HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-DIGITAL-EMERGING-04

Post-exascale HPC (CSA) -

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  • HORIZON-EUROHPC-JU-2022-TECH-03-01
    Framework Partnership Agreement (FPA) for developing a large-scale European initiative for High Performance Computing (HPC) ecosystem based on RISC-V

    MOTIVATION This calls belongs to the EuroHPC's main initatives and interaction with this community is relevant for developing a roadmap addressing the post-exascale challenges

  • HORIZON-EUROHPC-JU-2024-INCO-06
    EuroHPC International Cooperation

    MOTIVATION This call aims to strengthen the cooperation with Japan within HPC and Quantum and can be relevant for understanding the post-exascale efforts on international level

  • HORIZON-EUROHPC-JU-2023-INCO-06-01
    India-EU

    MOTIVATION When establishing a roadmap on post-exascale, it is relevant to examine what is happening internationally. This call strengthen the collaboration with India i HPC.

  • HORIZON-EUROHPC-JU-2023-QEC-05-01
    European Quantum Excellence Centres (QECs) in applications for science and industry

    MOTIVATION This calls aims the creation of two European Quantum Excellence Centres in applications and it can be relevant to look into the funded projects in order to contribute to the development of a competitive European converged HPC/Quantum/AI ecosystem,

  • HORIZON-EUROHPC-JU-2023-COE-03-01
    Call on Centres Of Excellence For Exascale HPC Applications

    MOTIVATION Centres of Excellence advancing specific Lighthouse Exascale Applications are at the frontier of technology and relevant for the communities of HPC users

  • HORIZON-EUROHPC-JU-2023-COE-01-01
    Call on Centres Of Excellence For Exascale HPC Applications

    MOTIVATION Centres of Excellence advancing specific Lighthouse Exascale Applications are at the frontier of technology and relevant for the communities of HPC users

  • HORIZON-EUROHPC-JU-2022-ALG-02-01
    New algorithms for applications on European exascale supercomputers

    MOTIVATION This call can be relevant for a roadmap for post-exascale algorithms
    by understanding the ideas and challenges developed by the projects funded
    by HORIZON-EUROHPC-JU-2022-ALG-02-0

  • DIGITAL-EUROHPC-JU-2022-NCC-01-01
    National Competence Centres for High Performance Computing

    MOTIVATION These NCCs have very good connections to different ecosystems in AI, HPC and quantum technologies

  • HORIZON-JU-EUROHPC-2025-AIFA-01
    AI Factory Antennas

    MOTIVATION AI factories and their antennas are a main initiative of EuroHPC which ensure a strong AI engagement

  • HORIZON-EUROHPC-JU-2022-INCO-04-01
    EU-Japan Partnership

    MOTIVATION This call aims to strengthen the cooperation with Japan within HPC and can be relevant for understanding the post-exascale efforts on international level

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Expected Outcome:

The CSA action should be prepared, managed and coordinated by key stakeholders in the field. Project results are expected to contribute to the following expected outcomes:

  • Delivery of a high-quality roadmap addressing the post-exascale HPC/AI research challenges for applications, algorithms, software, hardware and systems, including a strong emphasis on AI
  • Contribution to the development of a competitive European converged HPC/Quantum/AI ecosystem, including AI Factories and future AI Gigafactories
  • Interaction and collaboration with similar international efforts, ensuring alignment with AI-driven computing paradigms worldwide
Scope:

Proposals are invited for a Coordination and Support Action that will guide and prepare European HPC for the post-exascale era of converging supercomputing, quantum computing and artificial intelligence worlds.

The action should bring together the key scientific and industrial players in Europe, ensuring strong AI engagement, and should liaise with the relevant international post-exascale efforts (e.g. the International Exascale Project (InPex)), the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking advisory bodies such as the Research and Innovation Advisory Group (RIAG) and the Infrastructure Advisory Group (INFRAG), the EuroHPC JU private partners (i.e. the European Technology Platform for High Performance Computing ETP4HPC, the Big Data Value Association (BDVA), and the European Quantum Industry Consortium (QuIC)), relevant EuroHPC main initiatives (e.g. the DARE Framework Programme Agreement on RISC-V processors, HPC Centres of Excellence, AI Factories, etc), the hosting entities of European AI Factories and future AI Gigafactories, and other relevant European projects and initiatives.

