VEZILKA — The North Macedonia AI Factory Antenna. A national gateway into Europe's network of AI Factories, weaving trustworthy AI across health, energy, culture and language, agriculture and public administration.

Every great pattern begins with a single thread.

Везилка — the embroiderer. Joining thread after thread into a greater whole.

Thread becomes data.
Embroidery becomes intelligence.

Везилка · the embroiderer

Tradition, woven with technology.

Like an embroiderer joining single threads into one harmonious pattern, VEZILKA weaves people, data, knowledge and institutions into a national fabric of trustworthy artificial intelligence.

The Antenna

North Macedonia's gateway into Europe's AI.

The country's national AI Factory Antenna — linked to the Pharos AI Factory in Greece and the Daedalus supercomputer, inside the EU network of AI Factories.

Skopje→Pharos→Daedalus

Co-funded by the European Union · EuroHPC Joint Undertaking

Why it matters

The talent was always here. The bridge was missing.

0Students · FINKI / UKIM
0AI PhDs
0Doctoral researchers

One of the region's largest AI communities — held back by cost, infrastructure and brain drain. VEZILKA is the bridge that draws talent home.

How it works

All we need is a ready idea — the rest, we weave together.

  • Free supercomputingWorld-class compute via Pharos & Daedalus — no infrastructure cost.
  • Experts in your companyWe map where AI helps, train your team, then hand it back.
  • Training & hackathonsSummer schools, workshops and free AI literacy for all.
  • Open callsFunding to build and pilot your own AI products.

Five Priorities, One Society

AI woven into the fabric of daily life.

HealthDecision-support for diagnostics from anonymised records — the doctor always decides.
EnergyForecasting solar & wind to keep the grid stable as renewables grow.
Culture & LanguageA large language model for Macedonian — our identity in tomorrow's tech.
AgricultureWeather, soil and crop data turned into timely, practical advice.
Public AdministrationSimpler citizen services and greater transparency in public spending.

Trustworthy AI by design

Woven in from the very first stitch.

PrivacyFairnessExplainabilityHuman-in-the-loop

Built to European standards — GDPR and the EU AI Act — with free AI literacy so everyone comes along. AI as a tool for progress, not a threat.

The vision

A new generation, building their future at home.

A digital renaissance, made in Macedonia.