Upcoming Events

The annual CONASENSE brainstorming event, alternating between Munich (Germany) and Aalborg (Denmark). It reviews the network’s activities, follows up on the workstreams and white papers launched in 2026, and sets the direction for the following year.

Intended audience

• CONASENSE members and workstream contributors
• Researchers and industry experts in 6G
• CONASENSE steering committee and advisory board

This session addresses energy efficiency as a cross-cutting challenge for 6G across radio access, network architectures and edge deployments. It combines strategic and practical perspectives, moving from sustainability considerations to implementation and measurement challenges, and ends with an open panel on underexplored issues and trade-offs.

Intended audience

• Researchers in sustainable communications and energy-aware design
• Industry professionals deploying future wireless and edge infrastructures
• Contributors to standardisation, benchmarking and performance evaluation
• Programme managers and policy stakeholders in green digital initiatives
• Graduate students and early-career researchers

This session explores human-centric requirements for 6G: social behaviour and sensing, trust, ethics and health data protection. As networks rely more on contextual and health-related data, privacy, trustworthiness and societal acceptance become essential. The session concludes with a panel discussion aligned with European values and SNS JU priorities.

Intended audience

• Researchers in 6G, sensing, context awareness and human-centric design
• Industry professionals building future networks and digital health solutions
• Policy makers and programme managers engaged in SNS JU and trustworthy AI
• Privacy, security and ethics experts
• Graduate students and early-career researchers

Kick-off of the SNS JU Coordination and Support Action EU-INDIA-6G-BRIDGE, anchored in CONASENSE and coordinated by fortiss. Over 24 months the project builds joint EU–India roadmaps for Edge-Cloud, AI-native networking, Quantum and Cybersecurity, and strengthens research-to-standardisation pathways. CONASENSE will host the project’s EU-India Learning Hub beyond its lifetime.

“Advancing 6G via International Research to Standardisation Synergies”: the CONASENSE scientific workshop at IEEE WPMC 2026, covering 6G architectures, AI-native networking, NTN, quantum communications and research-to-standardisation pathways. IEEE WPMC 2026 brings together researchers, industry leaders and practitioners to explore advances in wireless, personal and multimedia communications, with emphasis on 6G, sensing integration, sustainability and human-centric system design. The call for papers has closed; talks are still welcome, so please contact the CONASENSE Board if you are interested.

Intended audience

• Researchers and academics in wireless communications and 6G technologies
• Industry professionals working on mobile, multimedia and sensing-enabled networks
• Graduate students and early-career researchers
• Standardisation contributors and innovation managers
• Technology providers and solution architects