The evolution of Artificial Intelligence (AI) traces decades back, from an idea conceptualization in the halls of academia to its use in real-world scenarios. In this ever-evolving technological landscape, transformative influence of artificial intelligence across various sectors has a profound and disruptive impact on us. As we make new learnings every day the evolution and revolution of AI seems like an ongoing process, marked by continuous innovation and exploration.
The article “Cybersecurity in the AI era” presents the dual role of AI through a three-dimensional framework: cybersecurity for AI, AI for cybersecurity, and AI against cybersecurity highlighting key technical challenges and calls for a proactive, interdisciplinary approach to embed secure AI practices across the lifecycle, thereby positioning cybersecurity as a strategic enabler.
Continue readingThe article “EU Cybersecurity Framework” presents how the EU is building a unified defence through initiatives such as the EU Cybersecurity Act, the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), and the NIS2 Directive — supported by key institutions.
Continue reading“A bit beyond” explores whether AI is quietly undermining its own future in the Internet era. As generative AI increasingly trains on AI-created content, researcher warns of “model collapse,” where systems lose diversity, accuracy, and coherence.
Continue readingThis article presents the European perspective, represented by the 6G Smart Networks and Services Industry Association (6G-IA), on Europe’s proactive role in 6G Research and Development (R&D) and standardisation, ad[1]dressing societal, environmental, economic and market challenges.
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In the rapidly evolving geopolitical and technological landscape, resilience has moved from a technical consideration to a strategic imperative. This shift is reflected in the recent announcement by the European Commission, which unveiled a €115 million AGILE programme in March 2026—an ambitious initiative designed to accelerate disruptive defence innovation across Europe. By targeting technologies such as artificial intelligence, quantum systems, and drones, and by empowering SMEs, start-ups, and scale-ups, AGILE signals a decisive move: innovation must not only be fast, but deployable, scalable, and resilient in real-world conditions.
This evolving priority is at the heart of this edition of Eurescom Message. It brings together a spectrum of perspectives that reflect sector expertise, practical insight, and long-term impact. From governance challenges to architectural transformations, the focus is clear—Europe’s ICT future must be robust, adaptive, and secure by design.
The Kennedy’s perspective forces us to reflect on how we interpret reality, often limiting our ability to see beyond personal bias. In today’s digital age, this challenge is amplified, highlighting the urgent need for more resilient and trustworthy ICT systems.
The invited article on the Dual-Use Drones and the European Governance Challenge alerts on the rising drone incursions across Europe and reveals a new dual-use threat built on civilian ICT infrastructure, blurring civil-military boundaries and exposing governance gaps. While strengthening resilient networks, spectrum management, and integrated 5G/6G capabilities is now critical for security and societal stability.
A glimpse from the 2nd EU-Japan Digital Week highlights shifting priorities and focus towards dual use technologies and even defence – policy workshop highlighted growing geopolitical risks and the need for resilient, trusted connectivity. Discussions focused on AI, quantum, and space technologies, emphasising joint R&D, interoperable standards, secure supply chains, and strengthened cooperation for a rules-based digital order.
At Mobile World Congress 2026, the European Commission launched EURO-3C (€75M) to build a federated Telco-Edge-Cloud infrastructure, strengthening sovereignty and resilience. This reflects shifting ICT priorities toward interoperable, secure, AI-enabled ecosystems that address fragmentation, support critical sectors, and ensure scalable, trusted digital infrastructure across Europe and Eurescom is committed to contribute to this strategically important initiative. With our long-standing experience in organising and supporting large-scale European research and innovation programmes, we ensure the smooth implementation and effective operational set-up of EURO-3C.
European policy and cybersecurity authorities have increasingly advocated for hybrid cryptographic strategies that combine traditional and post-quantum algorithms. The Eurescom led, EU funded FORTRESS project directly addresses this strategic challenge by developing a scalable hybrid secure boot architecture designed for Europe’s evolving digital infrastructure. By combining cryptographic research, and ecosystem collaboration, the project contributes to shaping secure and resilient European digital future.
The article on Strengthening Europe’s media sovereignty with the Future Media Initiative presents the growing gap between content creation and platform control and how this is a core issue for European media sovereignty. This shift from content creation towards the control of digital infrastructure, data, and monetisation now requires resilient, European-led platforms, stronger innovation capacity, and coordinated investment to reduce dependency on non-European tech giants and safeguard democratic influence, competitiveness, and trusted information ecosystems in an increasingly platform-driven digital landscape.
