Inicjatywa EuroHPC JU

It was established to sustain the dynamic development of Europe’s existing high-performance computing infrastructure and thereby provide European researchers with computing power comparable to that available in the United States, China, and Japan. The EuroHPC JU brings together 33 countries, including Poland, which joined the initiative in 2018.

The initiative enables the European Union and participating countries to coordinate their efforts and pool their resources to make Europe a global leader in supercomputing. It fosters scientific excellence and industrial strength in Europe, supports the digital transformation of the economy, and ensures its technological sovereignty. Together with the PRACE initiative and the GÉANT program, it provides users from academia, research institutes, industry, small and medium-sized enterprises, and the public sector with access to supercomputers and the applications that run on them.

 Activities under the EuroHPC JU are jointly funded by the consortium members, and its budget for 2021–2027 is approximately €7 billion. Most of these funds come from the current long-term EU budget. It provides financial support in the form of public procurement or grants for research and innovation to participants through open calls for proposals.

As part of the initiative, projects such as EuroHPC PL have been completed, and work is currently underway on the EuroCC2 project. Regular calls for proposals for access to computing infrastructure are also being held.