Horizon Europe, EuroHPC, AI factories and the research base behind European tech. Coverage from Continental Brief.
The propulsion systems manufacturer is using Europe's flagship supercomputer to cut simulation times and scale up computational capacity for demanding maritime engineering projects.
The new system, ranked 31st globally, will serve as the computational engine for Greece's AI Factory and support research across healthcare, climate science and other domains across the continent.
The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking has elected Sinéad Ryan of Trinity College Dublin as Chair of its User Forum Coordination Group, with Maria Girone from CERN openlab continuing as Vice-Chair in a new co-leadership arrangement.
The OSOR team's latest analysis of national policies shows European governments increasingly treating open source as a strategic priority rather than a technical choice, with digital sovereignty reshaping the political landscape around software adoption.
Lucas Eustache has completed his doctoral dissertation on the organisational barriers to data circulation, supported by the Gaia-X Institute over three years of research at Université Paris Dauphine-PSL.
The European Investment Fund is backing a new Czech venture capital vehicle with €27 million to help commercialize university research and build 40 deep-tech startups across Central Europe.
A new open source language model developed in Chile aims to address the underrepresentation of Latin American languages and knowledge in global AI systems, while exploring what it means to build AI infrastructure rooted in regional contexts.
The Finnish Meteorological Institute has released its Aila AI weather model on an open platform, trained on Europe's LUMI supercomputer and designed to improve forecasts across Northern Europe through machine learning.
Teams at the e-Governance Academy continue EU-backed cybersecurity projects in Ukraine despite constant Russian attacks, air raid alerts lasting up to 20 hours daily, and the psychological toll of living in an active war zone.
The digital identity firm has consolidated fragmented eIDAS certifications across five bodies into a single Conformity Assessment Body partnership, simplifying oversight after a string of acquisitions.
A new white paper co-authored by Estonia's former government CTO outlines how states must adapt their cybersecurity strategy as AI makes cyberattacks faster, cheaper and more accessible to non-state actors.