The Flagship Project should aim to resolve a major scientific/socio-economic challenge in South Africa. Its fundamental drive should therefore address in part a well-identified major scientific/technological problem in a specific field or a noteworthy political and/or socio-economic South African or African problem.

The Flagship Project must take immediate advantage of the CHPC computational resource (with no more than two months of porting) and performance of the calculations/simulations must be done in a parallel fashion. The Project must furthermore demonstrate its ability in driving innovative tools that lead to grand scientific impact and benefit a wide range of researchers within the eResearch context.

The results of the Flagship Project are expected to be of general scientific interest and ought to be captivating enough to attract the attention of major high-profile scientific journals. A Flagship Project will receive 24 months of CHPC support after completion of the research.

Flagship Project results must show potential to form part of a visualisation team that will develop a CHPC-supported high school science outreach programme to market the project and CHPC to the public.

The Flagship Project must play a significant role in promoting the relevant scientific discipline. The CHPC values meaningful partnerships and therefore strongly encourages a multi-disciplinary and/or multi-investigative team. A consortium of researchers based in South Africa will enjoy preference.

The Flagship Project should contribute to human capital development in general, not only through the mentoring of students and post-doctoral fellows on the research team, but also through the hosting of specialised workshops for relevant Special Interest Groups (SIGs).