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Specific Challenge:This topic covers two interrelated and complementary areas:
a. National HPC Competence Centres – The aim is to support existing or the creation in a maximum number of countries of up to one national HPC Competence Centre in each of the EU Member States and EuroHPC JU Participating States. The national HPC Competence Centres should provide HPC services to industry (including to SMEs), academia and public administrations, delivering tailored /modular solutions for a wide variety of users, with an aim to ease and foster the transition towards wider uptake of HPC in Europe. It should be the focal point coordinating all national initiatives, facilitating access of national stakeholders to European HPC competence and opportunities in different industrial sectors and domains.
b. Networking and coordination of national HPC Competence Centres with the aim to maximize existing European HPC knowledge and expertise across Europe. The tasks and services of the network will be to establish a single focal point at European level, that will be responsible for the coordination of the national Competence Centres, the exchange of best practices, know-how a...
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Specific Challenge:This topic covers two interrelated and complementary areas:
a. National HPC Competence Centres – The aim is to support existing or the creation in a maximum number of countries of up to one national HPC Competence Centre in each of the EU Member States and EuroHPC JU Participating States. The national HPC Competence Centres should provide HPC services to industry (including to SMEs), academia and public administrations, delivering tailored /modular solutions for a wide variety of users, with an aim to ease and foster the transition towards wider uptake of HPC in Europe. It should be the focal point coordinating all national initiatives, facilitating access of national stakeholders to European HPC competence and opportunities in different industrial sectors and domains.
b. Networking and coordination of national HPC Competence Centres with the aim to maximize existing European HPC knowledge and expertise across Europe. The tasks and services of the network will be to establish a single focal point at European level, that will be responsible for the coordination of the national Competence Centres, the exchange of best practices, know-how and information, networking and training across national HPC Competence Centres.
Scope:a. Research and Innovation Actions
Set-up and operate one HPC Competence Centre in a maximum number of countries of each of the EU Member States and EuroHPC JU Participating States, associated to the national supercomputing centres. The HPC Competence Centre should provide leading-edge, innovative solutions taking into account national HPC needs and requirements emanating from different users (industry, academia, public administrations), and develop the necessary expertise and applications know-how close to the users. National HPC Competence Centres should implement a flexible and modular approach in the services to be provided, taking into account the degree of maturity of the national HPC infrastructure.
HPC Competence Centres should provide for example services such as:
Facilitate uptake of HPC applications by different users, including SMEs (e.g. promoting locally relevant success stories), academia and public administrations.Facilitate access to scientific/technical expertise/consulting through application oriented HPC know-how/focus (e.g. HPC and High Performance Data Analytics (HPDA)), as well as access to advanced simulation and modelling algorithms, software codes and tools.Onsite evaluations of new technologies, experimenting, proof of concept, facilitating access to the HPC ecosystem including testbeds, hands-on sessions on HPC and, HPC application optimising and scaling in a number of fields.Facilitate access to supercomputing and data management for exploring innovation solutions of interest to end users, including SME user industries.Local and national training and skills development in the area of HPC and related subjects (e.g. HPDA, parallel programming, etc.), through face-to-face as well as online training (e.g. MOOC platforms).Awareness raising and outreach on the benefits of HPC to potential user industries, including SMEs.Implementing technology transfer activities at local/national level and the Digital Single Market. It is required that the national HPC Competence Centre – consisting of either one or several national organisations - is formally designated and mandated by the national authorities of the EU Member State or the EuroHPC JU Participating State.
The JU considers that proposals requesting a contribution from the JU of up to EUR 1 million per national HPC Competence Centres[1], matched by the Participating States with a similar amount, and a duration of 2 years would allow this specific challenge to be addressed appropriately. Nonetheless, this does not preclude submission and selection of proposals with another duration or requesting other amounts. Only one proposal including a maximum number of national HPC Competence Centres will be selected.
b. Coordination and Support Action
Proposals should aim at coordinating the national HPC Competence Centres. In particular, it is expected to establish a communication platform, facilitate dialogue, promote the objectives of the HPC Competence Centres and organize outreach events and workshops (on topics identified by the national HPC Competence Centres). It is expected to identify potential training solutions and tools available from the HPC Competence Centres network to support and assist national HPC Competence Centres requests and/or needs and help networking of respective national and European activities including through the provision of mentoring and twinning schemes.
