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5G COMMUNICATIONS
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research centre wants to keep up research teams to work on various Contact Details:
with technological developments aspects of 5G, from testing of self- nina.kajander@ec.europa.eu
and anticipate future research needs. driving vehicles to cybersecurity and JRC Science Hub:
And scientists at the JRC are not connectivity. On the JRC’s research https://ec.europa.eu/jrc
short of ideas about how to advance campus we could have full control
research in this area. One idea is to of the road infrastructure, the www.europeanenergyinnovation.eu
establish at JRC Ispra a large-scale energy infrastructure and the
5G testing facility, where researchers communications network. This would
will be able to carry out tests of smart provide optimal conditions for testing”,
technologies for automated driving, said Ferragut.
smart cities, smart energy production
and distribution in totally independent Future research plans include also
and real, city-like conditions. The looking at user acceptance as well
JRC’s research campus in Ispra, which as health and social implications of
spreads over 170 hectares of land future 5G networks. The European
and has over 36 kilometres of internal Commission strategy for the Digital
roads, would provide very good Single Market underlines the
conditions for this. importance of very high capacity
networks like 5G as a key asset for
“There are already many 5G testbeds Europe to compete in the global
in Europe, and the aim is that by market. In 2013, the Commission
the end of 2020 each EU Member launched a Public-Private Partnership
State will have at least one major (5G-PPP) backed by 700 million euros
5G-enabled city. We would like to of public funding with the aim of
create at the JRC in Ispra a research making sure that 5G technology is
facility that will allow several JRC available in Europe by 2020. l
