Prof. Enis Kočan, a member of NCC Montenegro, has visited TRID TECH in Podgorica. TRID TECH is a new IT company specializing in comprehensive and customizable managed cybersecurity services, delivered by a team of highly trained professionals. Their focus is on managing cyber risks and ensuring compliance, with the aim of providing an exceptional client experience. Their services include cybersecurity advisory, endpoint and network security, data privacy, and cloud infrastructure security, all geared towards creating robust, secure architectures and meeting regulatory requirements.
During the visit, Prof. Kočan introduced the EuroCC2/EuroCC4SEE project to TRID TECH’s director, Mr. Dmitar Ćulafić, and his team. He detailed the available services and training programs, highlighting the opportunity to access HPC resources for free through EuroHPC JU open calls. TRID TECH, which is working on several GPU-intensive projects, recognized this as a valuable chance to test their algorithms and improve their big data processing efficiency. Prof. Kočan also presented the upcoming 2nd Open FFplus Call for Innovation Studies, outlining its goals, eligibility criteria, and potential benefits..
Within the framework of the international conference CMBEBIH 2025, organized by the Society for Medical and Biological Engineering in BiH, with the co-organization of Verlab and the University of Donja Gorica, experts from the fields of biomedical engineering, technology, and innovation gathered together.
EuroCC and HPC use cases presentation at the opening ceremony of CMBEBIH 2025
A special segment of the conference was dedicated to the National Competence Centres for High-Performance Computing (NCC HPC), where NCC HPC BiH, NCC HPC Montenegro, and NCC HPC Serbia jointly presented:
HPC services available to academia, industry, and the public sector
Successful examples of HPC solutions implemented in companies and institutions
Opportunities for collaboration, development, and support in digital transformation
Presentation of NCC services and success stories for public sector
This event once again confirmed the importance of regional cooperation among NCCs in Southeast Europe, which, through the exchange of knowledge, experience, and resources, strengthens the region’s technological infrastructure and innovation capacity.
Joint initiatives such as this represent a strong step forward in connecting science, industry, and the public sector through the application of advanced digital technologies.
The Chamber of Economy of Montenegro (PKCG), in cooperation with the Science and Technology Park of Montenegro (NTP), organized the interactive event “KOMPakt”, bringing together entrepreneurs, SMEs, innovative companies, IT representatives, universities, and institutions. The event served as a platform to present institutional support measures, promote initiatives for digital and green transformation, and connect businesses with new technologies to enhance international competitiveness.
KOMPact- engaging atmosphere
In her opening remarks, the President of the Chamber of Commerce of Montenegro, Dr. Nina Drakić, emphasized that KOMPakt was conceived as a bridge between business needs and innovative technical solutions, noting that a strong SME sector is essential for Montenegro’s digital and green transformation, European integration, and global competitiveness. Valentina Radulović, Director of the Science and Technology Park of Montenegro, highlighted the role of NTP as a hub where ideas, business and technology converge, encouraging participants to harness the country’s innovative potential and create value-added partnerships.
Ready for HPC talks… where ideas meet supercomputers!
NCC Montenegro participated as one of the exhibitors, presenting its activities within the EuroCC2/EuroCC4SEE project. The NCC highlighted opportunities for Montenegrin entrepreneurs, innovators, and industry to adopt HPC and AI solutions—offering customized training, expert consultancy, and access to leading European supercomputers at no additional cost. Visitors engaged in discussion on their project ideas and business needs, ranging from advanced trading strategies for the capital markets, over smart tourism app enhancements, to precise long-term weather forecasting models, leveraging HPC capabilities and NCC support.
KOMPact –opportunity for new productive collaborations
By engaging directly with key national stakeholders and innovative SMEs, NCC Montenegro reaffirmed its mission to drive digital acceleration and enhance industry competitiveness through the powerful convergence of HPC and AI.
