The innovative results will boost ICT sector by providing further possibilities, and will contribute indirectly to create jobs for young scientists and engineers. The virtual cross-border competence centre will serve the enhancement of education, economy and research. CIRENE consist of 6 activities with tasks of project management, survey of industrial needs, knowledge transfer events, definition of research agenda with specific testing methodology and platform; adaptation of methodology to the specific pilot project; dissemination/publicity of project and results (events/workshops, brochure, articles).Outputs/results are strengthened cooperation, common knowledge, joint research agenda, common testing methodology/platform, technological solution ready for exploitation, results in publications, common research topics.The target groups are university partners, SMEs, local clusters, indirectly end-users, economy actors, public institutions, non-profit organizations. The project will affect relevant R&D/industry communities also on EU and global scale by making breakthrough results publicly available. Achievements: The project aimed to strengthen cross-border cooperation between university research teams, develop a new testing methodology for embedded systems, and to define new, common research topics and suggestions.CIRENE consisted of the following activities: survey of industrial needs; knowledge transfer events definition of research agenda with specific testing methodology and platform adaptation of methodology to the specific pilot project. The project partners organised meetings, held workshops in order to facilitate the exchange of knowledge between the partners, and published two studies. By combining the experiences of the two universities, the partners were able to develop a methodology which is not only helpful in the equipment testing process but can also make the testing truly effcient. To demonstrate their new method they improved the earlier established set-top-box-testing environment with a new function in Serbia. The cross-border scientific team jointly worked on scientific articles and trilingual brochures, investing around the same amount of work and closely collaborating with one another with the partners reviewing, commenting and correcting each other’s work. Following the creation of the general methodologies, the adaptation of them has begun. The cooperation was smooth and the continual exchange of ideas, fine-tuning of methodology and research procedures culminated in the creation of a vibrant cross-border scientific network.