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Commission sets course for Europe’s AI leadership with an ambitious AI Continent Action Plan. Becoming a global leader in artificial intelligence is the objective of the AI Continent Action Plan, which has been launched today.

The aim of the ECHOES project is to create the European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage (ECCCH) – a shared platform designed to facilitate collaboration among heritage professionals and researchers, enabling them to modernise their workflows and processes. The platform is supposed to give access to cutting-edge scientific and training resources, and advanced digital tools. 25 May 2025 marks the deadline for cultural heritage institutions to answer the first call for papers in order to obtain funding in the ECHOES Cascading Grants Programme.

The European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC) has selected six new proposals, in addition to the previous seven, to establish AI Factories in the EU. Overall, the initiative will bring together twenty-one Member States and two associated EuroHPC Participating States.

“Development of an Innovative Tool to Support Diagnostics and Automatic Description of Radiological Images Using Artificial Intelligence Tools” is the full name of the project known simply as “Next Data AI”. The project is carried out by PSNC in cooperation with Centrum Zdrowia La Vie (La Vie Health Center) and its main goal is to conduct research and development work necessary to develop a tool that will support radiological diagnostics and automate the description of radiological examinations based on artificial intelligence mechanisms.

The European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC) has selected six new proposals, in addition to the previous seven, to establish AI Factories in the EU. Overall, the initiative will bring together twenty-one Member States and two associated EuroHPC Participating States.

Contemporary opera took on a brand new challenge. It goes beyond the realm of art and focuses on ecology – both in the context of its direct influence on the environment and raising ecological awareness among its audience.

As a part of their involvement in the GN5-1 project, specifically concerning the task of Optical Time and Frequency Networks (OTFN), two PSNC specialists dr inż. Krzysztof Turza and Wojbor Bogacki prepared training sessions which focus on distribution of precise time and frequency signals. The trainings are designed for students who would like to expand their knowledge and skills in that field.

A Polish limited company nazwa.pl gave away their annual awards to companies and institutions with a significant influence on the digital transformation of the Polish State. The Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center was awarded in the category “Investment Expert”, which was a reflexion of PSNC’s success with the Center’s very own Proxima supercomputer – recognized as one of the fastest machines in the world according to the current prestigious TOP500 list.

8 000 participants and over 1 000 lectures – that is how we can sum up the FOSDEM meeting, which took place in Brussels on February 1st and 2nd. During this annual event for open-source software enthusiasts, its participants could share information about the latest initiatives, projects, technologies and applications. It was also a very good occasion to present the GN5-2 project, which was realized in cooperation with PSNC.

On 1 January 2025, Poland began its presidency of the Council of the European Union. One of our country’s responsibilities for the first half of this year will be ensuring open, professional and reliable communication. Its goal is to provide citizens, media and stakeholders with better access to information on the preparations and conduct of the Polish leadership of the Council. PSNC was chosen as one of the partners whose activities are related to the priorities of the Polish leadership.

On 23 January 2025 PSNC published its final post on X (former Twitter) officially informing that there will be no further communication from the Poznań Center on this platform.

The City of Poznań and the Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center continue to develop and implement numerous digital services. The next stage of their long-standing cooperation is the project “Automation of Websites’ Functionalities (poznan.pl and BIP)”, which is a part of Action 1.4 called “The development of e-services and public e-resources within the ZIT framework of the European funds for Wielkopolska 2021-2027 program”.