The purpose of this project is to train and educate both students and engineers in industry how to use and implement modern control strategies in order to improve energy efficiency, as well as reduce greenhouse gas effect (long life learning). Therefore, during 18 months, the Center of Excellence for Advanced and Intelligent Control would be established as an official premise for such training and education. This is primarily intended to influence the cross-border region, but due to the lack of such center in east Europe region, its sustainability is reflected in expansion to the whole Eastern Europe as an official training center for such control strategies, as well as using it as training center for all future generations of students and engineers in cross-border region. This center would consist of two physically separated laboratories which would cooperate synchronously. One laboratory would be situated in Novi Sad and the other one in Szeged. Both project partners are experts in their own fields of interests, Novi Sad in Control Systems and Szeged in Artificial Intelligence, Fuzzy Logics and Optimization Methods. In order to establish such a center two partners should work in cohesion jointly developing and implementing control strategies. Joint financing is necessary both for equipment and staff purposes in order to provide staff exchange (joint staffing) for implementing the control algorithms, as well as student exchange for the purpose of transferring technical knowhow from one partner to the other. Bilingualism is supported throughout the entire project through workshops for students. Also courses in mother tongue are planned in both countries and in this way ethnic minorities are taken into account. Joint MSc, BSc and PhD courses would be developed together with one specialist studies programme accredited. Huge cross-border impact on the whole community dependable of industry in cross-border region is expected. Achievements: The purpose of this project was to train and educate both industry students and engineers in how to use and implement advanced and intelligent control strategies in order to improve energy eficiency and reduce the greenhouse gas effect. Coping with and responding to modern control demands is essential for successful control of a variety of complex industrial and other processes (in home, car etc.) and reduction of energy consumption and loss. Both project partners are experts in their own fields of interests, Novi Sad in Control Systems and Szeged in Artificial Intelligence, Fuzzy Logic and Optimisation Methods. They recognised that, due to their narrow specialisations, cooperation and aggregation of knowledge is essential for success. So they established the joint Centre of Excellence for Advanced and Intelligent Control, which consists of two physically separate laboratories that cooperate synchronously, one in Novi Sad and the other in Szeged. As part of the project, they equipped these laboratories and organised trainings about PLCs, PACs and LabView, different PID control strategies, sound measurement and analysis, expert system for vibration analysis, sbRIO FPGA and real-time communication. Future engineers, students, industry experts attended workshops about achieved results in the field of PLC and FPGA applications, optimisation in engineering, testing of distributed algorithms for search in indoor environments, real-time analysis of mechanical and electrical resonances, performance estimation of kayak paddlers based on fluctuation analysis, the speci