Europe’s creative industries deserve world-class connectivity. 6G-HOLONET delivers it
6G-HOLONET is a 36-month European SNS JU STREAM D research and innovation project, aiming at designing, validating and demonstrating advanced 5G and pre-6G media applications across three sectors:
Live Entertainment
Cultural Heritage
Immersive Media Production
6G-HOLONET will run four use cases across nine sites in three countries: Greece, Netherlands, and United Kingdom. The four use cases are:
Immersive live music broadcasting with holographic artists and fan integration
Virtual Museum Exhibition Guided Tour in VR
6G-Powered Next-Generation Live Media Production
XR Opera – Immersive Live Performance
The project is structured around six objectives:
Define business-driven use cases: Working directly with broadcasters, live venues, museums, and creative producers to identify where 6G technologies can have the greatest practical and commercial impact.
Develop next-generation technical enablers: Building the core 6G capabilities — ultra-low latency streaming, AI-native network orchestration, volumetric rendering, and open APIs — that make immersive media applications possible.
Integrate and validate in the lab: Testing and refining all components in controlled environments before real-world deployment, ensuring interoperability and performance readiness.
Deploy and demonstrate in the real world: Running live pilots across 3 countries — Greece, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom — across nine sites and four distinct use cases, with real audiences and real stakeholders.
Build open, modular, and reusable frameworks: Releasing open-source tools, APIs, and modules so that the results of 6G-HOLONET can be reused by other projects, sectors, and organisations across Europe.
Maximise dissemination, exploitation, and standardization: Ensuring that what we learn reaches the right people — through publications, events, policy recommendations, and contributions to international standards bodies including 3GPP, O-RAN, and ETSI.
p-NET, as a pioneering competence center focusing on innovative and advancing 5GA/6G skills and test infrastructures, provides access to their testbed facilities and lead the use cases definition and user research activity to capture the user requirements, as well as the relevant KPIs/KVIs. p-NET contributes to partnering, service integration, consultancy, standardisation, advancing research and product development, and will build upon its capabilities to leverage cutting-edge infrastructure, and expertise in business and vertical industries to co-contribute to pioneering 5GA-6G vertical use cases in the media applications.
p-NET is part of Use Cases 3 and 4. Furthermore, p-NET leads WP1 on Use Cases and Requirements (along with T1.1 – State of the Art Review and Use Cases Definition), and T4.5 Techno and socio-economic and sustainability impact.