Transversal Centres of Excellence (CoEs) will play a strategic role in enabling the next generation of high-performance computing (HPC) applications by providing essential expertise, tools, and support to European HPC application developers. As the demand for computational power, AI integration, and large-scale simulations continues to grow, it is critical to establish technical hubs that can bridge the gap between cutting-edge HPC infrastructure and application developers. These centres will streamline software development and deployment, optimize performance, and facilitate the adoption of best practices, standards, and emerging HPC technologies across diverse scientific and industrial domains. Transversal Centres of Excellence will increase the adoption and broader dissemination of state-of-the-art HPC software development tools, technologies, and best practices among HPC application developers. They will strengthen technical skills and expertise within the HPC application development community and will harmonize performance standards and metrics for HPC applications and systems, ensuring consistency across the European HPC ecosystem. This action aims to establish Transversal Centres of Excellence (CoEs) that serve as technical hubs for HPC application developers. These CoEs will provide specialised technical support in areas such as application profiling, pre-/post-processing, performance optimization, application delivery, co-design, and the integration of data and AI technologies. The initiative will help to streamline and enhance the development, deployment, and optimization of HPC applications across different domains.

Eligibility

• Any legal entity, regardless of its place of establishment, including legal entities from non-associated third countries or international organizations (including international European research organizations), is eligible to participate (whether it is eligible for funding or not).
• Countries associated with Horizon Europe.
• Low- and middle-income countries.

The award value for this call is around EUR 1000000 to 2500000.

The application deadline for this call is January 01, 2026.

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