Webinar hosted by the University of Belgrade
Within the framework of the Project BENEFIT, the webinar on “Studying telecommunications engineering” at the School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade was held on October 13th, 2020, from 12 a.m. to 1:45 p.m. fully online, hosted by University of Belgrade – School of Electrical Engineering. All project partners and students were invited to participate and distribute information about the webinar. Participants had possibility to register and participate online using Cisco Webex Collaboration tool.
The webinar was devoted to the studying telecommunications engineering at the School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade (UB-ETF). The recording is online available here.
ERK 2020
On 22 September 2020, Project BENEFIT dissemination activities were organized Within ERK 2020 program. In particular, BENEFIT contributions consisted of 9 conference papers available in the proceedings online. Each paper was presented within 15 minutes slot. Presentations were followed with discussions. Due to pandemic, the event was held in hybrid mode, in person for local participants and virtual for the international participants.
Further information can be found here.
Teacher training seminar on “Designing a Course for Stimulating Entrepreneurship in Higher Education”
Due to COVID-19 restrictions the last BENEFIT teacher training was organized in a hybrid format in order to minimize risk related to planning, physical gatherings and traveling:
1.) an online webinar to introduce the theoretical aspects on July 15-16, 2020;
2.) and a physical face-to-face workshop on September 23-25, 2020, with practical exercises to apply the content from the webinar.
The topic of the whole compendium was “Designing a Course for Stimulating Entrepreneurship in Higher Education“.
Here the agenda of the online part, and here the one for the face-to-face workshop.
Teacher Training in Niš, Sept. 2020
The teacher training seminar “Role of software in education, research and practice” was held on the 7th and 8th of September at Faculty of Electronic Engineering, University of Nis. Agenda and topics covered can be found here.
The YouTube video of the 1st seminar day is available online here. Moreover, the University of Nis Faculty of Electronic Engineering, in collaboration with NiCAT, just implemented the new machine-to-machine communications laboratory. A promotion video is available here.
Training Workshop in Osijek, Febr. 2020
On February 12 and 13, 2020, the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Information Technology of the University of Osijek hosted a professional teacher training workshop about ICT teaching practices. During the two day event teachers were able to learn and put their hands on innovative teaching tools such as the MikroTik academy program and the DRIVE project with its master program.
Agenda can be found here.
Training Workshop in Banja Luka, Dec. 2019
Within the framework of the Project BENEFIT, the teacher training seminar “Deep Learning in a Classrooom” was held on 19th and 20th of December 2019, at the University of Banja Luka. Agenda and topics covered can be found in this link.
Festival nauke
The Event was organized by The Ministry of Scientific and Technological Development, Higher Education and Information Society of the Republic of Srpska on 28-29 November 2019. With the aim of popularizing science, the University of Banja Luka also presented the project BENEFIT.
TELSIKS 2019 in Niš
The 14th International Conference on Advanced Technologies, Systems and Services in Telecommunications – TELSIKS 2019 was held at the Faculty of Electronic Engineering on 23. – 25. October. Simultaneously, the Forum of Advance technology was held in organization of Chamber of Commers and NiCAT cluster. During these events, dissemination activities involving the Project BENEFIT were carried out.
Ericsson Nikola Tesla Summer Camp 2019 Closing Day – Open Event
The Ericsson Nikola Tesla Summer Camp Closing Day is an open event organized at the end of Ericsson Nikola Tesla (ENT) Summer Camp, a workshop that ENT is organizing annually during five weeks of the academic summer break. The main goal of the Summer Camp workshop is for students to work on projects in teams, solving real industrial problems in an industrial environment.
On October 4, 2019, the closing of Summer Camp was marked with day-long activities in the ENT company premises, including poster presentations, demo sessions, and closing ceremony. Along with numerous students and mentors who participated in Summer Camp activities, many representatives of the academia were present at the Camp’s official closing ceremony, together with the employees of Ericsson Nikola Tesla. The event was endorsed by Gordana Kovačević, the president of the Ericsson Nikola Tesla company, who emphasized the importance of cooperation between industry and academia. Professor Darko Huljenić used this opportunity to present the project BENEFIT during his presentation and to emphasize the collaboration with project academic partners in ENT Summer Camp 2019. For further details, please click here.
