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On July 1st and 2nd, partners from across Europe gathered for the official Kick-Off Meeting (KOM) of the MAGIC-6G project, funded by Horizon Europe Smart Networks and Services Joint Undertaking (SNS JU) and the European Commission.
There could not have been a more inspiring setting to design the future of 6G than our host venue: the prestigious and historic Palazzo Bo at the Università di Padova. Meeting within walls steeped in centuries of academic excellence, our consortium set the foundational blocks for a next-generation communication architecture.
Coordinated by the project PI Andrea Zanella with the researcher Federico Chiariotti, in two days of intensive, collaborative sessions, our multi-disciplinary team aligned on the immediate milestones for our core innovations:
– The Semantic/Knowledge Layer
– The Goal-Oriented Agent Layer
– Deep integration with critical industrial verticals
A huge thank you to all our academic and industrial partners, Qi Liao (Nokia Bell Labs Solutions and Networks GMBH & CO KG), Yansha Deng (King’s College London), Nikolaos Pappas (Linköpings universitet), Panagiotis Demestichas, (WINGS ICT Solutions), Javier Montesa,(Brainstorm), and Semiha K., (Turkcell) who traveled to Padova and brought their fundamental expertise and enthusiasm for the project to the table.
The energy was palpable, and the vision is clear: shifting future networks from simple data pipelines into Goal-Oriented Networking. Here, AI systems cooperate to share only the exact, vital information needed to complete a specific task. This means smarter industrial robots, immersive virtual classrooms, and sharper environmental tracking, all while drastically slashing energy use.
Multi-Agent Goal-oriented networking for Interpretable, Secure, and sustainable 6G
The MAGIC-6G project pioneers an innovative Goal-oriented Networking (GoN) framework to redefine 6G communication systems by tightly integrating network intelligence with application goals through novel semantic representations and AI-native orchestration. Building upon emerging 6G architectural trends, MAGIC-6G introduces modular virtual Knowledge and Agent Layers that enable dynamic, distributed coordination among network nodes and application agents to support scalable, secure, and sustainable services across diverse verticals. By advancing multi-modal semantic representations, joint communication-computation-control (3C) optimisation, and rigorous integration of sustainability, safety, and security (3S), the project targets breakthrough performance in challenging use cases including environmental digital twins, autonomous industrial robots, and collaborative immersive XR education. With a strong, multidisciplinary European consortium spanning academia and industry, MAGIC-6G ensures impactful technological innovation, validated through realistic proof-of-concepts, and promotes rapid uptake by driving harmonised standardisation and equipping SMEs with modular building blocks for next-generation 6G services. The project aligns with EU strategic objectives to lead the global 6G evolution, foster digital sovereignty, and accelerate green and human-centric digital transformations.
