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After three intensive and inspiring days at Vehicle Tech Week Europe 2026 in Stuttgart, we can look back on a very successful edition of the EXCELLERAT Academia Lounge and our Industry–Academia Collaboration activities.
During the event, our stand welcomed more than 150 industry contacts, confirming once again the strong interest of the automotive sector in engaging directly with European research organisations and universities. We also had the honour of presenting EXCELLERAT P2 and its activities during the conference programme, as well as introducing our Academia Lounge concept: a dedicated space where researchers, universities, research centres, and industrial stakeholders can meet, exchange ideas, and explore future collaborations.

On March 2nd 2025, EXCELLERAT-2 launched a new webinar series dedicated to exploring opportunities for collaboration around HPC, HPDA and AI. Organised under Work Package 7, the series aims to share concrete experiences, practical approaches, and lessons learned from EXCELLERAT-2 technical partners, while encouraging exchanges across the European HPC and AI ecosystem.

Hannover Messe 2026 once again demonstrated that industrial transformation remains one of the central priorities for Europe’s industrial landscape. Across the exhibition halls, it became clear that topics such as artificial intelligence, simulation, digital twins, data-driven processes, automation, and energy-efficient industrial solutions are no longer future visions alone, but are increasingly becoming part of industrial reality. EXCELLERAT participated with a shared booth for the first time.

The Mobile World Congress (MWC26) took place from 2–5 March in Barcelona, Spain, and represents the global meeting point for digital innovation, advanced connectivity and AI-driven transformation. This year, EXCELLERAT partner Arctur represented the EXCELLERAT P2 project at the fair, placing the EXCELLERAT Service Portal at the centre of its presentation.

Understanding an unfamiliar codebase is a recurring challenge in scientific computing. In a blog article, CERFACS introduces WalkingPrompt: a workflow for code explanation assisted by language models that systematically traverses a repository, links dependencies, and generates structured summaries across modules and directories. By keeping the human developer in control, WalkingPrompt reduces repetitive effort, produces more consistent explanations, and creates a coherent first layer of documentation for large scientific codes, while addressing key concerns such as trust, privacy, and reproducibility.

Organised by the national competence centre NCC SLING, together with leading research institutions and European initiatives, SLING Days 2025 showcased the growing impact of advanced technologies on research, innovation, and industrial competitiveness. The event took place from 19-21 November in Ljubljana, Slovenia and in hybrid form, bringing together more than 700 visitors. EXCELLERAT was prominently featured through promotional materials and closed expert discussions. Partners from Arctur and UL-LECAD actively presented the core simulation and engineering codes being advanced within the project, while also directing visitors to explore the EXCELLERAT Service Portal.

From October 14 to 16, 2025, the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) hosted the EXCELLERAT training on Advanced CFD and Turbulence Modelling targeting HPC, co-organized with CECAM.

EXCELLERAT P2 was proudly represented at the 18th International Symposium on Operations Research (SOR’25), held in Bled, Slovenia, from September 24-26, 2025. This symposium serves as a regional platform for scientific exchange at the forefront of operations research, encompassing novel findings in mathematics, statistics, economics, engineering, environmental science, computer science, and more.

From 23 to 25 September 2025, the CASTIEL 2 All-Hands Meeting (AHM) brought together the EuroCC network of National Competence Centres (NCCs) and many European Centres of Excellence (CoEs) in Tallinn, Estonia. EXCELLERAT P2 formed part of the event. The gathering marked the final conference of CASTIEL 2, EuroCC 2, EuroCC4SEE, and CoEs.

For the second consecutive year, researchers from the EXCELLERAT consortium took part in the Automotive Testing & ADAS Expo — a leading trade fair focused on advanced testing technologies for the automotive sector, including simulation, modelling, data management, data analytics, and AI tools supporting ADAS and autonomous vehicles.