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Cybersecurity Meetup by COSMOTE TELEKOM, organized by BDVA!

SAFE-6G participated in the Cybersecurity Meetup by COSMOTE TELEKOM, organized by the Big Data Value Association (BDVA), contributing to high-level discussions on cybersecurity challenges and opportunities in next-generation telecommunications.

The event brought together industry experts, researchers, and policymakers to exchange insights on building secure, resilient, and trustworthy digital infrastructures. SAFE-6G’s participation reinforced its commitment to advancing human-centric and secure 6G networks through collaboration and knowledge sharing.

Find more here: https://bdva.eu/events/cybersecurity-meetup-by-cosmote-telekom/ 

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Cybersecurity Meetup by COSMOTE TELEKOM by BDVA – 14 January 2026 – SAFE-6G participated in the Cybersecurity Meetup by COSMOTE TELEKOM, organized by BDVA! 

🔐📡The event brought together industry leaders and researchers to discuss the future of cybersecurity in telecoms.

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Latest SNS Newsflash

What’s inside the Newsflash:

🔹 Horizon Europe Work Programme 2026–2027:
The European Commission adopted the new Horizon Europe programme, simplifying access to research funding and strengthening support for climate-neutral, AI-driven and resilience-focused innovation.

🔹 SNS JU R&I Work Programme 2026:
SNS JU released its Research & Innovation Work Programme for 2026, allocating €22 million to emerging topics including AI for 6G, experimental testbeds, device development, and international collaboration.

🔹 Call for Expression of Interest – Stakeholders Group:
Stakeholders from across the connectivity ecosystem are invited to join SNS JU’s advisory body, shaping strategic research, standards, and policy priorities.

🔹 Governance Updates:
Colin Willcock was appointed Chair of the SNS JU Governing Board, alongside new leadership additions to steer Europe’s digital transition.

🔹 SNS4SNS 2026 & Standardisation Events:
Upcoming events like SNS4SNS 2026 (ETSI, France) and the IEEE ICC 2026 workshop series will spotlight collaborative achievements and open calls for papers.

🔹 Community Projects at Global Forums:
SNS JU projects featured prominently in flagship events — such as 6GNet 2025 (Paris) and IEEE GLOBECOM 2025 (Taipei) — highlighting Europe’s leadership in AI-native, sustainable and secure network technologies.

📅 Save-the-Dates & Calls:
The newsflash also includes key dates for events, special issues, and submission deadlines, offering plenty of opportunities for engagement in the SNS community.

👉https://smart-networks.europa.eu/sns-ju-december-2025-newsflash/ 

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“AI-Driven Dynamic Network Slicing Optimization leveraging Temporal Graph Networks”

As 5th Generation (5G) and Beyond 5G (B5G) networks evolve, dynamic resource allocation and management is crucial for supporting the diversity of devices and the mixed data traffic types. Network slicing enables the logical segmentation of an infrastructure to meet specific Quality of Service (QoS) requirements posed by applications, but factors such as fluctuating traffic, user mobility, and cross-slice interference, pose challenges towards proactive resource allocation. Traditional methods struggle with these factors, leading to inefficiencies. Therefore, this paper explores the concept of an AI-driven network performance prediction and resource allocation framework using Temporal Graph Networks (TGNs). By integrating TGN with the NS-3 simulator, the work in the paper demonstrates an efficient approach to predict network throughput. The proposed solution advances spatiotemporal Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques enabling more accurate prediction of network performance and adaptive resource optimization, supporting dynamic network slicing. Find more information here: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11193687

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SNS JU unveils its 2025 Top-10 Key Achievements

The Smart Networks and Services Joint Undertaking (SNS JU) is pleased to announce its 2025 Top–10 Key Achievements: a selection that highlights the most significant results from its ongoing projects (Call 1 and Call 2), spanning across significant technology development, to experimentation, vertical solutions and trials, impactful standards contribution and sustainability solutions. 

Launched for the first time in 2025, the SNS Key Achievements process provides an opportunity for all projects to present their most significant results. The initiative aims to identify and promote the most promising technological, experimental, and market-oriented innovations that are driving progress towards 6G.

Find more information here: https://smart-networks.europa.eu/sns-ju-unveils-its-2025-top-10-key-achievements-leading-europes-6g-innovation/

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6G Security and Trust: Insights from European SNS Projects

As 6G moves from vision to architecture, its defining features — extreme decentralization, AI-native operation, massive device heterogeneity, ultra-low latency and sustainable-driven design — introduce profound security and trust challenges beyond those faced in 5G. Unlike previous generations, 6G is not only expected to connect more users and services but also to do so across a continuum that spans from cloud to edge to device, including resource-constrained endpoints, mission-critical systems, and autonomous agents. Find more here: https://6g-ia.eu/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/6g-ia_security-wg_white-paper_nov25_final.pdf 

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B5G Core Network Openness: A Proof of Concept Implementation…

At the 2025 IEEE NFV-SDN Conference, another notable contribution was the paper “B5G Core Network Openness: A Proof of Concept Implementation of Location Reporting via Network Exposure Function.”

The researchers showcased a working proof of concept demonstrating how the Network Exposure Function (NEF) can securely and efficiently expose user location information to authorized third-party applications in Beyond 5G (B5G) networks.

Their implementation illustrates how core network openness, when managed through standardized APIs and fine-grained authorization, can enable innovative services—from smart mobility to public safety—without compromising privacy or security.

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Prototyping an AI-Driven Cognitive Coordinator for Mapping User Intent…

At the 2025 IEEE NFV-SDN Conference, Harilaos Koumaras,  presented a standout paper titled “Prototyping an AI-Driven Cognitive Coordinator for Mapping User Intent to Trustworthiness in 6G Networks.”

The work introduces a novel AI-powered cognitive layer designed to translate user intent into trust-aware network behaviors, a major step toward fully autonomous 6G systems. The prototype dynamically analyzes intent, evaluates trust factors, and orchestrates network functions to ensure secure, reliable service delivery.

By merging intent-based networking, trust modeling, and AI-native decision-making, the research highlights how future 6G infrastructures could become more transparent, adaptive, and resilient, paving the way for smarter, user-centric networks in highly dynamic environments.