General conditions 1. Admissibility Conditions: Proposal page limit and layout described in Annex A and Annex E of the Horizon Europe Work Programme General Annexes. Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System. 2. Eligible Countries described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes. A number of non-EU/non-Associated Countries that are not automatically eligible for funding have made specific provisions for making funding available for their participants in Horizon Europe projects. See the information in the Horizon Europe Programme Guide . 3. Other Eligible Conditions In order to achieve the expected outcomes, and safeguard the Union’s strategic assets, interests, autonomy, or security, namely considering that The Centres of Excellence (Community and Transversal) and Lighthouse codes will cover advances of targeted HPC applications towards highly scalable, optimised flagship codes and exascale performance, which are highly sensitive from a security and digital autonomy perspective, as they are part of Europe’s critical European HPC infrastructure and ecosystem whereby their integrity, resilience and security have to be duly safeguarded from cyber-attacks and other security threats, and given their key role in the functioning of EU’s data infrastructures and, given the potential sensitivity of the data processed (including for instance drug discovery testing and/or nuclear research simulations); The actions implemented by the Centres of Excellence (Community and Transversal) and Lighthouse Codes might address real time critical applications during emergency situations using dedicated supercomputing resources (meant to, for example, save lives by promptly forecasting and mitigating the impacts triggered by natural disasters) the EU needs to avoid a situation of technological dependency on a non-EU source for close-to-market critical technologies. Participation is limited to legal entities established in eligible countries described in Annex B of the Horizon Europe Work Programme General Annexes. described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes. 4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion described in Annex C of the Work Programme General Annexes. 5a. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds are described in Annex D of the Work Programme General Annexes. 5b. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes are described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes and the Online Manual . 5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes. 6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants Beneficiaries will be subject to the following additional obligations regarding open science practices: Coordinated provision of software, algorithms and relevant information to use and validate applications/tools without undue delay to the wider European HPC user community, in particular all participating supercomputing centres, and in collaboration with linked actions. Grants award under this topic will have to submit the following deliverable(s): data management plan (to be submitted at the beginning, at mid-term and towards the end of the project); communication plan (to be submitted 6 months after the beginning of the grant together with the D&E plan); plan for the dissemination and exploitation of results (to be submitted 6 months after the beginning of the grant, and towards the end of the project). As an exception from General Annex G of the Horizon Europe Work Programme, the EU-funding rate for eligible costs in grants awarded by the JU for this topic will be up to 50% of the eligible costs. described in Annex G of the Work Programme General Annexes. Specific conditions described in the EuroHPC JU Decision No 19/2025 Application and evaluation forms and model grant agreement (MGA): Application form templates — the application form specific to this call is available in the Submission System Standard application form (HE RIA, IA) Evaluation form templates — will be used with the necessary adaptations Standard evaluation form (HE RIA, IA) Guidance HE Programme Guide Model Grant Agreements (MGA) HE MGA HE Unit MGA Additional documents: HE Main Work Programme 2023–2025 – 1. General Introduction HE Main Work Programme 2023–2025 – 3. Research Infrastructures HE Main Work Programme 2023–2025 – 7. Digital, Industry and Space HE Main Work Programme 2023–2025 – 13. General Annexes HE Programme Guide HE Specific Programme Decision 2021/764 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