AI for Science and Collaborative EU Projects Access

This is the EuroHPC access mode built specifically for AI workloads, and it is the most direct route for European researchers who need serious compute without a Horizon Europe grant behind them. Allocations are made in node hours across four petascale and pre-exascale systems - LUMI in Finland, Leonardo in Italy, MareNostrum5 in Spain and MeluXina in Luxembourg - for six-month access periods. The stated scope is explicit about modern AI: ethical artificial intelligence, machine learning, and cutting-edge foundation models and generative AI including large language models, which means training and fine-tuning runs are in scope rather than being squeezed into a traditional simulation-oriented HPC framing. Eligibility is deliberately wide. All scientific users qualify whether or not their work is funded by national or European programmes, as do public sector users, and industrial users participating in EU-funded research and innovation projects such as Horizon Europe or the Digital Europe Programme. The one important boundary: industrial users not involved in an EU research project are directed instead to the AI for Industrial Innovation access modes, so a commercial applicant with no EU project affiliation should check which door they are meant to use before drafting. The call operates on rolling cut-offs rather than a single deadline, with 2026 cut-offs at 27 February, 30 April, 30 June, 31 August, 30 October and 11 December, each at 10:00 CET. That cadence means an unsuccessful application can be revised and resubmitted roughly two months later, and a team that misses one window is never waiting long for the next. As with all compute schemes, no money is awarded - staff and data costs must come from elsewhere.

EuroHPC JU Large Scale Access to AI Factories for Industrial AI Innovation with Continuously Open GPU Allocations is sponsored by European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU). The EuroHPC JU Large Scale Access call provides industrial users with rapid access to AI Factories' GPU compute resources across European supercomputers (including MareNostrum5, LUMI, Leonardo, JUPITER, and others) for high-impact, high-gain innovative AI research.

The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking's AI Factories give European AI companies free access to some of the largest GPU systems in the world, and the Industrial Innovation access route is the one built specifically for SMEs and startups rather than for academic consortia. It runs three tracks of increasing scale. Playground Access provides limited entry-level resources on a first-in-first-out basis with access granted within two working days and onboarding support for users new to HPC - it exists to let a team benchmark and port before committing to a proposal. Fast Lane Access serves experienced HPC users needing up to 50,000 GPU hours. Large Scale Access covers applications requiring more than 50,000 GPU hours, allocated for up to one year, with cut-off dates running through 4 January 2027. All three are open and free of charge to AI SMEs including startups pursuing innovation, which is the critical distinction from the separate AI for Science and Collaborative Projects mode aimed at publicly funded research; other industrial users can still access the machines but on commercial pay-per-use terms. For a European AI startup, this is close to the largest non-dilutive compute resource available anywhere, and the practical route in is almost always Playground first, then a Large Scale proposal built on the benchmarking data that Playground produced. Applications are submitted through the EuroHPC access portal.

MGPV Travel Grant is sponsored by Geological Society of America (GSA), Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Petrology, Volcanology Division. MGPV Travel grants support student travel to the annual GSA meeting. Applications are restricted to active graduate or undergraduate students who are the presenting authors of an accepted abstract at the annual GSA meeting.

Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Science (ROSES) - 2025: A.4 Rapid Response and Novel Research in Earth Science is sponsored by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Science Mission Directorate (SMD). This omnibus research funding opportunity includes various program elements, with rolling submissions for Earth Science research through August 2026. Proposers to Earth Science using the NASA Center for Climate Simulation high-end computing facility must include specific budget details.