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The latest issue of the journal “Biodiversity: Research and Conservation” is devoted entirely to the AMUNATCOLL project. The project “Nature Collections of the Adam Mickiewicz University on the Internet: digitization and making available the resources of biodiversity of the Faculty of Biology at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan”, was implemented in 2018-2021 by a consortium consisting of the Adam Mickiewicz University – Faculty of Biology (project coordinator) and PSNC (technological partner).

The eDWIN advisory platform, whose originator is the Wielkopolska Agricultural Advisory Center in Poznań, has been awarded the Gold Medal of the Poznań International Fair Group. The award is granted to products that are distinguished by innovation based on proprietary solutions.

According to the decision of the Ministry of Education and Science to allocate funds for the task of providing access in 2022 to foreign databases of scientific journals and bibliographic databases with the largest international reach, we would like to inform you that the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center is starting proceedings for the purchase of licenses within the Virtual Library of Science (WBN).

The eDWIN application to assist farmers in their everyday field work is now fully available and free of charge. It may also be used by self-governments, research institutions and virtually anybody. The end of October brought the launch of two last services on the eDWIN platform: Product Traceability and Hazard Reporting.

The Skills4EOSC project (Skills for the European Open Science commons: creating a training ecosystem for Open and FAIR science) will set up a pan-European network of competence centres to speed up the training of European researchers and harmonise the training of new professional figures for scientific data management. This European project, coordinated by GARR and funded under the Horizon Europe framework programme, kicked off in Pisa on 21-22 September 2022.

European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking – EuroHPC JU seated in Luxemburg has selected six sites across the European Union to host and the first EuroHPC quantum computers in Czechia, Germany, Spain, France, Italy and Poland. The objective of EuroQCS (European Quantum Computing and Simulation), total investment of over €100 million, is to deploy quantum computers in the hosting states and integrate them with the existing supercomputers.

“Simple language in public institutions” is a new course in the offer of postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Polish and Classical Philology of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. It was created for people working in the field of public communication, participating as senders or receivers in the circulation of official messages. The partners of the project are the City of Poznan and PSNC.

The EUHubs4Data (The European federation of Data Driven Innovation Hubs) project has launched its third – and final – Open Call, targeting SMEs, startups and online entrepreneurs. The call for applications will run until 9 November 2022.

Collaboration between Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center and the ENEA Group will focus on using innovative digital technologies in the electric power industry. The R&D center and the power industry company have signed a letter of intent to define the nature and direction of activities related to using digital technologies in the electric power industry. Joint projects of ENEA and PSNC will mainly concern research and development works as well as innovative products and services to be offered to ENEA’s customers.

The European mining industry is increasingly seeking solutions to redesign traditional mining processes through the adoption of innovations accompanied by the extensive use of data analytics and new uses of technology, in particular the industrial internet of things. The EU-funded illuMINEation project is building a multi-level, distributed IIoT platform developed by a consortium that includes PSNC.

The Minister of Education and Science has decided on the categorization of national scientific entities. In accordance with the current rules, scientific categories (A+, A, B+, B or C) were granted separately for each discipline concerning the evaluated units. The Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry PAS has been categorized in three disciplines; in the biological sciences, the Institute was awarded the A+ category, while in the chemical sciences and in technical IT and telecommunications, the A category was obtained.

The incident of the unavailability of the Nabór system function concerning the process of checking the allocation results on 20.07.2022 from 10:00-12:30 was the result of the imposition of several technical factors. One of the most important was the implementation of earlier, necessary configuration changes to our systems related to increased cybersecurity procedures.