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RESTART promotes and enables TLC science and technologies advancement, including all kind of related systems and networks, for both human and non-human users (e.g. 5G/6G; high-capacity fixed infrastructures, IoT, edge/core-cloud); applications and services in the most diverse sectors: agriculture, commerce, energy, finance, industry, media, health, safety/security, transportation. In order to give a structure to the overall research work, spoke 1 “Pervasive and Photonic Network Technologies and Infrastructures” is composed of two structural projects named Green autonomic optical networks, systems and integrated devices and Pervasive Communication. These are supplemented by four focused projects called ELENE, GrapHICS, HePIC, SENSING NET. According to this, the goals of Spoke 1 are: Delivering innovative solutions for pervasive networking, addressing primarily the “edge and beyond-edge” segments of the internet; Delivering radically new technologies and paradigms for ultra-fast optical transport in the metro-core network; Developing of programmable, green, and ultra-fast interconnections between sites supported by optical transport; Design and fabrication of novel components and photonic integrated circuits for the optical networks domain.