EXCELLERAT P2 D7.2 Report on communication, dissemination, collaboration, and community building

This report provides a comprehensive overview of the communication, dissemination, collaboration, and community building activities undertaken by EXCELLERAT P2 during the reporting period (M1-M12). The document outlines the implementation of the communication and dissemination strategy developed in D7.1, emphasizing activities such as social media engagement, website updates, and multimedia content creation. In contrast to D7.1, this deliverable includes a report on ongoing collaboration actions (see section 3). The exploitation efforts are now part of WP6 deliverables. Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are closely monitored, ensuring activities are aligned with strategic goals. The report highlights successful branding efforts, including updated promotional materials, digital flyers, and roll-ups. The EXCELLERAT P2 website serves as a central information hub, attracting a high number of monthly visitors. Social media channels, including LinkedIn and X/Twitter, are effectively utilised for engagement and outreach, fostering interactions with diverse stakeholders. Multimedia content, such as videos, podcasts, and blog posts, enhances community engagement. The participation in the “Code of the Month” initiative promoted by CASTIEL 2 showcases EXCELLERAT P2's contributions to the HPC ecosystem. Collaboration efforts with all stakeholders from this ecosystem, e.g. external HPC resource providers and industrial end-users are ongoing, with strategic engagements planned for the future. Internal collaborations among EXCELLERAT partners are facilitated through structured discussions and joint initiatives. In addition to that and with the support of CASTIEL 2, EXCELLERAT P2 had been granted access and started deploying onto several EuroHPC JU supercomputers, all of them being characterised by different partition types and architectures. EXCELLERAT P2's community-building efforts are guided by a clear stakeholder prioritisation strategy, ensuring targeted interactions with engineering communities, HPC resource providers, open-source projects, and more. During this first year, EXCELLERAT P2 updated the list of priority stakeholders in alignment with the evolved objectives after the end of phase 1. Several actions were launched and organised to start interacting with several of these priority stakeholders. In parallel, WP7 ensured the communication and community building aspects within EXCELLERAT P2 itself by supporting and initiating various elements like internal meetings, discussions or the preparation by WP6 and the PMT of future “onboarding” guidelines, that will be used to attract industry stakeholders and monitor their interactions with EXCELLERAT P2.