Following the 34th Governing Board meeting of the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU), held in Luxembourg on October 5, 2023, Israel became the 34th country joining the initiative to lead the way in European supercomputing. EuroHPC, with a €7 billion budget for the 2021-2027 period, joins forces of many different partners to strengthen Europe’s supercomputing capabilities, advance science and boost the innovation potential of enterprises.
The European Union (EU) and Israel have a long history of successful scientific and technological cooperation as Israel has been associated to the EU’s research and innovation framework programmes since 1996. Israel joined the Horizon Europe programme on 6 December 2021.
Israel has designated the Israel Innovation Authority (IIA) as being responsible for fulfilling the obligations of Israel under this Regulation. Dan Seker, a Senior Director will be the representative of Israel on the Governing Board. Nati Avrahami, CEO of IUCC and Hank Nussbacher, Director of Infrastructure at IUCC will serve as substitutes.
As a global innovative and technological leader, Israel’s priorities are well-aligned with the objectives of EuroHPC JU. Israel is committed to collaborative activities to create and develop a supercomputing ecosystem that will lead the way for more HPC applications, new technologies, and skills.
Israel is joining six others EuroHPC JU participating states who have acceded to the Horizon Europe Programme and which are not member states of the European Union. These are Iceland, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia and Turkey. They are all cooperating with the EU in delivering its mission to be strategically autonomous in European HPC and quantum computing and to develop a world-class supercomputing and quantum computing ecosystem in Europe.
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