# National Competence Centres for High Performance Computing
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**topic id:** DIGITAL-JU-EUROHPC-2025-NCC-01-01
**call id:** DIGITAL-JU-EUROHPC-2025-NCC-01
**title:** National Competence Centres for High Performance Computing
**programme:** Digital Europe
**status:** closed
**deadline date:** 2025-10-29T00:00:00+00:00
**deadline model:** single-stage
**start date:** 2025-07-29T00:00:00+00:00
**url:** https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/DIGITAL-JU-EUROHPC-2025-NCC-01-01
**description:** Objective:The objective of this call is to strengthen the European HPC ecosystem by supporting existing, or establishing up to one new, National Competence Centre (NCC) for HPC in as many EuroHPC JU Participating States as possible. NCCs will be a focal point of HPC in the respective country and will provide a wide range of HPC services and training to industry (in particular to SMEs), academia and public administrations, facilitating tailored and modular solutions for a wide variety of HPC users. The NCCs should connect relevant stakeholders to other national and European initiatives in the area of HPC to provide the best possible support for HPC to the local communities.
SMEs and start-ups will be central to the NCC’s activities. Academic institutions and stakeholders may be addressed only to a limited extent and most of the resources of the NCC will be dedicated to support local SMEs, industry and public services.
Scope:The action should set up and operate, or further develop where already existing, one NCC for HPC in each country in a maximum number of EuroHPC JU Participating States. The NCCs represent the focal point of national competences in HPC and provide leading-edge knowledge to enable the development of innovative solutions in their country, taking into account national HPC needs and requirements emanating from different user communities (industry, academia, public administrations) and application domains.
The NCCs focus on activities where local support is most effective such as local communication, training and consultation services to support the specific needs of the relevant national and local communities. They provide a flexible and modular portfolio of HPC services, taking into account the degree of maturity of the national HPC ecosystem and in close coordination and collaboration with the other NCCs to achieve the highest possible impact and the widest possible spread of knowledge. NCCs will support stakeholders from other regions and countries that need their expertise through the NCC network in a coordinated way by the complementary Coordination and Support Action.
**conditions:** Conditions
1. Admissibility Conditions: Proposal page limit and layout
described in section 5 of the call document.
Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System.

2. Eligible Countries
described in section 6 of the call document.

3. Other Eligible Conditions
described in section 6 of the call document.

4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion
described in section 7 of the call document.

5a. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes
described section 8 of the call document and the Online Manual.

5b. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds
described in section 9 of the call document.

5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement
described in section 4 of the call document.

6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants
described in section 10 of the call document.

Call document and annexes:
 Call document
Application form templates
Standard application form (DEP) — the application form specific to this call is available in the Submission System 

Model Grant Agreements (MGA)
DEP MGA 

Additional documents:
 EuroHPC JU GB Decision No. 26/2025- Amending the Joint Undertaking's Work Programme and Budget for the year 2025 (Amendment No 4)
EuroHPC JU GB Decision No. 28/2025 - Approving the launch of a call for proposals on National Competence Centres 
EuroHPC JU regulation 2021
DEP Work Programmes
DEP Regulation 2021/964
EU Financial Regulation 2024/2509
Rules for Legal Entity Validation, LEAR Appointment and Financial Capacity Assessment
EU Grants AGA — Annotated Model Grant Agreement 
Funding & Tenders Portal Online Manual 
Funding & Tenders Portal Terms and Conditions 
Funding & Tenders Portal Privacy Statement
**action type:** DIGITAL JU Simple Grants
**budget:** 
  **budget Years Columns:** 
    - 2025
  **budget Topic Action Map:** 
    **111526:** 
      -         **action:** DIGITAL-JU-EUROHPC-2025-NCC-01-02 - DIGITAL-JU-CSA DIGITAL JU Coordination and Support Actions
        **budget Year Map:** 
          **2025:** 22000000
        **deadline Dates:** 
          - 2025-10-29
        **deadline Model:** single-stage
        **expected Grants:** 1
        **max Contribution:** 2000000
        **min Contribution:** 1000000
        **planned Opening Date:** 2025-07-29
      -         **action:** DIGITAL-JU-EUROHPC-2025-NCC-01-01 - DIGITAL-JU-SIMPLE DIGITAL JU Simple Grants
        **budget Year Map:** 
          **2025:** 22000000
        **deadline Dates:** 
          - 2025-10-29
        **deadline Model:** single-stage
        **expected Grants:** 1
        **max Contribution:** 20000000
        **min Contribution:** 10000000
        **planned Opening Date:** 2025-07-29
**keywords:** DIGITAL-JU-EUROHPC-2025-NCC-01-01, DIGITAL-JU-EUROHPC-2025-NCC-01, High-performance computing (HPC)
**last synced at:** 2026-11-09T17:23:17.403+00:00

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