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CERN starts using State Data Centre in Kragujevac

Belgrade, 9 December 2023

Minister of Information and Telecommunications Mihailo Jovanovic, Minister of Science, Technological Development and Innovation Jelena Begovic and Head of the Information Technology Department of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) Enrica Porkari signed today a Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation in introduction and exploitation of the Global LHC computer network in the State Data Centre in Kragujevac.

By signing this Memorandum, Serbia becomes part of the Global Computer Network of CERN, i.e., a hub will be established in the State Data Centre in Kragujevac for the storage, processing and analysis of scientific data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, Jovanovic said.

According to him, it is also an opportunity to develop and profile experts within the scientific community in Serbia who will work with nuclear research data and have the opportunity to collaborate with around 5,500 scientists from 240 institutes from 54 countries around the world.

Begovic said that this is a great day for Serbia and its scientists, since our country is becoming one of the few countries that will store and process data from world experiments in which thousands of the world's best scientists participate.

We will be part of the information support for the experiments taking place at CERN, Begović underlined and added that the State Data Centre will become a "Tier-1" center of CERN and will enable the expansion of capacities in terms of storing, processing and analyzing data generated during experiments in CERN.

Porkari pointed out that since 2019, when Serbia joined CERN, many steps have been taken towards strengthening partnerships between scientists and engineers from Serbia and CERN, adding that they see many areas where progress has been made.