The European Commissioner for Internal Market, Thierry Breton, who is also responsible for strengthening Europe’s technological sovereignty, inaugurated the headquarters of the European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC) in Luxembourg on Monday 3 May, in the presence of the Luxembourg Ministers for the Economy, Franz Fayot, and Foreign Affairs, Jean Asselborn.
The EuroHCP Joint Undertaking will pool European and national resources to deploy a network of supercomputers (see EUROPE 12106/26). The first of these was inaugurated on 20 April in Slovenia, purchased by the EU for €17.2 million (see EUROPE 12702/10).
“It is important to do everything possible today to make Europe a world leader. Transformation is a high-speed train, we cannot afford to get left on the platform”, was the reaction of Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel at a joint press conference with Mr Breton.
Launched in 2018 with a budget of €1.1 billion for the period of 2019-2020, the initiative - following the request in September 2020 by the European Commission to adapt Regulation 2018/1488 - has a budget of €8 billion for 2021-2033. (Original version in French by Thomas Mangin)