Training Workshop in Ljubljana, Sept. 2019
Erasmus+ BENEFIT workshop on new teaching methodologies and instructional approaches in ICT engineering education with emphasis on learning outcomes and competence development for engineering profession was held at University of Ljubljana on the 25th and 26th of September 2019. Click here to find more details.
Webinar “Study Programs of Telecommunications in Nis
Within the framework of the Project BENEFIT, the Webinar “Study Programs of Telecommunications” was held on September 5th 2019, from 12 a.m. to 1:45 p.m. at the Faculty of Electronic Engineering, University of Niš.
All project partners and students were invited to participate and distribute information about the webinar. Participants had possibility to participate online or at the Faculty of Electronic Engineering.
The webinar was devoted to the Telecommunication study programs at the Faculty of Electronic Engineering, University of Niš (FEE-UNI).
Workshop in Klagenfurt
Within the framework of BENEFIT and the ERASMUS+ KA2 projects , the week of July 8-12, 2019 has been devoted to training activities aiming to improve teaching skills in the respective sectors.
Workshop took place in Klagenfurt, in particular the days 10-11 of July were planned for BENEFIT training, jointly with SGT-MAP partners.
Detail program with courses, lectures and agenda can be found in the following page: Professional Training Klagenfurt
Panel Conference in Sarajevo
A panel conference “Improving cooperation between the industry and academia in telecommunications” was organized by the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Sarajevo on 12 June 2019. It brought together lecturers from the industrial sector and academia from Bosnia and Herzegovina and the region with the aim of presenting, identifying and defining ways of strengthening industrial-university cooperation in the field of telecommunications.
The conference was organized within Erasmus+ project “Strengthening the profiles of telecommunications engineers in order to meet the needs of modern society and industry” – BENEFIT funded by the European Union, and that representatives of telecom operators and faculty of telecommunications from the region took part in the conference.
Extra information and photos can be found here.
InTsikt 2019 in Tuzla
InTsikt is an annual event with a focus on latest achievements in information and communication technologies. It is plenary organized and focused on knowledge and experience exchange between academia and industry. The topic of InTsikt 2019 was “Career Opportunities in Information Communication Technology Engineering”. InTsikt is prepared and organized by Faculty of Electrical Engineering Tuzla, Faculty of Electrical Engineering Ljubljana and BIT Center Tuzla, and technically sponsored by IEEE Section of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Total number of participants at InTsikt 2019 is 65.
In the scope of the first day program (June 10, 2019), special session devoted to the project BENEFIT took a place. The special session included the following presentations:
- dr. Matej Zajc, Univerzitet u Ljubljani: “Boosting the telecommunications engineer profile to meet modern society and industry needs – BENEFIT” “
- dr. Vlado Delić, dr Dragiša Mišković, Univerzitet u Novom Sadu: “CABUNS as one of innovative teaching/learning methodologies applied at BENEFIT project”
- dr. Višnja Križanović, dr. Darko Došen, FERIT Osijek: “BENEFIT: Overview of the Central Web Platform”.
Students of University of Tuzla were presented during special session. Television of Tuzla Canton reported about this event.
IWSSIP 2019 in Osijek
The University of Osijek organized the international conference IWSSIP 2019 in Osijek on June 4-7, 2019.
It has been a great opportunity to network with participants and disseminate the results of the project BENEFIT.
The coordinator, prof. A. Tonello, attended the event and presented the project aiming to connect with WB industry and universities and share the experience made in the project.
ZINC 2019 in Novi Sad
Webinar hosted by Cisco and University of Belgrade
Within the framework of the Project BENEFIT, “Seminar on cloud computing research and teaching – collaboration tools in education” was organized on March 13th 2019, from 10 a.m. to 12 a.m. GMT
Agenda and topics covered
– Challenges in modern education and research
– Use of online collaboration tools in education
– Practical case studies
Lecturer: Aleksandar Vulović, Cisco
Organized by: Cisco Srbija, University of Belgrade, School of Electrical Engineering.
