{"id":19335,"date":"2025-10-15T14:43:34","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T12:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sling.si\/uncategorized\/ncc-montenegro-and-ncc-sling-workshop-on-ai-solutions-for-smes\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T14:45:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T12:45:18","slug":"ncc-montenegro-and-ncc-sling-workshop-on-ai-solutions-for-smes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sling.si\/en\/news\/ncc-montenegro-and-ncc-sling-workshop-on-ai-solutions-for-smes\/","title":{"rendered":"NCC Montenegro and NCC SLING: Workshop on AI Solutions for SMEs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On<strong> 7 October 2025,<\/strong> the <strong>National Competence Centre Montenegro<\/strong>, in collaboration with the National Competence Centre SLING, represented by <strong>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arctur.si\/\" title=\"\">Arctur<\/a>\n<\/strong>, organised a workshop titled AI Solutions from<em> Innovative SMEs: Practical Examples and Lessons Learned<\/em> at the University of Donja Gorica in Podgorica. The event focused on the opportunities offered by <g id=\"gid_6\">HPC<\/g> and <g id=\"gid_7\">artificial intelligence<\/g> technologies for businesses and on sharing <g id=\"gid_8\">best practices from the industry.<\/g> About 25 experts and company representatives active in the fields of AI and HPC attended the workshop.  <\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Tomi Ilija\u0161<\/strong>, CEO of <strong>Arctur,<\/strong> presented new opportunities that high-performance computing (HPC) offers to small and medium-sized enterprises. He highlighted successful projects, including CLASSICA and LLMs4EU, which use supercomputers and AI to enable advanced analysis and faster workflows. The LLMs4EU project promotes the development of intelligent solutions for the tourism sector, while CLASSICA applies AI technology to assist with tissue classification in operating rooms.  <\/p>\n\n<p>In the second part of the event, representatives of <strong>NCC Montenegro<\/strong> and <strong>NCC Slovenia <\/strong>presented the upcoming <strong>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ffplus-project.eu\/\" title=\"\">FFplus \u2013 Innovative Studies for SMEs call<\/a>\n<\/strong>, which will open in December 2025. The call will support <strong>European SMEs<\/strong> and <strong>start-ups <\/strong>developing generative AI solutions that lack sufficient computational resources to scale up their activities. <\/p>\n\n<p>The event concluded with a discussion and exchange of experiences among participants, who highlighted the importance of cooperation with National Competence Centres.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-16018d1d wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/eurocc.udg.edu.me\/2025\/10\/09\/hpc-training-ai-solutions-from-innovative-smes-practical-examples-and-lessons-learned\/\" style=\"border-radius:30px\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read the full article<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20width%3D%224%22%20height%3D%223%22%20xmlns%3D%22http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%204%203%22%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" alt class=\"fy-content-image fy-lazy js-lazy wp-image-19324\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.sling.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/aiws5-768x576-1.png\"><div class=\"fy-image-loading fy-image-loading--spinner\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/div><\/figure>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Photo: Tomi Ilja\u0161, Arctur, source: eurocc.udg.edu.me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 7 October 2025, the National Competence Centre Montenegro, in collaboration with the National Competence Centre SLING, represented by Arctur , organised a workshop titled AI Solutions from Innovative SMEs: &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":15525,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[210],"tags":[339,775,286,338,304],"class_list":["post-19335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-arctur-en","tag-classica-en","tag-hpc-en","tag-ncc-en","tag-supercomputing"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sling.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sling.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sling.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sling.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sling.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19335"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sling.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19338,"href":"https:\/\/www.sling.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19335\/revisions\/19338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sling.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sling.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sling.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sling.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}