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24.05.2023.10.10.2023.

EUROCC2 project successfully presented at EDCON Conference 2023

Montenegro welcomed one of the biggest gatherings in the cryptocurrency world and blockchain technologies – EDCON (Community Ethereum Development Conference) bringing founders, developers, researchers, industry leaders, investors and innovators together to discuss the recent developments, emerging trends and overall potential of Etherium-based solutions, blockchain ecosystem, decentralised technologies and digital economy.

During a five-day event, co-organised by UDG, (https://www.edcon.io) visitors from all over the world had an opportunity to listen inspirational speakers, including Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, to attend panel discussion, interactive workshops and exhibition stands, as well as to experience multiple networking and collaboration opportunities.

NCC team members effectively showcased the EUROCC2 project at the UDG exhibition booth, and also highlighted its significance in the opening speech at the EDCON conference. Multiple high-tech enthusiasts, entrepreneurs and innovative companies’ representatives had an opportunity to understand better how NCC Montenegro, powered by of EUROCC2, brings innovative supercomputing technologies and applications to Montenegro. Visitors were captivated by HPC+ benefits and opportunities, briefly introduced to EuroCC2 project and express further interest in MNE success stories and industry onboarding process.

10.05.2023.27.05.2023.

EUROCC at EEN WB++ Networking Event

University of Donja Gorica took part in the Enterprise Europe Network workshop called WB++ Networking Event. The topic of the event was “Digitalization in Agri-Food. The main participants were teams and SMEs active in the field of IT from the region as presenters, and the target audience was interest groups including public entities, companies, research groups, individuals, etc. UDG presented the EUROCC and EUROCC2 projects and discussed success stories and efforts to support digitalisation and the use of HPC/AI in agri-food sector.

WB++ Networking Event (Western Balkans) by EEN

T. Popovic presented several project implemented at UDG relevant to Agri-food sector

The WB++ event is a joint initiative of partners from the countries of the Western Balkans (+Slovenia +Croatia) with the aim of connecting companies and strengthening partnerships and connections in the region. There was over 40 attendees at the networking event. The Enterprise Europe Network consists of almost 600 partner organizations and institutions, provides excellent contacts and links in 54 countries and connects over 3,000 experts in different fields at the local and international level. Through the FINNO platform, free consulting services are offered for sources of financing for innovation, business internationalization and business growth.

We discussed resutls of EuroCC and plans for EuroCC2 (focus on PoC)

There was around 50 attendees at the event

28.04.2023.29.04.2023.

Zuzalu Workshop with world-leading innovators: Vitalik Buterin with UDG students

We had a pleasure to host one of the greateast minds of digital world, Vitalik Buterin (founder of Ethereum), and his fellow Zuzaluans, habitants of pop-up city in Montenegro.

World-leading innovators presented their ideas of Montenegro’s golden age, shared their ideas of Montenegro’s future reinforced by the most modern technologies and game-changing concepts. An amazing afternoon will have it’s second part in May! Stay tuned!

Speakers shared their path, where they once were and how they got to where they are now. They shared their dreams and their vision for the future, and what brought them to Montenegro. At the same time, this workshop was a platform for UDG students to showcase their creativity, ideas and perspective, which are critical to shaping the future of any industry. Speakers at the event were Vitalik Buterin, Milojko Mickey Spajic, Tomiwa Ademidun, Gary Sheng, Veronica S. and Zoja Šćekić. The event was moderated by Nela Milošević.

Vitalik Buterin with students during the workshop work group activity

Speakers engaged with students in the discussion

Tomiwa Ademidun started the Pasts/Presents/Futures workshop

Everyone had a great time while discussing future of Montenegro

Discussing innovation and technology as a platform to co-create a vision for Montenegro 2.0

02.03.2023.03.03.2023.

EuroCC at SmAgTech EXPO VIRAL!

Within the two-day SmAgTech EXPO VIRAL event held at the University of Donja Gorica in the period from February 23 to 24, 2023 the results of the EuroCC project were presented with a special focus on the application of HPC and Ai/ML for computer vision in smart chicken farms.

Ms. Bojana Malisic presented the project to the visitors

The event gathered over 300 visitors from Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Slovenia, the Netherlands, including agricultural small and medium-sized enterprises, representatives of the IT sector, and academy. In addition to the aforementioned, the event was attended by students and high school pupils attending educational programs complementary to agriculture, information technology and food technology.

