From April 7 to 11th, representatives of CPE Smartness visited Ericsson's headquarters in Stockholm to participate in a schedule of technical activities, knowledge exchange, and in-person discussions about the project's progress. The visit included Professors Christian Rothenberg and Luiz Bittencourt (Unicamp), Fábio Verdi (UFSCar), and researcher Maria Valéria Marquezini Miranda (Ericsson Research Brazil). The team carried out several meetings with researchers from Ericsson Research, covering topics such as Networks, Artificial Intelligence, Computing, and Software. The agenda also included meetings with Smartness project stakeholders and a visit to the Ericsson Imagine Studio.

On April 16, Eduardo Sartori (TT/SMARTNESS) and LEMAC researchers visited INPE (São José dos Campos) to learn about a system for measuring electromagnetic parameters of materials in the microwave range. The visit included tests on materials used in metasurface research and supported the planning of a similar system at LEMAC, with extended capabilities up to 500GHz.

The ERC SMARTNESS celebrates the acceptance of five research papers at SBRC 2025, a leading Brazilian conference on computer networks and distributed systems. These studies involve networking, cloud computing, AI and security, while the topics include stream encryption performance on programmable hardware, volumetric analysis of video quality of experience, ML-based cloud gaming traffic prioritization, quantum GANs for attack detection, and drone delivery evaluations.