European Commission launches €500k Euro competition to tackle the usage of scarce spectrum resources

The challenge set for this €500,000 prize is to improve the usage of scarce spectrum resources by providing alternative and decentralised spectrum management approaches (referred to as "Collaborative Spectrum Sharing").

The Horizon Prize for collaborative spectrum sharing will be awarded to an innovative and disruptive approach which will enable a significant increase in spectrum sharing and re-use, beyond the currently applicable spectrum sharing methods and centralised techniques.

The winning solution should be a significant step forward from current technologies and solutions in terms of shared spectrum usage metrics and will have to prove its economic viability. The feasibility of the approach will have to be demonstrated through clear experimental results.

The contest has been launched and will run until 2016. Contestants will be able to submit their entries from 28 May 2015 until 17 December 2015.

The rules of contest are available online.

For more information, please visit the EU Research and Innovation website.

CW members who are interested or may want to be part of a team to bid for the competition are welcome to contact William Webb directly via email at [email protected].