No paid figure stated in the government’s documents
No document found states what Italy has paid under MUR's EUR 120 million Leonardo co-funding (2019–2025), the primary line, or for the IT4LIA AI Factory. One component carries a paid figure: the audit office reports that CINECA had paid EUR 21,227,746 of its EUR 72,629,946 PNRR share in the national HPC centre by 30 June 2025.
Ministry of University and Research co-funding of the Leonardo pre-exascale supercomputer (2019–2025)
A part of the programme. Primary: Leonardo is the programme record's operating system (its GPU counts and first financing item), and MUR's co-funding is the one Italian instrument for it with a stated amount and period. It covers Italy's half of Leonardo's EUR 240 million (EuroHPC's EUR 120 million belongs to the EuroHPC row), not IT4LIA, LISA or CINECA's other funding (other lines). The ministry's release states the envelope without naming the act behind it; no decree or budget chapter was identified, so it is recorded as an announced envelope. No payment figure for it was found.
Announced by the government: MUR’s €120 million Leonardo co-funding over 2019–2025, January 2019 to December 2025. Printed as “120 milioni di euro”. About $136M at the reference rate of 23 Feb 2022. Il ministero dell’Università e della Ricerca finanzia questo progetto con 120 milioni di euro distribuiti in sette anni (2019-2025). Altri 120 milioni di euro sono stanziati dalla Impresa Comune EuroHPC Joint Undertaking per un investimento totale di 240 milioni di euro. (The Ministry of University and Research funds this project with 120 million euros spread over seven years (2019-2025). Another 120 million euros are allocated by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking, for a total investment of 240 million euros.)
Ministero dell'Università e della Ricerca, Ricerca: la commissaria UE Gabriel e il Ministro Messa all'hub dei big data del tecnopolo di Bologna (23/02/2022), paragraph beginning "Questo supercalcolatore darà vita", 23 Feb 2022
Announced: €120 million, 31 Dec 2020. Printed as “120 milioni di euro”. Second government source stating the same EUR 120 million MUR co-financing (Cineca's 2020 management report, annexed to the Corte dei conti's 2020 report to Parliament); the two agree. L’accordo prevede un co-finanziamento di 120 milioni di euro da parte del MUR a fronte di circa altri 120 milioni di euro messi in co-finanziamento dalla UE. (The agreement provides for co-financing of 120 million euros by the MUR against about another 120 million euros of co-financing from the EU.)
Senato della Repubblica / Corte dei conti, Sezione del controllo sugli enti (annex: Cineca, relazione sulla gestione 2020), Relazione della Corte dei conti al Parlamento sulla gestione finanziaria del Consorzio Interuniversitario CINECA (Esercizio 2020), Doc. XV n. 61, XIX legislatura, with the consortium's 2020 management report annexed, PDF page 34 (Cineca management report 2020, section on Leonardo), 16 Mar 2023
Recovery Plan (PNRR) measure M4C2 I1.4, National Centre for HPC, Big Data and Quantum Computing (CN HPC, hub ICSC Foundation): the share assigned to CINECA as implementer and Spoke 0 leader
A part of the programme. CINECA's part of the PNRR national HPC centre, which pays for its supercomputing infrastructure work as Spoke 0 leader; EuroHPC says Italy's half of the EUR 50 million LISA upgrade of Leonardo came through MUR and ICSC. PNRR money is EU-financed (Recovery and Resilience Facility grants) but appropriated and spent through Italy's budget and its implementing bodies. It is a component: the only line in this row with a government-stated payment, but not the programme's own instrument.
In a budget estimate: the €72.6 million PNRR share assigned to CINECA in the national HPC centre. Printed as “72.629.946”. About $76M at the reference rate of 17 Jun 2022. Tabella 11 - Stato di attuazione dei progetti PNRR e PNC “attuatore” al 30 giugno 2025 … 319.938.979 72.629.946 72.629.946 40.594.926 21.227.746 AVVIATO Esecuzione RAGGIUNTI M4C2I1.04-Potenziamento strutture di ricerca e creazione di campioni nazionali di R&S su alcune Key Enabling Technologies (Table 11, state of implementation of PNRR and PNC projects where Cineca is implementer, at 30 June 2025: total amount 319,938,979; amount assigned to the entity (B) 72,629,946; amount financed by the PNRR (C) 72,629,946; sums received from the PNRR 40,594,926; total sums paid 21,227,746; started; execution phase; targets to 30 June 2025 reached. Measure M4C2I1.04, strengthening research structures and creating national R&D champions in key enabling technologies.)
