Project objective: 
The Croatian Scientific and Educational Cloud (HR-ZOO) project aims to build a core component of the national research and innovation e-infrastructure with the intention of providing the Croatian scientific and academic community with long-term advanced computing and storage resources and network connectivity, necessary for modern and multidisciplinary science and education.
Start date: 1 July 2017
End date: 1 May 2023
Croatian scientific and educational cloud (HR-ZOO) is a national e-infrastructure for science and education that offers every scientist, researcher, or teacher a flexible environment for collaboration, and the ability to transfer, store and process large amounts of data with specialized support when using advanced information technologies.
Project objective: The objective of the Scientific and Technology Foresight project is to create a coherent and complete system for determining priorities for research, development, and innovation policies in the Croatian scientific space:
- by establishing a legal framework
- by creating the CroRIS - Croatian Research Information System
- by carrying out activities of scientific and technological mapping and forecasting.
The Ministry of Science and Education of the Republic of Croatia implements this strategic project in cooperation with the University Computing Centre (SRCE).
Start date: 1 December 2017
End date: 31 July 2023
SRCE is responsible for the implementation of the second element of the ZTP project, the creation of CroRIS, which will provide the academic and research community of the Republic of Croatia with a unique, integrated, and interoperable system of all relevant information on the Croatian scientific activity.
Project objective: The aim of the EOSC Future project is the further development of EOSC's portal through the integration, consolidation, and connection of e-infrastructures, research communities, and initiatives in the open cloud. The innovation potential of the future EOSC lies in enabling interdisciplinarity and cross-sector cooperation, therefore the project reaches a wide range of stakeholders from different domains, from different scientific disciplines, policymakers, and regulations, providers of infrastructure, and related services.
Start date: 1 April 2021
End date: 31 March 2024
SRCE participates in the project as a linked third party of the EGI organization, taking care of EOSC's central services using the ARGO system for online monitoring of EOSC's services, sending notifications in case of incidents, and reporting on the availability and reliability of service operations.
Project objective: EGI Advanced Computing for EOSC (EGI-ACE) project empowers researchers from all disciplines to collaborate in data- and compute-intensive research across borders. Building on the distributed computing integration in EOSC-hub, it delivers the EOSC Compute Platform and contributes to the EOSC Data Commons through a federation of Cloud compute and storage facilities, PaaS services and data spaces with analytics tools and federated access services. The Platform advances beyond the state of the art through a data-centric approach, where data, tools and compute and storage facilities form a fully integrated environment accessible across borders thanks to Virtual Access. The Platform offers heterogeneous systems to meet different needs, including state of the art GPGPUs and accelerators supporting AI and ML, making the Platform an ideal innovation space for AI applications.
Start date: 1 January 2021
End date: 30 June 2023
The project activity in which SRCE and partner institutions GRNET and CNRS participate is the construction, improvement, and maintenance of the ARGO system for network monitoring of services, sending notifications in case of incidents, and reporting on the availability and reliability of service operations.
Project objective: National Initiatives for Open Science in Europe (NI4OS-Europe) project aim is to support the coordination, convergence, and federation of national and/or thematic initiatives for open research data and EOCS services by developing appropriate common tools and mechanisms. On the one hand, the objectives are to support the gradual alignment of policies and practices of EOSC-relevant national and/or thematic initiatives with EOSC standards, and on the other hand to allow open access to non-commercial services through the EOSC portal.
Start date: 1 September 2019
End date: 28 February 2023
SRCE actively supports the research community in accepting and using EOSC services, applying the FAIR principle, and integrating national repositories. Through this project, SRCE gathered knowledge and contributed to the gathering of numerous stakeholders of the science and higher education system in the field of open science in the Croatian Open Science Cloud Initiative (HR-OOZ).
Project objective: An alliance of eight European universities, including the University of Zagreb, was awarded initial support for the development of the European University of Post-Industrial Cities (UNIC). The creation of a new European university within the framework of the European Education Area will significantly increase the mobility and involvement of students and contribute to the creation of an exemplary model of inclusive education aimed at solving the problems of post-industrial cities and an increasingly diverse European society.
Start date: 1 October 2020
End date: 30 September 2023
SRCE participates in the creation of a joint information system, a virtual campus, which will support the unhindered mobility of students and professors within the UNIC alliance. It participates in the project in the role of a linked third party as one of the constituents of the University of Zagreb.
Project objective: The objective of the European Digital Student Service Infrastructure – Level 2 (EDDSI 2) project is the development of a virtual student card and the development of an architecture that will enable its use with the use of the European Student Identifier (ESI) in order to facilitate, simplify and increase the quality of student mobility. The EDSSI 2 project will expand the platform of basic digital services for student mobility, established as part of the EDSSI (European Digital Student Service Infrastructure) project, which enables safe and undisturbed data exchange between higher education institutions across Europe.
Start date: 1 September 2021
End date: 31 August 2023
SRCE, as a partner in the project, participates in the development of the architecture, testing, and introduction of new features of the platform of basic digital services for student mobility.
Project objective: Time to Become Digital in Law (DIGinLaw) project will advance the utilization of digital technologies in higher education in the field of law. The project partners are higher education institutions aware of how strongly digitization affects science, knowledge transfer, and society in general and share a vision of the development of legal education based on digital technology, which enables the development of advanced standards of digital competences and contributes to the European labor market by creating legal experts with highly developed digital skills and competences.
Start date: 1 April 2021
End date: 30 September 2023
SRCE, as a partner, contributes to this project with its expertise in the field of e-learning and the implementation of digital technologies in the educational process, and also conducts educational activities for teachers and students to work in a digital environment and provides support to teachers from partner institutions in the preparation of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses).
Project objective: The project Digital Education for Crisis Situations: Times when there is no alternative (DECriS) aims to create a framework for the proper adoption of Educational Resources in general, and especially in crises. The project has several specific research goals, the realization of which is based on the application of innovative digital technologies, the improvement of digital competences, the development of innovative curricula and educational methods, and the realization of international cooperation.
Start date: 1 March 2021
End date: 30 June 2023
With many years of experience in the field of e-learning and the application of digital technologies in education, as well as the experience gained during the pandemic, SRCE participates as a partner and contributes to all project activities.
