| WP No | Activity | Start year | Start month | End year | End month | Status |
| WP 1: Project Management | ||||||
| 1.1 | Project kick-off and website development | 2025 | Jan | 2025 | Jun | Completed |
| 1.2 | Partner meeting coordination | 2025 | Jan | 2028 | Dec | Ongoing |
| 1.3 | Project administration and budget management | 2025 | Jan | 2028 | Dec | Ongoing |
| 1.4 | Research ethics and data management | 2025 | Jan | 2028 | Dec | Ongoing |
| WP 2: Student Exchange to USN | ||||||
| 2.1 | 1st round Hosting and supervision of incoming Bachelor students at USN from UTokyo | 2025 | Jan | 2025 | Jun | Completed. 1 bachelor (Yota) and 1 master (Kenta) student from UTokyo was at USN for 3 months in 2025. Additionally, 2 PhD students (Chai and Yuki) were at USN too with other funding. |
| 2.2 | 1st round hosting and supervision of incoming Master students at USN from TAMU | 2025 | Jan | 2025 | Jun | Postponed |
| 2.3 | 2nd round Hosting and supervision of incoming Bachelor students at USN from UTokyo | 2027 | Jan | 2027 | Jun | |
| 2.4 | 2nd round hosting and supervision of incoming Master students at USN from TAMU | 2027 | Jan | 2027 | Jun | |
| 2.5 | Organizing seminar for incoming and local students and faculty members | 2027 | Feb | 2027 | Jun | Completed. 1st seminar was arranged on May 30, 2025. |
| 2.6 | Joint course and digital lecture content development at USN | 2026 | Jan | 2027 | Dec | Started dveloping materials for 7.5 ECTS master level Automated Machine Learning in Shipping course to be offered from Fall 2026 at USN. |
| WP 3: Student Exchange to TAMU | ||||||
| 3.1 | 1st round hosting and supervision of master students from USN | 2026 | Jan | 2026 | Jun | Started. One (1) master student from USN to TAMUG. |
| 3.2 | 2nd round hosting and supervision of bachelor students from USN | 2028 | Jan | 2028 | Jun | |
| 3.3 | Organizing seminar for incoming and local students and faculty members | 2026 | Feb | 2026 | Jun | Planned during May 4-8, 2026. |
| 3.4 | Joint course and digital lecture content development TAMU | 2026 | Jan | 2027 | Dec | Started dveloping support course materials for 7.5 ECTS master level Automated Machine Learning in Shipping course to be offered from Fall 2026 at USN.
Course plan developed for Geospatial Technologis for Maritime sector to be offered at TAMU. |
| WP 4: Student Exchange to UTokyo | ||||||
| 4.1. | 1st round hosting and supervision of master students from USN | 2026 | Jan | 2026 | Jun | Combining 1st and 2nd round hosting, four (4) USN stduents are being hosted at Tokyo from March to May 2026. |
| 4.2 | 2nd round hosting and supervision of master students from USN | 2028 | Jan | 2028 | Jun | Combining 1st and 2nd round hosting, four (4) USN stduents are being hosted at Tokyo from March to May 2026. |
| 4.3 | Organizing seminar for incoming and local students and faculty members | 2028 | Feb | 2028 | Jun | The 1st seminar is planned on March 4th 2026. |
| 4.4 | Joint course and digital lecture content development at UTokyo | 2026 | Jan | 2027 | Dec | Started dveloping support course materials for 7.5 ECTS master level Automated Machine Learning in Shipping course to be offered from Fall 2026 at USN. |
| WP 5: Dissemination of Project Results | ||||||
| 5.1 | Presentation of project results at internal seminars | 2026 | Jan | 2028 | Dec | Japanese students at USN presented their research in May, 2025.
USN students are presenting their research at UTokyo in March 2026. USN faculty memmebrs are presenting their research at TAMG in May 2026. |
| 5.2 | Presentation of project results at external seminars | 2027 | Jan | 2028 | Dec | All project partners presented their research at IAME 2025 conference in Bergen.
USN presented two (2) research at an international conference in China in November 2025. |
| 5.3 | Publication of online lectures and tutorials in open platform | 2026 | Jan | 2028 | Dec | |
Last update February 28, 2025