New HORIZON Project!

The Wireless and Fiber Optics team from the Department of Electromagnetic Fields led by Prof. Zvánovec won the prestigious four-year international project H2022 – Marie Skłodowska-Curie – DN “Optical and Wireless sensors Networks for 6G scenarios (OWIN6G)” in the field of advanced sensor networks in the optical and millimeter range. The project was ranked among the best 5% of all submitted applications.

Together with the team from our university, which will lead the entire project, prestigious workplaces and prominent industrial partners will be involved in OWIN6G:

• Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute (DE)
• Ecole Centrale Marseille (FR)
• Northumbria University, Newcastle (UK)
• Instituto de Telecomunicações Aveiro (PT)
• Harokopio University of Athens (GR)
• Universitat de Valencia (ES)
• MaxLinear (ES)
• Eblana Photonics (IE)
• Integrated System Technologies (UK)

Furthermore, teams from Chalmers (SE), Technological University Dublin (IE), Technische Universitat Berlin (DE), Universidade Fernando Pessoa (PT), Universidade de Aveiro (PT), ACCELIGENCE Ltd (CY) will collaborate on the project.