This edition demonstrates, Europe is actively reshaping how it approaches ICT—prioritising resilience, integration, and long-term impact. In doing so, it reinforces a fundamental truth: connectivity is never just infrastructure. It is a shared responsibility.
This edition is Special as we extend our sincere appreciation to the Director of Eurescom for his outstanding leadership and long-standing dedication to Eurescom. Over the years, his vision, commitment, and strategic direction have played a pivotal role in shaping Eurescom into a respected and impactful organization within the telecommunications and research community. Through his guidance, the organisation has not only strengthened its position but also expanded its influence, fostering collaboration, innovation, and excellence across diverse initiatives. Beyond organisational success, his leadership has inspired colleagues, partners, and stakeholders alike, leaving a lasting impression on all who have had the privilege to work with him. As he steps into a new chapter, we warmly acknowledge the legacy he leaves behind—one defined by growth, resilience, and achievement. We wish him continued good health, happiness, and a fulfilling future, with ample time to enjoy new opportunities and personal pursuits.
With this edition of Eurescom’s Message we continue our mission to reach the ICT European community for sharing insights and perspectives that shape the future of connectivity. We warmly invite your feedback and ideas for upcoming issues. Write to us at and let us know which topics you’d like us to explore next. Your input helps us make each edition more relevant, inspiring, and impactful.
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Pooja Mohnani
Editor-in-chief
Dear readers,
As Europe accelerates its digital and AI ambitions, cybersecurity stands as both the enabler and threat! Artificial intelligence is transforming the digital landscape exponentially! It is redefining how we create, communicate, and secure information — while simultaneously expanding our vulnerability. As algorithms grow more capable, so do the threats that exploit them. Cybersecurity in the AI era is no longer a question of defence alone, but of foresight, adaptability, and trust. This new frontier calls for coordinated action: bringing technology enthusiasts, researchers, policymakers, and industry leaders around a shared vision of technological sovereignty and trust. In the AI era, security cannot be an afterthought; it must be the cornerstone of innovation and digital governance.
The Kennedy’s perspective leads to a thought-provoking reflection on the time when innovation and risk evolve hand in hand. Drawing inspiration from the classic “ambulance in the valley,” the article challenges us to rethink whether we are investing enough in prevention rather than repairing the consequences. In his article he includes Scott Adams Six Filters of Truth that help us to reflect i.e., what’s true and what’s false; read the article and share your thoughts!
The invited article on the Cybersecurity in the AI era presents the dual role of AI through a three-dimensional framework: cybersecurity for AI, AI for cybersecurity, and AI against cybersecurity. It highlights key technical challenges and calls for a proactive, interdisciplinary approach to embed secure AI practices across the lifecycle, thereby positioning cybersecurity as a strategic enabler.
Gain insights into the evolving Digital Partnership on Cybersecurity in the Indo-Pacific region through the article “INPACE – Emerging Cybersecurity Architecture of Digital Partnership Countries.” The piece highlights how India, Japan, South Korea, and Singapore are shaping comprehensive cybersecurity frameworks to safeguard critical information infrastructure, strengthen public–private collaboration, and advance cyber resilience. Together, these nations are building a robust digital foundation — one that blends policy, regulation, and innovation to address the complex challenges of the connected world.
The foundations of cybersecurity must evolve with Artificial Intelligence reshaping the digital world. At the core lies the secure boot process — the mechanism that ensures only trusted software runs on a device, protecting systems from tampering and unauthorized access. Eurescom led EU-funded FORTRESS project is developing a hybrid secure boot architecture that combines classical and post-quantum cryptography. By reinforcing digital trust at the root, FORTRESS contributes to a new generation of AI-ready cybersecurity, where resilience begins not in reaction to threats, but in the very design of secure, intelligent systems.
As cyber threats grow in scale and sophistication, the European Union is advancing on framework to ensure that trust, resilience, and security remain at the core of its digital transformation. The article “EU Cybersecurity Framework” presents how the EU is building a unified defence through initiatives such as the EU Cybersecurity Act, the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), and the NIS 2 Directive — supported by key institutions. These efforts form the backbone of Europe’s mission to safeguard its digital future and empower citizens, businesses, and public institutions to thrive securely in the digital age.
