Telecom Revy is a Norwegian website focusing on the telecommunication industry. On November 4^th, the webzine published a long article about the activities carried out by the COMMECT's Norwegian partners Telenor, Klosser Innovation and Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences in the context of the local Living Lab ('Connected Foresty').

The COMMECT consortium gathered for a three-day plenary meeting at the SES Betzdorf Campus in Luxembourg 2-4 September. With 26 attendees representing 16 partner organizations, the meeting focused on advancing key aspects of the project as we enter the final year.

COMMECT was represented by Per Jonny Nesse at the 30th ICE IEEE Conference in June 2024 where he presented two papers.

Souhaima STIRI presented "Multiple Connectivity Solutions to enable Digital Applications for Viticulture" which highlights the living lab in Luxembourg.

COMMECT held an Executive Board meeting on April 15th - 17th, to monitor the progress of the project, and get prepared for the upcoming project review. The 3-days event was filled with insights, collaboration, and strategic decision-making.

First results and potential innovation were discussed, with the aim of deploying impactful connectivity solutions, tailored to actual end-users' and stakeholders' needs.

Next steps in the project implementation were defined, with focus on the deployment of connectivity solutions in the Living Labs, assesment of their socio-economic and environmental impact, definition and adoption of collaborative #business models.

Special thanks goes to TNO for having hosted the meeting, and welcomed the consortium members, in The Hague.

The Plenary Meeting of the COMMECT project took place in Oslo (Norway) on 17-19 October 2023 and was excellently held by Telenor.

Three fruitful days full of stimulating presentations, engaging discussions, useful demonstrations in the Living Lab ‘Connected Forestry’ and many ambitious plans for the near future. 

The Synergy Days Conference 2023 took place in Thessaloniki, Greece, on 4 and 5 October 2023, and was a great opportunity for the COMMECT project to connect with other EU-funded projects and create synergies with them.

The ETSI IoT Conference 2023, which took place on 4-6 July 2023 in Sophia Antipolis (France), is a must-attend event gathering IoT experts to discuss standard-enabled technologies, IoT service deployments, and future standardization work.

The conference covers topics such as the role of IoT in digital and green transformation, advanced IoT technologies, and horizontal IoT standards for various sectors.

DunavNET CEO, Srdjan Krčo, presented the COMMECT project activities in his session titled ‘COMMECT: Building Digital Bridges for Rural Areas’.

Srdjan discussed how to bridge the digital divide in rural regions by providing reliable and secure access to everyone, regardless of location.

This morning the EU event titled “Strengthening digital skills of rural people to benefit from the digital era” saw the participation of Maria Rita Palattella from Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST).

The COMMECT coordinator was invited to participate on a panel discussion with practitioners and experts on the main ingredients for successful initiatives regarding the implementation of digital skills in rural areas.

The title of the panel was “Learning from inspirational projects and practices” and, in this context, Maria Rita Palattella had the possibility to share COMMECT experience on the need of building synergies between different approaches to enhance ICT infrastructure and digital skills.

Ljupco Jorguseski (TNO) represented COMMECT at EUCNC 2023 Summit in Gothenburg (Sweden), i.e., one of the most exciting arenas for global dialogue and collaboration to develop mobile communications standards.

In particular, the COMMECT partner presented a poster about connnectivity solutions in rural areas for livestock transport.