{"id":245,"date":"2026-02-25T07:40:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T07:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open6ghub.de\/news-und-event\/successful-launch-of-open6ghub-funding-notice-handed-over-to-coordinator-prof-schotten\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T07:40:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T07:40:02","slug":"successful-launch-of-open6ghub-funding-notice-handed-over-to-coordinator-prof-schotten","status":"publish","type":"news-und-event","link":"https:\/\/www.open6ghub.de\/en\/news-und-event\/successful-launch-of-open6ghub-funding-notice-handed-over-to-coordinator-prof-schotten\/","title":{"rendered":"Successful launch of Open6GHub+: funding notice handed over to coordinator Prof. Schotten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The funding notice was presented on February 17, 2026, during a ceremonial event in Berlin by the Federal Ministry for Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR). On behalf of the Open6GHub consortium, Hans Schotten\u2014professor at DFKI and the Rhineland-Palatinate Technical University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU) and coordinator of the hub\u2014accepted the grant notice.<\/p>\n<div id=\"c15964\" class=\" pb-5 frame frame-default default frame-type-text frame-layout-0\">\n<p>Effective January 1, 2026, the national 6G transfer hub Open6GHub+ has launched. It builds on the successful predecessor project Open6GHub and, in the new phase, focuses on transferring research results into industrial applications, standards, and markets. The project is funded by the BMFTR as part of the German 6G program, thereby implementing a key component of its national 6G strategy. During the ceremony in Berlin, the central importance of modern communication technologies as the strategic backbone of a digitalized society was discussed as a key topic. In addition, there was in-depth discussion of the challenges posed by the global security and industrial policy situation, as well as the role of 6G technologies for Germany\u2019s and Europe\u2019s technological sovereignty.<\/p>\n<p>DFKI coordinates the Open6GHub+ consortium and, within the project, focuses on integrating AI into the entire 6G ecosystem: from AI-supported network operations and language models for intuitive use to digital twins of networks and production facilities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"c15982\" class=\" pb-5 frame frame-default default frame-type-text frame-layout-0\">\n<p><strong>Partners of the Open6GHub+ consortium:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e960e948c7a78d28e72d0f3941b9e3f2c\">German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence GmbH (DFKI) \u2013 Coordinator<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e89448cdbe735e33cec7de6b1b1242a52\">Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU)<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"eda16dc368892843e450c4fdeadf41bd1\">Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems FOKUS<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e9858712ce23320a3dde8c8ebf0486f5f\">Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e226e21ec10bf53844741f8a2d2467a93\">Technical University of Darmstadt<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e772c7d5ab4a14798dba9a0073e1d648e\">Rhineland-Palatinate Technical University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU)<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e3c38459623ae9a6119d789da0d24d867\">University of Bremen<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e99a1d047c6e01064e7f9a7a7505f5b8a\">University of Stuttgart<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"ec41e7afc7870b29b8f0dc5220125239e\">Technical University of Munich<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The funding notice was presented on February 17, 2026, during a ceremonial event in Berlin by the Federal Ministry for Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR). On behalf of the Open6GHub consortium, Hans Schotten\u2014professor at DFKI and the Rhineland-Palatinate Technical University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU) and coordinator of the hub\u2014accepted the grant notice. Effective January 1, 2026, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":233,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-245","news-und-event","type-news-und-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open6ghub.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-und-event\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open6ghub.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-und-event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open6ghub.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news-und-event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open6ghub.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open6ghub.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open6ghub.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}