Corte dei conti, Sezione del controllo sugli enti, Determinazione e relazione sul risultato del controllo eseguito sulla gestione finanziaria del Consorzio interuniversitario Cineca, esercizio 2023 (Determinazione del 23 ottobre 2025, n. 130), PDF page 48 (printed page 40), Tabella 11, row M4C2I1.04 (CUP D56G22000380006, CN HPC, per page 47), 23 Oct 2025
Paid out: €21.2 million, 30 Jun 2025. Printed as “21.227.746”. Total sums CINECA had paid on its CN HPC share by 30 June 2025 ("totale somme pagate"), as the audit office reports; kept as a figure because no document read states the share’s period, so it cannot be set against one. Tabella 11 - Stato di attuazione dei progetti PNRR e PNC “attuatore” al 30 giugno 2025 … 319.938.979 72.629.946 72.629.946 40.594.926 21.227.746 AVVIATO Esecuzione RAGGIUNTI M4C2I1.04-Potenziamento strutture di ricerca e creazione di campioni nazionali di R&S su alcune Key Enabling Technologies (Table 11, state of implementation of PNRR and PNC projects where Cineca is implementer, at 30 June 2025: total amount 319,938,979; amount assigned to the entity (B) 72,629,946; amount financed by the PNRR (C) 72,629,946; sums received from the PNRR 40,594,926; total sums paid 21,227,746; started; execution phase; targets to 30 June 2025 reached. Measure M4C2I1.04, strengthening research structures and creating national R&D champions in key enabling technologies.)
Corte dei conti, Sezione del controllo sugli enti, Determinazione e relazione sul risultato del controllo eseguito sulla gestione finanziaria del Consorzio interuniversitario Cineca, esercizio 2023 (Determinazione del 23 ottobre 2025, n. 130), PDF page 48 (printed page 40), Tabella 11, row M4C2I1.04 (CUP D56G22000380006, CN HPC, per page 47), 23 Oct 2025
Released: €40.6 million, 30 Jun 2025. Printed as “40.594.926”. PNRR money received by CINECA for its CN HPC share by 30 June 2025 ("somme ricevute sul PNRR"); a release to the implementer, larger than what CINECA had paid out. Tabella 11 - Stato di attuazione dei progetti PNRR e PNC “attuatore” al 30 giugno 2025 … 319.938.979 72.629.946 72.629.946 40.594.926 21.227.746 AVVIATO Esecuzione RAGGIUNTI M4C2I1.04-Potenziamento strutture di ricerca e creazione di campioni nazionali di R&S su alcune Key Enabling Technologies (Table 11, state of implementation of PNRR and PNC projects where Cineca is implementer, at 30 June 2025: total amount 319,938,979; amount assigned to the entity (B) 72,629,946; amount financed by the PNRR (C) 72,629,946; sums received from the PNRR 40,594,926; total sums paid 21,227,746; started; execution phase; targets to 30 June 2025 reached. Measure M4C2I1.04, strengthening research structures and creating national R&D champions in key enabling technologies.)
Corte dei conti, Sezione del controllo sugli enti, Determinazione e relazione sul risultato del controllo eseguito sulla gestione finanziaria del Consorzio interuniversitario Cineca, esercizio 2023 (Determinazione del 23 ottobre 2025, n. 130), PDF page 48 (printed page 40), Tabella 11, row M4C2I1.04 (CUP D56G22000380006, CN HPC, per page 47), 23 Oct 2025
Committed: €320 million, 30 Jun 2025. Printed as “319.938.979”. Total PNRR amount of the whole CN HPC project (all spokes; hub: ICSC Foundation), as reported in the same table; broader than CINECA's share. The project's overall payments are not stated in any document read. Tabella 11 - Stato di attuazione dei progetti PNRR e PNC “attuatore” al 30 giugno 2025 … 319.938.979 72.629.946 72.629.946 40.594.926 21.227.746 AVVIATO Esecuzione RAGGIUNTI M4C2I1.04-Potenziamento strutture di ricerca e creazione di campioni nazionali di R&S su alcune Key Enabling Technologies (Table 11, state of implementation of PNRR and PNC projects where Cineca is implementer, at 30 June 2025: total amount 319,938,979; amount assigned to the entity (B) 72,629,946; amount financed by the PNRR (C) 72,629,946; sums received from the PNRR 40,594,926; total sums paid 21,227,746; started; execution phase; targets to 30 June 2025 reached. Measure M4C2I1.04, strengthening research structures and creating national R&D champions in key enabling technologies.)
