diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index f545d1e3478052c8768ed2a9388e6481bb01f80a..0052b9546d21af2ba28d109b8e41f03b090ea029 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -961,8 +961,13 @@ option ( WALBERLA_THREAD_SAFE_LOGGING "Enables/Disables thread-safe logging" ON
 
 if ( WALBERLA_BUILD_WITH_OPENMP )
     if ( WALBERLA_CXX_COMPILER_IS_INTEL )
-       add_flag ( CMAKE_C_FLAGS   "-openmp" )
-       add_flag ( CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "-openmp" )
+       if( CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_VERSION VERSION_LESS "15.0" )
+          add_flag ( CMAKE_C_FLAGS   "-openmp" )
+          add_flag ( CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "-openmp" )
+       else()
+          add_flag ( CMAKE_C_FLAGS   "-qopenmp" )
+          add_flag ( CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "-qopenmp" )
+       endif()
     elseif ( CMAKE_COMPILER_IS_GNUCXX )
       add_flag ( CMAKE_C_FLAGS   "-fopenmp" )
       add_flag ( CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "-fopenmp" )