The kick-off meeting of the consortium for the project “Twinning for Excellence in Adaptive Edge AI,” abbreviated as AIDA4Edge, was held at the Faculty of Electronic Engineering in Niš on October 28-29, 2024. This project is funded under the HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-ACCESS-02 call by the European Research Executive Agency (REA), under the auspices of the European Commission.

The consortium consists of the Faculty of Electronic Engineering in Niš as the project coordinator, the Institute for High-Performance Microelectronics (IHP) from Frankfurt (Oder), Germany, the University of Ferrara, Italy, and the University of Manchester, United Kingdom.

The meeting was opened by Prof. Dr. Jelena Nikolić, who welcomed the participants on behalf of the consortium. Following her introduction, Prof. Dr. Vladimir Ćirić, Dean of the Faculty of Electronic Engineering in Niš, expressed his pleasure that the faculty is leading this project and extended a warm welcome, wishing for successful collaboration. Representatives from the foreign partner institutions, who had traveled to Niš for the meeting, also addressed the attendees. Finally, Ms. Raquel Fernandez Orkajada, representing the project’s funding agency, addressed the participants via video link.

The working sessions of the meeting, held on the same day and the following day, focused on important topics related to the project’s implementation. This project will enable collaboration with researchers from leading institutions, the exchange of knowledge and expertise, and the creation of conditions to strengthen the capacity of the team at the Faculty of Electronic Engineering in Niš in the development and implementation of artificial intelligence algorithms for edge devices with limited resources in terms of memory and processing power.