We are a Nordic Center of Excellence (NCoE), now: The research project eScience Tools for Investigating Climate Change at High Northern Latitudes (eSTICC) has started work. eSTICC has gathered 13 top research groups from the Nordic countries working in the fields of climate research and eScience. The University of Iceland’s team is led by Helmut Neukirchen and focuses on High-performance computing aspects of the project (in particular workflows) and contributes also to training and education within the project. The project is funded by NordForsk as a Nordic Center of Excellence (NCoE). The University of Iceland receives a funding of approximately 26.5 million ISK. The project runs from 1/2014 to 12/2018 and will include funding for a PhD student from start of September 2014 to mid April 2018.