On Friday, 22 September 2023. SCL’s I. Franović visited the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts for the kick-off meeting of the ANSO project „Estimation, Control and Optimization of Networked Coupled Dynamical Systems“. The project is led by the President of the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Prof. Ljupčo Kocarev, and is aimed at fostering collaboration between the scholars from China and Europe within the fields of Nonlinear and Network Sciences.