diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 10652f19b..fc5ebda17 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ authors = [
 description = "Extend NeXus for experiments and characterization in Materials Science and Materials Engineering and serve as a NOMAD parser implementation for NeXus."
 readme = "README.md"
 license = { file = "LICENSE" }
-requires-python = ">=3.10"
+requires-python = ">=3.8"
 classifiers = [
     "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8",
     "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9",