Proposals should address all the following points:
coordinate and be a reference point for national HPC initiatives ensuring the exchange of best practice and information across Europe;ensure that the specific “vertical” expertise and solutions of each national Competence Centre provide coordinated support on a local level to other Competence Centres, facilitating cross-domain expertise and share effective solutions for industry, academia and the public sector;coordinate centrally mentoring and twinning programmes with the aim to accelerate the development of ‘new’ HPC Competence Centres and build strong collaborations across HPC Competence Centres with similar interests;sharing of existing libraries of HPC codes and, inter alia facilitate access to upgraded HPC application codes in order to encourage mutual learning and strive towards reaching a uniform maturity level across HPC Competence Centres and help close the gap between experienced and less experienced countries. It is expected that such an activity be driven by the relevant actor(s) bringing in the required expertise and a solid and robust track-record in offering HPC Competence Centre related services to a variety of users including industry, as well as HPC-related training activities at European level.
The JU considers that proposals requesting a contribution from the EU of up to EUR 2 million and a duration of 2 years would allow this specific challenge to be addressed appropriately. Nonetheless, this does not preclude submission and selection of proposals requesting another duration or other amounts. Only one proposal will be selected.
Expected Impact:a. Research and Innovation Action
Contribution to the realisation of the EuroHPC overall and specific objectives[2]Promoting the use of HPC at national level by identifying relevant users and matching their needs with the available expertise in the HPC Competence CentresEffective establishment of a wide range of HPC services (as referred in the scope of this objective)Provision of leading-edge, innovative solutions for targeted regional/national industries/ applicationsProvision of support to interested end users that are/will use HPC and HPDA in their daily businessContribute in ensuring European technological autonomy in this field b. Coordination and Support Action
Contribution to the realisation of the EuroHPC overall and specific objectives[2]Effective coordination and exchange of best practices and information among the networked HPC Competence CentresFacilitate access to services and training offered at national level to interested HPC Competence Centres and other potential users (from industry, academia or public sector)Maximise visibility and outreach of national HPC Competence Centres, in particular to industryImproved coordination and increased availability of training activities on HPC across HPC Competence Centres
[1]Please refer to the Annex of the Work Plan for the funding rate and the national contribution to this topic
[2]Council Regulation 2018/1488 of 28 September 2018 establishing the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC) https://eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/documents/Regulation.pdf
[3]Council Regulation 2018/1488 of 28 September 2018 establishing the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC) https://eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/documents/Regulation.pdf
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2. Eligibility and admissibility conditions: The conditions are described in General Annexes B and C of the Horizon 2020 Work Programme 2018-2020.
Please note that for this topic the JU funding rate for eligible costs in grants awarded under this topic will have a 50% funding rate for the EuroHPC-04 – Competence Centre RIA. The level of matching funds of EuroHPC Participating States and corresponding national eligibility conditions are provided in the Annex of the EuroHPC Workplan 2019.
3. Proposal page limits and layout: please refer to Part B of the proposal template in the submission system below.
4. Evaluation criteria and process: The criteria, scoring and threshold are described in General Annex H of the Horizon 2020 Work Programme 2018-2020.
The procedure for setting a priority order for proposals with the same score is given in General Annex H of the of the Horizon 2020 Work Programme 2018-2020.
The full evaluation procedure is described in the relevant guide published on the Funding & Tenders Portal.
Only one proposal per type of action will be funded.
5. Indicative timetable for evaluation and grant agreements: For single stage procedure:
Information on the outcome of evaluation: maximum 5 months from the final deadline for s... 1. Eligible countries: The conditions are described in General Annex A of the Horizon 2020 Work Programme 2018-2020.
2. Eligibility and admissibility conditions: The conditions are described in General Annexes B and C of the Horizon 2020 Work Programme 2018-2020.
Please note that for this topic the JU funding rate for eligible costs in grants awarded under this topic will have a 50% funding rate for the EuroHPC-04 – Competence Centre RIA. The level of matching funds of EuroHPC Participating States and corresponding national eligibility conditions are provided in the Annex of the EuroHPC Workplan 2019.
3. Proposal page limits and layout: please refer to Part B of the proposal template in the submission system below.
4. Evaluation criteria and process: The criteria, scoring and threshold are described in General Annex H of the Horizon 2020 Work Programme 2018-2020.
