The World Science Forum (WSF) was held in Budapest from November 20 to 23, 2024, bringing together over 1,200 participants from 122 countries. The main theme of the forum was "The Science-Policy Interface in Times of Global Transformations," with a focus on strengthening trust in science and improving collaboration between the scientific community and policymakers to ensure sustainable development and a prosperous future for humanity.

We’re excited to invite you to the EBSI-NE Forum, a unique event dedicated to exploring Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) and its pivotal role in enhancing the European Blockchain Services Infrastructure (EBSI).

We are delighted to invite researchers, academics, and professionals to submit their original research papers to the MDPI Journal for our upcoming Special Issue: "Parallel, Distributed Computing, and Computational Mathematics."

Prostate cancer ranks among the most common cancers affecting men worldwide. Despite significant advancements in available therapies, a critical challenge persists: preventing the disease from progressing to its most dangerous and treatment-resistant stage. Addressing this issue, a multidisciplinary team of researchers and doctors, led by scientists from the Ruđer Bošković Institute (IRB), has made a groundbreaking discovery. They have developed an innovative computational tool named Vini, designed to predict the most effective drug combinations for treating castration-resistant prostate cancer. The ultimate aim of this tool is to halt the progression of the disease to its deadly, therapy-resistant phase. This pioneering research was recently published in the prestigious journal Scientific Reports.

Continuing the previously initiated research under the guidance of Professor Željko Svedružić († April 20, 2023), the scientific team from the University of Rijeka and the Center for Informatics  and Computing at the Ruđer Bošković Institute in Croatia, has successfully applied for and secured funding for the implementation of the EHPC-BEN-2023B11-013 project on the LUMI supercomputer. This exceptionally powerful system, the HPE Cray EX, with an installed power of 0.3091 Exaflops, is located at the EuroHPC center CSC in Finland and proudly holds the status of the third most powerful supercomputer globally.

The objective of the EBSI-NE consortium is to support the development and adoption of the EBSI network at the European level by increasing the number of validator nodes in the production network and the provision of support services for all relevant EBSI stakeholders.

The aim of the platform DAP is to create a democratic, trustworthy and efficient infrastructure for scholarly publishing to support the European Research Area, Open Research Europe and the Digital Europe Programme.

This unique initiative brings together researchers from the Centre for Informatics and Computing at the Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI) in Zagreb, Croatia, along with experts from NGI Trublo, Moon Code, and HashNET.

The Center for Informatics and Computing (CIR) of the Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI) in cooperation with the Juelich supercomputer center from Germany and the RIKEN research center from Japan has gained access to the Fugaku supercomputer in Japan, currently the second most powerful supercomputer in the world according to the list of the Top500 fastest computers in the world.

A team of scientists from the Center for Informatics and Computin (CIR) of the Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI) together with oncologists from KBC Sestre Milosrdnica, under the leadership of Dr. Draška Tomića, uses the Vini application to find new therapies against prostate cancer.