Today, the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) is proud to celebrate the achievement of the second cohort of students from the EUMaster4HPC. The ceremony took place at the beautiful Orangerie building, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) in Erlangen, Germany.
This second cohort includes 6 women and 33 men, who have spent the last two years developing their skills and knowledge in a pan-European, multidisciplinary learning environment. Since its launch, the EUMaster4HPC programme has enrolled 103 students representing 18 nationalities, contributing to a strong and diverse European HPC talent.
This master’s programme brings together academic institutions, industry, research institutions and HPC centres from across Europe to deliver a joint curriculum in high-performance computing (HPC). During the EUMaster4HPC students can study among the eight participating universities, each offering a similar core curriculum. During the first year, students follow a set of fundamental courses and in the second year deepen their knowledge moving to a university for their specialisation.
The career paths of the second cohort reflect the programme’s ambition to prepare students for both academia and industry. It is expected that approximately half of the graduates will pursue PhD studies, while the remaining students have already secured jobs or are looking for positions at a supercomputing centre or in the industry.
This year’s EUMaster4HPC Ceremony opened with welcome remarks from leading academic figures of FAU, followed by a keynote address delivered by Prof. Dr. Ulrich Rüde, Senior Researcher at VSB – Technical University of Ostrava. Following the keynote, Dr. Daniel Opalka, Head of Unit of the Research and Innovation team at EuroHPC JU delivered congratulatory remarks and jointly presented Certificates of Achievement together with Prof. Dr.-Ing. Harald Köstler, Chair of Computer Science 10 (System Simulation) at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg.
The EUMaster4HPC equips students with skills to tackle complex computational problems in various aera, including scientific research and industrial innovation. Students gain hands on experiences and networking opportunities, one of which is at the annual EuroHPC Summit where they get the opportunity to be actively involved as Student Ambassadors, participating by supporting the logistics of the event, and running live demos in the Demolab in collaboration with EuroHPC supercomputing centres.
This approach showcases the broader commitment of the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking to skills development in Europe. The EuroHPC JU also supports other training and skills development initiatives like EVITA, HPC SPECTRA and AI Factories and more. An overview of these initiatives can be found on the continuously evolving HPC in Europe portal, which is regularly updated with new opportunities and resources.
About the EUMaster4HPC
The European Master for High Performance Computing (EUMaster4HPC) is the first pan-European Master’s programme focused on high-performance computing. Supported by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking, it brings together leading European universities, supercomputing centres, industry and research centres to develop a new generation of European HPC experts. The programme combines academic excellence with hands-on experience at HPC centres, preparing students to tackle complex challenges in science, engineering, and industry.
The project EUMaster4HPC is a project funded by the EuroHPC JU, under the Horizon 2020 with a total budget of EUR 7 million. The project is part of the EuroHPC JU’s broader strategy to develop a full European supercomputing ecosystem and to widen the use of HPC infrastructures.
Launched in January 2022, the project is coordinated by the University of Luxembourg and composed of European universities, research/supercomputing centres and industrial and SMEs partners. The educational programme of the project officially started in Autumn 2022 with a first cohort of students.
About the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking
The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking is located in Luxembourg. It was established in 2018 and later reviewed through Council Regulation (EU) 2021/1173 to enable the EU to become a world leader in supercomputing.
Over its five years of operations, the EuroHPC JU has brought together efforts and resources from the European Union and its EuroHPC JU Participating States with the objective of making Europe a global leader in supercomputing.
To date, the EuroHPC JU has already procured 11 supercomputers, distributed across Europe, equipping the continent with a cutting-edge supercomputing infrastructure. Three of these supercomputers are now ranked among the world’s top 10 most powerful supercomputers: JUPITER in Germany, Europe’s first exascale supercomputer (4th place), along with LUMI in Finland (9th place), Leonardo in Italy (10th place).
The EuroHPC JU is also deploying a European Quantum Computing infrastructure, integrating diverse European quantum computing technologies with supercomputers. Up to now, the EuroHPC JU has procured six quantum computers and co-funded two more through the HPCQS project, all of them located in Europe with two additional systems on the way. The EuroHPC JU already inaugurated PIAST-Q in Poznań, Poland and VLQ in Ostrava, Czechia, marking a milestone in Europe’s leap into the quantum era.
Currently, the EuroHPC JU is also overseeing the implementation of 13 AI factories across Europe that offer free, customised support to SMEs and startups.
An additional six AI Factories were announced today which will strengthen national AI ecosystems and expand access to AI-optimised supercomputing resources across Europe.
Finally, the EuroHPC JU also funds research and innovation projects to develop a full European supercomputing supply chain, from processors and software to applications to be run on these supercomputers and know-how to develop strong European HPC expertise. In the past five years, no fewer than 57 projects have received research grants from the EuroHPC JU.
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- Publication date
- 10 October 2025
- Author
- European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking