European HPC Professional Traineeship Programme

Financiers

The HPCTRAIN project aims to provide professional traineeships to young professionals in HPC across Europe. This supports 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, with a focus on companies using HPC

HPCTRAIN will also contribute to enhancing career opportunities, digital skills, bridging the skills gapand industry collaboration. Trainees will gain practical experience, networking opportunities, and exposure to industry partners, which will improve their employability and career prospects. Additionally, the traineeships will provide hands-on training in specific HPC technologies enabling trainees to develop advanced digital skills highly sought after in the job market. Trainees will also have the opportunity to collaborate with industrial partners and HPC centres, exposing them to real-world industry environments and challenges.The project includes monitoring activities to assess whether the traineeships bridge the gap between education and the labour market.
Additionally, the project plans communication and dissemination activities to raise awareness of the traineeship opportunities and provide information to EuroHPC stakeholders. Close links to other European HPC training initiatives, e.g. EUMaster4HPC or the national competence centres, will ensure alignment and synergies.

Project Partners

The HPCTRAIN consortium, coordinated by the Forschungszentrum Julich GmbH (FZJ), comprises 12  diverse organisations (universities, supercomputing centres and companies) such as IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, University of Stuttgart, LuxProvide, University of Luxembourg, PRACE, , CSC, University of Gallway, INESC TEC and University of Ljubljana that offer a diversified traineeship programme.