This month marked the official launch of SAIFA – Serbian Artificial Intelligence Factory Antenna, a project coordinated by the School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade (ETF) and funded by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU).
SAIFA is part of the broader European effort to build the next generation of AI Factories – interconnected environments combining high-performance computing (HPC), artificial intelligence infrastructure, advanced applications, expertise, and user support capacities across Europe.
As the Serbia’s AI Factory Antenna, SAIFA aims to strengthen access to AI and HPC capacities for academia, research, public administration, startups, and industry, while contributing to the integration of national resources and expertise into the wider European AI ecosystem. The project will support the development of AI applications, collaboration frameworks, user support mechanisms, and knowledge exchange aligned with emerging European technological priorities.
The SAIFA consortium brings together partners from academia, research, innovation, and public administration: the School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade as project coordinator, the Institute of Physics Belgrade, Mihajlo Pupin Institute, Institute for Artificial Intelligence Research and Development of Serbia, Faculty of Science, University of Kragujevac, Institute of Molecular Genetics and Genetic Engineering, University of Belgrade, and the Office for Information Technologies and eGovernment of the Government of the Republic of Serbia. Together, the consortium combines expertise in artificial intelligence, high-performance computing, engineering, data infrastructures, digital governance, and sector-specific AI applications, creating a multidisciplinary framework for the development of Serbia’s AI Factory Antenna within the broader European AI ecosystem. In particular, the SAIFA project will connect the Serbian ecosystem with the Greek Pharos and the Italian IT4LIA.
The team from the Institute Mihajlo Pupin, Dr Valentina Janev, Katarina Stanković and Miloš Nenadović, presented our activities and the possibilities for integration of services from the energy domain in the larger Serbian AI ecosystem.
