General Assembly #4
The fourth General Assembly took place on 7–8 May 2025 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, hosted by our partner, the University of Ljubljana (UL).
The first day focused on the progress of Work Package 2 (WP2): Physics- and Data-Based Models and BMS Software, with a special emphasis on the physics-based modeling work led by the University of Ljubljana. The agenda also included an in-depth discussion on the next steps for integrating software and cloud development with the hardware—an essential focus during this critical phase of WP2. The discussion led to concrete actions and planning for the remaining 18 months of the project.
On the second day, attention shifted to the other work packages. Presentations on the hardware development and testing setups offered a promising preview of the next project stages. The day concluded with a cluster workshop held in collaboration with the sister project InnoBMS (detailed below).
Cluster Workshop with InnoBMS
On Thursday, 8 May 2025, the NEXTBMS consortium joined the InnoBMS consortium for the second cluster workshop. Sharing some of the same partners, the workshop was a great opportunity to align the projects. Whereas the first workshop was dedicated to explore the synergies between the two projects, the second workshop was more a hand on workshop in which the two consortia where split up in three working groups to discuss the following: How to define the technical and common challenges between the two projects and how to implement this in future steps of exchange of experience, knowledge, data, etc.
After an hour debating on defining challenges the two project have in common, the three groups came together to discuss the conclusions of the three groups. Very interesting is that all three groups discussed the main question from a total different angle. The first group really looked at common technical challenges related data acquisition and how to overcome this, to the transfer of data between the two projects and very important making compatible the software interactions and interphases. In the last a concrete action was filtered to continue the InnoBMS-NEXTBMS collaboration through a online workshop. The second group took another approach and formulated the technical challenges per project and how to overcome these in the future. Interesting about this approach was to see the similarities but also differences between the project (same physics-based models for example but in lower/higher level of application and hence with its own challenges). The third group took a more organizational approach and discussed the challenges of how exchanging data, using different OS/interoperability systems and integration of different applications.
