Dear All,

We are pleased to announce that UK public research organisations will be eligible for funding to participate in three upcoming research and innovation calls run by the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU).

• The Department for Science Innovation and Technology (DSIT) is funding UK teams to develop and optimise exascale and AI‑ready software, toolchains and workflows in areas of national importance. These calls will support structured, cross‑border collaboration with leading European computing centres and further develop the UK compute ecosystem in line with recently published Compute Roadmap.
• Funding is available for UK proposals in the following calls:
  • HORIZON-JU-EUROHPC-2026-COE-LH-01-01: Community Centres of Excellence
  • HORIZON-JU-EUROHPC-2026-COE-LH-01-02: Transversal Centres of Excellence
  • HORIZON-JU-EUROHPC-2026-COE-LH-01-03: Lighthouse Codes for HPC Applications
• Prospective applicants should refer to the EU Funding and Tenders Portal for further information on the calls and a full explanation of how to apply. Please note, these calls will be run, evaluated, and managed by the EuroHPC JU.
• DSIT have allocated up to £3.9 million to fund UK participation across the three calls. UKRI will be responsible for delivering this funding and entering into Grant Funding Agreements with the beneficiaries. To be eligible to receive match-funding, applicants must be public research organisations that are based in the UK and eligible for UKRI funding
• EuroHPC JU will evaluate proposals through an independent peer review panel and provide UKRI with a ranked list of successful proposals. UKRI will fund the highest-scoring proposals in each call until the budget for these calls is exhausted. Successful applicants will receive 50% of their funding from the EuroHPC JU through the Horizon Europe funding programme and 50% from URKI via separate Grant Funding Agreements.
• Individual proposals should not exceed £1.3 million in proposed UK contribution. So that we can monitor the budget likely to be needed under each call, we encourage those preparing proposals to inform UKRI DRI team (dri@ukri.org) at the earliest convenient time.
• Successful proposals will be made up of consortia of up to forty different public research organisations and businesses across Europe. Interested parties are therefore encouraged to begin the process of building these consortia with European partners as soon as possible. To this end, the upcoming EuroHPC User Day 2025 at the end of September will offer opportunities for networking and relationship building with an array of different computing centres and businesses; further details can be found on the EuroHPC JU’s website.

Regards,

UKRI DRI Team