FCIM DISA at West Attica University Athens, Greece

During the period 16-20 June 2025, Assoc. Prof., PhD, Head of ISA Department Ion FIODOROV, Assoc. Prof., PhD Irina Cojuhari together with PhD students Nadejda PALAMARCIUC and Maria ROTARU paid a visit to West Attica University in Athens, Greece, where they participated in the first edition of the Educational Erasmus+/ICM Week for PhD Students and Supervisors, organized in the context of the Erasmus+ International Mobility Program. The program included teaching and training activities, as well as an interdisciplinary teaching laboratory “Designing the Future of Learning” supervised by Prof. Theodoros Xanthos, Vice Rector for International Relations.

In accordance with the program, co-teaching and research activities were carried out, the subject of discussions being the impact of research, collaborative, innovative and reflective practices, aiming at personal, professional and academic development.

During the teaching activities, PhD student Maria ROTARU presented the topic entitled “Monte Carlo Modeling in Network Reliability Analysis”, offering a perspective on the applicability of this technique in the field of network engineering. Also, PhD student Nadejda PALAMARCIUC gave a lecture addressed to the students of the host university, in which she highlighted the differences between the methods of minimizing logical functions: the Quine method and the Quine-McCluskey method.

Professor Ion FIODOROV taught the lesson on the topic “Mathematical Modeling of Systems and Processes. Stability of Automatic Systems”, completing it with an ad-hoc presentation on the topic “Hamming Coding”, and Associate Professor Irina COJUHARI gave a lecture dedicated to the topic “Stack Memory Automata”, offering students an introduction to the fundamental concepts of this field.

An interdisciplinary educational workshop entitled “Interdisciplinary Teaching Lab: Designing the Future of Learning” took place during the mobility. The activity brought together doctoral students and academics from four countries: the Republic of Moldova, Georgia, Armenia and Ukraine, creating four multinational teams in which each country was represented.

The main objective of this workshop was to engage participants in a collaborative, interdisciplinary educational challenge that would integrate innovation, technology and sustainability in the design of university courses of the future, emphasizing cultural and academic diversity. Participants, in teams, discussed their vision of education in 2050, with a focus on the role of technology, AI and international collaboration. As a result, each team co-designed an interdisciplinary university mini-course, including: “Data science for a sustainable society”, “IT approaches to the real life” and “Sustainability of the process from crop to fork”.

This mobility proved to be particularly valuable for the teaching staff and researchers of the Faculty of Computers, Informatics and Microelectronics, offering them the opportunity to familiarize themselves with the organization of doctoral studies at UniWA University, the existing challenges, as well as the good practices implemented. At the same time, the participants had the opportunity to share their own academic and research experience. This collaboration promises important results in the field of education and research and creates new opportunities for academic exchanges, research and innovation for UTM students and professors.