FFplus (Fortissimo plus), the  European initiative highlighting and promoting the adoption of High-Performance Computing (HPC) by SMEs and start-ups across Europe, has announced its second Open Call to fund business experiments.

Key Call Details

Submission Deadline: August 26th, 2025 at 17:00 Brussels local time

Expected duration of experiments: maximum 15 months with targeted commencement January 1st, 2026

The indicative total funding budget for all sub-projects funded under this call is € 4M.

This announcement is the second call for proposals to address the uptake of HPC by SMEs in order to solve specific business challenges of SMEs that have had no prior use of, or experience with, HPC services. The resulting sub-projects will perform “business experiments” (also referred just as experiments) that should demonstrate to the broader European SME ecosystem that HPC uptake solves business challenges and leads to positive business impact through the use and deployment of HPC-based computational methods. Thus, their key outputs are success stories that promote, communicate, and disseminate the business impact of HPC uptake to the SME ecosystem.

Proposals are sought that address business challenges from European SMEs from varied application domains, whereby SMEs whose adoption of advanced HPC services will create the highest business impact will be prioritized. SMEs with an academic focus or activities with a potential impact only in the long term are not within the scope of the call.

In the context of the second Open Call for Business Experiments, FFplus offered two webinars to the public to receive all the information concerning the Call and answer questions.

The webinars took place online on June 17th and June 23rd, 2025, and you can watch their recording here.

Read the full Call details and submit your proposals by 26/8 here.