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6G4Society hosts first citizen engagement workshop in Rome
On May 28, 2024, 6G4Society held a successful workshop in Rome, organized by project partners Digital for Planet and CyberEthics Lab., in collaboration with university students from the youth-led association, AIESEC Roma Tre.
The 6G4Society consortium discusses the first months of project implementation and aligns on future activities
At the end of its fifth month, the 6G4Society consortium held a General Assembly in Rome and online to review progress, share lessons learned, and plan for the next 1.5 years of the project.
EuCNC & 6G Summit 2024 Showcases Vision for a Sustainable and Inclusive 6G Future
The EuCNC & 6G Summit 2024, a key event in telecommunications, took place in Antwerp from June 3-6, uniting industry leaders and researchers to discuss advances in 5G and 6G technologies. 6G4Society joined the event, under the motto “From Vision to Reality,” with Project Coordinator Monique Calisti and partners leading discussions on incorporating societal and environmental values into 6G development.
6G4Society presented at the Public Safety Communication Europe (PSCE) Spring Conference
6G4Society was showcased at the Public Safety Communication Europe (PSCE) Spring Conference in Vienna on June 4-5, 2024. Organized by consortium partner PSCE and hosted by the Austrian Ministry of Defense, the event highlighted AI for Data Management and Satellite-Non Terrestrial Communication. PSCE coordinator Marie-Christine Bonnamour presented the project, emphasizing its goals and efforts towards a sustainable and accepted 6G for society.
Who is driving the project?
Who is driving the project?
Get to know the 6G4Society Consortium!
Promoting secure and ethical innovation, Cyber Ethics Lab assists clients in transforming ideas into actionable innovations while mitigating ethical and cybersecurity risks. Through technology design and implementation, we ensure compliance with fundamental rights, enhancing effectiveness, trust, and competitiveness. We focus on a holistic vision of innovation, generated by efficiency, scientific curiosity and respect for human beings, where ideas, techniques, tools and methods from different disciplines are integrated to make innovative, secure and responsible technology.
What is your organisation’s role in the project? What unique contribution does it bring to the team?
In 6G4 Society, we apply methodologies from ethics, legal and social science and humanities (SSH), building the best design strategies to boost ethically-driven technology development. We use the Social Acceptance of Technology (SAT) model developed by CyberEthicsLab. to support the effort of preventively assessing and forecasting the social acceptance of innovative and disruptive technologies, appraising and determining the co-implications of technology and socio-cultural contexts. Specifically, it aims at measuring stakeholders’ perceptions of technologies and, consequently, their propensity to adopt them. Through this model we analyse not only the direct effects that 6G can produce on society, but also what 6G can enable in society, including unintended consequences and implications (positive or negative) on society and human-related aspects. In this way we contribute to the project objective of creating knowledge and providing advice on social and ethical thematic aspects relevant to 6G development. Moreover, through the definition of Key Values Indicators (KVIs) we provide measurable parameters to assess the effective alignment of 6G with societal values.
How do you think 6G4Society will contribute to European society?
In our opinion, technology is never value-neutral. The design and implementation of any technology embed explicit and implicit values. Nevertheless, the current technology development approach has been prominently technology-driven and business oriented, with no attention attributed, so far, to understanding or managing the relationship between technology and society. 6G4Society can contribute to change this tendency, creating both awareness on the importance of understanding which values are particularly important for 6G relationship with society and suggesting policies to create the conditions for an effective alignment of 6G with societal values. Moreover, engaging stakeholders with different levels of awareness of the technology, the project will contribute to the raise of knowledge of EU citizens on such a critical issue as the implementation of the new telecommunication infrastructure. Finally, through Key Sustainable Indicators (KSIs) and Key Values Indicators (KVIs) the alignment can be measured on a practical level, avoiding the risk of having abstract policies that do not have clear indications on how to be implemented.
What is your organisation’s role in the project? What unique contribution does it bring to the team?
In 6G4 Society, we apply methodologies from ethics, legal and social science and humanities (SSH), building the best design strategies to boost ethically-driven technology development. We use the Social Acceptance of Technology (SAT) model developed by CyberEthicsLab. to support the effort of preventively assessing and forecasting the social acceptance of innovative and disruptive technologies, appraising and determining the co-implications of technology and socio-cultural contexts. Specifically, it aims at measuring stakeholders’ perceptions of technologies and, consequently, their propensity to adopt them. Through this model we analyse not only the direct effects that 6G can produce on society, but also what 6G can enable in society, including unintended consequences and implications (positive or negative) on society and human-related aspects. In this way we contribute to the project objective of creating knowledge and providing advice on social and ethical thematic aspects relevant to 6G development. Moreover, through the definition of Key Values Indicators (KVIs) we provide measurable parameters to assess the effective alignment of 6G with societal values.
How do you think 6G4Society will contribute to European society?
In our opinion, technology is never value-neutral. The design and implementation of any technology embed explicit and implicit values. Nevertheless, the current technology development approach has been prominently technology-driven and business oriented, with no attention attributed, so far, to understanding or managing the relationship between technology and society. 6G4Society can contribute to change this tendency, creating both awareness on the importance of understanding which values are particularly important for 6G relationship with society and suggesting policies to create the conditions for an effective alignment of 6G with societal values. Moreover, engaging stakeholders with different levels of awareness of the technology, the project will contribute to the raise of knowledge of EU citizens on such a critical issue as the implementation of the new telecommunication infrastructure. Finally, through Key Sustainable Indicators (KSIs) and Key Values Indicators (KVIs) the alignment can be measured on a practical level, avoiding the risk of having abstract policies that do not have clear indications on how to be implemented.
The Events
Let’s meet. Let’s connect. Check out the upcoming events related to 6G4Society.
SNS ICE Final Event – Showcasing Key Achievements
OnlineDate & Time: April 28th, 14:00 – 16:00 CEST Location: Online (registration required) Join us for the SNS ICE Final Event, where we will present the key outcomes of the project to a […]
Public Safety Communication Europe (PSCE) Spring Conference 2025
Lindholmen Conference Centre Lindholmspiren 5, Göteborg, SwedenThe first Public Safety Communication Europe (PSCE) Conference of the year is taking place in Göteborg, Sweden, co-organised with the Swedish Police Authority ; MSB (Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency) and […]
EuCNC & 6G Summit 2025
Poznan Poznan, PolandThe 2025 EuCNC & 6G Summit builds on putting together two successful conferences in the area of telecommunications: EuCNC, in its 34th edition of a series, supported by the European Commission; […]
Open Calls
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6G-XR
Experimental Research services and infrastructures towards the 6G era
Deadline: 22 May 2024
IMAGINE-B5G
Advanced, accessible, secure, and programmable end-to-end 5G platform
Deadline: 10 June 2024
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6G4SOCIETY project has received funding from the Smart Networks and Services Joint Undertaking (SNS JU) under the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No 101139070. This work has received funding from the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI)
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