Demand map: who buys or trials quantum
Who buys or trials quantum technology in Europe, from public evidence only: procurement notices, organisations other than universities and research centres in EU-funded quantum projects, published use cases and the users of infrastructure access calls. Each count is a number of evidence records and links to them. This page makes no forecast and no estimate of a market.
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20 evidence records in this view: 0 public tender notices, 2 organisations in EU-funded projects, 18 use case records. Users of infrastructure access calls: not published by any programme yet.
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By sector
| Sector | Public tender (buyer) | Non-research participant in an EU-funded quantum project | Published use case or pilot | User of an infrastructure access call | All evidence records |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Health and medical sensing | 0 | 0 | 3 | Not published | 3 |
| Companies, sector not recorded | 0 | 2 | 0 | Not published | 2 |
| Environment and natural hazards | 0 | 0 | 2 | Not published | 2 |
| Finance | 0 | 0 | 2 | Not published | 2 |
| Mobility and transport | 0 | 0 | 2 | Not published | 2 |
| Telecoms and security | 0 | 0 | 2 | Not published | 2 |
| Pharma, chemistry and materials | 0 | 0 | 1 | Not published | 1 |
| Several sectors | 0 | 0 | 1 | Not published | 1 |
| Defence and civil dual use | 0 | 0 | 1 | Not published | 1 |
| Logistics | 0 | 0 | 1 | Not published | 1 |
| Manufacturing and industry | 0 | 0 | 1 | Not published | 1 |
| Public sector | 0 | 0 | 1 | Not published | 1 |
| Space and earth observation | 0 | 0 | 1 | Not published | 1 |
Definition: Evidence of demand for quantum technology by sector
By country
| Country | Public tender (buyer) | Non-research participant in an EU-funded quantum project | Published use case or pilot | User of an infrastructure access call | All evidence records |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Country not recorded | 0 | 2 | 18 | Not published | 20 |
Definition: Evidence of demand for quantum technology by country
Evidence
| Organisation | Kind | Sector | Country | Evidence | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Innovative Electronics and Detectors Limited Liability Company | Non-research participant in an EU-funded quantum project | Companies, sector not recorded | Not recorded | 1 EU-funded quantum project | 2026-10-16 | CORDIS (European Commission) |
| Ressources Ingenierie | Non-research participant in an EU-funded quantum project | Companies, sector not recorded | Not recorded | 1 EU-funded quantum project | 2026-10-16 | CORDIS (European Commission) |
| Named in the use case: AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH (coordinator) | Published use case or pilot | Several sectors | Not recorded | Quantum key distribution testbeds with end users across Europe (OPENQKD) | 2023 | Curated use cases (adoption file) |
| Named in the use case: Fundació Institut de Ciències Fotòniques (coordinator) | Published use case or pilot | Telecoms and security | Not recorded | Continuous-variable quantum key distribution for telecom networks (CiViQ) | 2022 | Curated use cases (adoption file) |
| Named in the use case: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft (coordinator), NVIS | Published use case or pilot | Health and medical sensing | Not recorded | Quantum-based imaging of heart metabolism (MetaboliQs) | 2022 | Curated use cases (adoption file) |
| Named in the use case: Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (coordinator) | Published use case or pilot | Environment and natural hazards | Not recorded | Quantum gravimeter for volcano monitoring on Mount Etna (NEWTON-g) | 2022 | Curated use cases (adoption file) |
| Named in the use case: Centre National d'Études Spatiales (CNES, coordinator) | Published use case or pilot | Space and earth observation | Not recorded | Preparing a quantum accelerometer for a space gravity mission (CARIOQA-PMP) | 2024 | Curated use cases (adoption file) |
| Named in the use case: BIS Innovation Hub, Banca d'Italia, Banque de France, Deutsche Bundesbank | Published use case or pilot | Finance | Not recorded | Post-quantum signatures for liquidity transfers between central banks (Project Leap phase 2) | 2025 | Curated use cases (adoption file) |
| Named in the use case: HSBC, IBM | Published use case or pilot | Finance | Not recorded | Quantum-classical prediction of trade fills in corporate bond trading (HSBC and IBM) | 2025 | Curated use cases (adoption file) |
| Named in the use case: Airbus, Machine Learning Reply (Reply Group) | Published use case or pilot | Logistics | Not recorded | Aircraft cargo loading optimisation in the Airbus Quantum Computing Challenge | 2020 | Curated use cases (adoption file) |
| Named in the use case: BMW Group, Airbus, University of Southern California, University of Hamburg | Published use case or pilot | Mobility and transport | Not recorded | Quantum computing challenge for transport use cases (BMW Group and Airbus) | 2024 | Curated use cases (adoption file) |
