WSN Award. An award schema has been established in 2009 to recognize significant achievements of students and young researchers in the wireless sensor networking research field in the WBC region. Projects submitted by students (undergraduate and PhD) from any WBC based organization have been submitted. The competition has been organized during the senZations’09 summer school on WSN . The representative of the ProSense project have evaluated all submissions and have selected the winners based on the novelty of the work, the technical depth and the presentation style.

The call for proposals has been distributed to common mailing lists with the call for participation of the workshop. The members of the ProSense have been incited to contribute and to disseminate the call for proposals. Based on this CFP, eight applications from five countries (Greece, Germany, Spain, FYRoMacedonia, and Italy) have been received. Two kinds of submissions have been received: research papers and demonstrations of applications.

A special session during the summer school on Applications of WSN senZations’09 has been organized during which all submitted papers have been presented by the authors. The review board consisted of the senior members of the PROSENSE project (Prof. Gavrilovska, Prof. Simplot-Ryl and Dr. Srdjan Krco) and invited speakers (Dr. Antonio Ruzelli and Dr. Konrad Wrona). Beside the reviewers, all summer school participants attended the session as well. Based on the submissions and the presentations given by the authors, the review board have selected the winners in two categories: for the research paper and for the demo presentation. The winners will be invited to the summer school senZations in 2010.

 The winners of the competition are:

• Dimitra Patroumpa in the best research paper category with the paper: Biased Sink Mobility with Adaptive Stop Times for Low Latency Data Collection in Sensor Networks.

• Bisera Jankuloska and Milan Zahariev in the best demo category with the Smart Road Monitoring application.

The competitions and the presentations were well accepted and appreciated by all participants of the summer school. It has proved to be rather difficult to get more submissions, in particular from the WBC region, mainly due to a relatively small number of research groups in the region working in this domain.

It is planned to engage local governments to get support for establishment of these awards as a long term activity.

Joint PhD studies. The goal of this task is to enhance research collaboration between project partners, particularly between the WBC and the EU centres. A shared student supervision is envisaged as well as undertaking of research tasks and assignments in research organizations involved. It is planned to include at least 3 PhD students into the programme during the project. The collaboration agreements will stay in place after the end of the project.