Thursday, 26 January 2023 University of Primorska host the final meeting of the ELBA project

From 23 to 25 January UP FAMNIT hosted the final meeting of the ERASMUS + project ELBA, where highly profiled specialists from universities in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan are participating. The purpose of this training is to implement a multidisciplinary package of module-based courses for bachelor and master students at the 10 partnering universities in Central Asia.

The meeting was coordinated by Assist. Prof. Branko Kavšek from the University of Primorska and analyzing the results of the project, the participants see great potential for further development.

»The goal of the project was to develop interdisciplinary model based courses and establish cooperation between partners in Central Asia, research and educational centres in each university. All of these goals were achieved. During the final meeting we have been discussing the finalizing of all the goals and every partner presented their achievements. It was very interesting to see how the project has developed,« summed up Emilbek Musabaev from the Kyrgyz State Technical University, Kyrgyzstan.

Prof. Roberto Fontana from Turin Polytechnic University in Turin, Italy, added his perspective on the results achieved: »The ELBA project had very ambitious goals and objectives. Not all the goals have been reached, but there has been a strong movement from the very beginning with the different consortiums, different levels on the understanding of the subject. Now, the consortium is good in terms of a group that cooperates. The results, that have been reached, were unexpected at the beginning and considering the starting position and the impact of the pandemic, the outcome of the ELBA project is excellent.«

We hosted experts at the faculty as part of the project already in January last year, at a 10-day international teacher-training in the field of Intelligent Big Data Analysis. Then, Shokhjakhon Abdufattokhov from the Turin Polytechnic University in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, shared this about Intelligent Big Data Analysis (IBDA): »I am applying machine learning to control theory. To put it simply – I am now working on projects of smart buildings where we have sets of big data available to us. To process this data, we have to choose the right algorithm and features, this is IBDA. We can also use it to analyse business intelligence or do market analytics to find out about consumer shopping habits. Some of the colleagues here are interested in building models for the coal mining industry or for predictions in civil engineering. You can extract some really useful features that can give you very exact predictions.«

After the successful conclusion of the project, UP FAMNIT continues providing great research and establishing international cooperation, as well as offering excellent study programmes in the field of Information technologies. To find out more about studying Computer Science (at undergraduate, master’s and doctoral level) and Data Science (at master’s level) at Famnit, we invite you to visit the upcoming Information Days on 17 and 18 February. More information available at www.famnit.upr.si.