SRCE Director Ivan Marić is taking part in the CERN technical mission visit to Croatia, organized as part of the country’s evaluation for associate CERN membership, signed in 2019. The visit includes assessments of Croatia’s participation in CERN, presentations of Croatian companies, and insights into the country’s research and innovation ecosystem.
On February 6, 2025, during a visit to the ACROSS-DataScience Centre of Excellence and the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Marić presented SRCE’s role in supporting Croatian and European research through national e-infrastructure services. He emphasized SRCE’s long-standing collaboration with CERN, which began in 2002 with the DataGrid project, enabling scientists worldwide to process Large Hadron Collider (LHC) data, including the ALICE experiment. SRCE’s contribution led to the establishment of Isabella, Croatia’s first HPC cluster, later replaced in 2023 by the Supek petascale supercomputer.
SRCE also played a key role in Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE), integrating Croatian computing sites into CERN’s global grid infrastructure. In 2006, SRCE experts helped develop ARGO, a monitoring system now used for EOSC, EGI, and EUDAT.
The six-member CERN delegation, led by Charlotte Lindberg Warakaulle, is visiting Croatia from February 5 to 7, 2025, meeting with government officials, researchers, and industry representatives, and touring key scientific institutions.
