Specific Objective 1

High Performance Computing

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Under Specific Objective 1 – High-Performance Computing (HPC) Digital Europe aims to strengthen the EU’s supercomputing and data processing capacities.

Actions under this Specific Objective are mainly managed by the Euro HPC Joint Untertaking (EuroHPC JU). EuroHPC issues yearly work programmes indicating actions that are planned within Digital Europe, among other programmes.

For the period 2025-2027, activities will focus on the following activities:

  • Establishment of AI Factories as the main building block to foster and support the development of the (Gen)AI start-up and research ecosystem in Europe. Funded activities will include the acquisition and operation of AI dedicated supercomputers, the establishment and operation of AI supercomputing service centres, activities to advance supercomputer-friendly programming facilities, developing skills and education activities, as well as upgrading existing EuroHPC supercomputing centres to AI Factories.
  • Deployment of quantum computers: acquiring the next generation of quantum computers, interconnecting them with the EuroHPC supercomputers across the EU, and funding the associated competence centres.
  • National HPC Competence Centres: continued financial support to foster the HPC capabilities of the EuroHPC participating states.

Additionally, budget for HPC is foreseen under the 2025-2027 main work programme for the completion of the main components of Destination Earths, aiming to achieve a full digital twin of the earth by 2030.

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ERC grants awarded to professor Inez Germeys

Professor Inez Germeys leads the Center for Contextual Psychiatry at KU Leuven, which is a large multi-disciplinary research group focusing on the interaction between the person and the environment in the development of psychopathology. She has received a European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator grant (INTERACT) and Proof of Concept grant (IMPACT). With these grants professor Germeys and her team researched a new mobile self-management therapy for patients with a psychotic disorder. The Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in Daily Life (ACT-DL) was further developed for the clinical environment. In line with that the Horizon 2020 IMMERSE project aims to thoroughly evaluate strategies, processes, and outcomes of implementing a digital mobile mental health solution.