SVEUCILISTE U ZAGREBU SVEUCILISNI RACUNSKI CENTAR

Their core work

SRCE is the University of Zagreb's central computing centre, serving as Croatia's national academic computing and e-infrastructure provider. They operate federated cloud services, high-performance computing (HPC) facilities, and data management platforms that support researchers across disciplines. Within H2020, they contributed to building and integrating pan-European research infrastructure — particularly the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) and EGI federation — ensuring Croatian researchers and institutions have access to shared computing resources and open science tools.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

In 2015–2018, SRCE focused on community engagement and service integration for pan-European e-infrastructures, contributing to the foundational EGI and EOSC ecosystems (EGI-Engage, EOSC-hub). From 2019 onward, their work shifted toward operational delivery: running compute platforms, building national HPC competence (EUROCC), and supporting EOSC as a production-level service rather than a concept. A late entry into societal research (UNIC4ER) hints at broadening beyond pure infrastructure.

SRCE is moving from building research infrastructure to operating it at scale, with growing HPC capabilities that could serve industry users beyond academia.

How they like to work

SRCE exclusively participates as a partner or third party — they have never coordinated an H2020 project. They consistently join very large consortia (290 unique partners across 49 countries), which is typical for e-infrastructure projects that require broad national representation. This makes them a reliable, low-friction consortium member rather than a project driver — useful when you need a Croatian node in a pan-European infrastructure network.

With 290 unique consortium partners across 49 countries, SRCE has one of the broadest collaboration networks possible — a direct result of participating in flagship European e-infrastructure projects like EOSC-hub and EGI-ACE that involve dozens of national partners each.

What sets them apart

SRCE is Croatia's de facto national research computing centre, making them the natural entry point for any EU project needing Croatian e-infrastructure participation. Their deep involvement in both EGI and EOSC ecosystems means they already have the technical integrations and institutional relationships in place. For consortium builders, they offer a credible Croatian partner with hands-on experience in cloud federation, HPC, and open science compliance.

Highlights from their portfolio

• EUROCC
  Their largest funded project (EUR 399,959), establishing Croatia's national HPC competence centre with industry-facing skills training — a strategic shift toward serving businesses.
• NI4OS-Europe
  Focused specifically on integrating national open science initiatives into EOSC, with SRCE playing a key governance and coordination role for Croatia (EUR 212,500).
• EOSC-hub
  One of the flagship EOSC integration projects bringing together EGI, EUDAT, and INDIGO-DataCloud — positioned SRCE within the core European research cloud ecosystem.