OUTREACH – TeamUp5G

European Researchers’ Night in Madrid 2022

Dates: 30th September 2022
Location: UC3M Puerta de Toledo
Participants: Ana Garcia Armada (Project Coordinator), Máximo Morales Céspedes, and David Alejandro Urquiza Villalonga (ESR1)
Type of audience: General Public

Summary: What do you know about 5G? is an activity conducted in the European Researchers’ Night 2022 of UC3M. The Fifth Generation of mobile communications (5G), is being deployed in our country. However, there is some misinformation and possibly false expectations about what 5G is. The main goal of this activity is to provide basic knowledge about 5G. The explanations are accompanied by demonstrations of the most important concepts of visible light (LiFi) and radio communications with MIMO technology. More information can be found here.

4K Summit HDR

Dates: Nov 15-19, 2021
Location: Malaga
Participants: Diego González Morín (ESR15)
Type of audience: Multimedia and Telecommunications Companies Representatives

Summary: 4K Summit is an international gathering for Ultra High Definition professionals from both technology and multimedia content creation sectors. During the 4K Summit we showcased our offloading architecture running on a commercial wireless VR device. Our offloading architecture allow the VR device to transmit a real-time video stream to a nearby server which was running our egocentric human segmentation algorithms on a nerby server. We managed to showcase extremely low round trip latencies below 40 ms, including the ML algorithm inference time. More info here.

European Researchers’ Night in Lisbon 2021

Dates: 24th September 2021
Location: Museu Nacional de Historia Natural e da Ciencia da Universidade de Lisboa
Participants: Bahram Khan, Fernando J. Velez, Pedro Luiz Magalhães Cumino, Joseanne Viana, and Hamed Farkhari
Type of audience: General Public

Summary: TeamUp5G and IT contributed to research night Lisbon and has provided the opportunity to the school level students to motivate them for research in telecommunications by showing them lab research results. During the research night, we contributed video presentations about Li-Fi, was showing the real-time data transmission results using LiFi. Furthermore, ESRs and Professor Fernando Velez from IT have presented their ongoing research implementations and roll-up for exchanging research with other researchers. The topics include ‘’Spectrum Sharing and Carrier Aggregation in Heterogeneous Networks with Small Cells’’, ‘’Feasibility of UAVs in assistance in 5G networks’’, ‘’TeamUp5G Security’’. Based on the video presentation and roll-up discussion, online quiz activities were held at the end.

European Researchers’ Night in Madrid 2021

Dates: 24th September 2021
Location: hybrid. In-person in UC3M Puerta de Toledo premises and online
Participants: Ana Garcia Armada (Project Coordinator) and Manuel José López Morales (ESR 2)
Type of audience: General Public

Summary: What do you know about 5G? is an activity conducted in the European Researchers’ Night 2021 of UC3M. The Fifth Generation of mobile communications, 5G, is being deployed, however, there is some misinformation and possibly false expectations about what 5G is and can provide. This online activity begins with attendees sharing what they know about 5G, to highlight those doubts that are most frequent among them. Next, the researchers of the TeamUp5G project will provide information so that the attendees themselves can answer and jointly acquire a greater knowledge on the subject. The explanations will be accompanied by presentations and videos with demonstrations of the most important concepts. The activity ends with a discussion and sharing of all the participants about their experience and expectations about 5G. More information can be found here.

UNIferiaGrado

Dates: 23rd February 2021
Location: Webinars and online courses
Participants: Ana Garcia Armada (Project Coordinator)
Type of audience: General Public: for undergraduate university students

Summary: UNIferiaGrado is a virtual fair for undergraduate university studies that brings together the main universities in Spain. Ana García Armada was in charge of the talk “Mobile Communications“, which was held inside the main event “UC3M4Teens: meetings to awaken vocations”.

Smart Technology Pillars of 5G & Beyond

Dates: 29th January 2021
Location: Webinars and online courses
Participants: Nidhi (ESR9)
Type of audience: Scientific Community (Higher Education, Research); Industry;

Summary: ESR9 Nidhi gave a talk about “Towards future communication networks: Paradigm shifts and enabling technologies.” during FDP on “Smart Technology Pillars of 5G & Beyond” as a Resource Person. More information here.

European Researchers’ Night in Madrid 2020

Dates: 27th November 2020
Location: Webinars and online courses
Participants: Ana Garcia Armada (Project Coordinator), Máximo Morales Céspedes (ESR 3 Supervisor) and Manuel José López Morales (ESR 2)
Type of audience: General Public

Summary: Activity conducted in the European Researchers’ Night 2020 of UC3M. The Fifth Generation of mobile communications, 5G, is being deployed, however, there is some misinformation and possibly false expectations about what 5G is and can provide. This online activity begins with attendees sharing what they know about 5G, to highlight those doubts that are most frequent among them. Next, the researchers of the Team Up 5G project will provide information so that the attendees themselves can answer and jointly acquire a greater knowledge on the subject. The explanations will be accompanied by presentations and videos with demonstrations of the most important concepts. The activity ends with a discussion and sharing of all the participants about their experience and expectations about 5G. More information can be found here.

