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Professor Dr. Christian Rothenberg, Director and Principal Investigator (PI) of SMARTNESS, participated in the 2nd xGMobile International Workshop, held on November 25, 26, and 27, 2025, at the National Institute of Telecommunications (Inatel), in Santa Rita do Sapucaí, Minas Gerais, Brazil.

The inauguration of the SMARTNESS Studio 5G, held at the University of Campinas (Unicamp), received extensive national media coverage, underscoring the relevance of the new research infrastructure for advancing studies in 5G, 6G, edge computing, and next-generation mobile networks.

A delegation from the Institute for Microelectronics and Microsystems (IMM) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR), led by Dr. Walter Fuscaldo, visited SMARTNESS on November 24 and 25 as part of the CNR–CNPq Bilateral Project 2025-2026. The initiative strengthens ongoing research and development collaborations between FEEC/Unicamp and IMM, with a focus on sub-THz antenna technologies.

The SMARTNESS 2030 Engineering Research Center, supported by FAPESP and Ericsson, inaugurated on Wednesday (3) the SMARTNESS Studio 5G (SS5G), a space dedicated to the experimentation, demonstration, and prototyping of advanced connectivity technologies.

SMARTNESS congratulates Prof. Fernando J. Von Zuben and researcher Heictor Costa, members of the Center, for receiving the Best Paper Award at the Brazilian Congress on Computational Intelligence (CBIC 2025). The awarded paper, titled “Hybrid Offline–Online UAV Optimal Path Planning and Outburst Dynamic Autonomous Behavior”, was recognized by the CBIC committee for its scientific relevance and practical impact in the fields of computational intelligence and autonomous robotics.

Between October 27 and 30, 2025, Flávio Geraldo Coelho Rocha (UFG), researcher at SMARTNESS, carried out a series of technical visits and scientific activities in Europe, with stops in Italy and Hungary. These initiatives reinforce the Center’s commitment to fostering international collaboration and advancing research on the evolution of 5G and 6G networks.

At the end of October, Tariqul Islam, PhD student and member of SMARTNESS, visited Barcelona, Spain, to present a co-authored poster at the 27th International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM 2025).

SMARTNESS had the pleasure of welcoming Dr. Antoni Ivanov and Dr. Atanas Vlahov from the Technical University of Sofia (TU-Sofia, Bulgaria) during their visit to Brazil on October 27th, 2025, as part of ongoing collaborations with Brazilian universities.

SMARTNESS welcomed a delegation from the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) on September 29th, 2025, as part of a series of initiatives carried out in partnership with the Brazilian National Telecommunications Agency (ANATEL). The visit aimed to strengthen cooperation in research, innovation, and the development of telecommunications standards.

We are delighted to announce that Dr.  Mischa Dohler – VP Emerging Technologies at Ericsson in Silicon Valley and world-renowned expert in immersive internet, 6G and wireless communications – successfully delivered his acclaimed IEEE Distinguished Lecturer at FEEC/UNICAMP on Monday, 29 September 2025, entitled “The Dawn of an Immersive Internet: AR, AI & API on the Road to 6G”.