The Institute of Networked and Embedded Systems of the University of Klagenfurt also hosted the Seminar in the Lakeside Park, B02.1.59 (meeting and conference room). More details are available in the linked poster.
- The Webinar is recorded and available here (YouTube)
NES Open Lab – University of Klagenfurt
The Institute of Networked and Embedded Systems of the University of Klagenfurt hosted an OpenLab evening on March 13th at 5pm in the Lakeside Park in B04a, Klagenfurt, Austria. Students presented exciting projects to give an insight into their work and research fields.
Project Benefit was also presented to all visitors.
Ericsson Nikola Tesla Summer Camp 2018 Closing Day – Open Event
The Ericsson Nikola Tesla Summer Camp Closing Day is an open event organized at the end of Ericsson Nikola Tesla (ENT) Summer Camp, a workshop that ENT is organizing annually during five weeks of the academic summer break. The main goal of the Summer Camp workshop is for students to work on projects in teams, solving real industrial problems in an industrial environment.
On September 28, 2018, the closing of Summer Camp was marked with day-long activities in the ENT company premises, including poster presentations, demo sessions, and closing ceremony. Along with numerous students and mentors who participated in Camp’s activities, many representatives of the academia were present at the Camp’s official closing ceremony, as well as public authorities, headed by Prof. Tome Antičić, PhD, State Secretary at the Ministry of Science and Education. The representatives of partners in the BENEFIT project who participated in this edition of ENT Summer Camp workshop were also invited. For further details, please click here.
Open Day at the University of Ljubljana
On 26.9.2018 Open Day was held at Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana. The aim ofthe Open day was to present BENEFIT project activities to professors, experts, professionals and students from Slovenia. Altogether there were 20 participants, besides UL also KLU, UNTZ, UNS and ENT were present and actively participating with presentations and discussion.Short presentations were also given by representatives of students, university career centre, Slovenian Chamber of commerce and HR personnel from industry as well from CMPEPIUS (Erasmus+ office), according to the program.The first part that consisted of short presentations was followed with discussion on major topics covered by the presenters, as for example student’s career portal, modernization of curriculum, industry needs, etc.Overall conclusion was that there exists mutual motivation for future cooperation among the participants of the event. It is our aim to keep close contacts with the participating people throughout the duration of the project and beyond. Website.
Program:
- prof. dr. Matej Zajc, Univerza v Ljubljani: Erasmus + BENEFIT Open Day – Uvodni nagovor / Short introduction
- prof. dr. Andrea Tonello, University of Klagenfurt: BENEFIT – Boosting the telecommunications engineer profile to meet modern society and industry needs – short project overview
- Maja Dizdarević, Predstojnica, Karierni center Univerze v Ljubljani: (R)evolucija novih diplomantov za Industrijo 4.0 / (R)evolution of new graduates for Industry 4.0
- Andreja Lampe, direktorica projektov, Gospodarska Zbornica Slovenije: Aktivnosti Gospodarske zbornice Slovenije na področju razvoja IKT kompetenc / ICT competence development @ Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia
- Gašper Podobnik, Predsednik ŠSFE, Domen Kodrič, ŠSFE, Študentski svet kot dvosmerna povratna zanka med študenti in fakulteto / Student council as a bidirectional feedback loop between students and the faculty
- Larisa Grizilo, Senior direktorica HR sektorja in korporativnih komunikacij, A1: Nad milenijce z (digitalno) palčko, (digitalnim) korenčkom ali z (digitalnim) čim drugim? / Engage millenials with (digital) carrot or (digital) stick or (digital) something else?
- izr. prof. dr. Darko Huljenić, Ericsson Nikola Tesla, Ericsson Nikola Tesla Summer Camp – experience and challenges
- Kratkim predstavitvam bo sledila diskusija / Short presentations will be followed by open discussion.
