Article 3 1.

The mission of the Joint Undertaking shall be to develop, deploy, extend and maintain in the Union a world-leading federated, secure, interoperable and hyper-connected supercomputing, quantum computing, service and data infrastructure ecosystem. It shall support the development and uptake of demand-oriented and user-driven innovative and competitive supercomputing systems and quantum technologies and systems and the development of a wide range of applications optimised for those systems. This shall be based as far as possible on a European supply chain in order to limit the risk of disruptions and dependencies and to reinforce the strategic autonomy and technological sovereignty of the Union, whilst ensuring use of the best components, technologies and knowledge. It shall, furthermore, widen the use of that infrastructure ecosystem to a large number of public and private users and support the twin transition and the development of key skills for the European workforce in science and industry.