nccmne, Author at EuroCC Montenegro

01.08.2022.27.10.2022.

Mark Your Calendars! EuroCC Conference in Montenegro in September 6-9

University of Donja Gorica (UDG) and NCC Montenegro will host the International Scientific and Academic Conference. The conference is realized within the framework of the EuroCC project – National Competence Centers in the Framework of EuroHPC, which will bring together experts from 33 countries.

If you are interested in HPC, HPDA, and AI, you need to be in Montenegro in September

EuroCC project team, coordinated by the University of Stuttgart from Germany, decided that UDG will host this year’s international conference. The international scientific and academic conference called “EuroCC/CASTIEL” will take place from 6-9 September this year and will gather over 200 experts from 33 member countries of EuroHPC JU – Joint Undertaking for European High Performance Computing within the Horizon2020 program. The conference will cover topics from the field of HPC technologies and related disciplines such as high performance data analysis (HPDA), artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, parallel programming, computer simulations and the like. The conference will be dedicated to current topics in the global age, as well as their impact on the entire society, including the latest technological and business achievements in this area. Emphasis will be placed on advanced e-infrastructure, the key component of which is precisely HPC, which contributes to the development of modern science and is essential for many advanced researches.
In addition to the above, the conference will present projects results, done as part of the FF4EuroHPC open calls, aimed at the highest quality experiments of innovative small and medium-sized enterprises across Europe, including the use of artificial intelligence, cloud technologies, HPC and others.

Learn about NCC Montenegro and EuroCC activities at UDG

We invite experts and the general public, if they are interested in participating in the part of the conference open to the public, to register at eurocc.conference@udg.edu.me.

Check EuroCC Access website for more information: EuroCC@Montenegro.

26.07.2022.27.10.2022.

ANSO Training Project: Competency Training in IoT and AI

UDG and NCC Montenegro team members won a grant from ANSO – Alliance of International Science Organizations. This project aims development of a competency training in Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) and it is focused on innovation based on IoT and AI and development of competences and skills students will needs to have competitive advantage in IoT/I in the near future. This project started at the beginning of 2022 and will be implemented until the end of 2023. Ongoing activities are including initial team preparation and analysis of the sectors (WP1). The key personnel include UDG and NCC Montenegro senior members, as well as reputable experts from China, Serbia, and Slovenia. UDG is an ANSO Member Organization. More on ANSO can be found here.

Ongoing activities focused on team preparation and analysis of the sector

25.07.2022.27.10.2022.

Open Mind Academy: Successful Python Course for High-school students

During the summer school of game programming, students had the opportunity to learn the basics of the Python programming language, and later the pyGame game development package within the EuroCC NCC Montenegro.

Python programming for high-school students

In the first part of the training, students learned why programming is so widespread today, what the basic data types are in Python, what are the conditions and loops. Also, students had the opportunity to learn what lists and dictionaries are, but also what object-oriented programming is. Besides listening to lectures, everyone who wanted to follow the second part of the training had to do homework (writing essays and programming). In the second part of the training, intensive lectures were held where the participants heard more about the Python package pyGame. This package is used to develop games in Python. Through the creation of the game, students learned how to program movement in games, detect collisions between objects, add graphics, sound. At the end of this part of the training, 4 teams were formed. The last day of training was organized as a competition between teams. Their task was to make a smaller game. The winning team won the prize to participate in this year’s conference within the EuroCC NCC Montenegro project.

Students spent time in online sessions to prepare and then three full days at the UDG

It was a pleasure for us to work with such a talented group of young people who we expect will achieve great success in the future.

Online sessions were attended by 25 students and 16 of them came for 3-day workshop at the UDG

25.07.2022.27.10.2022.

Digital Transformation in Agriculture: Chamber of Economy of Montenegro

As part of the Erasmus+ VIRAL project, a training was held at the Chamber of Economy of Montenegro in order to promote digital transformation and the application of ICT in agriculture. Representatives from University of Donja Gorica prepared a presentation entitled “Digital transformation in agriculture” as part of the Digital Day, on Friday, July 22, 2022. starting at 1 p.m., in the premises of the Chamber of Economy of Montenegro. As part of the presentation, an overview of the activities of the VIRAL project was given. The presentation covered foundations of the process of digital transformation and the application of ICT solutions in agriculture. During the presentation and discussions, other project relevant to ICT and digital transformation in agriculture were featured including EuroCC and AIMHiGH projects. This topic is fully in line with Montenegrin Smart Specialisation Strategy (S3 Montenegro), and we concluded that another similar workshop needs to be organized in Fall of 2022.

Workshop organized by UDG and Chamber of Economy in the context of VIRAL project

EuroCC featured in the presentation by UDG during the VIRAL workshop

AIMHiGH, an FF4EuroHPC application experiment

07.07.2022.27.10.2022.

Industry cooperation: “Elektroprivreda” published the interview with Prof. Kezunovic

EuroCC and NCC Montenegro were featured in “Elektroprivreda”, a magazine published by the national power company EPCG. The magazine published the interview with prof. dr Mladen Kezunovic that was done during his visit to UDG and his invited lecture “AI in Energy Sector”. This effort was part of our engagement of the industry to promote AI and HPC applications and EPCG is one of the major stakeholders in energy sector in Montenegro.

Magazine “Elektroprivreda” no. 415, July 2022

06.07.2022.27.10.2022.

BSc Thesis: The use of ML to assess plant health

Ms Almira Suljovic, a student of the Faculty of Applied Sciences, defended her BSc Thesis in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. The topic of the thesis work was the use of machine learning to detect diseased plants by processing images of the leaves. The work included creation of a prediction model as well as the integration of the model into a mobile application for the use by farmers. She has done her thesis work under the supervision of prof. Tomo Popovic, PhD, and mr Stevan Cakic, MSc.

BSc Thesis – the use of ML to detect plant disease

ABSTRACT – Early detection and prevention are one of the biggest difficulties in the field of agriculture. Late detection of plant diseases or the use of wrong pesticides often leads to crop damage, reducing food quality. As the leaf is the best indicator of whether a plant is healthy or not, we can construct prediction models using machine learning to identify leaf status in the shortest possible time, thus preventing or reducing losses. This thesis shows how to determine leaf health status using the Detectron2 software library and the faster R-CNN neural network. The model was trained using a dataset with 6407 images. The initial dataset was extended using the RoboFlow tool. Google Colab, an environment for the development of cloud computing and machine learning, was used for testing and implementation. The practical application of the machine learning model was realized using an application developed using the Flutter platform.

02.07.2022.27.10.2022.

EuroCC and NCC Montenegro Featured in an S3 Success Stories Video

EuroCC project and NCC Montenegro were featured in success stories video for Smart Specialisation Strategy for Montenegro (S3). Ministry of science and technological development joined forces with UNDP to create a new website platform to promote and manage activities related to Montengrin S3. UDG is currently implemented several projects that are fully in line with Montenegrin S3 and H2020 EuroCC was featured in the video as one of the flagship projects for Montengrin S3. The priority domains of Montenegrin S3 are agriculture and food production, health and tourism, and energy. Information communication technology is recognized as a horizontal priority that will provide foundation for multidisciplinary research and applications. New website for S3 Montenegro can be accessed through the following link.

https://youtu.be/T1G6e8W-eCg

S3 Montenegro – University of Donja Gorica