The Fourth National Tripartite EOSC Meeting, titled “All Faces of Open Science”, was held as part of the SRCE DEI 2026 conference. The event gathered more than 70 participants and focused on strengthening the implementation of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) in Croatia and promoting open science practices.
At the 9th EOSC Tripartite Event, held in Cyprus on April 21, 2026, the candidates for the second wave of EOSC Node establishment were confirmed. The European Commission, EOSC Association, and EOSC Steering Board approved 14 new candidates for EOSC Nodes, including the Croatian national EOSC Node. SRCE, as the mandated institution, will coordinate the new Croatian national EOSC Node, with participation from member institutions of the Croatian Open Science Cloud Initiative (HR-OOZ). SRCE is carrying out the establishment process with the support of the Ministry of Science, Education and Youth and as a member of HR-OOZ.
As the coordinator of the Croatian Internet eXchange (CIX), University Computing Centre SRCE is participating in the 44th Euro-IX Forum, taking place on 4 and 5 May 2026 at the University of Vienna.
This year’s conference has concluded. Over the course of two days, 28 and 29 April 2026, more than 500 participants from the higher education and research community, public administration, industry and international institutions took part in the conference. The programme included more than forty presentations organised into eight thematic sessions, 13 workshops, 11 poster presentations and two invited lectures.
SRCE celebrated its 55th anniversary with a ceremonial event held as part of the SRCE DEI 2026 Conference, taking place on 28 and 29 April at the University of Zagreb building. Founded on 29 April 1971 within the University of Zagreb, SRCE has continuously responded to the growing needs of the community by enabling knowledge exchange, connecting people, and systematically building the national shared e-infrastructure that supports the development of the academic and research community as well as society as a whole.
Kick-off sastanak projekata EuroCC 3 i potpornog projekta CASTIEL 3 održan je 16. travnja 2026. godine te je svečano započela treća faza europske inicijative za razvoj nacionalnih centara kompetencija za računarstvo visokih performansi (HPC).
SRCE participated on Wednesday, March 18, 2026, in the 6th UNIZG IT MeetUp, focused on the topic “Digital Security”. The event addressed online scams with an emphasis on students as potential victims of fraud.
On Monday, 9 March 2026, the webinar “Libraries in the Digital Transformation of Education – Role and Examples of Practice” was held. The event was dedicated to the role of libraries in the digital transformation of higher education and their support for modern teaching and learning models.
The meeting of delegations from Erasmus University Rotterdam and SRCE was held on 4 and 5 March 2026 at SRCE.
The meeting was organised as part of the second phase of the UNIC project, focusing on the integration of local student information systems with the UNIC Virtual Campus, which SRCE develops and maintains.
The first session of the 6th convocation of the Hrčak Council was held at SRCE on March 4, 2026, appropriately marking 20 years of successful operation of the Portal of Croatian Scientific and Professional Journals – Hrčak.
