The transformation projects developed in the context of digital education, sustainable development research and social innovation, and social entrepreneurship have turned the West University of Timişoara (WUT) into an active contributor to the Smart Specialization Strategy at local, regional, and national levels, from its previous status of a passive receiver of policy and R&D strategies. By exploiting open innovation tools integrated into entrepreneurship and aimed at relevant community research, WUT is currently actively involved in the incubation and/or acceleration of more than 200 start-ups, meant to enhance research relevance to actively promote higher technology readiness levels (TRLs) and social acceptance of research results. Building on top of three priority pillars - Digital, Green, and Well-Being, WUT has reconsidered its open innovation strategy and action plan to benefit the community, using a multistakeholder approach. In this context, the Digital & Green Living Lab, with cross-cutting priorities such as entrepreneurship and Culture and Creative Industries, focuses on meaningful transformation projects that contribute to enhanced community well-being. In this direction, important contributions were already achieved toward the digital transformation of educational programs and administrative sectors. Through its sustainable development vision, WUT acts on functional teams working in circular economy consortia, renewable energies, and environmental research.

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If, during a longitudinal flight with constant forward velocity of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), the automatic flight control system (AFCS) fails and the elevator deflection is not in the safe interval, then the flight becomes oscillatory. In this paper, the dependence of the safe interval, the period of oscillations and the ranges of variations of the pitch rate and of the angle of attack on the variation of the forward velocity are investigated numerically, in the context of a fixed value for the elevator deflection and for certain given initial conditions, by using an Scala-based Akka actor system. It is shown numerically that, for increasing values of the forward velocity, the period of oscillations and the crossection of the safe interval are decreasing. The same descending trend can be observed concerning the dependence of the ranges of the angle of attack and pitch rate, when the forward velocity increases.

The purpose of this paper is to offer a novel approach for modelling and simulation of material balances by using workflow technologies. The work in this paper is concentrated around BPMN as a modelling language, sustained by BPEL as an execution language, and different supporting technologies, to complete the tool chain. We are analyzing here the modelling of a simple chemical process, starting from the ideal material balance, as one can deduce from the fundamental laws of conservation, and developing then more complex models, conforming with most of the technological flow specification.

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