About Karlstad University

KAU is a Swedish university located in Värmland, a scenic region with a rich cultural life. It has a total of approximately 1,400 employees and 18,700 students spread across two campus environments in Karlstad and Arvika. KAU is committed to promoting sustainable development in close collaboration with the wider community, and has proven expertise in participation and management of national and international research projects.  

 The work in PIONEERS-6G will be carried out by researchers in the Distributed Intelligent Systems and Communications (DISCO) group at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. DISCO is a leading, internationally renowned research group in the field of mobile communication systems and services. Multiple research projects funded by European and national research organisations have created a highly innovative team of experts, with excellent research networks from both academia and industry.

Role in PIONEERS-6G

Karlstad University coordinates PIONEERS-6G (leading WP1 on Project Management) and plays a central role in all technical WPs (WP2, WP3, WP4) as well as in the dissemination and communication activities (WP5). In particular, KAU leads work on TN-NTN multi-connectivity and IoT device operation modes, contributing to the validation of solutions across the PIONEERS-6G use cases.