environments.

CONASENSE is an interdisciplinary 6G brainstorming and dissemination platform fostering the development of novel 6G digital services to support society. It brings together experts from communications, sensing, navigation, and human-centric and sustainable services — driving its vision through virtualisation and softwarisation to support many active devices with a high degree of adaptability.

The workshop aims to showcase forefront 6G research and to examine how emerging results are being systematically pipelined towards future 6G standardisation.

Topics of interest

The workshop invites original research and position contributions across complementary 6G perspectives: communications; satellites and navigation; sensing; 6G use-cases and services. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Programme overview

Submission guidelines

Review manuscripts should describe original work in the IEEE double column proceedings format, including tables, figures and references, under the following page limits:

Technical papers: up to 6 pages (including figures and references
Poster/Demo proposals: up to 2 pages (including figures and references)
In order to download manuscript templates for IEEE conference proceedings use the following link: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html.

All submissions will undergo single-blind peer review by three independent reviewers. Accepted papers will be included in the symposium proceedings and presented at the conference. Note that accepted will be published with no additional charge. Exceeding pages (6 to full papers and 2 to poster/demos) will be charged an additional fee (limited to 1). At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register (full registration fee) to the conference and present the paper. Only registered and presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Accepted papers will be included in the WPMC 2026 Proceedings and submitted for inclusion in IEEE Xplore, subject to compliance with IEEE Xplore’s scope, quality, and formatting requirements..

Submission via EDAS: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=35603

For inquiries and submissions: conasense-board@listserv.dfn.de

Key dates

Organising and technical committees