Between March 9th and 13th, X-TREME 6G gathered in Karlsruhe for the German Microwave Week, doubled with our project’s third consortium meeting

Karlsruhe has been the theater of X-TREME 6G’s ongoing advancements, as the project was represented at the German Microwave Week 2026, between March 9th and 11th, which this year was organized and hosted by our partner the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

The German Microwave Week is a conference and exhibition focused on high frequency and microwave technologies. Each year, it features expert exchanges, industry insights, and academic research in fields related to RF and microwave technology, including antenna design, semiconductor technology, and wireless communication applications. Therefore, it is of high relevance to 6G research, and to our project. To highlight this relevance, our innovation manager, Mohand Achouche, from Nokia, gave a keynote speech during the event’s closing ceremony, highlighting key possibilities for 6G to harness the D and H bands, with the contribution of X-TREME 6G.

From March 12th, X-TREME 6G’s presence in Karlsruhe took a new shift, with the organization of our third consortium meeting, in tin the beautiful and (literally) enlightening premises of the building 20.30 in Englerstrasse. Beyond the enjoyment of Karlsruhe’s local architecture, “sehenswürdigkeiten”, and KIT’s technological wonder; this meeting was the occasion for us to exchange, notice the achievements we’ve made since the last time we met, and find solutions for future challenges that we identified over the last two days. Indeed, great ambitions come with great achievements, and even greater challenges; but nothing to worry about. When you are paving the road for 6G deployment in Europe, challenge is something that you expect, and willingly embrace.

X-TREME 6G’s next big step will come in September, with our review meeting, coming with the first results of the project’s development phase aimed to pave the way for the demonstration of our use case demonstrators: Wireless Backhaul, Joint Communication and Sensing, Non-Terrestrial Networks, Network as a Sensor, and Private 6G networks. See you in Kamp Lintfort!

X-TREME 6G project has received fundings from the Smart Networks and Services Joint Undertaking (SNS JU) under the Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement NO 101192681.