Strategies
Update 30.12.2025Learn about all the current digital strategies, as well as their respective action plans.
National Strategy for Advanced Computing
Last update of the initiative: 20/06/2022
Portugal is part of the pioneering group of six countries that signed the EuroHPC Declaration in March 2017. Through the National Strategy for Advanced Computing, Portugal aims to position itself as a European reference in the Advanced Computing Services Economy, an Advanced Computing Laboratory Environment, and Education and Training in this specific field of knowledge.
Advanced Computing Portugal 2030 is a science, innovation and growth strategy designed to promote Advanced Computing (AC) in Portugal within the European context. It is oriented towards building a world-class high-performance computing network infrastructure and covers three main areas:
- Creating a national supercomputing infrastructure (data centres) to support research and innovation;
- Developing and retaining highly skilled professionals with advanced computing expertise;
- Implementing a public policy info-structure to bridge the gap between infrastructure and people, fostering the creation of high-value services and software.
The strategy promotes international collaborative actions and was designed to support all areas of advanced scientific computing, as well as effective and diversified data processing, across industry and academia and in all areas of knowledge and the economy, including health, climate, energy, mobility and social sciences.
Expected outcomes
- Leverage investment in advanced computing equipment;
- Strengthen the RNCA – National Advanced Computing Network;
- Participate in RES.ES, IberGRID, EuroHPC and PRACE;
- Develop large-scale activities requiring supercomputing resources, addressing areas such as industry, cities, transport, health and energy;
- Launch specific calls that include advanced computing requirements;
- Establish interconnections with other computing centres;
- Promote the development of doctoral programmes.
Critical success factors
- Provide access to National Advanced Computing Network (RNCA) resources for research groups and industry, including SMEs;
- Create a favourable environment for the creation and growth of start-ups focused on advanced computing-based services and technologies, particularly in software development for data mining, engineering and visualisation;
- Modernise Public Administration services through advanced computing systems (academia, industry, research units, etc.);
- Develop education and training programmes in advanced computing to upskill and reskill graduates;
- Increase postgraduate training in key advanced computing areas with universities, including parallel and distributed programming, resilience and data visualisation;
- Support the creation of short-term courses focused on specific advanced computing techniques and technologies aligned with industry needs;
- Increase collaborative projects between academia and the public and private business sectors in advanced computing;
- Increase scientific publications in advanced computing within international excellence research networks;
- Raise qualification levels in advanced computing skills.
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