DAEMON Deliverable 6.3: Report on Communication, dissemination and exploitation results and updated CoDEP for Y3

The main contributions of this document are

• Presentation of the main achievements during the second year of the project.
• Presentation of the communication, dissemination, and exploitation plan for the third year of the project (CoDEPv3).

DAEMON’s CoDEP includes communication, dissemination, and exploitation activities. Communication includes all the activities related to the promotion of the project and its results beyond the project’s own community. This includes explaining its research in layman's terms to the media and the public. Dissemination includes activities related to raising awareness of its results in a technical community working in the same research field. In general, this will be done through publications, participation, and the organization of technical events. Finally, exploitation (in accordance with the European IPR Helpdesk) covers activities aiming at using the results in further research activities other than those covered by the project, such as developing, creating and marketing products or processes, creating and providing a service, or standardization activities.

The project is currently entering its third year, with the last year (Y2) being the second year of the project. Meaning the project was in the Presentation of Results phase. This is inline with the communication, dissemination and exploitation plan of the project. During Y2, dissemination and exploitation activities increased their intensity, since the architecture and NI design efforts have produced some initial research outcomes. Initial demonstrations of specific architecture concepts and NI solutions were also provided during this phase. However, in the Demos and PoCs phase, demonstration activities involving multiple blocks of the architecture working in an integrated way are expected. This will be the focus of Y3. Finally, the Long-lasting Impact phase refers to other research or exploitation actions taken once the project is finished. This includes shaping the topics and framework of future research projects, exploiting DAEMON NI concepts in a market-oriented way by incorporating them into products and services, and leaving a footprint in standards through project contributions. The plan defines the various undertaken activities and defines related target metrics.

Below, we highlight the main outcomes of Year 2:

• Communication Activities:
  • Two press articles covering DAEMON have been released.
  • Seven videos have been published.
  • Six webinars and three workshops were organized.
  • Three DAEMON public deliverables were submitted.
  • DAEMON web page, social media profiles (i.e., Twitter, Facebook, Facebook Page, Instagram, Linkedin, and Youtube), and data repositories (i.e., Zenodo and OpenAIRE) have been actively managed.
• Dissemination Activities:
  • 24 scientific conference and workshop publications (including many top-ranked venues like ACM SIGCOMM, ACM MobiCom, ACM CoNEXT, IEEE INFOCOM or AAAI).
  • Five JCR-indexed publications in scientific journals.
  • Participation in various working groups to join efforts with other 5G PPP projects.
• Exploitation Activities:
  • 28 accepted contributions to SDOs.
  • Five contributions to open-source projects.
  • Five DAEMON products accepted in the Innovation Radar.