The first workshop of STIMULATE will last three weeks and will teach both theoretical as well as practical aspects of HPC. It includes lectures on performance architectures and modeling as well as lectures related to different skills that are required for using HPC systems efficiently. This includes, e.g. parallel programming, GPU programming, performance engineering etc. The lectures will be complemented by keynotes given by computational scientists that have experience in using highly scalable systems for their research. A project will be carried out at the venue to take advantage of the exascale labs.