Corte dei conti, Sezione del controllo sugli enti, Determinazione e relazione sul risultato del controllo eseguito sulla gestione finanziaria del Consorzio interuniversitario Cineca, esercizio 2023 (Determinazione del 23 ottobre 2025, n. 130), PDF page 48 (printed page 40), Tabella 11, row M4C2I1.04 (CUP D56G22000380006, CN HPC, per page 47), 23 Oct 2025
Italian co-funding of the IT4LIA AI Factory and its AI supercomputer (Ministry of University and Research with ACN, Emilia-Romagna, CINECA, INFN and others)
A part of the programme. The ministry states the AI Factory's total investment (about EUR 430 million) as equal Italian and European Commission contributions, and EuroHPC states that MUR co-finances the EUR 290 million supercomputer contract; neither prints Italy's share as a figure, so budget is null (halving is not done here). The contract was signed in April 2026; no payment figure was found.
Announced: €430 million, 10 Dec 2024. Printed as “circa 430 milioni di euro”. Total AI Factory investment, Italian and European Commission contributions in equal parts; the national co-funders listed include MUR, ACN, Emilia-Romagna, CINECA, INFN, ItaliaMeteo and others. Not Italy's share alone. IT4LIA AI Factory beneficia di un investimento totale di circa 430 milioni di euro, con il contributo paritario del Governo italiano e della Commissione Europea. (IT4LIA AI Factory benefits from a total investment of about 430 million euros, with equal contributions from the Italian Government and the European Commission.)
Ministero dell'Università e della Ricerca, IT4LIA AI Factory: sarà italiana una delle prime piattaforme strategiche di intelligenza artificiale in Europa (10/12/2024), paragraph beginning "IT4LIA AI Factory beneficia", 10 Dec 2024
Committed: €290 million, 22 Apr 2026. Printed as “EUR 290.000.000”. Supercomputer contract budget (acquisition, delivery, installation, maintenance): EuroHPC funds 50% (eurohpc row) and MUR co-finances the rest; a contract award, not spending. The new AI-optimised supercomputer will be co-funded with a total budget of EUR 290.000.000 for the acquisition, delivery, installation, and maintenance of the system. The EuroHPC JU will fund 50% of the total cost through the Digital Europe Programme (DEP) . The project is co-financed by the Italian Ministry of University and Research.
European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking, EuroHPC JU Signs Contract to Boost AI Capabilities with IT4LIA AI Factory (22 April 2026), paragraph beginning "The new AI-optimised supercomputer"
LISA, the AI upgrade of Leonardo (co-funded by the EuroHPC JU and Italy through MUR and ICSC)
Allocation of EUR 105 million to INFN for integrating the INFN and CINECA scientific computing infrastructures and creating a European Big Data hub (MIUR decree of 4 December 2019 apportioning the fund under art. 1(95) of Law 145/2018)
A part of the programme. Pays for the shared INFN–CINECA data centre at the Bologna Tecnopolo that hosts Leonardo; assigned to INFN, which passes funds to CINECA under their December 2019 agreement. An allocation, with no payment figure found.
In a budget estimate: the €105 million allocated to INFN for the INFN–CINECA computing hub. Printed as “105M€”. About $116M at the reference rate of 4 Dec 2019. il decreto MIUR 4 dicembre 2019 contenente il riparto del fondo di cui all’art.1, comma 95 L. 145/2018 … l’assegnazione all’INFN di 105M€ per il progetto HPC “Finanziamento per l’integrazione delle infrastrutture di calcolo scientifico di INFN e CINECA e per la creazione di un HUB europeo per Big Data”. (the MIUR decree of 4 December 2019 apportioning the fund under art. 1, paragraph 95 of Law 145/2018 … the assignment to INFN of EUR 105M for the HPC project "Funding for integrating the scientific computing infrastructures of INFN and CINECA and creating a European Big Data HUB".)
Senato della Repubblica / Corte dei conti, Sezione del controllo sugli enti (annex: Cineca, relazione sulla gestione 2020), Relazione della Corte dei conti al Parlamento sulla gestione finanziaria del Consorzio Interuniversitario CINECA (Esercizio 2020), Doc. XV n. 61, XIX legislatura, with the consortium's 2020 management report annexed, PDF page 88 (Cineca management report 2020, section on the Tecnopolo data centre), 16 Mar 2023
Ministry of University and Research operating fund for supercomputing, paid to CINECA
A part of the programme. Annual ministry contribution towards CINECA's supercomputing operations (Leonardo since 2023). The figures are the amounts CINECA booked as each year's share ("di competenza"); no government payment record for them was read.
