The First GAMMA training meeting took place virtually in Microsoft Teams on February 1-3, 2021.

The meeting was organized by the Faculty of Education of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, in The Netherlands. Forty-one participants from the four partner countries attended the meeting. In the GAMMA project we aim to develop teacher competencies in Game-Based Learning (GBL) and encourage teachers to apply digital technologies in their practice. The first GAMMA training contributes to these aims by offering a varied program of training activities about GBL. In total there were three plenary sessions, two workshops, four working sessions and three discussion group sessions. The plenary sessions included a lecture about the Dutch educational system and a lecture about GBL applied to mathematics education. The first workshop was about Reflecting on Games, in which the participants explored and evaluated several educational digital games along various theoretical dimensions. The second workshop was called Card Game Prototyping, about educational card games, tools for prototyping card games, and using cards as a method for exploring the design of (educational) games. One of the working sessions regarded the Handbook for teachers, in which participants exchanged ideas about its content, examples and layout. Another working session was about the teaching scenarios and the mathematical topics to be included. Each meeting day was closed with a discussion group session led by one of the university partners. During the meeting we worked towards the intellectual outputs of the project. At the end of the meeting we had compiled a collection of mathematical topics for the teaching scenario's, an initial table of contents and a production plan for the Handbook for teachers, and a final draft of the questionnaire for teachers and students.

First Transnational Project Meeting within project GAMMA was held on the 19th and 20th of November 2020. The organizer of this virtually held meeting was J. J. Strossmayer University of Osijek – Department of Mathematics, which is also the coordinator of this project.The meeting was attended by members of the team of the Department of Mathematics and team members responsible for coordination and organization of project activities from other partner organizations.

Workshop on Optimal Control of Dynamical Systems and applications will be held on 5 and 6 November 2020 at Department of Mathematics, J. J. Strossmayer University of Osijek.

The goal of this workshop is to provide a coherent set of lectures that will adequately clarify the mathematical aspects of the (optimal) control of dynamical systems, with special emphasis on optimization and model reduction methods for large-scale systems.

Invited lecturers are Zlatko Drmač, Luka Grubišić, Ivica Nakić and Josip Tambača from Department of Mathematics, University of Zagreb, Tobias Breiten, Technische Universität Berlin, Institut für Mathematik, Germany, Serkan Gugercin, Virginia Tech, USA, Ren-Cang Li, University of Texas at Arlington, USA, Ivan Slapničar, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Split and Domagoj Tolić, RIT Croatia, Dubrovnik.

This workshop is organized within project Vibration Reduction in Mechanical Systems (VIMS) founded by Croatian Science Foundation.

The organizing committee members are Serkan Gugercin, Ivana Kuzmanović Ivičić, Suzana Miodragović, Marinela Pilj Vidaković, Zoran Tomljanović and Matea Ugrica.

Workshop is supported by Department of Mathematics , J. J. Strossmayer University of Osijek and Croatian Science Foundation.

More information can be found on the workshop website.