Engineering applications will be among the first exploiting Exascale. Not only in academia but also in industry. In fact, the industrial engineering field is *the* field with the high-est Exascale potential. Thus the goal of EXCELLERAT is to enable the European engineering industry to advance towards Exascale technologies and to create a single entry point to services and knowledge for all stake-holders (industrial end users, ISVs, technology providers, HPC providers, academics, code developers, engineering experts) of HPC for engineering. In order to achieve this goal, EXCELLERAT brings together key players from industry, research and HPC to provide all necessary services. This is in line with the European HPC Strategy as implemented through the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking. 

To fulfil its mission, EXCELLERAT focuses its developments on six carefully chosen reference applications (Nek5000, Alya, AVBP, TPLS, FEniCS, Coda), which were analysed on their potential to support the aim to achieve Exascale performance in HPC for Engineering. Thus, they are promising candidates to act as showcases for the evolution of applications towards execution on Exascale Demonstra-tors, Pre-Exascale Systems and Exascale Machines. 

EXCELLERAT addresses the setup of a Centre as an entity, acting as a single hub, covering a wide range of issues, from «non-pure-technical» services such as access to knowledge or networking up to technical services as e.g. co-design, scalability enhancement or code porting to new (Exa) Hardware. 

As the consortium contains key players in HPC, HPDA, AI and experts for the reference applications, impact (e.g. code improvements and awareness raising) is guaranteed. The scientific excellence of the EXCELLERAT consortium enables evolution, optimisation, scaling and porting of applications towards disruptive technologies and increases Eu-rope’s competitiveness in engineering. Within the frame of the project, EXCELLERAT will prove the applicability of the results not only for the six chosen reference applications, but even going beyond. EXCELLERAT extends the recipients of its developments beyond the consortium and interacts via diverse mechanisms to integrate external stakeholders of its value network into its evolution. 

The EXCELLERAT team is developing solutions that support the advances towards Exascale technologies. These achievements are reflected in a collection of success stories that are available online.