RESTART is among the partners of the 2025 edition of 5G Academy, the advanced postgraduate training programme offered by Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, aimed at three-year graduates from different disciplines. The 5G Academy offers a six-month course that combines lectures, experiential workshops and project work realised in cooperation with companies and research centres. The aim is to
RESTART at the International Day of Light, celebrated by the University of Parma. The initiative, established by UNESCO, aims to highlight the crucial role of light and light-based technologies in science, culture and art, education and sustainable development, in fields as diverse as medicine, communications and energy. On 15 May, from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., two seminars will be
A new important result for the RESTART Program: a whitepaper to present the outcomes of Grand Challenge 10 – Making the network a programmable platform for running applications, which focuses on the design of an advanced Network and Service Orchestration Platform. As of today, Grand Challenge 10 has provided an overarching vision of Network and Service Orchestration (NSO), detailing the
Automating and making optical signal routing in telecommunications networks even more sustainable: this is the goal of RESTART focused project F5 – GrapHICs. Partners in the project include Open Fiber, which, in developing the prototype at the heart of GrapHICs, launched a three-year grant in November 2023 in collaboration with the University of Naples Federico II. The grant was won
From July 7th to 10th, 2025, the PhD Summer School “Advanced Topics in 5G-6G RAN for Industrial IoT” will be held in Catania, organized as part of the RESTART structural project S9 – Industrial Networks (IN) by the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering (DIEEI) of the University of Catania. Registration for the initiative-which includes numerous contributions from international
Last Tuesday RESTART Spoke 4 Mentorship Program officially kicked off in Turin, organized with Politecnico di Torino and managed by Plug and Play. A great opportunity to explore the vision of Spoke 4, discover the innovation potential of the program, and hear directly from researchers and entrepreneurs shaping the future of networked media and services. After a welcome speech by Eugenia Forte, Director at
I.N.S.P.I.R.E. – Integration of Networks and Services acceleration Program – from Innovative Research to Enterprise begins, an acceleration program for startups and entrepreneurial teams with innovative solutions in the field of future telecommunications-based networks and services. INSPIRE is an initiative implemented as part of RESTART Spoke 2, coordinated by the Politecnico di Bari, in collaboration with Giffoni Innovation Hub, Fabbrica
The seventh annual meeting of the National Interuniversity Consortium for Telecommunications took place on 8 and 9 April in Rome. The event, which this year took the title “Telecommunications of the Future”, was co-organised by the RESTART Foundation. The Piccolo Eliseo Theatre in Rome made its stage available for the 8 April meeting “CNIT between history and the future: perspectives
The second version of the RESTART whitepaper – Techno-Economic Vision of the Future of Telecommunications – was presented in Rome at “Telecommunications of the Future” – the conference sponsored by the National Interuniversity Consortium for Telecommunications and co-organized by the RESTART Foundation. The European and even more so the Italian telecommunications industry has reached a pivot point. On the one
32 projects, 7 missions and 13 clusters of Grand Challenges to support the future evolution of Telecommunications in Italy: research in RESTART is synergistic, cross-cutting and highly interdisciplinary. The common thread linking all of this is the researchers who work every day to advance technologies that will have – or are already having – a real impact on industry and