Activities
Training42phase: Consortium Meeting
The project consortium met for a full day of meetings – scientific advisory board meeting, project consortium meeting, and supervisory board meeting – on 28 November 2025 at CentraleSupelec in Paris, France.
Each doctoral candidate presented their overall progress, upcoming plans, and areas of collaboration.
The Scientific Advisory Board, whose role is to keep a critical eye on all project activities, continues to see Training42phase as a highly relevant project.
Training School 3: Integrating AI into Engineering Systems using MATLAB and Simulink
On 24 - 28 Nov. 2025, the doctoral candidates attended two different courses at CentraleSupelec in Paris, France.
Course 1: “Integrating AI into Engineering Systems using MATLAB and Simulink.”
- The doctoral candidates gained hands-on exposure to using MATLAB and Simulink as tools to implement machine learning techniques into engineering systems.
- They obtained deeper insights into MATLAB–Python integration, enabling more flexible workflows that combine the strengths of both environments.
- They learned how to prepare and preprocess engineering data, train machine learning models, and validate their performance within MATLAB before integrating them into Simulink models.
- They explored and saw a demonstration of how to deploy and test AI-enabled control and monitoring algorithms in simulation, supporting rapid prototyping and verification of intelligent engineering systems.
Course 2: Academic Writing
- The doctoral candidates gained insights into the methods of academic writing and common pitfalls
- They practiced techniques for improving clarity, coherence, and academic tone, with a focus on precise language, logical flow of arguments, and proper use of citations and references.
DC meeting at PoliMi
A hybrid-format DC meeting was held at PoliMi on 3 September 2025. During the meeting, each DC presented an update on their current research progress and discussed anticipated outcomes. The group also reviewed upcoming steps, including planned publications, potential collaborations, and scheduled secondments.
Training school 4: Data-driven approaches to uncertain optimization and decision-making
On September 1-5, 2025, the DC's attended the PhD course at the Politecnico di Milano, Italy, which introduced the students to data-driven approaches and showed them how to represent a viable solution methodology in a variety of optimization problems involving uncertainty.
Training School 2
On June 3-4, 2025, the DC's attended the second Training42Phase Training School at Danfoss. During the modelling of two-phase flows with a strong focus on industrial applications was explored. The lectures offered in-depth insights into advanced thermodynamic modelling, the use of working fluids in refrigeration systems, and Danfoss’s experimental approach to system design and validation.
Training School 1
On April 26-28, 2025, the DCs attended the first Training42Phase Training School at DTU. Focusing on soft skills, the program covered communication skills, SoMe, research ethics, diversity, research data management and Open Science. The first bricks were laid for truly great research projects.
Midterm Meeting at DTU
A successful midterm meeting was held on April 24-25, 2025, with a meet-and-greet with the doctoral candidates, partners, and associated partners. The two days included interesting presentations from project participants as well as discussions, and important info on good practice in MSCA-doctoral network projects was shared by the EU Project Officer Nina Poumpolova.
