Events

The city of Kraków hosted the NATO DIANA Defense and Security Days. The event took place on 5 and 6 February and was supported by both the Polish Innovation Department of the Ministry of National Defense and the Kraków NATO DIANA Accelerator. It brought together experts involved in the development and acceleration of dual-use technology, end-users from the defense sector, entrepreneurs developing the latest technologies and investors.

On 22 January 2025 the GRAPHIA project was kicked off in Brussels. This international meeting lasted for two days and gathered researchers and specialists who are interested in SSH data. Among them were Aleksandra Nowak and Tomasz Parkoła, both representing the Digital Libraries and Knowledge Platforms Department of PSNC.

The AGRO-PREMIERY International Agricultural Fair is the biggest agricultural event in Poland and it kicks off in Poznań on 23 January 2025. For two days the event is going to focus mainly on AGRICULTURE 5.0. Participants of the fair will have a chance to witness a presentation of the agrifoodTEF project, which is realized with heavy participation from PSNC.

Its full name is Linked User-driven Multidisciplinary Exploration Network, but you can simply call it LUMEN. Despite this friendly and simple moniker, LUMEN is actually a pioneering phenomenon which is very likely to turn cross-domain collaboration around and make a research journey across various scientific fields, like Mathematics, Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH), Earth System sciences, and Molecular Dynamics a joyride! Two PSNC ambassadors – Tomasz Parkoła and Paweł Marciniak from the Digital Libraries and Knowledge Platforms Department joined the scientific extravaganza aka LUMEN kick-off meeting in Brussels on 20 and 21 January 2025.

On 16 January 2024 representatives of four universities from Poznań along with PSNC signed a letter of intent to implement an interdisciplinary cooperation program called Mind Challenge. The project will involve the Adam Mickiewicz University, the Medical University, the Poznań University of Technology, the Poznań University of Economics and Business, PSNC and some business partners.

Representatives of 14 organizations involved in the Heriforge project visited the Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center on 14 and 15 January 2025. The goal of the project is to provide a research environment for culture, art and national heritage using the technology of extended reality (XR).

The first meeting of the SIG-AI (Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence), operating under the auspices of the GÉANT community, took place in the PSNC headquarters on 11 December 2024. The event provided an opportunity for representatives of NRENs – leading research and education institutions in Europe – to share ideas, experiences and best practices in the field of artificial intelligence.

ECHOES workshop took place on 12 and 13 December 2024. It was meant to support the users (or even future users) of the Cultural Heritage Cloud. All the participants could take part in various sessions and discussions concerning challenges and possibilities of cultural heritage. ECHOES project representatives together with experts from EUROPEANA and ARIADNE, among others, presented tools and strategies which will be crucial in shaping the future of the cloud.

On 9 December 2024 PSNC headquarters in Poznań hosted the “STEAM & AI – Modern Trends in Education” conference organized as a part of the 2024 edition of the “Active Board” program. The event was organized in cooperation with the Poznań Education Authority. The attendees were mostly principals and teachers from schools across the Wielkopolska region of Poland.

That was the most important question of this year’s Crisis Management Workshop (CLAW) organized annually for the GÉANT community, which after several editions was moved from Poznań to Barcelona. For two days (3 and 4 December 2024) the participants took part in practical exercises to resolve a crisis in a fictional European country called Guilder. The multimedia materials used during the workshops were prepared by the usual PSNC team.

The EUDAT conference 2024 organised in Karlsruhe (Germany) on 3-5 December 2024 is an international forum on and about DATA. Topics such as EOSC, the Data Spaces, the connection with HPC and handling sensitive data were tackled in dedicated sessions that provide a view of developments on a European level.

POZITIVE.TECH 2024 is an event that brings together IT specialists, digital transformation experts and technology enthusiasts. They meet to exchange knowledge, inspirations and shape the future. This year’s edition took place at CK Zamek in the very heart of Poznań, between 2 and 6 December 2024. One of the participants of this event was a PSNC quantum expert Dr Krzysztof Kurowski.