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The EU-funded “Application-level Swarm-based Orchestration Across the Cloud-to-Edge Continuum” (Swarmchestrate) project launched at the beginning of 2024. This spring, the HUN-REN SZTAKI lead consortium of 14 partners gathered in Budapest for their first face-to-face project meeting to discuss the working plan of the project that introduces a fundamentally new application management approach, and then signed the consortium agreement recently.

Colleagues from the Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems participated in the face-to-face kick-off meeting of the new Horizon Europe project, GreenDIGIT. The 36-month-long project aspires to lower the environmental footprint of Digital Infrastructures. The project's coordinator, the University of Amsterdam welcomed the 15-member consortium in Amsterdam and launched the project with an in-person meeting in spring of 2024.

In April 2024, the 33rd Networkshop Conference took place in Eger at the Eszterházy Károly Catholic University. One of the distinguished sponsors of the event was HUN-REN SZTAKI. Several departments and research laboratories of HUN-REN SZTAKI were represented at the conference - the Department of Network Security and Internet Technologies, the Department of Distributed Systems, and the Parallel and Distributed Systems Research Laboratory. They delivered presentations and workshops on various topics.

SLICES-SC consortium members gathered with Hungarian stakeholders in Budapest to discuss the working plan for the last period of the EU H2020 project. HUN-REN SZTAKI hosted partners from 10 European countries, working towards reinforcing the international research infrastructure community.

The final accomplishments of the 42-month-long DIGITbrain project were presented during the EC review in Brussels. HUN-REN SZTAKI was among the main contributors who made this project a success that enabled Manufacturing-as-a-Service for several European SMEs.