Vinnova invests 150 million in national test center for 5G and 6G

by ATHENA | Jun 23, 2026 | News

Vinnova grants 150 million SEK to Digital Arena Sweden, for a new national test center for 5G and 6G technology. By gathering and developing Sweden’s test environments, the investment will strengthen the industry’s ability to develop, test and verify the...

Horizon Europe – EU Space Research Call 2025: 25 new projects ready for launch after completing Grant Agreement preparations

by ATHENA | Jun 22, 2026 | News

Thematic areaTopicProject acronymProject titleProject fact sheet (CORDIS)Heading 1 – Accessing SpaceHORIZON-CL4-2025-02-SPACE-11: CSA on access to European spaceportsAEAASFrom EU Soil to Outer Space: Regulation as an enabler for SpaceportsCORDIS...

Commission selects EUROPA consortium as the winner of the Frontier AI Grand Challenge, a project to build European open-source frontier AI model in all 24 EU languages

by ATHENA | Jun 22, 2026 | News

The European Commission has selected EUROPA, a European consortium led by the Italian company Domyn, as the winner of its Frontier AI Grand Challenge. The project will develop an open-source artificial intelligence (AI) model covering all 24 official EU languages. The...

Shaping the AI frontier: key takeaways from the EDIH Summit 2026

by ATHENA | Jun 19, 2026 | Workshops

The discussion on Artificial Intelligence in Europe has now clearly moved from policymaking to implementation. With the AI Act now in force, the focus of the EDIH Summit 2026 (Strengthening the AI Innovation Ecosystem, held on 9–10 June at The SQUARE in...

EU-funded projects addressing the challenges of trustworthy AI

by ATHENA | Jun 19, 2026 | News

Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have accelerated the development of agentic and multimodal systems, with applications across sectors including healthcare, research, industry and environmental monitoring. As AI capabilities become increasingly...