In the article “A bit beyond” the author explores whether AI is quietly undermining its own future in the Internet era. As generative AI increasingly trains on AI-created content, researcher warns of “model collapse,” where systems lose diversity, accuracy, and coherence. With synthetic data now saturating the web and ad-based revenue models under strain, both AI reliability and the digital economy face growing uncertainty. The article calls for authentic, human-generated content and transparent data practices to sustain trust, creativity, and truth in the AI-driven Internet.
This edition of Eurescom’s Message continues our mission to share insights and perspectives that shape the future of connectivity.
We warmly invite your feedback and ideas for upcoming issues. Write to us at and let us know which topics you’d like us to explore next. Your input helps us make each edition more relevant, inspiring, and impactful.
Enjoy reading!
Pooja Mohnani
Editor-in-chief
The essential role of information and communication systems in Smart Grids is presented in context of SNS JU lighthouse project SUSTAIN-6G on integrating sustainability into the development of 6G communication technologies, aiming to align technological advancements with environmental goals by assessing various stakeholders and domains requirements.
Continue readingDiscover how the Project CENTRIC embeds sustainablility in AI-native Air-Interface and designs systems for 6G networks, revolutionizing wireless communication through user-centricity.
Continue readingDear readers,
The evolution of Artificial Intelligence (AI) traces decades back, from an idea conceptualization in the halls of academia to its use in real-world scenarios. In this ever-evolving technological landscape, transformative influence of artificial intelligence across various sectors has a profound and disruptive impact on us. As we make new learnings every day the evolution and revolution of AI seems like an ongoing process, marked by continuous innovation and exploration.
Eurescom embraces more than three decades of experience in managing multinational collaborative R&D projects, programmes, and initiatives in the ICT sector. It recognises the need for aligning technology development with a value-based consideration and prioritization of different economic and social outcomes in the development of 6G networks, in the context of EU research funding frameworks. Hence, in the first article of the cover theme, we attempt to present “The Role of AI/ML in Key Value Indicator Analysis” and propose a value-driven AI technology development which is one of the important drivers in the development of innovative 6G technology.
This issue is a innovative collection of inside view of selected EU research activities from the plethora of projects that present the diverse R&D activities taking place at Eurescom. The article from the project PAROMA-MED presents how researchers are pushing the boundaries of AI capabilities, tackling new challenges, to “Empowering Collaborative Intelligence: The Federated learning approach” and promise advancements in health applications.
As we stand at the vertex of a new era, we recognize not only the revolutionary potential of AI but also its evolutionary journey; the project CENTRIC contributes to “AI Techniques for the 6G AI-AI” and develops a sustainable AI-native Air-Interface for 6G networks and utilizes advances in machine learning (ML) to enable the development and discovery of efficient waveforms, custom modulations, and transceivers for the physical layer as well as customized lightweight communication protocol and sustainable radio resource management.
Whilst the AI – Telecommunications landscape explores new dimensions, in the article “AI/ML in Telecommunications Networks” authors delve into the multifaceted role of AI/ML in shaping the future of telecommunication networks, and provide recommendations concerning the future availability of large data sets, which are necessary for training and benchmarking algorithms.
As AI continues to evolve, our approach towards its development and deployment, the “Innovations using AI/ML in project 6G-BRAINS”, attempt for seamless and efficient wireless connectivity. Presented are innovative approaches to network resource management and spectrum utilization using cutting-edge AI technologies.
The edition includes a very interesting and retrospective article – the KENNEDY Perspective on “AI or not AI”. Will AI help us to succeed? How will AI help me in real life? as there is a juggle on whether to trust these systems and to what extent!
This issue further covers a variety of articles on different, ICT-related activities. Under “Events”, we report about participation of Eurescom projects at MWC Barcelona 2024, the world’s largest telecoms event where technology, community and commerce converge. In our “News in brief” section, we update about what’s new at Eurescom – a short overview on the newly started projects.
Finally, in the latest “A bit beyond” we engage in crucial AI act that is recently passed in the European Parliament and it awaits reading in the EU Council.
Together with my editorial colleagues I believe that you will find value in this edition of Eurescom’s message, and we would appreciate your comments on the current issue as well as suggestions for future issues.
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Pooja Mohnani
Editor-in-chief
