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EuroCC success story booklet 2024

The new Success Story Booklet for EuroCC 2024, created in collaboration by CASTIEL and the National Competence Centres (NCCs), is now available online!

The success stories in the EuroCC 2024 booklet span a diverse range of sectors, including:

  • IT and Software
  • Natural Sciences and Aeronautics
  • Environment, Energy, and Agriculture
  • Pharmacy and Medicine
  • Manufacturing and Engineering
  • Finance and Mobility
  • Public and Communication

These stories showcase achievements and innovations across multiple industries, highlighting the wide-reaching impact of EuroCC initiatives.

One of the featured success stories highlights the collaboration between NCC Montenegro and the Montenegrin company Fleka, showcased through the project “Personalized Banking Software Solutions.” This partnership shows how local innovation can create custom ML predictions for the banking sector and personalized financial-tech sector.

Discover inspiring success stories that highlight innovative achievements across Europe.

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Hack for a cause – AI for Safer Drug Prescriptions

We’re excited to announce a hackathon organized by our partners Cyprus Institute (CyI) and NCC Cyprus!

The “Hack for a cause” hackathon is organized by the Cyprus Institute (CyI) in collaboration with the Anticancer Society Cyprus and focuses on leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) to improve the drug prescription process for hospitalized cancer patients, particularly addressing the complexities of polypharmacy. The aim is to develop an AI tool that utilizes patients’ treatment charts—documents indicating prescribed medications, dosages, frequencies, routes, allergies, and comorbidities—along with publicly available medicine descriptions to issue high-level alerts to doctors during the prescription process. These alerts will be triggered if the tool identifies drug interactions, contraindications with the patient’s medical record, or potential overdoses.

The event will be conducted in a hybrid format, allowing for both online and onsite participation from national and international attendees.

Registration for this event is open until Thursday, October 3rd 12:00pm, 2024.

More info : https://eurocc.cyi.ac.cy/hack-for-a-cause/

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New academic paper on Montenegro’s HPC ecosystem development

A new academic paper ‘Sizing HPC Opportunities in Montenegro: Market Insights, Best Practices and Use Cases’ has been published in the scientific journal “Entrepreneurial Economy“.

The paper highlights the pivotal role of HPC in addressing critical societal, scientific, and industrial challenges, and explores its growing impact on businesses through data-driven decision-making, workflow optimization or innovative product design. The study underscores the importance of HPC infrastructure, Cloud services, and AI applications in driving digital transformation and enhancing the industry competitiveness of SMEs.
The research also identifies key challenges in Montenegro including a shortage of HPC expertise, low demand for critical HPC performance, and certain concerns related to data security and IPR. Despite these challenges, market research revealed HPC opportunities related to high Cloud adoption, innovative product development and favourable business prospects. The paper also describe activities of the HPC National Competence Centre Montenegro, established through the EuroCC project, related to established HPC and AI related academic programs and training portfolio, and productive industry collaborations, demonstrated through successful use cases in smart agriculture, precise weather forecasting, and FinTech.

By harnessing both national expertise and international supercomputing resources, the NCC Montenegro has effectively integrated HPC technologies into research and business practices, driving technology innovations and smart growth.

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NCC Montenegro hosts Supercomputing Workshops for new UDG students

As a part of the orientation week for new students, the EuroCC National Competence Centre Montenegro has organized a Supercomputing Workshop aimed at introducing incoming university students to the exciting world of high-performance computing (HPC).

The workshop featured interactive sessions where students could get insights into cutting-edge technologies used in supercomputing, such as parallel processing, intelligent algorithms, and data analytics. Experts from the NCC guided the participants through the technical fundamentals of HPC systems, demonstrated real-world applications related to Big Data processing and advanced AI modelling, but also provided examples of academic study cases and industry use cases, including Montenegro’s success stories.

The aim of the workshop was also to provide brief overview on HPC/AI related academic programs, training portfolio and NCC activities, to show how students can leverage supercomputing resources for academic projects and scientific research, or even for startup ideas and potential industry collaboration.

By exposing new students to the potential of supercomputing early in their academic journey, the NCC aims to support students’ development in high-demand, tech-driven carriers, and to foster community of innovative thinkers prepared to tackle complex and critical challenges of the modern world.

