On 27\u201328 November 2025, Universit\u00e9 Lumi\u00e8re Lyon 2 hosted the 5th Transnational Project Meeting of the SOHO project at IUT Lumi\u00e8re (Campus Porte des Alpes, Bron). The meeting gathered 22 academic staff members from the partner universities in Bangladesh, Vietnam, Malaysia, Romania, Italy and France.<\/p>\n
The first day was devoted to project working sessions: each partner presented the progress of its work package and the status of the SOHO modules \u2013 Smart Transportation (Malaysia), Smart Renewable Energy (Italy), Smart Sustainable Accommodation (Romania), the Smart Tourism Knowledge & Competence Center project (Bangladesh) and the integration roadmap of the University of Da Nang (Vietnam) \u2013 followed by discussions on pedagogical harmonisation and adaptation of the content to students, professionals and decision makers.<\/p>\n
The second day opened the project to external perspectives, with invited talks by ONLYLYON Tourisme & Congr\u00e8s on Lyon’s sustainable tourism strategy, by AF3V on cycle tourism and bike\u2013train intermodality, and by Universit\u00e9 Lumi\u00e8re Lyon 2 on its tourism programmes. The consortium then set the next steps: the training sessions at Politecnico di Milano, the preparation of WP5 and the last project meeting and closing conference.<\/p>\n