A digital voice assistant based on artificial intelligence supports Hamburg parents in applying for child benefits etc. - barrier-free and in compliance with data protection laws.

Data exchange in a technically and legally secure manner: The project »(Inter-)Kommunale Datenwerke« (KDW) ((Inter-)municipal DataWorks), funded by the mFund of the BMDV, aims to build a secure virtual space for intra- and inter-municipal exchange of (partially) restrictive data. Fraunhofer FOKUS is a project partner.

4WARD - Architecture and Design for the Future Internet, Integrated Project (IP). The 7th Framework Program project 4WARD addresses Architecture and Design for the Future Internet.

5G Ready Trial Platform aims to provide support for the technology development between prototype implementation and commercial systems addressing the development and trialing needs in the last phases of development.

5G-VICTORI is a large scale EU funded project that aims at validating 5G networks with vertical user cases. Large scale trials for Railway, Energy, Media and Factories of the Future are planned. The testbed infrastructure for the Berlin trials is provided by Fraunhofer FOKUS.

Vertical demos over Common large scale field Trials for Rail, energy and media Industries

Federating Japanese and European 5G Testbeds to Explore Relevant Standards and Align Views on 5G Mobile Network Infrastructure Supporting Dynamic Creation and Management of Network Slices for Different Mobile Services.

Large-Scale International IPv6 Pilot Network – 6NET is a three-year European project to demonstrate that continued growth of the Internet can be met using new IPv6 technology.

The project "6G Native Extensions for XR Technologies" – 6G NeXt, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), aims to develop a scalable, modular and flexible infrastructure enabling a variety of industrial and end-user use cases with requirements exceeding those of today's 5G network in terms of intelligence, performance and efficiency.

With the SENTINEL lighthouse project, the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft is launching a lead project to develop key technologies for the upcoming 6G mobile communications standard. The focus is on terahertz technologies and solutions for flexible networks. Fraunhofer FOKUS, as well as four other Fraunhofer institutes, are involved in SENTINEL.

The 6G Research and Innovation Cluster (6G-RIC) will develop the essential key technologies of future 6G communication systems. In addition to the actual technology development, the focus will be on setting up a powerful test infrastructure. For the 6G-RIC, FOKUS will practically test and analyze the management of a distributed RAN functionality as well as innovative network management and data layer functions.

The 6G-Sandbox project aims to provide an open pan-European test environment for 6G experimentation and validation of 5G-Advanced and 6G capabilities. Companies and organizations can conduct trials on four experimental platforms. Fraunhofer FOKUS is part of the project and provides a test environment in Berlin.