Our ambitious training program was completed successfully. During Reporting Period (RP) 2, we organized one School and three Workshops; all these were in-person meetings with a remote option offered. Across the entire project, we organized three Schools and seven Workshops. These events equipped SWATNet students both with essential scientific background and a broad set of transferable skills (e.g. communication, project management, and business skills) relevant to both academic and non-academic careers. These training activities consisted of lectures and hands-on exercises kept by the supervisors, our industrial or academic partners and external invited speakers. Feedback from students was collected after each training activity.
A key component of the SWATNet included also a one-month practical training at the Gyula Bay Zoltán Solar Observatory in south-east Hungary and 2–3 month industrial secondments. Most of the observatory trainings were completed during the RP1 (eight ESRs), while the remaining (four) ESRs carried out theirs during RP2. Planning and scheduling of the industrial secondments began during the RP1, and all ESRs successfully completed them during RP2.
We organized several meetings during the project. During RP2 we held three Annual Meetings and the Final Conference. The Final Conference was a week-long event in Helsinki, open to the broader scientific community, educators, and policy makers. In addition, in RP2 we organised 19 Supervisory Board meetings, 2 Dissemination Committee meetings, and 5 Project Management meetings. The whole project combined, we organized in total two kick-off meetings, four Annual Meetings, 34 Supervisory Board meetings, 6 Dissemination Committee meetings, 12 Project Management meetings and 2 ESR Committee meetings.
SWATNet had particularly extensive outreach and dissemination activities. During RP2 we published two e-Newsletters, wrote 23 blog posts, organized panel discussion at the European Space Weather Week (ESWW) 2023 and SWATNet Open day at ESWW 2024, participated in EU Researchers' Night 2024, and held several local events. An important project wide activity was also participation to Horizon Results Booster (HRB), which started during RP1 and was expanded during RP2 by e.g. completing our dissemination portfolios. Through RP2 we continued active dissemination of the project results via social media and our webpage, including images, movies, and info graphics prepared for the Final Meeting. Our ESRs have presented their works actively in scientific conferences, totalling to over 90 presentations.
The project resulted in significant scientific contributions. RP2 was marked by increasing focus on research with a number of scientific publications published or submitted. In total our ESRs led 24 peer-reviewed publications (published or submitted).
