As part of this year's Brainhack Zagreb 2024 event, Professor Alon Korngreen, Director of the Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center at Bar-Ilan University, will give a lecture on the topic Neuroscience and Data Science Perspective . Friday, December 6, 2024. at 6:00 PM CET, Link to the Zoom platform: Zoom Meeting In his lecture, Professor Korngreen will introduce the Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, discuss the evolution of data processing in neuroscience over recent decades, and present the NeuroData Eras mus Mundus Joint Master Degree in Neuroscience and Data Science.

The transition towards a clean and renewable future with a focus on hydrogen as a key element of energy decarbonisation is the main topic of the scientific colloquium " Energy transition: the present and future of hydrogen ", held on October 7, 2024 at FER. The goal of the event was to bring the role of hydrogen closer to the general public, to answer key questions about its future, to strengthen cooperation between leading Croatian research institutions and to transfer research knowledge to industry and the business world, and at the same time to answer the question: is hydrogen a myth or a hit? Dean of FER prof. Vedran Bilas, PhD, greeted the audience and thanked the Ruđer Bošković Institute, the Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology of the University of Zagreb (FKIT) and the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture of the University of Zagreb (FSB) for their participation and co-organization of the scientific colloquium.

Cooperation between the Czech Republic and the Republic of Croatia in the field of science, research and development is the main topic of the seminar that brought together experts from both countries at FER on October 2, 2024 with the aim of strengthening ties between academic institutions, research centers, and private and public sectors from Croatia and the Czech Republic. The seminar was organized in cooperation with the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Zagreb, under the auspices of the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs and FER . Key opportunities for cooperation between Croatia and the Czech Republic were presented at the seminar, with a special emphasis on the exchange of innovative solutions, technologies and the application of joint projects within European programs. Special attention was paid to sectors such as energy , robotics , cyber security and the development of new technologies , which are key to the future economic growth of both countries.

A lecture by a professor from one of the most innovative European universities, KU Leuven (KUL) , opened an expert meeting on the topic "Chips, universities and technological development" , which was held on 24 of September 2024, in the organization of FER with the aim of encouraging technological development in the Republic of Croatia. Professor Georges Gielen from the prestigious Belgian University of KUL, expert in analog chip design and former vice-chancellor for research, engineering and technology at KUL, shared the key factors in his introductory lecture entitled "Why is KU Leuven an entrepreneurial and successful university?" , emphasizing that a top university must combine top education with top research and the valorization of that research in order to have a maximum impact on society.

The Faculty of Electrical Engineering at University of Zagreb (FER) is proud to announce that it has provided a significant contribution to European sovereignty, with valuable business impacts. European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) finalized the 273-M€ procurement contract for JUPITER, the first EuroHPC exascale supercomputer granted to the consortium of Eviden and ParTec. JUPITER  will be hosted at Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany, where the brain of the system will be based on the brand new general-purpose Rhea processors by SiPearl that have been designed in Europe with FER being one of the key partners of SiPearl in design and verification of those processors. "FER is proud to be at the forefront of what is among the most advanced global supercomputer processor technology research and to partner with leading European industry and research organizations SiPearl, Eviden, Barcelona Supercomputing Center and others to create the first European general purpose processor for supercomputers. Partnering with SiPearl allowed us to have a unique opportunity to be able to work with great industry experts on the design and verification of what will be the family of globally one of the most advanced and powerful processors. Also, being a member of European Processor Initiative project funded by EuroHPC JU, we team with the brightest minds, share ideas and solutions and make Faculty of Electrical Engineering at University of Zagreb recognized on the global research map" ,  said Mario Kovač, professor and Director of FER HPC research center .      What are exascale supercomputers Supercomputers solve problems that are significantly beyond the capacity of a single office computer/laptop, since they can process significantly larger amounts of data and make calculations in seconds that would otherwise take months or even decades. Supercomputers are built out of the most advanced components and use large and complex building blocks. One way of describing the power of computers is by comparing how many basic operations, such as e.g. additions, they can compute in one second. Thus, the metric is given in so called FLOPS (floating point operations per second). An "Exascale supercomputer" can perform more than billion billion or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 (10 18 ) operations (FLOPS) per second, or in short more than one exaFLOPS. To put this into perspective: it would take one million typical laptops to do the same number of computations in the same amount of time.