  The design of 6th Generation (6G) wireless networks points towards flexible
connect-and-compute technologies capable to support innovative services and use
cases. Targeting the 2030 horizon, 6G networks are poised to pave the way for
sustainable human-centered smart societies and vertical industries, such that
wireless networks will be transformed into a distributed smart connectivity
infrastructure, where new terminal types are embedded in the daily environment.
In this context, the RISE-6G project aims at investigating innovative solutions
that capitalize on the latest advances in the emerging technology of
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs), which offers dynamic and
goal-oriented radio wave propagation control, enabling the concept of the
wireless environment as a service. The project will focus on: i) the realistic
modeling of RIS-assisted signal propagation, ii) the investigation of the
fundamental limits of RIS-empowered wireless communications and sensing, and
iii) the design of efficient algorithms for orchestrating networking RISs, in
order to implement intelligent, sustainable, and dynamically programmable
wireless environments enabling diverse services that go well beyond the 5G
capabilities. RISE-6G will offer two unprecedented proof-of-concepts for
realizing controlled wireless environments in near-future use cases.
