3rd and 4th Schools

From Monday, September 15 to Friday, September 19, 2025, the Barcelona Supercomputing Center hosted the 3rd and 4th ELIXIRION Schools at their premises in Barcelona, Spain. The third School, entitled “Integrated Non-Terrestrial and Terrestrial 6G Networks towards Healthcare 4.0”, provided advanced training on the integration of satellite, aerial, and terrestrial networks, addressing challenges, design considerations, and opportunities for enabling seamless Healthcare 4.0 services. The fourth School, entitled “Edge Computing and Distributed Computation in 6G”, focused on edge computing architectures, distributed computation strategies, and optimization techniques to support low-latency, high-reliability Healthcare 4.0 applications.

Both schools, delivered by academic and industrial partners alongside invited experts, offered essential knowledge to doctoral candidates contributing to the next generation of healthcare technology.

All presented material can be obtained here.

Date	Speaker	Title	School
Monday 15th of September 2025	AUTH Dr. Agapi Mesodiakaki	Introduction to NTN, key concepts and challenges	School 3
	BSC Dr. Elli Kartsakli & NBC Dr. Angelos Antonopoulos	Introduction to edge computing	School 4 Introduction to the edge computing paradigm ETSI MEC and relevant standardization activities
	CTTC Dr. Luis Blanco & Dr. Cristian Jesús Vaca-Rubio	O-RAN based NTN & Kolmogorov Arnold Networks (KANs) for satellite/edge	School 3
	CTTC Dr. Engin Zeydan	Recent advances in data engineering	School 4

Date	Speaker	Title	School
Tuesday 16th of September 2025	UPC Dr. Evgenii Vinogradov	UAV Communications in Integrated Terrestrial and Non-terrestrial Networks	School 3
	UPC Dr. Jordi Perez & Dra. Irene Vila	Reinforcement Learning for edge-enabled beyond 5G networks	School 4 AI in 5G and beyond Reinforcement Learning fundamentals Applicability of deep RL in the edge-enabled B5G RAN Trustworthy AI
	UPC Dr. Sergi Abadal	Nanonetworks and AI for advanced healthcare applications	School 4 Introduction to the concept of nanonetworking and the associated lines of research, including healthcare Intrabody nanonetworks as an enabler of advanced diagnostic systems to detect chronic diseases prior to symptoms The use of graph AI for healthcare applications in general and in intrabody nanonetworks in particular
	LU Dr. Flor Ortiz (Online)	Neuromorphic computing for satellite communications	School 3

Date	Speaker	Title	School
Wednesday 17th of September 2025	BSC Ms. Alba Cañete & BSC Mr. Oriol Martinez	Hands-on session on cloud-native technologies, orchestration and distributed computation	School 4

Date	Speaker	Title	School
Thursday 18th of September 2025	i2cat Dr. Joan A. Ruiz-de-Azua	Flexible payload aspects for satellite communications	School 3
	CTTC Dr. Pol Henarejos	PHY & application layer / health scenarios 5g- govsatcom and 5g-hub	School 3
	i2cat Mr. Reza Mosahebfard	Zero-touch orchestration in integrated terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks	School 3/4

Date	Speaker	Title	School
Friday 19th of September 2025	NBC Mr. Michalis Dalgitsis	Hands-on session: Cloud-native service orchestration and automation	School 4 Step-by-step deployment of a simple NGINX-based service. DNS-based service discovery and automated workflow integration. Advanced orchestration scenario including autoscaling, migration, and monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana.
	NBC Mr. Michalis Dalgitsis	Hands-on session: 5G Core and RAN deployment	School 4 Deployment of 5G Core components (control and data plane functions). Integration of a RAN with the 5G Core network. Automation of UPF deployment and dynamic connection to the 5G Core.
	LU Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) Dr. Mario Camana	Precoding and Interference Management for Satellite and Integrated Satellite- Terrestrial Networks	School 3