Project Timeline
From kick-off in July 2023 to the planned conclusion in June 2026 — milestones, deliverables, conferences and publications on the way.
COSA project officially begins. Contractual M1. Effective work and team build-up ramps up over the following months as recruiting and onboarding are completed.
WP1 MilestoneThe team is in place and starts generating the first project outputs — research papers and dissemination activities. D5.1 — the COSA project website goes live with quarterly updates.
D5.1 WP5 First resultsThe team wraps up the first half-year of activity with an internal progress meeting. Early results, lessons learned and next-step planning for the second half of the project.
WP1 Team meetingFirst COSA publications reported (HAIS 2023, EJOR Q1 survey on GTSP, CIE 50). Foundation of the routing and optimization research line.
×4 Publications WP3D2.1 — COSA concept delivered. Requirements, state of the art, use cases and overall architecture finalized.
D2.1 WP2D1.1 — first periodic project report delivered to the funding authority. D1.4 — data management strategy.
D1.1 · D1.4 WP115 COSA papers presented at SOCO 2024 — covering disease classification (TPC Net), routing (CVRP for agricultural products), smart specialization (Markov chains), bonitation (Embedding GIS) and more.
×15 Publications ConferenceWP4 starts. Use case implementation kicks off — Use Case 1 (Crop Yield & Land Bonitation), Use Case 2 (Aerial Monitoring), Use Case 3 (Local Producer Marketplace).
WP4 MilestoneD3.1 — Agriculture 4.0 infrastructure (hexagonal Edge–Fog–Cloud architecture) completed. Periodic Project Report #2 (D1.2).
D3.1 · D1.2 WP3COSA paper on "Enhanced Hybrid Machine Learning Model for Plant Disease Detection" presented at HAIS 2025 — Măcelaru, Pop, Chiuzbăian, Kovacs.
×1 Publication ConferenceCOSA reaches a major scientific milestone — six Q1 publications spanning routing (EJOR), bonitation (Agriculture), cybersecurity (Agriculture, Sensors), data privacy (Mathematics) and crop recommendation (Agriculture). Research Spotlight series 1/6 — 6/6.
×6 Q1 Publications HighlightThree COSA platforms launched: the Land Bonitation GIS application, the AEGIS Smart Specialization dashboard and the Local Producer Marketplace.
PlatformsD3.2 — Distributed Data Analysis and Translation to Knowledge framework completed. Federated Learning methodologies for Fog devices.
D3.2 WP3COSA presented at the National Research Gala — showcasing scientific impact and the three public platforms.
Public EventD4.1 — final COSA verification and validation report. D1.3 — final periodic project report. Recommendations for the post-project period and future work.
D4.1 · D1.3 WP1 · WP4