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Summary

Profile Type
  • Research & Development Request
POD Reference
RDRSK20250110039
Term of Validity
10 January 2025 - 10 January 2026
Company's Country
  • Slovakia
Type of partnership
  • Research and development cooperation agreement
Targeted Countries
  • Belgium
  • Croatia
  • Czechia
  • Estonia
  • Lithuania
  • Latvia
  • Poland
  • Germany
  • Austria
  • Spain
  • Italy
  • Sweden
  • Finland
  • Luxembourg
  • Netherlands
  • France
  • Greece
  • Hungary
  • Denmark
  • Ireland
  • Cyprus
  • Malta
  • Portugal
  • Slovenia
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General information

Short Summary
Slovak university is searching for established strategic partner that has developed an outstanding reputation in research and innovation excellence in the HPC and AI domain for joint project proposal within Horizon Europe - Widera - Teaming for Excellence call for proposal
Full Description
The objective of the project is to establish a state-of-the-art research and innovation institute for leveraging High-Performance Computing (HPC) to advance AI research, applications, and industrial ecosystems in Slovakia. The project will support effective use of existing infrastructure, introduce energy-efficient systems, and foster international collaboration to strengthen Slovakia’s position in the global AI-HPC ecosystem. This project should bring Slovakia on HPC map in Europe and worldwide.

Project Goals

1. Upgrade Slovakia’s HPC infrastructure for AI applications with cutting-edge GPU clusters and energy-efficient technologies.
2. Transfer best practices from international partners to optimize HPC systems for AI research and industrial applications.
3. Foster innovation across sectors (engineering, bioinformatics, medicine, materials science) by providing accessible HPC resources.
4. Support Slovak researchers in large-scale neural model development and high-impact publications.
5. Train the next generation of AI and HPC specialists while enabling user-friendly interfaces for AI developers, researchers, and startups.
Sustainable Development Goals
  • Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Production
  • Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

Partner Sought

Expected Role of a Partner
The partner will share its experience and best practice, be a role model for Slovak University in building the centre of excellence, train the staff, involve in networking, etc.
Type and Size of Partner
  • R&D Institution
Type of partnership
  • Research and development cooperation agreement

Call details

Framework program
  • Horizon Europe
Call title and identifier
HORIZON-WIDERA-2025-ACCESS-01-01-two-stage
Anticipated project budget
EUR 15 mil
Coordinator required
No
Deadline for EoI
Deadline of the call
Web link to the call
https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportuni…
Project title and acronym
Slovak HPC Institute for AI (HPC4AI)

Dissemination

Market keywords
  • 02001002 - Scientific computers
  • 02006005 - Big data management
  • 02006008 - Data storage
  • 02006004 - Data processing, analysis and input services
  • 02007005 - Communications/networking
Targeted countries
  • Belgium
  • Croatia
  • Czechia
  • Estonia
  • Lithuania
  • Latvia
  • Poland
  • Germany
  • Austria
  • Spain
  • Italy
  • Sweden
  • Finland
  • Luxembourg
  • Netherlands
  • France
  • Greece
  • Hungary
  • Denmark
  • Ireland
  • Cyprus
  • Malta
  • Portugal
  • Slovenia