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UNITE

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for
Non-Terrestrial Communications and Sensing

Funded by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (Staff Exchange Programme), the UNITE project aims to leverage the collective benefits of satellites and drones for advanced non-terrestrial networks targeting 6G communications. Project objectives include deploying intelligent unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) using data-driven analysis, developing realistic channel models for non-terrestrial applications and creating efficient data transmission strategies for reliable information delivery.

Furthermore, researchers will work on robust signal processing and networking algorithms and on effective non-terrestrial communication methods based on network information from non-terrestrial sensing.

Project outcomes will contribute significantly to exploiting UAVs in non-terrestrial networks.

Team

The team consists of 11 partners from 4 EU Member States and 2 Third-Countries. The consortium consists of 7 academic and 4 industrial partners. 

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UNIPD
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PADOVA
FAU
FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITAET ERLANGEN-NUERNBERG
CSUPS
CENTRALESUPELEC
IMDEA
IMDEA NETWORKS
UoD
UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM
RPN
RANPLAN WIRELESS NETWORK DESIGN LTD
NYU
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
NU
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
TID
TELEFONICA RESEARCH
WEST
WEST Aquila
KCL
King’s College London

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    UNITE LATEST NEWS

    UNITE Training School 2026

    The UNITE Training School 2026 will take place from July 6th to July 10th, 2026 in Brixen (BZ), Italy.
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    Midterm Meeting

    The Review Meeting of the UNITE project will be held at the Department of Information Engineering (DEI) of the University of Padova on May 8th, 2025.
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    1st UNITE Workshop

    The 1st UNITE Workshop will be held at the Department of Information Engineering (DEI) of the University of Padova on May 8th, 2025, to disseminate technical results from the UNITE project.
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    Kick-off meeting

    The kick-off meeting of the UNITE Project was held on 4th March 2024 at the University of Padova, Department of Information Engineering.
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