eBOS participates in plenary meeting for XGain project

eBOS participated in the plenary meeting of the XGain project in Thessaloniki on 2-3 October, Greece, where the 17 XGain partners gathered to review progress and make key decisions to fine-tune the project’s final phase.

Dr Panayiotis Klitou, R&D Project Manager at eBOS, presented the latest advancements in developing the XGain Knowledge Facilitation Tool (KFT). This tool supports business development and decision-making in selecting connectivity technologies and processing enablers for rural, coastal, and urban areas. Dr Klitou also outlined the testing plan for XGain technologies and discussed the organisation of the six final Use Case workshops, in which end-users and stakeholders will validate the tool and assess its impact.

The XGain project promotes sustainable, balanced, and inclusive development in rural, coastal, and urban regions. It aims to increase systemic resilience, improve energy efficiency, contribute to climate change mitigation, and reduce the digital divide between different populations, sectors, and regions. The KFT will provide stakeholders with access to a comprehensive inventory of smart XG, last-mile connectivity, edge computing solutions, and an assessment of their socio-economic and techno-environmental impacts.

In the XGain project, eBOS is responsible for designing and developing the KFT, including its digitisation and integration. eBOS also leads Work Package 5 (WP5), which focuses on technology validation and impact assessment, drawing on its extensive experience in the telecom sector. Additionally, eBOS serves as the project’s quality assurance and risk manager and maintains the project’s website.

X-Gain is a 3-year long EU-funded Research and Innovation Action that started on 1 September 2022.

The XGain consortium comprises 17 organisations from nine EU members, as well as two associated members from the UK and Switzerland.

Objectives:

1. To empower public participation and multi-actor approach in transition towards enhanced sustainability design, social acceptance and fair solutions, through the interactive identification of end users’ needs and co-creation of XGain system and Use Cases requirements.
2. To design and deliver a user-centric, interoperable and easy-to-use knowledge facilitation tool, for supporting actors of rural and coastal communities in their decision-making process on internet connectivity and edge technology options with appropriate operational business models.
3. To develop, establish and facilitate the selection of the most appropriate innovative business models that will include systemic level and cross-sectoral approaches.
4. To validate the outcome of the Knowledge Facilitation Tool in 6 unique fields with different technical, environmental, societal and economical structures and needs.
5. To accelerate the adoption of XGain solutions by the wider community, and ensure impact maximisation to the realisation of sustainable, balanced and inclusive development of rural areas’ vision.

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