- Spain
- Research organisation
- Castelldefels, Spain
- EU projects: sensing 24, computing and simulation 24, communication 20 (some areas are keyword suggestions pending review)
Fact sheet
- Type
- Facility, Funder ROR, retrieved 26 October 2026
- Country and city
- Spain CORDIS (portal record), retrieved 18 October 2026Mediterranean Technology Park Wikidata, retrieved 26 October 2026
- Founded
- 2002 Wikidata, retrieved 26 October 2026
- Employees
- 400 (as of 2018) Wikidata, retrieved 26 October 2026
- Identifiers
- LEI 95980020140005370582 Wikidata, retrieved 26 October 2026ROR 03g5ew477 ROR, retrieved 26 October 2026Wikidata Q3775506 Wikidata, retrieved 26 October 2026
- EU and national projects
- 83 projects in this catalogue CORDIS, Funding & Tenders Portal, national funders
- Not yet known from our sources
- Revenue and capital, Patents
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Organisation profile
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Identity
"Registered" is what the organisation reported to the Global LEI System; "stated" is what an open registry names. The two can differ.
- Parent as stated by ROR
- Barcelona Institute for Science and Technology
- Parent as stated by ROR
- CERCA Institution
- Parent as stated by ROR
- Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Sources: ROR (CC0), retrieved 26 October 2026.
Logo (top of the page): ICFO - The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
EU projects and funding
76 EU-funded quantum projects in CORDIS name this organisation as a participant (start years 2015 to 2027).
Net EU contribution to this organisation: EUR 52,346,732. The sum of its own net EU contribution in each of these projects, as CORDIS records it per participant.
Projects by technology pillar
- Quantum computing and simulation: 26
- Quantum sensing and metrology: 22
- Quantum communication: 18
- Enabling technologies and supply chain: 2
Follow the money: all awards by programme and country
Source: CORDIS (European Commission), snapshot retrieved 2026-10-16, reused under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU on the reuse of Commission documents; stored 2 November 2026.
Publications and preprints
Preprint radar
4 quantum preprints on arXiv in the last 30 days name this organisation among their institutions.
- Certification Time for Weak-Force-Mediated Entanglement between Levitated Particles
- Quantum theory of laser noise in coherent-scattering levitated optomechanics
- Entanglement certification of attosecond light fields with photoelectron interferometry
- Bell scenarios encode classical non-causality
Source: arXiv quant-ph listings with OpenAlex institutions (metadata CC0), stored 2 November 2026.
Courses, infrastructure and standards
Quantum infrastructure hosted or coordinated
Sources: infrastructure catalogue compiled 2026-10-27. Linked by the name of the organisation (its portal title or its ROR name); a link can be missed when a source spells the name differently.
Technology families and SRIA goals
Source: the shared quantum technology taxonomy of the portal, assignments confirmed by an editor; profile stored 2 November 2026.
Related goals of the draft SRIA 2026
15 goals of the draft SRIA 2026 concern these technologies; the first 6 are listed.
- Milestone by 2030: 100 logical qubits with logical error rates around 10^-6 by 2030, matching the Commission objective of about 100 logical qubits by 2030.
- Goal by 2035: 1000 logical qubits with logical error rates around 10^-6 by 2035; the draft calls this the lower edge of broad utility rather than an end point.
- Goal 2035 goals: Neutral atoms: a fully fault-tolerant computer with more than 1000 logical qubits, a universal logical gate set, circuit depth above 10^12 and a logical clock rate above 1 kHz, integrated into European HPC and cloud.
- Goal by 2035: Lead in quantum sensors through validated, field-deployable and industrially relevant system performance: sensitivity, stability and traceability, robustness, size and power, and advantage benchmarked against classical sensors.
- Goal by 2035: European suppliers should hold a defined share of the EU installed base in named product classes, with less reliance on non-European bottleneck components.
- Milestone 2030 KPI: At least three sensor classes reach TRL 6–7, with selected priority platforms validated in relevant environments.
Source: draft Strategic Research and Industry Agenda 2026 (Quantum Flagship, draft for consultation, 2026-09-19), checked 2026-10-24. Related by technology family only, not by anything this organisation said.
People in quantum at this organisation
Researchers whose latest quantum works name this organisation (OpenAlex). Professional information only. About this directory
- Maciej Lewenstein (67 quantum works since 2022)
- Hugues de Riedmatten (40 quantum works since 2022)
- Jorge Fuenzalida (22 quantum works since 2022)
- Samuele Grandi (21 quantum works since 2022)
- Sören Wengerowsky (18 quantum works since 2022)
- Luis Trigo Vidarte (17 quantum works since 2022)
- Grzegorz Rajchel-Mieldzioć (13 quantum works since 2022)
- Juan P. Torres (13 quantum works since 2022)
- Luciano Pereira (13 quantum works since 2022)
- Félicien Appas (11 quantum works since 2022)
Capabilities on public record
From the supplier directory: each capability with its strongest evidence. A contract, a documented product, a product line or software shows supply; an EU-funded project or a confirmed technology area shows research activity. Not an endorsement or a qualification.
- Integrated photonic circuits (Photonic) EU-funded project naming the capability
- Neutral atoms EU-funded project naming the capability
- Photonic EU-funded project naming the capability
- Quantum key distribution systems EU-funded project naming the capability
- Quantum memories for networks EU-funded project naming the capability
- Quantum random number generators (Quantum key distribution systems) EU-funded project naming the capability
Fundacio Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques is listed in 76 project(s) in this CORDIS quantum-related snapshot, coordinating 46. Recorded net EU contribution across these projects: EUR 52,346,732. Coverage is limited to the imported dataset; participation is not a verified quantum technology capability.
Source: CORDIS, Publications Office of the European Union (CORDIS). Retrieved 2026-10-16. Licence: European Commission reuse notice (Decision 2011/833/EU). Selected administrative metadata, adapted presentation. No endorsement by the source is implied. Organisation-level data only. Licence: European Commission reuse policy (Decision 2011/833/EU).
Source: cordis.europa.eu · checked 16 Oct 2026