The mobile communications revolution: from WiFi to LiFi

Dates: 6th November 2020
Location: Virtual classroom (via collaborate platform)
Participants: Ana Garcia Armada (Project Coordinator) and Máximo Morales Céspedes (ESR 3 Supervisor)
Type of audience: High school and vocational training students

Summary: Activity conducted in the UC3M Science and Innovation Week 2020. Understand mobile communications in a practical way. Interactive talk based on videos interspersed with questions and participation of attendees about radio transmission and visible light.

Smart Cities Month: Interactive workshops on new technologies in the operation of cities

Dates: 25th September 2020
Location: Online presentations
Participants: Periklis Chatzimisios (Training Comitee Member)
Type of audience: Scientific Community, Industry, General public

Summary: The aim of the information series “Smart Cities” is to analyze the relationship between emerging technologies and the evolution of city functions, in order to highlight the areas in which thriving young entrepreneurship can develop in the Innovation Ecosystem of Thessaloniki. Professor Chatzimisios gave one presentation titled: “How Internet of Things and 5G could make Smart Cities a reality”. More information can be found here.

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION FROM A FEMALE PERSPECTIVE, Madrid, March 2020

Dates: 3rd March 2020
Location: Getafe, Madrid (UC3M Campus)
Participants: Ana Garcia Armada (Project Coordinator)
Type of audience: Scientific Community, Civil Society

Summary: Round table organized by the UC3M-Telefónica Chair in Women and Technology. A recorded video is available at: https://media.uc3m.es/video/5e5f5cdc8f42086f518b458c

AULA 2020 in Madrid (IFEMA), March 2020

Dates: 7th March 2020
Location: Madrid (IFEMA – Feria de Madrid)
Participants: Ana Garcia Armada (Project Coordinator) and Manuel José López Morales (ESR 2)
Type of audience: Secondary School Students

Summary: AULA (International Student and Educational Offer Hall) is a fair that helps students to effectively decide their educational and professional future. It combines a significant offering of educational and training centres, entities and service companies that respond to the training needs of students (from 14-15 years and above) who come to choose which centre to attend for training to get onto the job market. Team Up 5G researchers conducted a couple of demos based on demostrating the capabilities behind LiFi and Radio Communications.

STEM for Girls UC3M in Madrid, February 2020

Dates: 14th February 2020
Location: Madrid, Leganés (UC3M Campus)
Participants: Ana García Armada (Project Coordinator), M. Julia Fernandez-Getino and Raquel Perez Leal (Project Manager)
Type of audience: Girls Secondary Students

Summary: STEM for Girls program is composed by technology workshops for the promotion of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) vocations in girls and young women. These workshops aim to motivate the study of these disciplines in girls in the 4th year of secondary school, 1st and 2nd year of high school, as well as to break down gender stereotypes. Team Up 5G researchers conducted the workshop “The mobile communications revolution “. You can find more information about this event here.

Research and Innovation – International Hellenic University, Thessaloniki, February 2020

Dates: 1st-2nd February 2020
Location: Thermi, Thessaloniki (IHU)
Participants: Periklis Chatzimisios (Training Comitee Member)
Type of audience: Scientific Community, Industry, General public, Medias

Summary: This was the 1st Internal Conference on Research and Innovation held by International Helenic University. Professor Chatzimisios gave two presentations titled: “The Computing Systems, Security and Networks Research Lab: Extroversion and Synergies” and “The 4th Industrial Revolution, Internet of Things and 5G Communications: Research Results and Future Challenges”.

European Researchers’ Night in Madrid 2019

Date: 27th September 2019
Location: Campus of Madrid-Puerta de Toledo UC3M, Ronda de Toledo, 1, Madrid
Participants: Ana Garcia Armada (Project Coordinator) and Manuel José López Morales (ESR 2)
Type of audience: General Public

Team Up 5G contributes to European Researchers Night in Madrid 2019.

Summary: The aim of this participation is to generate a direct engagement of the people unfamiliar with telecommunications to make them understand the importance of research in our society and to bring curiosity of the topic to young students. It is aimed at all audiences and includes talks, screenings, games and interactive workshops on topics related to science, communication, cinema, humanities and new technologies. TeamUp5G researchers conducted the workshop “Hunting the invisible Bit“. Besides this, TeamUp5G researchers participated in the activity for secondary school “Theater and Science Fiction: from Physics to Poetry” giving the talk “How Spaceships Communicate“.