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SZTAKI's Engineering and Management Intelligence Research Laboratory (EMI) and Hitachi Research and Development Group have a decades-long collaboration – a recent landmark in this relationship saw EMI staff visit two Hitachi facilities.

On 4 and 5 October 2023, the Building PREPAREDness with Collaborative Knowledge Platform, Gamification and Serious Game in Virtual Reality project held its project launch event. The event was attended by project participants from 15 partner institutions from 11 countries.

The exhibition titled "From the Past to the Future", which opened in 2022, can be visited on a virtual tour developed by the eLearning Department of HUN-REN SZTAKI.

The EGI-ACE project ended in the first half of 2023 and was praised by the reviewers during the recent EC review. One of its greatest highlights was the cloud integration programme that enabled the onboarding of the Hungarian scientific cloud into EOSC (European Open Science Cloud), resulting in a fully interoperable compute and storage system for data-intensive science within this new European e-infrastructure.

The 2023 International Academy of Engineering and Technology (AET) Symposium 2023 took place at HUN-REN SZTAKI from 31 August to 1 September 2023. The event featured presentations by international experts and a poster session was held in the Innovation and Demonstration Hall of SZTAKI. The three-day programme was co-organised and hosted by HUN-REN SZTAKI.

HUN-REN SZTAKI awaited its visitors with ten different programs, including a drone parade, an autonomous land vehicle, an interactive blockchain simulation, robots, aging clocks, baby monitoring, and a hardware history exhibition at the Researchers' Night on Friday 29 September 2023.

Az IMEKO tagjai 25 különböző részterület konferenciáin mutatják be tudományos eredményeiket, évről évre. A részterületek (TC-k, Technical Committee-k) maguk döntik el, hogy mikor és hol rendezik meg éves konferenciájukat, kivéve a háromévente megrendezett világkonferenciát.

International Measurement Confederation (IMEKO): an international, scientific organisation covering the complete range of measurement, it has 41 country members from all over the world, additionally, it has many personal members, 32 leaders in person and over 50 participated online on the actual meeting, representing more than 40 countries.

The Hungarian Machine Learning Meeting (Magyar Machine Learning Találkozó) provided an opportunity for Hungarian machine learning researchers working in foreign institutions to meet each other and the younger generation of Hungarian machine learning researchers and Ph.D. students. During the 3-day informal summer meeting, 17 internationally renowned researchers gave presentations, and the Hungarian young researchers presented their research in 35 posters, with many informal joint activities. Two of the speakers were professors from Cambridge University and two from Carnegie Mellon University, while other speakers came from Google, Deepmind, Huawei, Harvard University, ETH Zurich, among others.

A team consisting of the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR), the Institute for Computer Science and Control (SZTAKI) from Hungary, the French Aerospace Lab (ONERA) and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) from Germany was funded under the EU Horizon 2020 framework. The successful flight tests took place at the National Experimental Test Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems, which is operated by DLR and located in Cochstedt, Germany.

There can hardly be a higher recognition of the hard work put into a Horizon Europe proposal than the 15/15 score on the anxiously awaited evaluation result letter. This is exactly the score we got for the one we submitted for the "Enhanced citizen preparedness in the event of a disaster or crisis-related emergency (HORIZON-CL3-2022-DRS-01-01)” call last November.

On Wednesday, 12 July 2023, a Chinese delegation of investors and government officials visited the National Laboratory for Autonomous Systems (ARNL) and the Artificial Intelligence National Laboratory (MILAB).

​​​​​​​DARIAH European research network, that focuses on the arts and humanities, held its annual event between 6-9 June in Budapest. The main topic of the DARIAH Annual Event 2023 was the data management and data curation of cultural heritage.

In the latest edition of the Australian Describo newsletter one can read about the ELKH ARP Aroma developments. The aim of the ELKH ARP project is to create a software platform to store, archive and share research data. The ARP software system (ARP platform) is designed and created by SZTAKI DSD Department of Distributed Systems. The newly developed AROMA extension, that adds a new data packaging solution to the already existing solution, has been developed to this very system and is based on the Describo software.

Bilbao hosted the technology-focused Tech-X Conference of the Gaia-X initiative, which was co-organized with a Hackathon. The competing teams had to work on real-life end-to-end scenarios which leverage the Gaia-X Open-Source Software and the Trust Framework. Our colleague, Márk Emődi’s team won second place.

Csaba Kerepesi, Informatics Laboratory, SZTAKI has been elected as a member of the Hungarian Young Academy (FKA) for the period 2023-2028. With this appointment, SZTAKI is now represented by him in the 60-member organisation.

80% of Europe's buildings will still be in use in 2050. Action is needed to preserve their integrity and value. Modern countries generate an incomparable amount of data and information about the building stock, such as 3D geometry data, operational information, measurements, etc., which are usually lost or unused, unstructured and not updated. The vision of the EU-funded BUILDCHAIN project is that this information and data have the potential to change the way we design, construct, and maintain our buildings.

In just over 7 months, following the incident involving the T-FLEX demonstrator in August, 2022, the FLiPASED project-team (i.e., engineers and technicians from SZTAKI, Technical University of Munich, German Aerospace Center (DLR), ONERA - The French Aerospace Lab) has made a remarkable effort to redesign and rebuild the aircraft, carry out static and ground vibration tests, and ultimately conduct flight tests.

SZTAKI is the Hungarian HUB for the Gaia-X European data sharing technology project. Therefore, it was obvious that our institute was represented at the Market-X conference in the Austrian capital on 14-15 March. Róbert Lovas, Gábor Érdi-Krausz and Ákos Hajnal aimed to gather more knowledge and contacts about the project's status and the European participants.