European HPC Professional Traineeship Programme

The HPCTRAIN project provides traineeships to young professionals in high-performance computing (HPC) across Europe. 

This supports the Digital Europe Programme and EuroHPC JU policy to widen the use of supercomputing infrastructure and develop key HPC skills. The traineeship programme will promote HPC training at all levels and emphasize diversity and inclusion. The project matches interested trainees with training opportunities within its consortium, EuroHPC Hosting Entities, and other European projects and HPC stakeholders. It places particular focus on companies using HPC. 

HPCTRAIN will enhance career opportunities, improve digital skills, and bridge the gap to industry collaboration. Trainees will gain practical experience, networking opportunities, and exposure to industry partners, which will improve their employability and overall career prospects. Additionally, the traineeships will provide hands-on training in specific HPC technologies. 

As part of the HPCTRAIN consortium, CSC will contribute to identifying traineeship opportunities as well as offer those at CSC. CSC will also help prepare materials to promote traineeships and attract new trainees and traineeship providers.

Project consortium

The beneficiaries are CSC, Forschungszentrum Julich GmbH (FZJ), IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center at VSB – Technical University of Ostrava, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, the University of Stuttgart, LuxProvide, the University of Luxembourg, PRACE, CINECA, the University of Galway, INESC TEC and the University of Ljubljana.

Contact details

HPCTRAIN is coordinated by Forschungszentrum Julich GmbH (FZJ). To contact the Project Management Office (PMO) at FZJ, use the following contact form.

More information about the funding

This project is supported by the European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) under grant agreement No 101136896.