AI and function of the brains of adults and the unborn

University of Donja Gorica from Montenegro and International Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina are organizing a scientific conference on the topic “What does modern science know about the structure and function of the brains of adults and the unborn?”. The conference is taking place at the UDG, Amphitheater AS, on 5th and 6th of February 2022 . The organizers of the conference are Academic prof. dr Veselin Vukotic and Academic prof. dr Asim Kurjak.

We would like to emphasize the talks on the use of Artificial intelligence for pattern recognition, ultrasound diagnostics and prediction of performance and potential failures of medical devices. Those talks will be given by Academic Almir Badnjevic and prof. dr Tarik Uzunovic.

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Training Best Practice Seminar (CASTIEL)

On Thursday, 20 January, from 2pm – 5:30pm CET, representatives from NCC Montenegro took part in the Training Best Practice Seminar organized by CASTIEL project. The topics for the seminar were: How to organize an event such as an HPC hackathon or a winter-school and how to attract (new) attendees. Dr. Tomo Popovic and Dr. Luka Filipovic gave a presentation on How to organise an international conference, and discussed the experiences on organizing a HPC/HPDA/AI workshop within IEEE Information Technology IT2021 conference that was held last year.

Presentation on how to organise a training workshop within an conference
Around 50 people attended the presentation

Successful HPC Training – Collaboration with Partner NCCs

NCC Montenegro and NCC Romaina organized training event as one of EuroCC activities. Dr. Kyriacos HADJIYIANNAKOU from NCC Cyprus gave presentation about HPC and Parallel Programming. Dr. Maxim Masterov, SURF, The Netherlands NCC gave presentation about practical use of HPC in SURF and shown users how to execute first parallel sciripts on their HPC cluster. Montenegrin participants were interested students and professors from academy institutions and IT companies.

Virtual training supported by the collaboration with other HPC NCCs
Montenegrin students were interested in how to use the HPC resources for their research

EuroCC project presented at national conference

EuroCC NCC Montenegro participated in a national conference on Industry 4.0 and Cyber Security issues in Montenengro, where reference solutions on the possibility of applying HPC in the process of digitalization and possibilities for collaboration with EuroCC were presented. The conference is organized by UDG and in cooperation with the Chamber of Economy of Montenegro. Montenegrin NCC team gave presentation on the EuroCC project and the progress on activities so far. The team extended invitation for collaboration to all stakeholders and representatives from industry, academia and public sector.

EuroCC presented at a national conference
Presenting project activities and results achieved so far
This was a hybrid event (online and live), hotel Hilton, Podgorca

EuroCC HPC training event

EuroCC Montenegro is organizing a training event with our partner NCCs from EuroCC project that will take place on 15. December 2021. NCCs from Montenegro, Romania, Cyprus, and Netherlands n NCC will be implementing the training event. We invite you to check the agenda for the event and register in advance if you want to participate.

For the registration to this HPC event, please redirect all the interested participants on your behalf to this registration form, so that we can provide them with credentials for course materials and access to the SURF Supercomputer practice session! Please register no later than December 13th using the following registration link.

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H2020 DEMETER Project at BDVA EBDVF21 Event

DEMETER project is participating at BDVA – Big Data Value Association #EBDVF21 in the session on ‘Data Spaces for a sustainable Data Economy in Agriculture: a multi-stakeholder perspective’.

This session highlights the state of play of #Agricultural #DataSpaces in the EU, investigating challenges, opportunities, expectations and ambitions of some of the key stakeholders involved, encouraging and/or benefiting from their creation.

Speakers include Daniel Azevedo, Mario Barile, Giorgio Canocchi, Kevin Doolin, Doris Marquardt, Stefan Stiene, Marko Turpeinen

The session takes place on Decembet 1st, 3-4:30
Register now at the following link.

H2020 DEMETER project particitpating at BDVA EBDVF21 event