August 1st ‐ 4th, 2022

Meetings Locations: Rooms AR‐M0210 & AR‐M0215, Campus Adolf‐Reichwein‐Straße (AR)

Address: Adolf‐Reichwein‐Straße 2, 57076 Siegen, Germany

The 2nd Management and Project Progress Meeting and Staff Training and Mobility of IoTRAIN project will take place at the University of Siegen, in Siegen, Germany, from August 1st to 4th, 2022 which is project month 21st. The workpackage leaders in this 4-day meeting firstly will overview the current status of all the project workpackages and corresponding deliverables based on the planned tasks/activities in the project description versus achievements. Further, the open points, issues, missing contributions and possible solutions will be discussed within the project consortium and the workpackage leader will consider the feedback and re-plan the remained activities if it is required. The plan for the upcoming deliverables will be presented to the partner consortium.

The next focus of this meeting which is led by the leader of workpackage 2 (development), Dr. Grigore Stamatescu from the University Politehnica Bucharest, Romania, is following up on the course content development in the course development hackathon (D2.1) from the previous consortium meeting in Bucharest, Romania, and staff training in the framework of exchanging ideas and good practices specifically on the existing course modules at each partner university and industrial side to educate and harmonize the partnerships in teaching quality. The partners will bring their content respective to the course syllabi that were finalized in the D1.5 Course Development Plan and will discuss them by reviewing the chapters and existing slides in the sessions that each are allocated to a technical class, i.e., Computer Networks & Protocols (CNET) and Communication Systems (COMM), Software Engineering (SWENG), IoT Platforms & Architectures (IOTA), Cyber-physical and industrial Systems (CPIS), System and Network Security (SNSEC), Application of IoT (AIOT), Intelligent and Data-driven Systems (IDDS), Project/Internship, Seminar, Thesis (PRJ) and Management (MGM). By this meeting, it is expected to reach the final version of the courses (D2.2) in the next months which will then to be used at the summer schools in Iran and Iraq.

Also, the list of equipment will be finalized during this meeting which then later will be used for the tendering the technical and financial points of the project progress report will be discussed.

The coordinating team at the chair for embedded systems at the University of Siegen, including Prof. Roman Obermaisser, Dr. Ali Behravan, and Dr. Hamidreza Ahmadian, is responsible for the organization of this meeting and has organized an industrial visit on the last day of the meeting from SUMMIT (https://www.summit-siegen.de/), SDFS Siegen (https://demofabrik-siegen.de/), PROTECH, and Innofarming.