Montenegro established its National Competence Centre for High-Performance Computing (NCC Montenegro) at the University of Donja Gorica as part of the EuroCC project, which launched on September 1, 2020. Funded through the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) under Horizon 2020, the EuroCC project created a network of 33 national competence centres across EuroHPC participating states with a total budget of €57 million over two years.
NCC Montenegro serves as the country’s focal point for high-performance computing, high-performance data analytics, and artificial intelligence. It coordinates activities at the national level and acts as a contact point for users from industry, academia, and public administration seeking access to European supercomputing resources.
Following the initial EuroCC phase, the centre continued operations under EuroCC2, which started on January 1, 2023, with an expanded scope that explicitly includes quantum computing alongside HPC, data analytics, and AI. NCC Montenegro has since organized more than 30 training events, collaborated with over 15 companies, and supported more than 10 applications to the EuroHPC initiative.