With the internal kick-off held on February 19, 2026 at Fraunhofer HHI in Berlin, the research and technology transfer project xG-RIC officially entered its operational collaboration phase with its project partners. The event aimed to align the strategic scope of the Technology Transfer Hub for connected medicine and future mobility and to structure cross-partner collaboration within the consortium.

Following the welcome address and the introduction to the scope and objectives of xG‑RIC by its coordinator, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Slawomir Stanczak, partner presentations were delivered by the participating research institutions and organizations. These included Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute HHI, Fraunhofer IIS, Fraunhofer IAF, Technische Universität Berlin, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft-und Raumfahrt e.V., Deutsches Herzzentrum der Charité (DHZC), FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Technische Universität Braunschweig, and the Leibniz Institute for Innovative Microelectronics (IHP – Leibniz Institute for High Performance Microelectronics). The presentations highlighted each partner’s specific contributions to transferring key 6G technologies into relevant real-word applications.

The program also included the presentation of planned end-to-end demonstrators in the application domains of medicine, urban mobility, and Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN), which will serve as core instruments for technology transfer within the hub. The event concluded with a summary and the definition of key collaboration structures for the ongoing implementation of the xG-RIC roadmap.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Slawomir Stanczak, Zoran Utkovski, Ehsan Tohidi, Wilhelm Keusgen, Federico Clazzer, Nicolas Paul, PD Dr. med. Till Althoff, Robert Schober, Eduard Jorswieck, Markus Petri, Milos Krstic, Johannes Dommel, Leszek Raschkowski, and Elena Kempf-Loeck for their valuable contributions to the project launch.

The xG-RIC project is funded by the German Federal Ministry for Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR).