A group of researchers from the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering of the Politecnico di Milano, coordinated by Prof. Salvatore Levantino together with Prof. Andrea Lacaita, Prof. Carlo Samori and Assistant Professor Luca Bertulessi, participates in the SHIFT – Sustainable Technologies Enabling Future Telecom Applications project, co-funded by the Key Digital Technologies Joint Undertaking, the public-private partnership for research, development and innovation under Horizon Europe.
Supported by 43 partners, SHIFT aims to make important contributions to the "twin transition", through innovations in component and system technologies for advanced telecommunications.
The SHIFT consortium will develop innovative semiconductor and packaging technologies and their validation with demonstrators for telecommunication areas such as 5GNR (Beyond 5G) and 6G wireless network access and backhaul, ultra-high-speed optical links between servers, satellite telecommunications, and Earth observation.
SHIFT will also contribute to environmental and societal concerns, with an analysis of the life cycle of telecommunications products, through their manufacturing chain, their operational use, and their recycling.
Finally, SHIFT project supports Europe's will for sovereignty in semiconductors, by accelerating the development and dissemination of new European technologies, and by enabling many young engineers and researchers to train, thanks to the most recent results. Thus, SHIFT is an ambitious project and sustainable development for innovative European companies.