Official call identifier: EVITA
Objective of the call
The objective of the EVITA Call for Modular Training Materials is to support the development of high-quality modular training courses in High-Performance Computing (HPC), aligned with the EVITA Competence and Qualification Framework (CQF) and suitable for integration into the EVITA Training Platform.
The call aims to fund courses that address key HPC skills needs and contribute to a structured European training ecosystem. EVITA modules are expected to support both self-paced competence acquisition and instructor-led delivery, combining guided content, practical activities, learning outcomes, assessment questions and reusable teaching materials.
The call supports the creation of training materials that are technically reproducible, pedagogically coherent, openly reusable and aligned with European HPC training and certification initiatives.
Scope of activities
The call supports the development of modular training courses aligned with the EVITA Competence and Qualification Framework. Funding is provided per module, with a focus on high-quality, reusable training materials.
An EVITA module is a structured combination of pedagogical material and working code examples designed to support practical, hands-on learning. The content is organised into smaller, logically coherent units called episodes, each focusing on a specific concept or skill.
Each EVITA module is expected to represent a concise, self-contained learning unit of approximately one to four hours of guided learning. Modules should address one or more learning outcomes and be connected to skills in the EVITA Skill Tree or HPC Certification Forum Skill Tree.
Supported activities include the development or adaptation of complete modular training materials, including:
• Core configuration and documentation files, such as conf.py and index.md
• Episode-based instructional content
• Jupyter notebooks, Markdown files, reStructuredText files or slide decks with PDF exports
• Local software setup instructions for Windows, macOS and Linux
• HPC cluster setup instructions, preferably for EuroHPC systems where applicable
• Dependencies and package version documentation
• Optional containerised setup instructions
• SLURM batch scripts where relevant
• Images, longer standalone code examples and reusable code files
• Demos, code demonstrations and type-along sessions
• Structured discussions and hands-on exercises
• Questions and quizzes for summative assessment
• Instructor guide
• Reference materials for learners
• CITATION.cff file for attribution and citation metadata
• Documentation required for deployment on the GitLab platform
The modules should use the EVITA documentation and authoring toolchain, including Sphinx, MyST Parser, sphinx-lesson and sphinx-evita. These tools support structured documentation, Markdown and Jupyter Notebook authoring, teaching-oriented content such as exercises and solutions, and a consistent visual style across EVITA training materials.
Teaching materials should combine theoretical and practical components. Each episode should include a topic description, learning objectives, instructor notes, practical demonstrations, exercises or discussions, highlighted notes or warnings where appropriate, key points and references for further study. Summative assessment questions may include multiple-choice questions and coding tasks.
Proposals must be aligned with the EVITA CQF course structure. The CQF provides a structured approach to organise master-level HPC courses around competences, qualification itineraries, courses, modules, learning outcomes and skills.
The CQF course list includes areas such as:
- PP.SMP1 – Basic shared-memory parallel programming
- PP.SMP2 – Advanced shared-memory parallel programming
- PP.DMP2 – Advanced distributed-memory parallel programming
- PP.HS2 – Heterogeneous programming
- PP.OMP1 – Programming shared-memory systems with OpenMP
- PP.OMP2 – Programming heterogeneous systems with OpenMP
- PP.BPC1 – Fundamentals of parallelism
- PP.BPC2 – Fundamental of performance estimation
- CA.CAC1 – Computer architecture concepts
- CA.PA1 – Processor architecture
- CA.IOS1 – Input/output subsystem
- CA.IOS2 – Parallel I/O with NetCDF, HDF5 and others
- CA.SCH1 – Slurm for Users
- CA.SCH2 – Scheduling fundamentals and different scheduler
- SDS.OSV1 – Virtualization and the Linux operating system
- SDS.OSV2 – Device management and process handling on a CPU
- SDS.SSADM1 – Storage, Parallel File Systems and Databases
- SDS.SSADM2 – System Administration on HPC Environments
- SDS.SSADM5 – Cluster infrastructure
- SDS.SSADM6 – Cluster security
- SDS.SSADM7 – Modelling costs
- SDS.SSADM8 – Parallel filesystem types
- SDS.SSADM9 – Networking
- SDS.CPPM1 – IO programming middleware
- SDS.CPPM2 – Compilers
- SA.SHT1 – System and Hardware Technologies
- SA.CPUHS1 – CPUs and Heterogeneous Systems
- SA.CDT1 – Chip Design and Test
- PE.PA1 – Performance Analysis
- PE.PA2 – Performance engineering tools
- PE.PA3 – Cost awareness
- PE.PM1 – Performance Modelling
- PE.PM2 – Benchmarks and controlled experiments
- PE.PO1 – Performance Engineering for Supercomputers
- NDSSD.SC1 – Computational Numerical Linear Algebra
- NDSSD.DSHPC1 – Domain-Specific Approaches
- NDSSD.DSHPC2 – Numerical Simulations on HPC systems
Submitted proposals will be evaluated according to four criteria:
• Implementation Capacity
• Pedagogical Quality
• Alignment with the CQF
• Economic Effectiveness
Eligible applicants
The call is open to legal entities established in EU Member States or countries associated with the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking, including higher education institutions, research organisations and private companies. Entities within the EVITA consortium are excluded.
Applicants should demonstrate relevant expertise in HPC or related fields, previous training or educational activities, experience with practical exercises or online learning resources, and the capacity to deliver high-quality outputs suitable for integration into the EVITA Training Platform.
Eligible costs
Financial support is provided as a lump sum grant.
Applicants must provide a clear justification of the requested funding, including the distribution of effort across modules and activities. The requested budget should reflect the scope of work, complexity, maturity and scale of the proposed materials. Adaptation of existing materials is expected to require less effort than the development of new materials and should therefore be reflected in the requested budget.
Funding conditions
Type of action:
Cascade Funding
Funding rate:
Fixed per-module funding; Indicative reference amount of EUR 1,000 per training hour for newly developed or adapted materials.
EU contribution per project:
up to EUR 4,000 per individual module; Total call budget: EUR 1,728,000
Project duration:
10 months
Deadline for submission
7 September 2026