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The European Innovation Council offers business up to EUR 30 million for companies to develop industrial technologies – accelerate them using supercomputers

Innovative companies and ambitious start-ups have a unique opportunity to receive significant support for technological development in 2025. The European Innovation Council (EIC) has launched a new EUR 300 million Step-up Facility to support the development of digital and engineering innovation, sustainable technologies, and biotechnologies.

Selected projects can receive funding of up to EUR 30 million, opening the door to significant technology developments for companies. Plus, we will help you design how to accelerate your projects with the power of supercomputers.

What areas does the initiative target?

Digital and Engineering Technologies, specifically semiconductors, artificial intelligence, quantum technologies, sensors, robotics, and autonomous systems.
Sustainable technologies focusing on net-zero solutions such as solar and wind energy, battery storage, geothermal energy, hydrogen, biogas, carbon capture, as well as circular economy and nuclear energy.
Biotechnology, including critical drug discovery, DNA/RNA, proteins, cell engineering, gene vectors, bioinformatics, and nanobiotechnology.

How to participate?

Applications are now open, and interested parties can submit their projects via the EIC website. The evaluation of the submitted projects takes place on a quarterly basis. Detailed information on the programme and funding conditions can be found here.

We can help you accelerate your plan with supercomputers

Solving such global challenges generally requires the employment of advanced data analysis, simulation, modelling, artificial intelligence, and, therefore, supercomputers or the aforementioned quantum technologies. In these areas, we will be happy to guide you and help you create tailored solutions.

Turn your innovative ideas into successful solutions and join the technological leaders in Europe.

All you need to do is contact us and get free support from experts in supercomputing and quantum computing in practice.

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What skills do supercomputer users want to improve? From the basics of quantum computing to advanced AI

Our team prepares dozens of training courses per year for those interested in learning about high-performance computing, data analytics, artificial intelligence, and quantum computing. We offer courses and workshops ranging from beginner level to deeply specialised topics for the advanced.

However, user needs are changing dynamically. Therefore, we identify current needs through a Training Needs Survey when preparing new training programmes.

Survey results in a nutshell:

Training needs:

The most popular are HPC courses at all levels. 60% of respondents said it was very interesting.
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the second most popular topic. 36 % of respondents said it was very interesting.
- Quantum computing is on the rise, but most respondents have minimal experience in this area.
Training formats and delivery methods:
- The most preferred format was a combination of theoretical lectures and practical exercises.
- Online training has become the most convenient form. Preferences for face-to-face training are declining.
- The most requested are one-day or shorter training courses.
The greatest interest was in the following specific course topics:
- Access to HPC resources.
- Parallel programming (MPI, OpenMP).
- GPU-accelerated computing.
- Neural Network Architectures for AI.
- Introduction to Gate-Based Quantum Computing.

A total of 105 respondents, mainly from academia, industry, and the public sector, participated in the survey. Those interested in training tend to come from domains such as computer science, applied mathematics, and materials science.

If you would like further information on the Training Needs Survey analysis or have any other questions, don’t hesitate to contact us at training@it4i.cz.