Annual appropriation: €13 million, 31 Dec 2022. Printed as “13.000.000”. The 2022 supercomputing contribution as booked by CINECA (revenue for the year); the decree for 2022 is not named in this report. Not a government payment record. Attività di supercalcolo 13.000.000 13.000.000 0 0 (Supercomputing activity: 13,000,000 (2022), 13,000,000 (2023), change 0, 0%)
Corte dei conti, Sezione del controllo sugli enti, Determinazione e relazione sul risultato del controllo eseguito sulla gestione finanziaria del Consorzio interuniversitario Cineca, esercizio 2023 (Determinazione del 23 ottobre 2025, n. 130), PDF page 64 (printed page 56), revenue table, 23 Oct 2025
Annual appropriation: €13 million, 31 Dec 2023. Printed as “euro 13 milioni”. The 2023 share of MUR's operating fund for supercomputing assigned by d.m. n. 809 del 2023, as booked by CINECA; not a government payment record. The audit notes CINECA's cash rose in 2023 partly from receipt of the contributions for 2018, 2020 and 2022, so receipts lag. La voce “attività di supercalcolo”, pari ad euro 13 milioni, rappresenta il contributo di competenza dell’esercizio relativo al fondo di funzionamento per il supercalcolo (d.m. n. 809 del 2023) (The item "supercomputing activity", of 13 million euros, is the year's accrued share of the operating fund for supercomputing (ministerial decree no. 809 of 2023))
Corte dei conti, Sezione del controllo sugli enti, Determinazione e relazione sul risultato del controllo eseguito sulla gestione finanziaria del Consorzio interuniversitario Cineca, esercizio 2023 (Determinazione del 23 ottobre 2025, n. 130), PDF page 64 (printed page 56), 23 Oct 2025
Searched, 5 places
Corte dei conti, Sezione del controllo sugli enti (reports on CINECA): Report on CINECA for 2023 (Determinazione n. 130 of 23 Oct 2025); report for 2020 (Doc. XV n. 61, communicated 16 Mar 2023) with CINECA's 2020 management report; senato.it links for other years returned empty files; reports for 2021 (Det. 59/2024) and 2022 were not obtained. CINECA's CN HPC share: EUR 72.6 million assigned, EUR 40.6 million received, EUR 21.2 million paid at 30 June 2025; MUR supercomputing operating contribution EUR 13 million a year (2022, 2023); the EUR 120 million MUR Leonardo co-financing and the EUR 105 million allocation to INFN (2020 report). No payment figure for Leonardo or IT4LIA. Corte dei conti, Sezione del controllo sugli enti (reports on CINECA), 2 Nov 2026
Ministry of University and Research news: News of 23 Feb 2022 (Leonardo) and 10 Dec 2024 (IT4LIA); web searches for an MUR decree or budget-law provision on IT4LIA co-funding. Leonardo EUR 120 million (2019–2025); IT4LIA about EUR 430 million total in equal Italian and Commission parts. No decree or payment figure found; a press report of a first EUR 60 million in the Gazzetta Ufficiale of 1 Dec 2025 was not verified. Ministry of University and Research news, 2 Nov 2026
EuroHPC JU news: IT4LIA contract (22 Apr 2026); SOL and LISA inauguration (11 Jun 2026); AI Factories page for Italy (ai-factories/italy_en). EUR 290 million IT4LIA contract, 50% EuroHPC, co-financed by MUR; LISA EUR 50 million co-funded by EuroHPC with Italy through MUR and ICSC; the AI Factory page lists the Italian co-funders without amounts. No payments. EuroHPC JU news, 2 Nov 2026
ItaliaDomani (official PNRR open data: projects and payments): Open data catalogue (projects, payments per CUP), refused on 2 November 2026. Not readable: the site answered "Access Denied" to curl with a generic browser User-Agent and HTTP 403 to WebFetch; not bypassed. The CN HPC project's overall payments therefore remain unread. ItaliaDomani (official PNRR open data: projects and payments), 2 Nov 2026
CINECA transparency pages (annual financial statements): Bilancio e nota integrativa 2022 (and the 2020 annual report link found by search). Not readable: a Cloudflare "Just a moment..." JavaScript challenge; not bypassed. CINECA transparency pages (annual financial statements), 2 Nov 2026
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Primary-line choice: Leonardo's MUR co-funding was chosen as the closest scope match with a stated amount and period; IT4LIA's Italian co-funding is the alternative, but no document read prints Italy's share of it as a figure.
Payments under MUR's EUR 120 million Leonardo co-funding and the EUR 105 million INFN–CINECA hub allocation: the State's final accounts (Rendiconto generale, MUR chapters) and the Corte dei conti reports on CINECA for 2021 and 2022 were not read.
Italy's own share of IT4LIA and its legal instrument: a press report of a first EUR 60 million published in the Gazzetta Ufficiale on 1 Dec 2025 is unverified.
Overall payments of the CN HPC project (hub ICSC) by CUP on ItaliaDomani, which refused access; the ICSC Foundation's accounts were not searched.
Open Sovereign AI funding