Mr Stevan Cakic presenting a HPC/AI use case in agriculture

Numerous companies in the field of agriculture, food industry, as well as information technologies and systems that presented their products and services at the fair, had the opportunity to learn about the EuroCC project and the advantages offered by advanced computing in the form of HPC technology.As part of the EXPO, the representatives of NCC Montenegro presented a pilot project-experiment within Horizon 2020 for innovative small and medium-sized enterprises, which is related to the application of HPC technologies in agriculture, specifically in poultry farming, where with the help of HPC technology, diseases among poultry are monitored and predicted by applying machine learning.

NCC Montenegro team at VIRAL EXPO 2023

VIRAL EXPO 2023 video (longer version)

01.03.2023.02.03.2023.

FF4EuroHPC releases success story video on AIMHiGH

Within the FF4EuroHPC experiment, DigitalSmart Montenegro, together with DunavNET, University of Donja Gorica, Radinovic Company, and Meso-promet Franca, used HPC and AI to develop ML prediction models for computer vision that can be ported on Edge AI and integrated into Smart agriculture systems for poultry farms.

The smart agriculture solution developed within this experiment could boost the productivity of poultry farms by potentially reducing both manual labor costs and chicken mortality rates by about 10% each. This is accomplished because assessing the weight of chickens in real-time increases the uniformity of the finished product and reduces the impact of stress on both the chickens and manual labor. Furthermore, real-time insight into poultry barns allows for improving disease management due to early detection.

HPC provided the technology organisations DigitalSmart Montenegro and DunavNET needed to develop smart agriculture solutions quickly and efficiently using machine learning and computer vision, in this case for the needs of the poultry industry. The computer kit has become a part of the PoultryNET platform offering, and there is an opportunity to sell such components to third-party vendors active in the market of smart agriculture solutions.

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16.02.2023.24.02.2023.

EUROCC2 presented at the IEEE IT 2023 conference

EUROCC2 project was presented at the 27th IEEE International Conference – Information Technology – IT2023. The conference took place 15-18 February in Zabljak Montenegro. NCC Montenegro team presented the project on the first day of the conference within the special session dedicated to presentations of EU projects. EUROCC2 project is a continuation of the success we achieved with the previous EUROCC.

Dr Luka Filipovic presenting NCC Montenegro team and activities in EUROCC

Presentation took place during the first day of the conference

The presentation covered the results from EUROCC and introduced the activities for the upcoming period in EUROCC2. Also, this event was a great place for newly extended NCC Montenegro team members to meet and discuss the activities in the upcoming period. Our team now includes representatives from University of Donja Gorica (UDG) and University of Montenegro (UCG). IEEE IT2023 conference program is available at the following link.

Dr Tomo Popovic and Dr Luka Filipovic answering the questions from the audience

15.02.2023.28.02.2023.

HPC4S3ME project presented at the IEEE IT2023

New reearch project HPC4S3ME was presented by prof. Tomo Popovic and dr. Luka Filipovic at the 27th IEEE International Conference – Information Technology – IT2023. The conference had a special session dedicated to presentation of project results for the projects implemented in Montenegro and the region. The conference program is available at the following link.

The full title of this new project is “Building scientific and innovation potential to utilize HPC and AI for S3 Smart Specialisation in Montenegro – HPC4S3ME” and it is funded by the through IPA II program, call reference EuropeAid/172-351/ID/ACT/ME.

Proposing the use of HPC for research in Montenegrin S3 priority domains

Project was presented by prof. Popovic and dr. Filipovic

The overall objective of HPC4S3ME project is to contribute to straightening research excellence by building scientific and innovation potential based on the use of high performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) for applications in industrial domains proposed by the Smart Specialisation Strategy (2019-2024) for Montenegro. The implementation of this project will provide a state-of-the-art environment for young researchers to gain experience in research and development in computer science, more specifically to apply machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) algorithms supported by HPC in order to create innovative information-communication technology (ICT) solutions for applications in agriculture and food value chain, health and tourism, energy and sustainable environment., i.e. priority domains identified by the smart specialisation strategy. More information on the project available at the HPC4S3ME website.