diff --git a/helm-chart/renku/templates/notebooks/remote-cluster-secrets.yaml b/helm-chart/renku/templates/notebooks/remote-cluster-secrets.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e9c759eecc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/helm-chart/renku/templates/notebooks/remote-cluster-secrets.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+# {{- if .Values.notebooks.remoteClusters }}
+# {{- $renkuFullname := include "renku.fullname" . -}}
+# {{- $secretName := cat $renkuFullname "-notebooks-remote-clusters" | nospace }}
+# {{- $existingSecret := (lookup "v1" "Secret" .Release.Namespace $secretName) }}
+# apiVersion: v1
+# kind: Secret
+# metadata:
+#   name: {{ $secretName }}
+#   labels:
+#     app: {{ template "renku.name" . }}
+#     chart: {{ template "renku.chart" . }}
+#     release: {{ .Release.Name }}
+#     heritage: {{ .Release.Service }}
+#   annotations:
+#     # If "keep" resource policy is removed the secret is deleted post upgrade see https://github.com/helm/helm/issues/8420
+#     "helm.sh/resource-policy": keep
+#     "helm.sh/hook": "pre-install,pre-upgrade,pre-rollback"
+# type: Opaque
+# data:
+# {{- range $name, $value := .Values.notebooks.remoteClusters }}
+# {{- $kubecfg := $value.kubeConfig | b64enc | quote }}
+# {{- if and $existingSecret (get $existingSecret $name ) }}
+# {{- $kubecfg = (get $existingSecret $name ) }}
+# {{- end}}
+#     {{ $name }}: {{ $kubecfg }}
+# {{- end -}}
+# {{- end -}}
diff --git a/helm-chart/renku/templates/notebooks/statefulset.yaml b/helm-chart/renku/templates/notebooks/statefulset.yaml
index f800651ec3..ad0cfd0ab8 100644
--- a/helm-chart/renku/templates/notebooks/statefulset.yaml
+++ b/helm-chart/renku/templates/notebooks/statefulset.yaml
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+{{- $remoteClusterConfig := list }}
+{{- if .Values.notebooks.remoteClusters }}
+{{- range $name, $value := .Values.notebooks.remoteClusters }}
+{{- $remoteClusterConfig = append $remoteClusterConfig ( dict "cluster_name" $name "namespace" $value.namespace "kube_config_path" ( printf "/remote_clusters/%s" $name ) "host" $value.host ) }}
+{{- end -}}
+{{- end -}}
 apiVersion: apps/v1
 kind: StatefulSet
 metadata:
@@ -166,6 +172,10 @@ spec:
             - name: NB_K8S__SESSIONS_NAMESPACE
               value: {{ .Values.notebooks.sessionsNamespace | quote }}
             {{ end }}
+            {{ if .Values.notebooks.remoteClusters }}
+            - name: NB_K8S__REMOTE_CLUSTERS_
+              value: {{ $remoteClusterConfig | toJson | quote }}
+            {{ end }}
             - name: NB_K8S__RENKU_NAMESPACE
               value: {{ .Release.Namespace | quote }}
             - name: NB_SESSIONS__GIT_PROXY__RENKU_CLIENT_ID
@@ -195,6 +205,11 @@ spec:
           volumeMounts:
             - name: server-options
               mountPath: /etc/renku-notebooks/server_options
+            {{- if .Values.notebooks.remoteClusters }}
+            - mountPath: "/remote_clusters/"
+              name: remote-cluster-configs
+              readOnly: true
+              {{- end -}}
             {{- include "certificates.volumeMounts.system" . | nindent 12 }}
           livenessProbe:
             httpGet:
@@ -235,6 +250,11 @@ spec:
         - name: server-options
           configMap:
             name: {{ template "renku.notebooks.fullname" . }}-options
+{{- if .Values.notebooks.remoteClusters }}
+        - name: remote-cluster-configs
+          secret: 
+            secretName: {{ template "renku.fullname" . }}-notebooks-remote-clusters
+{{- end -}}
         {{- include "certificates.volumes" . | nindent 8 }}
 
       serviceAccountName: {{ if .Values.notebooks.rbac.create }}"{{ template "renku.notebooks.fullname" . }}"{{ else }}"{{ .Values.notebooks.rbac.serviceAccountName }}"{{ end }}
diff --git a/helm-chart/renku/values.yaml b/helm-chart/renku/values.yaml
index a3149739ef..9d5670003d 100644
--- a/helm-chart/renku/values.yaml
+++ b/helm-chart/renku/values.yaml
@@ -1030,6 +1030,12 @@ notebooks:
   ## If left null then sessions will be launched in the same namespace
   ## as where the chart is installed.
   sessionsNamespace:
+  ## Define remote clusters that sessions can be scheduled on
+  remoteClusters: 
+  ## cluster_name: 
+  ##   namespace: namespace_in_other_cluster
+  ##   kubeConfig: |
+  ##     kube_config_content_for_cluster
   sessionAutosave:
     ## Any file higher than the minimum will be added to LFS
     minimumLFSFileSizeBytes: 1000000