Webinar hosted by the University of Banja Luka
The Webinar “Study programs in telecommunications”, hosted by the University of Banja Luka and technically supported by the University of Belgrade, were held on May, 23rd, 2018, from 12:16 pm to 01:48 pm. All project partners were invited to participate and distribute information about the webinar. The webinar was announced to students and selected group of high school students (potential candidates for enrollment to telecommunication study programes). Interested participants had possibilities to register by sending an email and participate by coming to the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Banja Luka or online.
- The Webinar is recorded and available here Play recording (1 hr 31 min 51 sec)(Cisco Webex) or here (YouTube)
InTsikt 2018 in Tuzla
InTsikt is an annual event with a focus on latest achievements in information and communication technologies. It is plenary organized and focused on knowledge and experience exchange between academia and industry. The topic of InTsikt 2018 was “Bridging Digital Divide”. InTsikt is prepared and organized by Faculty of Electrical Engineering Tuzla, Faculty of Electrical Engineering Ljubljana and BIT Center Tuzla, and technically sponsored by IEEE Section of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Total number of participants at InTsikt 2018 is 70.
In the scope of the first day program, prof. dr. Matej Zajc from University of Ljubljana presented general aims of project BENEFIT. The special session with the title “Education of modern telecommunications engineers: project BENEFIT” was organized on May 22, 2018 and included the following presentations:
- “Introduction to project BENEFIT: overview and basic facts”, mr. sc. Davide Righini, Alpe Adria University, Klagenfurt, Austria
- “Profile of modern telecommunication engineer from industry perspective in Western Balkan Region”, Prof. dr. Dejan Vukobratović, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
- “Guidelines for modernization of telecommunication engineering Curricula”, Prof. dr. Matej Zajc, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
- “Student internships and trainings in BENEFIT”, Prof. dr. Mladen Koprivica, University of Belgrade, Serbia
- “Internship opportunities for ICT engineers in Bosnia and Herzegovina”, mr. sc. Seudin Kasumović, Bicom, Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Students of University of Tuzla expressed their interest for the project, and had opportunity to exchange impressions with professors from partner universities.
Television of Tuzla Canton and RTV 7 reported about this event.
During InTsikt, University of Tuzla (UNTZ) and Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in Osijek (FERIT) signed joint Memorandum of collaboration with the company AV Living Lab Ljubljana, Slovenia in the domain of autonomous vehicles.
Open event at the University of Tuzla
University of Tuzla organized an open event to present project BENEFIT to students and local community in Tuzla and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The event was organized at Faculty of Electrical Engineering on May 17 2018, the world day of telecommunications.
Prof. dr. Nermin Suljanović and prof. dr. Aljo Mujčić presented the scope of the project BENEFIT and aims, while doc. dr. Asmir Gogić provided more details on the development of joint lab with Bicom Systems. Vedrana Ajanović, BIT Center Tuzla, and Nerina Bolić, Bicom Systems, talked about internship opportunities for students of Faculty of Electrical Engineering Tuzla, in the scope of the BENEFIT project. ELEMEND, second Erasmus + project implemented at University of Tuzla, has also been introduced.
Television of Tuzla Canton reported about this event.
Students visit BENEFIT partners (Ericsson Nikola Tesla Zagreb, University of Ljubljana, University of Klagenfurt)
Students of the third and fourth year of telecommunication studies at University of Tuzla visited BENEFIT partners Ericsson Nikola Tesla Zagreb, University of Ljubljana and Alpen Adria University Klagenfurt. The three days study trip took place in April of 2018, from 4th to 7th. Experts at Ericsson Nikola Tesla in Zagreb presented their work environment, the most interesting projects in ICT they are working on and opportunities for the student internships in this company offered in BENEFIT project. Students are informed at University of Ljubljana and Alpen Adria University about undergraduate and graduate programs, study details and student life. In the scope of the visit, students also visited laboratories and participated in demo lab experiments