The procedure for setting a priority order for proposals with the same score is given in General Annex H of the of the Horizon 2020 Work Programme 2018-2020.
The full evaluation procedure is described in the relevant guide published on the Funding & Tenders Portal.
Only one proposal per type of action will be funded.
5. Indicative timetable for evaluation and grant agreements: For single stage procedure:
Information on the outcome of evaluation: maximum 5 months from the final deadline for submission.
Indicative date for the signing of grant agreements: maximum 8 months from the final deadline for submission.
6. Proposal and evaluation forms and model agreements:
Research and Innovation Action:
Standard proposal template
Standard evaluation form
General MGA - Multi-Beneficiary
Coordination and Support Action:
Standard proposal template
Standard evaluation form
General MGA - Multi-Beneficiary
7. Additional requirements:
Horizon 2020 budget flexibility
For grants awarded under this topic the JU may object to a transfer of ownership or the exclusive licensing of results to a third party established in a third country not associated to Horizon 2020. The respective option of Article 30.3 of the EuroHPC JU Model Grant Agreement will be applied.
Additionally, the Work Plan foresees additional exploitation obligations, requiring that first exploitation of the results takes place in Europe using an option of Article 28 of the EuroHPC JU Model Grant Agreement as a default option.
Participants are encouraged to include a security self-assessment identifying any security issues and detailing how those issues will be addressed in order to comply with the relevant national and Union laws. Where appropriate, the Joint Undertaking may carry out a security scrutiny for proposals raising security issues in accordance with General Annex J of the Horizon 2020 Work Programme 2018-2020. The security scrutiny may lead to security requirements that are set out in Annex 1 to the EuroHPC JU Model Grant Agreement.
Grants awarded under this topic will be complementary.
The respective options of Article 2, Article 31.6 and Article 41.4 of the EuroHPC JU Model Grant Agreement will be applied.
As an exception from General Annex D of the Horizon 2020 Work Programme 2018-2020, the funding rate for eligible costs in grants awarded under this topic will have a 50% funding rate for the EuroHPC-04 – Competence Centre RIA, and a funding rate of 100% for the EuroHPC-04 – Competence Centre CSA.
The conditions related to the topics are provided at the end of this call and in the General Annexes of the Horizon 2020 Work Programme 2018-2020 [[Available at: http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/other/wp/2018-2020/annexes/h2020-wp1820-annex-ga_en.pdf]].
Members of consortium are required to conclude a consortium agreement, in principle prior to the signature of the grant agreement.
8. Open access to research data and specific publications:
Open access must be granted to all scientific publications resulting from actions covered by this topic.
Where relevant, proposals should also provide information on how the participants will manage the research data generated and/or collected during the project, such as details on what types of data the project will generate, whether and how this data will be exploited or made accessible for verification and re-use, and how it will be curated and preserved.
Projects funded under this topic will by default provide open access to the research data they generate, except if they decide to opt-out. Part L of the General Annexes to the Horizon 2020 Work Programme 2018-2020 shall apply mutatis mutandis to the actions covered by this topic. Projects can opt-out at any stage, that is both before and after the grant signature.
Note that the evaluation phase proposals will not be evaluated more favourably because they plan to open or share their data, and will not be penalised for opting out.
Open research data sharing applies to the data needed to validate the results presented in scientific publications. Additionally, projects can choose to make other data available open access and need to describe their approach in a Data Management Plan.
Projects need to create a Data Management Plan (DMP), except if they opt-out of making their research data open access. A first version of the DMP must be provided as an early deliverable within six months of the project and should be updated during the project as appropriate. The Commission already provides guidance documents, including a template for DMPs. See the Online Manual.
Eligibility of costs: costs related to data management and data sharing are eligible for reimbursement during the project duration.
The legal requirements for projects participating in this pilot are in the article 29.3 of the Model Grant Agreement.
9. Additional documents (i.e):
EuroHPC Workplan 2019
General annexes to the Work Programme 2018-2020
Legal basis: Horizon 2020 Regulation of Establishment
Legal basis: Horizon 2020 Rules for Participation
Legal basis: Horizon 2020 Specific Programme
Legal basis: EuroHPC Regulation 2018
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