The Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC) is a non-profit research institution based in Castelldefels (Barcelona), resulting from a public initiative of the Regional Government of Catalonia (Generalitat de Catalunya). Research activities at the CTTC, both fundamental and applied, mainly focus on technologies related to the physical, data-link and network layers of communication systems, and to the Geomatics.

At Adaptive Processing Technologies  (ADAPT) research unit, we provide innovating adaptive signal and data processing solutions for smart and autonomous systems, residing for example at the edge of the operator networks. The goal is to guarantee best-in-class performance, energy efficiency and sustainability for applications, radio access network infrastructure and connected devices. The ADAPT RU is responsible for the coordinated FREE6G project and the three subprojects FREE6G-RadEdge, FREE6G-RegEdge, FREE6G-Security.

Keysight Technologies, Inc. is a leading technology company that helps its engineering, enterprise and service provider customers accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world. Keysight’s solutions optimize networks and bring electronic products to market faster and at a lower cost with offerings from design simulation, to prototype validation, to manufacturing test, to optimization in networks and cloud environments. Customers span the worldwide communications ecosystem, aerospace and defense, automotive, energy, semiconductor and general electronics end markets.

Keysight Spain, S.L., is located in Barcelona, Madrid, Málaga, and Bilbao, and has around 350 employees. Madrid hosts the main sales office as well as the calibration laboratory and Malaga holds the expertise as a MBO R&D center. Keysight contributes to the FREE6G-RadEdge subproject.

Nearby Computing helps Telcos & Enterprise customers unleash the potential of Edge Computing through Orchestration and Automation of MEC and 5G. The Nearby One is an orchestration platform that goes beyond market standards to manage all tiers of the network, from Cloud and Data Centre to Edge, from a single pane of glass. Using a cross-domain approach that is fully agnostic, it is able to manage hybrid networks at scale through domain-specific orchestration and comprehensive end-to-end orchestration. The solution covers all critical elements of deployment automation-from the initial Edge node provisioning to application on-boarding, to lifecycle management and QoS Assurance to SLA monitoring.

The company was founded in 2018 and operates globally from its headquarters in Barcelona, Spain. Nearby Computing contributes to the FREE6G-RegEdge subproject.

Cellnex Telecom is a Europe’s leading operator of wireless telecommunications infrastructures to empower connectivity for people and territories, driving digitalisation in Europe. The company was born in 2015 as the result of a spin-off from the telecommunications division of Abertis Group and at that point we went public as an independent company under the name Cellnex Telecom. With their main offices in Spain, they have kept on growing since then and now operate in a total of 12 European countries with the goal of creating a pan-European telecommunications infrastructure platform.

Cellnex Telecom offers a suite of solutions and technologies designed to ensure the conditions for reliable top-quality transmission for the wireless dissemination of voice, data and audiovisual content. Also, the company delivers innovative connectivity solutions and develops the necessary infrastructure ecosystem for the roll-out of new technologies. Cellnex Telecom contributes to the FREE6G-RegEdge subproject through its subsidiary company Tradia Telecom S.A.

NTT DATA is a top 10 global IT services provider, headquartered in Tokyo, operating in more than 50 countries. The company offers an advanced portfolio of consulting, application, business process, cloud, and infrastructure services to businesses and governments worldwide. NTT DATA contributes to the FREE6G-Security subproject.

The UOC was created in 1995 as the world's first university with a virtual campus, which allowed its students to study at any time from any location. The University continually uses cutting-edge e-learning research and innovation to refine the UOC methodology. This is possible thanks to UOC R&I and its 50 plus research groups, as well as the eLearning Innovation Center.

The UOC’s Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3) is a research centre specializing in the study of the Internet and the effects of the interaction between digital technologies and human activity. The IN3’s K-ryptography and Information Security for Open Networks  (KISON) group research lines focus on the compatibility of the security of decentralised networks (ad-hoc and P2P networks) and the protection of the intellectual property of digital content on the Internet with users' rights to privacy. UOC contributes to the FREE6G-Security subproject.