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WORKSHOPS

DIH 4 Society Workshop is a dedicated workshop for SMEs, especially from the North West region, offering access to services that support learning, innovation, and digital transformation.

 

Speaker: TBD

 

28 May 10:00 TBD Registration

The AI Discovery Workshop is a hands-on program for Social SMEs, focused on leveraging AI to support digital transformation. Participants will learn about practical AI tools, real-world use cases, and strategies to integrate AI into daily operations and social impact projects.


Speaker: Radu Orghidan, Strategy & Innovation, CoRAI Labs

 

28 May 14:00 TBD

TESTATHON

The Skillab Testathon and Innovation Challenge: Community Event 

 

Track 1: Testathon

During the Testathon, participants will be given access to initial released integrated open source SKILLAB platform code, and to the cloud-based testing environment and tools (including GitHub repo, Jenkins, etc.), along with accounts to access them. 

The SKILLAB support team will provide training and support documentation on the SKILLAB platform to be tested and on the use of the testing environment and tools. They will further provide detailed guidelines on the process, the Testathon objectives, expected outcomes/deliverables and winning criteria. They will be remotely available to mentor and provide guidance to the registered Testathon participants throughout the entire Testathon duration. 

Participants will define test cases and implement testing pipelines, using the testing environment and tools, which may involve multiple test scenarios for the provided SKILLAB platform functionalities and features. Among the (automated) testing types to be performed during the Testathon, the following, as a non-exhaustive list, will be targeted at:   

  • UI Testing
  • Integration Testing 
  • Functional Testing 
  • Performance/Accuracy Testing 
  • Data Integrity Testing 
  • Deployment Testing 
  • Security Testing 

After the participating individuals or teams complete all testing activities in the 1 month given timeframe, they are expected to write and submit a testing report, reporting valid discovered issues and including details on the testing processes adopted, the type of bugs/issues discovered, the steps that led to each discovered bug/issue, screenshots of each encountered bug/issue.  

The complete report will need to be submitted until the end of the Testathon to the SKILLAB project evaluation committee. 

Track 2: Innovation Challenge

The Innovation Challenge is designed to allow participants to explore and express their research ideas. The SKILLAB team will provide a large sample dataset and will pose a single research challenge. The objective: to explore and express their research ideas or approaches to find innovative solutions to the posed challenge. The goal is to provide tangible answers on a question pertaining to labour market analytics.  

Imagine that you are a labour market analyst working tirelessly on understanding the dynamics of skills, occupations and trends. Through several fortunate circumstances you are granted access to a large dataset, containing millions of job advertisements from various sources across the European Union. You also have access to millions of LinkedIn user profiles, also across the European Union. You are aware of the problems that the labour market faces i.e. widening skill gaps, dying skills, ineffective training programmes and you want to do something about it. Now is your chance to RESEARCH and INNOVATE!

We seek teams that will think out-of-the-box, and using the provided data, produce solutions that target the following desired outcomes:

  1. Skill demand and supply gap measurement
  2. “Hot” skills or skillsets prediction
  3. Optimal candidate detection
  4. Don’t limit yourselves: Anything innovative can be submitted!

The SKILLAB team will provide the participating teams with instructions on how to use the SKILLAB tracker for data extraction as well as with indicative code from the SKILLAB services. The teams will have the freedom to explore any methodology the deem suitable for the posed challenge.

Their submissions should include the code, results and justification as well as adequate references and relevant work, wrapped in a complete report. 

 Jury members and mentors: 

  1. Álvarez-Terribas Francisco ,Telefónica (ES)
  2. Dr. Ampatzoglou Apostolos, University of Macedonia (GR)
  3. Creț Tudor, Life is Hard (RO)
  4. Georgiou Konstantinos, Aristotle University (GR)
  5. Dr. Jahn Marco, Eclipse Foundation (DE)
  6. Dr. Lefteris Angelis, Aristotle University (GR) 
  7. Dr. Mittas Nikolaos, Democritus University of Thrace (GR)
  8. Pavel Cristian Gabriel, Alfa Software (RO)
  9. Dr. Stamelos Ioannis, Aristotel University (GR)
  10. Dr. Tsekeridou Sofia, Netcompany BELUX (GR)
  11. Dr. Tsoukalas Dimitrios, CERTH (GR)
28 May 14:00 TBD Registration

TRAINING

Operating Open-Source Software is a training session for students and academics, focusing on practical skills for using, managing, and understanding open-source software in academic and research environments.

Trainers:

  1. Ivar Grimstad, Eclipse Foundation (DE)
  2. Rosaria Rosini, Eclipse Foundation (DE)
  3. Konstantinos Georgiou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (GR)
28 May 10:00 TBD

29 May, 2026

Welcome coffee

09:30 – 10:00

Welcome Note and Opening

10:00