| Named in the use case: BASF, D-Wave Quantum Inc. | Published use case or pilot | Manufacturing and industry | Not recorded | Hybrid quantum scheduling in a liquid-filling plant (BASF and D-Wave) | 2025 | Curated use cases (adoption file) |
| Named in the use case: IBM, Daimler AG | Published use case or pilot | Pharma, chemistry and materials | Not recorded | Simulating lithium-sulfur battery molecules on a quantum computer (Daimler and IBM) | 2020 | Curated use cases (adoption file) |
| Named in the use case: Deutsche Bahn, IQM Quantum Computers | Published use case or pilot | Mobility and transport | Not recorded | Hybrid quantum algorithm for rolling stock planning (Deutsche Bahn and IQM) | 2026 | Curated use cases (adoption file) |
| Named in the use case: Canary Islands Volcanological Institute (INVOLCAN), Exail | Published use case or pilot | Environment and natural hazards | Not recorded | Absolute quantum gravimeters for volcano monitoring on Tenerife (INVOLCAN) | 2025 | Curated use cases (adoption file) |
| Named in the use case: Single Quantum BV (coordinator) | Published use case or pilot | Health and medical sensing | Not recorded | Arrays of superconducting single-photon quantum sensors for brain imaging (Brainiaqs) | 2023 | Curated use cases (adoption file) |
| Named in the use case: Telefónica, Huawei, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid | Published use case or pilot | Telecoms and security | Not recorded | Quantum key distribution on commercial optical networks in Madrid (Telefónica, Huawei and UPM) | 2018 | Curated use cases (adoption file) |
| Named in the use case: Royal Navy, Disruptive Capabilities and Technologies Office, Imperial College London | Published use case or pilot | Defence and civil dual use | Not recorded | Cold-atom quantum inertial navigation sensors at sea (Royal Navy and Imperial College London) | 2025 | Curated use cases (adoption file) |
| Named in the use case: University of Nottingham, Cerca Magnetics, Young Epilepsy, University College London | Published use case or pilot | Health and medical sensing | Not recorded | Wearable magnetoencephalography with optically pumped magnetometers for children with epilepsy | 2021 | Curated use cases (adoption file) |
| Named in the use case: LANTIK, GRNET, DINUM | Published use case or pilot | Public sector | Not recorded | Quantum-safe framework for cross-border public sector data exchange (GovTech4All pilot 1) | 2025 | Curated use cases (adoption file) |
Users of infrastructure access calls
Not yet known from our sources: no access programme publishes the organisations it serves, so none is counted, never as zero.
- EuroHPC JU quantum access in pilot mode (EuroHPC Joint Undertaking): Neither the call page nor the quantum access calls page lists awarded projects or user organisations; the EuroHPC awarded-projects page lists classical supercomputer access modes only.
- FiQCI calls for academic projects (Finnish Quantum-Computing Infrastructure (FiQCI)): The call says results are communicated to applicants after the decision; it does not say that accepted projects are published.
- Spanish Supercomputing Network (RES) quantum access (Red Española de Supercomputación (RES)): The RES resolutions page lists HPC and data resolutions only; no quantum resolution is listed.
- CINECA Quantum Computing as a Service (CINECA): The page gives allocation quotas but no consumption figures, user projects or user organisations.
- JUNIQ access, service and support (Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC)): The page publishes no user projects, user organisations or usage figures.
- Quantum Inspire registration (QuTech): The About page publishes no user counts, jobs, countries or user projects; it names QuTech as initiator and SURF as a partner, not as users.
- LRZ quantum computing consulting (Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ)): The page publishes no usage figures, user projects or user organisations.
- GENCI eDARI resource allocation requests (GENCI): The part of the home page read publishes no quantum projects, user organisations or usage figures; the page was not read in full.
- Qu-Test open call for testing services (Qu-Test project): The page names no selected companies and gives no numbers of applications or selected projects.
Infrastructure use record, checked 2026-10-25. Owner-reviewed for demonstration, 28 October 2026. Infrastructure use
Sources and method
- Public tenders: procurement notices from TED (Publications Office of the European Union) and national portals published on this portal, by buyer country; the date is when the notice was added here. Defence procurement is never published here.
- EU projects: CORDIS (European Commission), snapshot retrieved 2026-10-16, reused under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU. Companies, public bodies and other organisations; universities and research centres are not counted.
- Left out of the EU project counts: 49 known quantum suppliers; 11 funders, agencies or consultancies.
- Use cases: Curated use cases, compiled 2026-10-21. Owner-reviewed for demonstration, 28 October 2026. A use case counts once per country of a linked end user (a company, public body or other organisation of its EU project that is not a known supplier); otherwise its country is not recorded.