diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index ec77741b6..bc8e4065b 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -7,20 +7,54 @@
 #
 # Original Author: Yannick Casamatta (yannick.casamatta@thalesgroup.com)
 
-# Guidlines:
-
-# This pipeline can be also be triggerd underneath by CI of CVA6 repository, this requires to respected some rules:
-# - In this pipeline, job artifacts must be only defined in a folder named "artifacts" at the root of the job's workdir.
-# - In this pipeline, do not define before_script and after_script in the global section (avoid in job too).
-# - Please prefix all jobs in this file with "pub_" which stands for "public" job.
-
 # Please refer to .gitlab-ci/README.md to add jobs
 
+# Project maintainers must define following variables to adapt this CI to their runtime environment (Settings > CI/CD > Variables)
+# - SETUP_CI_CVV_BRANCH: master (the main branch of CVA6 repository)
+
+# A git repository named "setup-ci" must be created in the same namespace as cva6 and must contain the following file:
+# - 'cva6/core-v-verif-cva6.yml'
+#
+# This file must at least contain the variables necessary for the execution of
+# this pipeline.
+# Other elements such as new jobs can be added to overload the associated
+# downstream pipeline included in this repository.
+# Example can be found in ".gitlab-ci/setup-ci-example/"
+
+include:
+  - project: '$CI_PROJECT_NAMESPACE/setup-ci'
+    ref: '$SETUP_CI_CVV_BRANCH'
+    file: 'cva6/core-v-verif-cva6.yml'
+
+workflow:
+  rules:
+    - if: '$CI_WEIGHT == "forced" && $CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME =~ /^cvvdev\/.*/' #bypass workflow + cvvdev
+      variables:
+        CORE_V_VERIF_BRANCH: $CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME
+    - if: '$CI_WEIGHT == "forced"' #bypass workflow
+    - if: '$CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME =~ /^master.*|^hotfix.*|^rc.*|^github-pr.*/'
+      variables:
+        CI_WEIGHT: "full"
+    - if: '$CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME =~ /^dev.*|^feature.*/'
+      variables:
+        CI_WEIGHT: "short"
+    - if: '$CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME =~ /^cvvdev\/master.*|^cvvdev\/hotfix.*|^cvvdev\/rc.*/'
+      variables:
+        CI_WEIGHT: "full"
+        CORE_V_VERIF_BRANCH: $CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME
+    - if: '$CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME =~ /^cvvdev\/dev.*|^cvvdev\/feature.*/'
+      variables:
+        CI_WEIGHT: "lite"
+        CORE_V_VERIF_BRANCH: $CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME
+    - when: never
 
 variables:
   GIT_STRATEGY: fetch
   GIT_SUBMODULE_STRATEGY: recursive
-
+  TAGS_RUNNER: $TAGS_RUNNER
+  SCOPE_CVV: "true"
+  DASHBOARD: "cva6"
+  WORKFLOW_EVENT: $CI_PIPELINE_SOURCE
 
 # macro: job that does not require cloning anythings
 .template_job_low_footprint:
diff --git a/.gitlab-ci/setup-ci-example/core-v-verif-cv32.yml b/.gitlab-ci/setup-ci-example/core-v-verif-cv32.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index a43b7c60b..000000000
--- a/.gitlab-ci/setup-ci-example/core-v-verif-cv32.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-
-variables:
-  RISCV: /opt/common/tools/gcc-10.2.0
-  VERILATOR_ROOT: /opt/common/tools/verilator-4.110
-  SPIKE_ROOT: /opt/common/tools/spike
-  BBL_ROOT: /opt/common/tools/Linux-ariane-sdk
-  SYN_VCS_BASHRC: /opt/synopsys/vcs/XXXX/setup/bashrc.example
-  SYN_DCSHELL_BASHRC: /opt/synopsys/syn/XXXX/setup/bashrc
-  QUESTA_BASHRC: /opt/questa/XXXX/setup/bashrc
-  VIVALDO_SETUP: /opt/xilinx/Vivado/XXXX/settings64.sh
-  CV32_REPO: to be define
-  CV32_BRANCH:  to be define
-  COMPLIANCE_REPO: https://github.com/riscv/riscv-compliance.git
-  COMPLIANCE_BRANCH: master
-  COMPLIANCE_HASH: 220e78542da4510e40eac31e31fdd4e77cdae437
-  COMPLIANCE_PATCH: ../../../cva6/riscv-compliance.patch
-  TESTS_REPO: https://github.com/riscv/riscv-tests.git
-  TESTS_BRANCH: master
-  TESTS_HASH: f92842f91644092960ac7946a61ec2895e543cec
-  DV_REPO: https://github.com/google/riscv-dv.git
-  DV_BRANCH: master
-  NUM_JOBS: 24
-  FOUNDRY_PATH: /techno/lib/stdcellXXXX
-  TECH_NAME: core_XXXX05v25c
-  SYNTH_PERIOD : 30
-  LIB_VERILOG: /techno/lib/verilog_XXXX/XXXX.v