Training Programme
Building capacity for sustainable 5G/6G innovation, experimentation and impact
Programme Overview
The 6G-VERSUS Training Programme is a modular learning initiative designed to support onboarding and upskilling in advanced 5G/6G concepts, sustainability-oriented experimentation, and innovation pathways.
6G-VERSUS is building a sustainable and inclusive innovation ecosystem around 5G and beyond, combining technical research, experimentation environments, trial planning and impact-oriented validation. The Training Programme is the project’s capacity-building entry point for learners and stakeholders who want to understand not only the technology itself, but also how it is applied, evaluated and translated into innovation.
Who it is for?
The Training Programme is designed for a heterogeneous audience across the 5G/6G ecosystem, supporting both structured learning journeys and targeted upskilling.
- Students and early-stage researchers: A structured entry point into 5G fundamentals, sustainable evolution towards 6G, and experimentation-related thinking.
- Industry engineers: A practical way to understand architecture concepts, enabling technologies, and trial-oriented validation logic.
- Vertical stakeholders: Support to interpret use cases, project clusters, KPI/KVI logic and deployment-relevant evidence.
- Educators and trainers: A reusable Moodle-based structure and learning methodology that can support replication and train-the-trainers activities.
- Start-ups and innovation actors: An entry point into the innovation and entrepreneurship dimension of 5G, 6G and emerging connectivity.
Programme structure
The programme is defined as one course with four thematic modules and implemented in Moodle as four standalone mini-courses. This structure supports flexibility: learners can follow the complete pathway or focus only on the modules most relevant to their role and prior knowledge.
- Module 1 (5G Fundamentals): Introduces the fundamental concepts of 5G and its main technical building blocks, including radio, core, transport and orchestration aspects. This module is particularly suited to academia and industry entrants, and also supports educators and trainers.
- Module 2 (Technological Evolution towards 6G): Explores technological enablers and sustainability concepts that will shape the evolution from 5G towards 6G. This module is especially relevant for industry engineers, vertical technology stakeholders and advanced learners.
- Module 3 (6G Use Cases and Trials): Focuses on future use cases, project clusters, trial logic, and KPI/KVI definition methodology. It is particularly relevant for industry participants, testbed users and vertical stakeholders involved in trials.
- Module 4 (Innovation and Entrepreneurship in 5G and beyond): Connects technological understanding with innovation methods, entrepreneurship and business-oriented thinking. It is particularly relevant for start-ups, innovators and entrepreneurship-oriented participants.
There are two participation modes:
- Full pathway: recommended for students and early-stage learners who want the complete programme experience across all four mini-courses, corresponding to the full 2 ECTS / 60-hour workload.
- Selective pathway: recommended for professionals and domain specialists who want to enrol in one or more mini-courses according to role, background and immediate relevance.
Learning approach
The 6G-VERSUS Training Programme follows a Moodle-based modular delivery model with a consistent internal structure across all mini-courses. Each lesson can include a recorded lecture, slides, reading material and optional formative quizzes, supported where relevant by practical worksheets.
The methodology combines conceptual explanation with problem-based learning. Each unit includes a guided PBL lecture and a short PBL exercise focused on a realistic scenario, helping learners apply concepts such as architecture reasoning, KPI/KVI selection, trial planning, sustainability trade-offs or innovation framing.
Interested in the Training Programme?
The 6G-VERSUS Training Programme will be released progressively during the project. If you would like to follow its development, explore participation opportunities, or connect with the consortium, please use the project contact and communication channels.
You can also visit 6G-VERSUS Venture Accelerator by clicking here.