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AIFUSION – Artificial intelligence in agriculture, medicine and energy

The University of Donja Gorica, with the support of the Innovation Fund of Montenegro, as part of the program for the organization of education in the areas of smart specialization of Montenegro, organizes a three-month training called “AIFUSION – Artificial intelligence in agriculture, medicine and energy.” The course will be held in the period from the end of September (September 21) to the end of December (December 21) 2024.

The education program is divided into 5 modules: Introduction to artificial intelligence, Computer vision, Natural language processing, Artificial intelligence and S3 in practice and Ethics and responsible use of artificial intelligence and work on the final project.

Apart from the fact that the participants will acquire enough knowledge and skills needed for further research in this very current field, they will have the opportunity to expand their network of acquaintances and meet young people with similar interests.

A detailed agenda is available at link.

To apply, you need to fill out the Google form found at the link https://forms.gle/f8Pc8ozu9U3tHKY98. Applications last until September 20 (11:59 p.m.), and the course is scheduled to start on September 21.

Image(s) from previous workshops
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New model developed in the field of HPC technologies through the collaboration of DigitalSmart and NCC Montenegro

In collaboration with the National Competence Center Montenegro (NCC Montenegro), the University of Donja Gorica (UDG), and the University of Montenegro (UCG), the company DigitalSmart has successfully started the development of a new model utilizing advanced High Performance Computing (HPC) technologies. This partnership represents an important step towards applying HPC resources to solve complex problems and enhancing academic and industrial processes in Montenegro.

The new model is designed to optimize data processing, providing faster and more efficient solutions for research and development in the field of generative artificial intelligence. The use of HPC technologies in this context enables greater scalability and precision in the analysis and processing of large datasets.

The experiment has been successfully submitted through the Fortissimo call, paving the way for further validation and application of this model on an international level.

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Montenegrin media promoting Supercomputing and AI opportunities for SMEs and Startups

NCC Montenegro is highlighting ongoing FFplus Open Calls to empower SMEs and Startups to develop innovative products and services with the support of HPC and AI.

European SMEs and Startups have the opportunity to shift their innovation potential through the two types of FFplus Open Calls (total budget €24.0 million):

  • Business experiments addressing the uptake of HPC for specific business challenges of SMEs that have had no prior use of HPC services. The maximum funding request per proposal is € 200,000.
  • Innovation studies, supporting SMEs and startups already active in the field of generative AI technology, which lack the necessary computational resources to scale up. The maximum funding for each innovation study is € 300,000.

Application deadline: September 4th, 2024!

Find out more about FFplus Open Calls, application details and NCC Montenegro’s support on:

Portal CDM: https://www.cdm.me/tehno-nauka/racunari/fortissimo-ova-decenijska-misija-traje-ffplus-projekat-pokrece-prvi-otvoreni-poziv-za-mala-i-srednja-preduzeca-i-startapove-u-vrijednosti-od-24-miliona-eura/

Portal Standard MNE: https://www.standard.co.me/promo/fortissimo-ova-decenijska-misija-traje-ffplus-projekat-pokrece-prvi-otvoreni-poziv-za-mala-i-srednja-preduzeca-i-startapove-u-vrijednosti-od-24-miliona-eura

Portal AntenaM: https://www.antenam.net/drustvo/332007-fortissimo-ova-decenijska-misija-traje-ffplus-projekat-pokrec-e-prvi-otvoreni-poziv-za-mala-i-srednja-preduzec-a-i-startapove-u-vrijednosti-od-24-miliona-eura

PortalAnalitika MNE: https://www.portalanalitika.me/clanak/fortissimo-ova-decenijska-misija-traje-ffplus-projekat-pokrece-prvi-otvoreni-poziv-za-mala-i-srednja-preduzeca-i-startapove-u-vrijednosti-od-24-miliona-eur

Or via UDG website and social media:

UDG website: https://www.udg.edu.me/obavjestenja/ffplus-projekat-pokrece-prvi-otvoreni-poziv-za-mala-i-srednja-preduzeca-i-startapove-2364

UDG website: https://www.udg.edu.me/en/news/the-ffplus-project-launches-the-first-open-call-for-small-and-medium-sized-enterprises-and-startups-2365

UDG LinkedIn post: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/universityofdonjagorica_fortissimo-plus-activity-7221528449796993024-EBuF?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

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