AI, Data and Robotics (ADR) is omnipresent in our daily lives and key to addressing some of the most pressing challenges facing our society. Europe has excellent research centres, innovative start-ups, a world-leading position in robotics and competitive manufacturing and services sectors, from automotive to healthcare, energy, financial services and agriculture. While the essentials are present, European ADR is waiting for exploitation to achieve its full potential. The ADR ecosystem is inherently complex because many stakeholders at many different levels require a holistic strategy towards collaboration to be effective and efficient. The Adra Association, representing the private side of the ADR Partnership, leverages this diversity through its founding organisations (BDVA, euRobotics, CLAIRE, ELLIS, EurAI) and channels it to the benefit of the European ecosystem. The Adra-e CSA proposal is set up in close liaison with Adra Association and includes it as a partner, committed to sustain its outcomes. Adra-e should be seen as the operational arm of the partnership to foster collaboration, convergence and interoperability between communities and disciplines to advance European ADR while safeguarding the interest of European citizens. This is achieved by supporting the ADR Partnership in the update and implementation of the SRIDA, creating the conditions for an inclusive, sustainable, effective, multi-layered, and coherent European ADR ecosystem, leading to increased trust and adoption of ADR, a more competitive supply and demand sides in the EU and raising private investments at the same time.The consortium is composed of leading industry and research organisations with significant expertise in all three disciplines. All are involved in Adra and the associations and partnerships shaping European research. Many of them are supporting the Digitising European Industry initiative from the EC participating in the constitution of Digital Innovation Hubs Network and Digital platforms.

The project will create a collaboration environment for European and global stakeholders involved in the preparation of 6G smart networks and services. It will be the instrument to present, leverage, and position the SNS JU activities and achievements in major European and global fora. The project will work at a global level with other regions, where 6G activities are planned and ongoing. This will create an environment to promote SNS JU results and achievements, exchange trends and ideas to achieve global consensus. Key standardization activities will be also monitored, and main roadmaps and trends will be communicated back to the SNS JU projects. The project will also establish dialogues at a European level between peer Horizon Europe Partnerships, national initiatives, research and development clusters, etc., targeting the exchange of information, plans and priorities. This will enable a better understanding of the European activities among the involved stakeholders and will potentially enable a better alignment of their plans. Additionally, SNS ICE will also be engaged in dialogues with key vertical industries through well-established associations, to identify their requirements and promote the SNS JU solutions to them. This exchange of ideas will create opportunities for tailor-cut 6G solutions and their early adoption by the verticals industries. All these activities are expected to contribute significantly to secure Europe’s leading role in the definition, provision, and exploitation of 6G solutions. SNS ICE is planning to organize dedicated workshops with the abovementioned groups of stakeholders at main international events, most notably Techritory and EuCNC. It will also provide several presentations at international and European conferences and events. The outcomes of these results will be communicated to the SNS JU community assisting the research and innovation activities to be fully aware of the global 6G progress.

Data has both a value and a cost and modern research data management makes many promises in terms of capacity, scalability, ease-of-use and security. The stewardship of research data involves not only all data-related tasks during the active lifetime of a project itself but also preparing the data and associated information for later re-use. The period during which research data remains valuable can stretch into decades. Currently, many research projects cannot manage their data, as the archiving and preservation services are inadequate and fall below expectations while data stewardship costs are frequently underestimated during the planning phase. Using the PCP instrument and building on results of recent projects, ARCHIVER’s goal is to fulfil these data management promises in a multi-disciplinary environment, allowing each research group to retain ownership of their data whilst leveraging best practices, standards and economies of scale. ARCHIVER will combine multiple ICT technologies, including extreme data-scaling, network connectivity, service inter-operability and business models, in a hybrid cloud environment to deliver end-to-end archival and preservation services that cover the full research lifecycle. The use-cases driving the consortium’s need for research and development of innovative data preservation services will extend the preservation ecosystems of the procurers to create more dynamic solutions using a hybrid model combining on-premise capacity with external services operated by commercial suppliers that will be enhanced to comply with the OAIS (ISO 14721) series of standards. One of the main benefits of such a hybrid approach is that it can be implemented in a way that is transparent to data producers and (re-)users. This transparency will address issues that cross discipline and national boundaries, such as findability and interoperability of datasets, as well as reduce costs. The potential uptake for the services resulting from this proposal are many-fold, including supporting the needs of ESFRI and related research infrastructures as well as the results of short-term research projects funded at the regional, national and European-level. The European Open Science Cloud is a major European undertaking that will provide this project with a privileged engagement channel with Europe’s research communities who seek reliable and scalable solutions that satisfy the obligations of data management plans required by funding agencies.

This Full-5G project has a prime objective to facilitate the activities of the European 5G Initiative during as outlined in the 5G contractual Public Private Partnership (5G PPP) during its’ third phase from June 2019 to September 2021. In addition to this, the Full-5G project will assess the achievements of the 5G PPP and impact these results have had on the evolution of 5G in Europe over the period of life of the 5G PPP. This work will also look to the future and consider what additional actions are necessary to maintain the European momentum and leadership in 5G and facilitate the uptake of 5G by the European vertical sectors. The Full-5G project will work to progress the 5G PPP high level goal of maintaining and enhancing the competitiveness of the European ICT industry, and seeking European leadership in the 5G domain. Part of the strategy to do this will be to support activities where the 5G PPP can contribute to the implementation of the European 5G Action Plan, which was published by the EU Commission in September, 2016. The Full-5G project also has the underlying ambition to ensure that European society, via the Vertical sectors, can enjoy the economic and societal benefits these future 5G networks can provide. Another key part of the anticipated Full-5G project work will be the review and promotion of the results of the 5G PPP as a whole. The project will prepare an Impact Analysis that will capture the impact of the PPP on the evolution of 5G in Europe and seek to correlate this to the social and economic trends emerging from the uptake of 5G.

INSTAR promotes Europe’s position as a forerunner in global standards-setting in advanced ICT technologies (eg. AI, 5G and 6G, internet protocols, IoT, cybersecurity, data, eID, quantum or DLTs) with strategic international partners. The 30-month project shapes the definition & uptake of standards in target countries, delivers studies & analyses on ICT standards, and monitors international standards in trade & cooperation agreements. INSTAR’s active and experienced ICT standardisation experts will manage a set of technology domain workstreams to build high-level standardisation frameworks, engaging key stakeholders; map standards onto a Standards Dashboard; activate high-level task forces to provide inputs; organise webinars and workshops; deliver monthly and bi-annual reports on agreements on common standards and roadmaps; monitor international standards implementation in trade and cooperation agreements. Impact: a)high-level standardisation frameworks; b)Standards Dashboard with a common vision in international fora/SDOs; c)6 High-level Task Forces (TF) to manage technology domain workstreams; d)bi-annual reports on agreements on common standards and roadmaps; e) monitoring implementation of int’l standards in trade & cooperation agreements. The strong Consortium of 10 partners, 8 countries with complimentary skills: 4 specialist consultancy SMEs, 4 RTOs, an industry association & a university, active & well regarded in the standardisation community, EU & internationally. Partners are embedded in existing SDOs and standardisation initiatives, in committees centred on the key technologies while retaining independence; have trusted relationships with stakeholders in target countries, and are experienced in supporting the development of effective standardisation policies. Engagement includes 6 task forces, 6 joint committees, 6 workshops, 6 Webinars, 1 Impact event, 2 Coordination Board meetings, 10 signed MoUs, 24 3rd party events; 1,000 engaged community members.