Emerging Group in Quantum Technologies of Catalonia (QuantumCAT)

Operation co-funded by EU cohesion policy (European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)) under the programme Cataluña - ERDF (2014ES16RFOP011), managing authority: Subdirección General de Gestión del FEDER de la Dirección General de Fondos Europeos. Ministerio de Hacienda.. The source names no beneficiary for this operation. Location: Barcelona Province (NUTS ES511); Spain. Budget: total eligible expenditure EUR 327,024.12; EU co-financing EUR 163,512.06 (co-financing rate 50%), as stated by the source. Runs 2018-01-01 to 2022-06-30. Source: Kohesio, EU cohesion policy projects managed by national and regional authorities (not CORDIS). Summary from Kohesio (English machine translation by the source): Quantum Technologies (QT) harness the unique properties of quantum physics to deliver unprecedented capabilities to modern information-society applications. The technologies of Quantum Computation, Quantum Communications, Quantum Simulation, and Quantum Metrology and Sensing are now moving from theoretical possibilities to real-world deployment, in applications ranging from secure internet to non-invasive brain imaging. Catalonia is already home to many leading research groups in QT, to rapidly-growing QT start-ups, and to industry leaders ready to integrate QT into major industrial operations. As with any nascent technology, a major challenge for QT is to move discoveries from the research laboratory to into industrially-viable implementations. QuantumCAT will address this challenge in three ways: first, by advancing selected high-potential laboratory technologies toward industrial deployment through focused collaborative research efforts; second, by facilitating community-wide dissemination of successful deployment and innovation strategies; third, by outreach to the research groups and industrial actors with most potential to join the Quantum Technologies community in the future. QuantumCAT's focused research efforts cover the four recognized "pillars" (Computation, Communications, Simulation, Metrology/Sensing) of QT, and will be undertaken by leading research institutions in Catalonia, including BSC, I2CAT, ICN2, ICFO, UAB, UB, and UPC. The coordination effort will be led by ICFO and will include both current and future participants in the QT community. Outreach, to research groups not already incorporated in the community, and to industrial actors that may benefit from QT deployment, will be accomplished through open meetings in the framework of the coordination action, and through different activities such as workshops, participation in industrial conferences and networking events, among others.

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Source: Kohesio (EU cohesion policy projects), European Commission, Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy (DG REGIO). Retrieved 2026-10-21. Licence: CC0 1.0 (Cohesion Open Data Platform, dataset 2014-2020 Kohesio projects). Selected metadata, adapted presentation; the publisher's record is authoritative. No endorsement by the source is implied. Licence: public domain dedication (CC0 1.0).

AI-assisted summary: The Emerging Group in Quantum Technologies of Catalonia (QuantumCAT) is an operation co-funded by the EU with a budget of EUR 327,024.12, running from January 1, 2018, to June 30, 2022, in Barcelona Province, Spain. Suggested technology pillar: enabling. Generated by AI from the public source text; it may contain errors and the original source is authoritative.