In order to successfully conduct new research directions within the project “AI Segmentation and Inspection by 3D Scanning,” researchers from the Center for Computer Sciences at the Faculty of Science and Mathematics have developed another successful application for utilizing HPC resources provided by EuroHPC Joint Undertaking. After completing the report for previous resource usage under the Benchmark call, and with the support of the NCC Montenegro team from the University of Montenegro, an application was prepared to access the Leonardo supercomputing center under the Development call.
As a result of this project, it is anticipated that the system for automatic segmentation of 3D representations of mechanical assemblies obtained through 3D scanning will be expanded. This opens up possibilities for applications in fields such as reverse engineering, quality control, augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and more. Additionally, the project is expected to culminate in the defense of a doctoral dissertation in this area.
FFplus (Fortissimo plus), the European initiative highlighting and promoting the adoption of High-Performance Computing (HPC) by SMEs and start-ups across Europe, has announced its second Open Call to fund business experiments.
Key Call Details:
Submission Deadline: August 26th, 2025 at 17:00 Brussels local time
Expected duration of experiments: maximum 15 months with targeted commencement January 1st, 2026
The indicative total funding budget for all sub-projects funded under this call is € 4M.
This announcement is the second call for proposals to address the uptake of HPC by SMEs in order to solve specific business challenges of SMEs that have had no prior use of, or experience with, HPC services. The resulting sub-projects will perform “business experiments” (also referred just as experiments) that should demonstrate to the broader European SME ecosystem that HPC uptake solves business challenges and leads to positive business impact through the use and deployment of HPC-based computational methods. Thus, their key outputs are success stories that promote, communicate, and disseminate the business impact of HPC uptake to the SME ecosystem.
Proposals are sought that address business challenges from European SMEs from varied application domains, whereby SMEs whose adoption of advanced HPC services will create the highest business impact will be prioritized. SMEs with an academic focus or activities with a potential impact only in the long term are not within the scope of the call.
In the context of the second Open Call for Business Experiments, FFplus offered two webinars to the public to receive all the information concerning the Call and answer questions.
The members of the NCC Montenegro team, Prof. dr. Enis Kočan and Assist. prof. Luka Filipović, have visited the Five Group company on July 18, 2025. At this meeting, the report form for Benchmark projects was presented and instructions were given to the Five Group company on how to prepare and complete this report, since the period of use of the obtained resources on Leonardo HPC for this company expires at the end of July. The members of the NCC Montenegro team have also held consultations with this company on the next steps in the preparation of the new project application. Based on the presented project proposal and the estimated needs of the Five Group company, it was recommended that after submitting the report for the Benchmark project, they prepare an application for the Development open call for the use of HPC resources.
In collaboration with NVIDIA and the OpenACC organization, a group of National Competence Centers from Austria, Czechia, Germany, Montenegro, Poland, Slovenia, and Sweden organized several Bootcamps for the European HPC and AI user community.
Students, researchers from UDG and UoM, enthusiasts, and industry experts in the fields of high-performance computing and artificial intelligence, together with hundreds of participants from across Europe, attended courses on parallel programming (N-Ways-GPU and Multi-GPU) and AI (AI for Science and AI Profiling). Researchers from Montenegro also contributed as teaching assistants.
As one of the events of this collaboration, we are pleased to announce the OpenAI Hackathon, which will take place from October 14 to 23, 2025. The event is led by NVIDIA and the OpenACC, together with the EuroCC National Competence Centres of Austria, Germany, and Poland. Open AI Hackathons are multi-day, intensive hands-on events designed to help AI and ML engineers and data scientists accelerate, optimize, and scale their real-world projects leveraging the latest technologies. The event pairs participating teams with dedicated expert mentors to enhance the performance, efficiency, and scalability of their applications using state-of-the-art programming models, libraries, and tools. Whether you’re working on deep learning, data analytics, or model optimization, this hackathon provides a unique opportunity to push the boundaries of innovation using an advanced AI and ML infrastructure.
