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A selection of online coverage of the ECRN-OWC academics, research groups, and the European projects we lead or partner in.

Awards & honours

• 2019 — Northumbria Univ. Prof. Zabih Ghassemlooy honoured for optical communications research — elected Fellow of OPTICA (formerly OSA)

European projects — announcements

• 2017 — Northumbria Univ. Northumbria key partner in European Horizon 2020 project on Visible Light Communications (VisIoN)
• 2023 — Univ. de València OWIN6G European project approval — €2.7M MSCA Doctoral Network led by Prof. Joaquín Pérez Soler (DSDC)
• 2021 — Northumbria Univ. UK Space Agency funds further research into a new laser-based satellite communications system at Northumbria

European projects — official factsheets

• CORDIS · 2023 OWIN6G — Optical and Wireless Sensor Networks for 6G Scenarios (HORIZON-MSCA-DN)
• CORDIS · 2024 FOCAL — Free-space Optical Communications for Aerial-sateLlite networks (HORIZON-MSCA-DN)
• vision-itn.eu VisIoN — Visible-light based Interoperability and Networking (H2020 MSCA-ITN, coord. M.-A. Khalighi, Institut Fresnel)
• Institut Fresnel H2020-MSCA-ITN VISION at Institut Fresnel

Research-group news

• 2026 — IDeTIC, ULPGC IDeTIC presents an Optical Camera Communication (OCC) demonstrator at the Science for Industry (S4i) innovation fair, Madrid
• 2026 — IDeTIC, ULPGC IDeTIC researchers present their smart-monitoring solution at S4i — Science for Industry
• IDeTIC · index IDeTIC newsroom (running index of group news)
• CTU Prague · group page Wireless & Fiber Optics group, Department of Electromagnetic Field, FEL CTU

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