The action should analyse the research challenges of all relevant technologies in the post-exascale/AI era and produce and maintain a high-quality research roadmap with recommendations for research actions at the European level. Issues like hardware-supported mixed-precision, AI-driven HPC as a service, real-time HPC, next generation AI model training and inference, digital continuum, convergence of HPC/AI/Quantum/Cloud/Edge, should be part of the analysis.

The Commission considers that proposals with an overall duration of typically 24/36 months would allow these outcomes to be addressed appropriately. Nonetheless, this does not preclude submission and selection of proposals requesting other durations. Only one proposal will be selected for funding.

In this topic the integration of the gender dimension (sex and/or gender analysis) in research and innovation content is not a mandatory requirement; however, should proposers consider it to be of relevance for their proposal, they are strongly encouraged to integrate it.

Projects are expected to develop synergies with relevant projects funded under the Digital Europe Programme (DEP).

News flashes

2025-09-20

Please note that due to a technical issue, during the first days of publication of this call, the topic page did not display the description of the corresponding destination. This problem is now solved.

In addition to the information published in the topic page, you can always find a full description of the Destination 4 ("Achieving open strategic autonomy in digital and emerging enabling technologies") that are relevant for the call in the Work Programme 2025 part for "Digital, Industry and Space". Please select from the work programme the destination relevant to your topic and take into account the description and expected impacts of that destination for the preparation of your proposal.

2025-09-20
The submission session is now available for: HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-DIGITAL-EMERGING-02, HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-HUMAN-14, HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-HUMAN-16, HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-DATA-09, HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-DIGITAL-EMERGING-03, HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-MATERIALS-47, HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01, HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-DIGITAL-EMERGING-07, HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-DATA-08, HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-HUMAN-19, HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-DIGITAL-EMERGING-08, HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-DATA-12, HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-DATA-13, HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-HUMAN-18, HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-HUMAN-15, HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-DATA-10, HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-DIGITAL-EMERGING-04, HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-DIGITAL-EMERGING-09, HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-DATA-11, HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-MATERIALS-46, HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-HUMAN-17
2025-09-20

Please note that due to a technical issue, during the first days of publication of this call, the topic page did not display the description of the corresponding destination. This problem is now solved.

In addition to the information published in the topic page, you can always find a full description of the Destination 4 ("Achieving open strategic autonomy in digital and emerging enabling technologies") that are relevant for the call in the Work Programme 2025 part for "Digital, Industry and Space". Please select from the work programme the destination relevant to your topic and take into account the description and expected impacts of that destination for the preparation of your proposal.

2025-09-20
The submission session is now available for: HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-DIGITAL-EMERGING-02, HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-HUMAN-14, HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-HUMAN-16, HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-DATA-09, HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-DIGITAL-EMERGING-03, HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-MATERIALS-47, HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01, HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-DIGITAL-EMERGING-07, HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-DATA-08, HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-HUMAN-19, HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-DIGITAL-EMERGING-08, HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-DATA-12, HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-DATA-13, HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-HUMAN-18, HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-HUMAN-15, HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-DATA-10, HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-DIGITAL-EMERGING-04, HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-DIGITAL-EMERGING-09, HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-DATA-11, HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-MATERIALS-46, HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-HUMAN-17
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call topic details
Call status: Open
Publication date: 2025-05-15 (4 months ago)
Opening date: 2025-06-10 (3 months ago)
Closing date: 2025-10-02 (1 week from now)
Procedure: single-stage

Budget: 2,500,000
Expected grants: 1
Contribution: 2,500,000 - 2,500,000
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Eligibility for this topic is restricted under art. 22.6 of the Horizon Europe regulation (see [1]). Specifically, any entities considered high-risk suppliers of mobile network communication equipment are expressly excluded from participating. This currently concerns companies Huawei and ZTE (see [2]) as well as any entities fully or partially owned / controlled by them. [1] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2021/695/oj/eng [2] https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/communication-commission-implementation-5g-cybersecurity-toolbox

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