In short: How each machine or network moves from funding to access for users. Filter by country, area or stage; the milestone legend is folded. Filter the records
How European quantum computers, communication networks, testbeds and pilot lines move from announcement and funding to procurement, delivery, operation and access for users. Each milestone names its source; technical status and user access are shown apart, because an inauguration or a contract does not prove that outside users can apply.
Milestone history of a pilot selection of European quantum infrastructure (#434), compiled on the date shown from official programme, host and project pages. Summaries are in our own words; each names its source and where in it the fact appears. Not confirmed by the providers, not live capacity or booking information. A stated target is a forecast; a passed target without later evidence is shown as such, never as a failure or as operational. Owner-reviewed for demonstration, 28 October 2026.
Last source check: 28 October 2026. A pilot selection; other catalogue entries have no milestone history yet.
7 records: 1 programme or network, 4 projects, 2 systems or sites. Each is counted once, at its own level.
Legend: stages and kinds of evidence
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Evidenced
The source reports the milestone as having happened, on the date shown or, when it gives none, as seen on the check date.
Forecast
A target the source states. It stays a forecast until later evidence is found; a passed target date is not a failure, and nothing becomes operational because a date passed.
Technical status
Whether the machine or network is planned, being procured, inaugurated or in operation, as its source states.
User access
Whether outside users can apply, through which route, with eligibility, cost and deadlines when the source names them; unknown stays unknown.
Linkage
Direct when the source names the system; manual when an earlier name (such as EuroQCS-Italy) is matched to the system by host, city or supplier.
Programme or network, not a single machine. A network being built from national and cross-border projects; one project's link does not show that the network is complete. Status as of 30 January 2025. Stale: the latest status statement found is more than six months old.(ESA and European Commission partner to develop secure quantum communication infrastructure, Paragraphs on the terrestrial and space segments)
User access
No external access stated by the source. Intended to secure communication between critical and sensitive sites; no public user access is described.
PETRUS (ft:101091719), Digital Europe Programme: EUR 1,998,461.44, EU contribution (maximum grant agreed). Direct identifier match (PETRUS: home page, retrieved 2026-10-30; Opening statement (PETRUS coordinates the deployment of EuroQCI) and the footer funding statement with call DIGITAL-2021-QCI-01 and grant agreement 101091719). The coordination and support action of the national quantum communication infrastructures; the national projects have their own records and awards.
The Commission's EuroQCI policy page (digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu) refused automated requests on the check date (HTTP 403) and was not re-checked; the programme milestones come from ESA.
No network routes or sites are listed here.
Eagle-1 satellite
Level
System or site
Country
EU-wide
Furthest evidenced milestone
No evidenced milestone yet
Technical status
Planned. Not yet launched, per the ESA mission page on the check date. Status as of 23 October 2026. (ESA: Eagle-1, Mission page)
User access
No external access stated by the source. A demonstration mission; no user access is described.
Announced investment or programme envelope: no amount stated by the source, ESA ARTES partnership project with the European Commission; ESA states no amount. Concerns this record. Reviewed documentary evidence (ESA: Eagle-1, retrieved 2026-10-21; Mission page (public investment registry entry esa-eagle-1)). Entry in the public investment registry
In operation, per the source. Launched and offering test and evaluation services, per TU/e (16 September 2025). Status as of 16 September 2025. Stale: the latest status statement found is more than six months old.(TU/e launches quantum communication testbed QuCT NL, Paragraph on services)
User access
Access route documented; whether it is open now is not stated. Open for cooperation with industry, research and academia; certification of QKD equipment is planned.
Route type: Testing service, Research collaboration
QCINed (ft:101091656), Digital Europe Programme: EUR 4,995,409.98, EU contribution (maximum grant agreed). Reviewed documentary evidence (Eindhoven University of Technology: TU/e launches quantum communication testbed QuCT NL, retrieved 2026-10-30; Final paragraph: QuCT NL was partially funded by the European Commission as part of QCINed). The page names the project QCINed, not its grant number; QCINed is the only stored Funding & Tenders award with that acronym (topic DIGITAL-2021-QCI-01-DEPLOY-NATIONAL, Dutch participants). Partial funding: the award is the national project, not the cost of the testbed.
Milestones of QuCT NL (Quantum Communication Testbed)
Date
Milestone
State
What the source says
Source
26 August 2025
Operational
Evidenced
Launched at a public event at TU/e; partly funded by the Commission as part of QCINed. The testbed offers QKD testing, protocol evaluation and demonstrations.
Project under way. Project under way; one inaugurated link reported. Status as of 30 June 2025. Stale: the latest status statement found is more than six months old.(QUID: Connecting the JRC to the future, News item)
User access
No external access stated by the source. No user access is described.
A link connecting the Commission's Joint Research Centre in Ispra to EuroQCI through the Italian Quantum Backbone was inaugurated; the project presents it as the first formal link between a Commission site and EuroQCI.
Project under way. Project under way; a five-node pilot was demonstrated in April 2025. Status as of 24 April 2025. Stale: the latest status statement found is more than six months old.(PTQCI home page, Home page: news item)
User access
No external access stated by the source. No user access is described.
Project under way. Project under way; first link reported in November 2024. Status as of 22 November 2024. Stale: the latest status statement found is more than six months old.(CYQCI deploys Cyprus's first ever quantum link, News item)
User access
No external access stated by the source. No user access is described.
Project under way. The project page (updated 22 July 2025) describes the network as a future result. Status as of 22 July 2025. Stale: the latest status statement found is more than six months old.(LVRTC: experimental quantum communication infrastructure in Latvia, Project page)
User access
No external access stated by the source. No user access is described.
Claims an editor should check against their sources: a source that now says something else, a catalogue entry that disagrees with the milestone evidence, a passed target without confirmation and status statements older than six months. Nothing here changes a status by itself.