Category: NCC Collaboration

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EuroCC2 workshop “Establishing Business Relations between SMEs and Academia,”

As part of the EuroCC2 cross-NCC knowledge-sharing online events, which provide a platform for exchanging experiences on best practices, collaboration models, and impactful results, NCC Montenegro participated in the workshop “Establishing Business Relations between SMEs and Academia” on November 7th.

NCC Montenegro highlighted its outreach and onboarding activities for SMEs, featuring collaborations between academia and industry through: HPC/AI workshops and training events; development/research/innovation activities, and collaborative projects/grant schemes. A notable success story from the FinTech sector detailed how ML/HPC supported solutions addressed business challenges, including implementation steps and achieved benefits.

NCC Bulgaria emphasizes collaboration with various industry sectors and academia to foster partnerships with SMEs in addressing industry specific challenges through scientific research, training events, algorithm development, HPC solutions, and efficiency and scalability studies. Examples of successful HPC collaborations include improving precision in furniture design and analyzing advertising channel efficiency.

NCC Norway shared insights into Norway’s power market and collaboration with SINTEF Energy. By transitioning power models to HPC, they reduced simulation times from two hours to two minutes, enabling enhanced scenario testing and platform scalability.
This collaborative workshop demonstrated practical approaches across NCCs, emphasizing the shared goal of bridging the gap between academia and industry through HPC innovations.

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Cross-NCCs training event: “Machine Learning for Multiple Domains”

NCC Türkiye, NCC Serbia, NCC Montenegro, and NCC North Macedonia are pleased to announce a joint online training event titled “Machine Learning for Multiple Domains: From Concepts to Implementation,” scheduled for October 14-15, 2025, starting at 10:00 AM.

Participants can expect engaging program at both beginner and intermediate levels and will feature hands-on sessions along with key presentations spread across two days: Brief introductions on HPC/AI activities by 4 NCCs; Supercomputing access demo (TRUBA HPC infrastructure), presentations from NCC Macedonia (Design, Develop, Deploy, and Iterate on Production-Grade ML Applications) and NCC Turkey (Protein Language Models and Using Them for Downstream Prediction Tasks) on Day 1, and presentations from NCC Serbia (Modeling of Large-Scale Social Data) and NCC Montenegro (Analyzing Social Media Trends) on Day 2.

We look forward to your participation in this valuable opportunity to enhance your skills in HPC and machine learning!

More information on the training program, timetable and registration details you can find here: https://indico.truba.gov.tr/e/ML4MultipleDomains

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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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Virtual bootcamp “AI for Scientific Computing” successfully conducted by NCC Germany, Sweden, Austria and Montenegro

NCC Montenegro representative Luka Filipovic took an active part as a Teaching Assistant in the Nvidia and EuroCC2 supported bootcamp “AI for Scientific Computing”, successfully organized by NCCs Germany, Sweden, Austria and Montenegro, on June 25–26, 2024.

The Bootcamp offered a comprehensive introduction to deep neural networks, focusing on applications in scientific computing and physical systems defined by differential equations. The curriculum included advanced topics based on NVIDIA Modulus to develop and train the models in various areas. This online Bootcamp features guided instructions and support from cross-NCC teaching assistants to facilitate learning, supporting participants to build and enhance AI/DL models.

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NCC Montenegro shared its HPC academic-related experience at the Romanian event “HPC MasterClass”

Representative of NCC Montenegro Ms. Sanja Nikolic participated in the HPC Masterclass, a hybrid event held at “Ovidius” University of Constanța (20-24.05.2024) co-organized by NCC Romania. The second day of the training event was dedicated to NCC’s shared experience on HPC academic utilization and research excellence, introducing presenters from NCC Portugal, Montenegro, Bulgaria, France, and Luxembourg. Ms. Nikolic presented the development of the HPC+ (HPC and related technologies) educational ecosystem in Montenegro, intensively driven by the EuroCC project, NCC Montenegro and the University of Donja Gorica.

NCC Montenegro is focused on developing HPC/HPDA/AI academic programs, study courses, and training portfolios, following a sustained learning pathway:

• HPC/AI-related seasonal schools to mobilize high-school students and high-tech enthusiasts to enroll in HPC/AI-related academic programs. (“Open Mind Academy”).
• BSc restructured program (M1-Software Development and M2-Digital Transformation), and first nationally accredited AI Master Program, at Faculty for Information Systems and Technologies.
• Professional training courses, workshops, and networking events for academia and industry participants providing in-demand HPC/AI knowledge, technical upskilling, and supercomputing hands-on sessions.

NCC Montenegro’s training portfolio covers technology-specific know-how (HPC system architecture and applications, Parallel Programming, Python Programming, Deep Learning, Edge IoT, Computer Vision, NLL) and industry-specific priority domains, defined by the Smart Specialization Strategy of Montenegro (energy, health, tourism, agriculture, ICT).

NCC Montenegro is also fully exploiting joint training opportunities within the pan-European NCC network – to capitalize on their HPC expertise and resources, as well as productive collaboration with key MNE stakeholders (business associations, technical affiliations, and funding institutions) – to enhance national HPC/AI awareness, outreach and uptake.

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Nvidia AI for Science Bootcamp

The AI for Scientific Computing Bootcamp provides a step-by-step overview of the fundamentals of deep neural networks and walks attendees through the hands-on experience of building and improving deep learning models for applications related to scientific computing and physical systems defined by differential equations. The material will cover more advanced topics such as physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) and operator learning and make use of tools like NVIDIA Modulus to develop and train the models. This online bootcamp is a hands-on learning experience where you will be guided through step-by-step instructions with teaching assistants on hand to help throughout.

This Bootcamp, which will be hosted virtually for three days on June 25 – 26, is co-organized by the High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS), Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC), Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ), Vienna Scientific Cluster (VSC), University of Donja Gorica, RISE Research Institutes Of Sweden, Linköping University, OpenACC organization, and NVIDIA for EuroCC Austria, EuroCC@GCS, EuroCC Montenegro, and EuroCC Sweden, all National Competence Centres for High-Performance Computing.

More info and registration : https://www.openhackathons.org/s/siteevent/a0C5e000008AbEaEAK/se000315

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