Hopero: European Digital Innovation Hub
The Slovak AI European Digital Innovation Hub is a nation-wide ecosystem with a clear focus on artificial intelligence aiming to support the digital transformation of Slovak companies in the European innovation space. One of Hopero's goals is to upgrade companies and train their employees for the digital era by strengthening and expanding the community innovators, sharing knowledge, improving access to financial means and introduction of artificial intelligence.
Hopero is dedicated to 3 main goals:
- Promotion of digital technologies related to artificial intelligence (AI).
- Supporting the SMEs in access to private and EU funding necessary for adoption of all digital technologies, focusing specifically on SMEs in the regions.
- Development of the digital innovation ecosystem in Slovakia.
Hopero will help you implement digital transformation and teach you how to search funds for your projects.
Hopero Consortium:
- Kempelen Institute of Intelligent Technologies.
- SAPIE.
- COO SAS and Computing Centre.
- CIVITTA Slovakia.
More information about Hopero can be found HERE.
Digital Twins of Society: HPC-Powered Simulations 25 Jun - Join us for a thought-provoking webinar exploring how artificial intelligence and multi-agent simulation technologies are helping researchers understand and predict complex societal dynamics. This session brings together leading experts in cultural cybernetics, cognitive modeling, and national-scale digital twin simulations.
Strengthening EuroCC ties: NCC Slovakia visits FCCN in Lisbon 24 Jun - On June 24th, representative of NCC Slovakia, Božidara Pellegrini, met with colleagues from NCC Portugal at the headquarters of FCCN – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia in Lisbon. 
Záznam z podujatia: Slovak Language in the Era of Large Language Models (with the Support of the Leonardo Supercomputer) 23 Jun - On June 11, 2025, a joint webinar on language modeling was held, organized by the National Competence Centres for HPC in Slovakia and Italy. The discussion focused on the challenges and solutions related to using large language models (LLMs) for less-resourced languages such as Slovak.