diff --git a/HPC_setup/create_runscripts_HPC.sh b/HPC_setup/create_runscripts_HPC.sh
index 5e37d820ae1241c09c1c87c141bdcf005044a3b7..61d361b5a6c737570d040aee9ec95f74c63439b4 100755
--- a/HPC_setup/create_runscripts_HPC.sh
+++ b/HPC_setup/create_runscripts_HPC.sh
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ source venv_${hpcsys}/bin/activate
 
 timestamp=\`date +"%Y-%m-%d_%H%M-%S"\`
 
-export PYTHONPATH=\${PWD}/venv_${hpcsys}/lib/python3.6/site-packages:\${PYTHONPATH}
+export PYTHONPATH=\${PWD}/venv_${hpcsys}/lib/python3.8/site-packages:\${PYTHONPATH}
 
 srun --cpu-bind=none python run.py --experiment_date=\$timestamp
 EOT
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ source venv_${hpcsys}/bin/activate
 
 timestamp=\`date +"%Y-%m-%d_%H%M-%S"\`
 
-export PYTHONPATH=\${PWD}/venv_${hpcsys}/lib/python3.6/site-packages:\${PYTHONPATH}
+export PYTHONPATH=\${PWD}/venv_${hpcsys}/lib/python3.8/site-packages:\${PYTHONPATH}
 
 srun --cpu-bind=none python run_HPC.py --experiment_date=\$timestamp
 EOT