The American College of Greece (ACG) has achieved a significant milestone with several research initiatives accepted for funding under the European Union’s highly competitive Horizon Europe program and related EU research frameworks.
The newly funded projects, which will run through The American College of Greece Research Center (ACG-RC), span next-generation wireless networks, sustainable economic transformation, and innovative food systems, bringing together leading academic institutions and global industry partners across Europe. Through these initiatives, ACG will contribute to advancing technologies and solutions addressing some of the most pressing challenges in emerging technologies, sustainability, and food innovation.
The newly funded initiatives span multiple fields of research and include the following projects:
MULTIPLY-6G
MULTIPLY-6G (Multidimensional Wave and Space-Level Optimization for Energy Efficient Communications and Sensing) is a Research and Innovation Action funded by the European Smart Networks and Services Joint Undertaking (SNS JU) 6G SNS program under Horizon Europe.
Coordinated by Trinity College Dublin and involving a consortium of eight academic and six industrial partners, including Vodafone and Ericsson, the project aims to develop advanced multidimensional waveform technologies, low-complexity extreme large arrays, and advanced spectrum-sharing techniques within an Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) framework.
Through these innovations, MULTIPLY-6G seeks to address key 6G requirements for immersive, hyper-reliable, ubiquitous, and low-latency connectivity, together with dynamic sensing and AI-native capabilities across diverse and complex propagation environments.
The American College of Greece Research Center (ACG-RC) participates through the Smart Wireless Future Technologies (SWiFT) Lab, led by Dr. Constantinos Papadias. Dr. Spyros Lavdas and Dr. Georgios Ropokis will oversee work on advanced multi-antenna technologies and radio resource management, respectively. The project is expected to start in June 2026.
CABASS-6G
The ACG-RC will participate, as a non-beneficiary partner, in the 24-month Horizon MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship project CABASS-6G (Cell-free Massive MIMO Architecture-Based Advanced Spectrum Sharing Solutions for 6G and Beyond Networks).
The project is expected to start in mid-2026 and will be led by Dr. Stefano Buzzi of Università degli Studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale, who will supervise the postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Pothan E.V.
CABASS-6G will develop rigorous mathematical frameworks, innovative multiple-access schemes, and power-control strategies to enable efficient underlay spectrum sharing between incumbent primary users and secondary mobile users in the upper midband (FR3) electromagnetic spectrum (7–24 GHz).
The developed solutions will be validated through a spectrum-sharing demonstrator based on a cell-free architecture, to be implemented during the fellow’s secondment at ACG-RC, under the supervision of Dr. Constantinos Papadias.
JUST-CIRCLE
JUST-CIRCLE (Measuring and Advancing Circular Business Models for a Fair and Sustainable Transition) is a Horizon Europe Innovation Action coordinated by Brunel University of London, scheduled to begin in June 2026.
The project brings together 14 partner institutions to design, test, and validate integrated frameworks for sustainability accounting, lifecycle impact assessment, and responsible circular business-model innovation. These frameworks will help industry and social-economy actors meet the objectives of the EU Green Deal and the Circular Economy Action Plan (CEAP) while strengthening competitiveness and user uptake.
The ACG-RC team will be led by Dr. George Batsakis.
PROSCALE
PROSCALE (Scalable Microbial Protein Ingredients for Appealing Nutritious Foods) is an Innovation Action funded by the European Commission’s Horizon Europe program, coordinated by the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, and expected to commence in June 2026.
The project aims to increase the availability of sustainably sourced alternative proteins by scaling up the production of single-cell proteins (SCP) for food use. PROSCALE targets significant reductions in production costs, climate-change impact, and waste generation, while demonstrating at least five innovative food prototypes and the circular valorization of four fermentation co-products.
Through these efforts, the project aims to accelerate the transition toward healthier, climate-friendly diets and a more robust circular bioeconomy.
ACG-RC participates through the Center of Excellence in Food, Tourism and Leisure (CoEFTL), led by Dr. Athanasios Krystallis. Other members involved are Dr. Pol Chrysochou, the Center’s research fellow Dr. Toula Perrea, and Ms. Stavroula Ziavra.
These newly funded initiatives further strengthen ACG’s role in European research and innovation collaborations, reflecting the institution’s continued commitment to advancing knowledge and contributing to international research efforts.