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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.
13 records: 2 programmes or networks, 0 projects, 11 systems or sites. Each is counted once, at its own level.
Legend: stages and kinds of evidence
How to read this page
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 programme of several machines; each machine has its own record. Status as of 23 October 2026. (EuroHPC JU: Our quantum computers, Introduction: six machines procured and two co-funded through HPCQS)
User access
Accepting applications. The pilot-mode call accepts applications continuously; access starts within about two weeks of a cut-off, for projects of three or six months.
Route type: Call or application for access
Eligibility: Described by the call as open to all user categories who want to test, develop code or workflows, or train.
Cost: not stated by the source
Deadlines: Monthly cut-offs at 10:00 CET (1 November and 1 December 2026), then a final cut-off on 31 December 2033.
Announced investment or programme envelope: more than EUR 100 million, Planned total investment in the six quantum computers of the 2023 hosting agreements. Funded by: EuroHPC JU up to half of the cost, from its Digital Europe Programme budget; the participating states the rest. Shared with other records or a wider programme; not the amount of this record. Reviewed documentary evidence (EuroHPC JU news of 27 June 2023: the EuroHPC JU signs hosting agreements for six quantum computers, retrieved 2026-10-27; Passage on the planned investment and co-funding, and the list of hosting sites (public investment registry entry eu-eurohpc-quantum-computers-2023)). Entry in the public investment registry
Amounts as each source states them; different layers and sources are never added.
Milestones of EuroHPC quantum computers
Date
Milestone
State
What the source says
Source
4 October 2022
Announced or selected
Evidenced
Six hosting entities selected, in Czechia, Germany, Spain, France, Italy and Poland; the JU to co-fund up to half of the cost, from a planned total of more than EUR 100 million.
The systems offered in the call are shown in an image on the call page (version 3, October 2026): EuroQCS-Spain, Ruby, Euro-Q-Exa, Lucy, Piast-Q and VLQ, read on 27 October 2026.
Inaugurated; production operation not confirmed by the source. Inaugurated in June 2025; the sources do not state production operation in other words. Status as of 23 June 2025. Stale: the latest status statement found is more than six months old.(Inauguration of PIAST-Q, Opening paragraphs)
User access
Accepting applications. Through the EuroHPC pilot-mode access call, mainly for research and innovation by academia, industry and the public sector in Europe.
Route type: Call or application for access
Eligibility: European users from academia, industry and the public sector, per the inauguration page.
Cost: not stated by the source
Deadlines: Monthly cut-offs of the pilot-mode call.
Announced investment or programme envelope: more than EUR 100 million, Planned total investment in the six quantum computers of the 2023 hosting agreements. Funded by: EuroHPC JU up to half of the cost, from its Digital Europe Programme budget; the participating states the rest. Shared with other records or a wider programme; not the amount of this record. Manual linkage (EuroHPC JU news of 27 June 2023: the EuroHPC JU signs hosting agreements for six quantum computers, retrieved 2026-10-27; Passage on the planned investment and co-funding, and the list of hosting sites (public investment registry entry eu-eurohpc-quantum-computers-2023)). The 2023 release names EuroQCS-Poland, hosted by PSNC; the tracker matches it to Piast-Q.Entry in the public investment registry
Acquisition cost as the funder states it: EUR 12.28 million, Total acquisition cost of the machine, co-funded. Funded by: EuroHPC JU 50%; Ministry of Digital Affairs of Poland 50%. Concerns this record. Reviewed documentary evidence (EuroHPC JU: Signature of the procurement contract for EuroQCS-Poland, retrieved 2026-10-30; Paragraph on the acquisition cost and its co-funding (news of 10 July 2024)).
Amounts as each source states them; different layers and sources are never added.
Hosting agreement for EuroQCS-Poland signed with PSNC. Manual linkage: The 2023 agreement names EuroQCS-Poland; the 2025 inauguration page links that procurement to PIAST-Q.
Inaugurated; production operation not confirmed by the source. Inaugurated in September 2025; production operation is not stated in other words. Status as of 23 September 2025. Stale: the latest status statement found is more than six months old.(VLQ: Europe's next leap towards quantum-powered research and innovation, Opening paragraph)
User access
Accepting applications. Through the EuroHPC pilot-mode access call.
Route type: Call or application for access
Eligibility: European users from academia, industry and the public sector, per the VLQ page.
Cost: not stated by the source
Deadlines: Monthly cut-offs of the pilot-mode call.
Announced investment or programme envelope: more than EUR 100 million, Planned total investment in the six quantum computers of the 2023 hosting agreements. Funded by: EuroHPC JU up to half of the cost, from its Digital Europe Programme budget; the participating states the rest. Shared with other records or a wider programme; not the amount of this record. Manual linkage (EuroHPC JU news of 27 June 2023: the EuroHPC JU signs hosting agreements for six quantum computers, retrieved 2026-10-27; Passage on the planned investment and co-funding, and the list of hosting sites (public investment registry entry eu-eurohpc-quantum-computers-2023)). The 2023 release names LUMI-Q, hosted by IT4Innovations; the tracker matches it to VLQ.Entry in the public investment registry
Acquisition cost as the funder states it: EUR 5 million, Total acquisition cost of the machine, co-funded. Funded by: EuroHPC JU 50%; LUMI-Q consortium 50%. Concerns this record. Manual linkage (EuroHPC JU: Signature of the procurement contract for the EuroHPC quantum computer located in Czechia, retrieved 2026-10-30; Paragraph on the acquisition cost and its co-funding (news of 26 September 2024)). The contract page names the system LUMI-Q; the tracker matches it to VLQ.
Amounts as each source states them; different layers and sources are never added.
Hosting agreement for LUMI-Q signed with IT4Innovations, to be integrated into the KAROLINA supercomputer. Manual linkage: The 2023 agreement names LUMI-Q; the 2025 VLQ page explains that the name VLQ includes LUMI-Q, the consortium behind it.
Inauguration date differs between sources: the VLQ page of 23 September 2025 reports it on that day, while later EuroHPC releases (February and April 2026) say October 2025. This history follows the earlier, dated page; the catalogue and the use page give the same date with the same note.
The system list still describes VLQ as to be located in Ostrava, wording older than the inauguration.
Inaugurated; production operation not confirmed by the source. Inaugurated in February 2026; per the inauguration page, existing LRZ quantum users could use it from the next day. Status as of 12 February 2026. Stale: the latest status statement found is more than six months old.(Inauguration of Euro-Q-Exa, Paragraph on user access)
User access
Accepting applications. Through the EuroHPC pilot-mode access call; the inauguration page also names the Munich Quantum Portal for new users.
Route type: Call or application for access
Eligibility: Mainly research and innovation by academia, industry and the public sector in Europe, per the inauguration page.
Cost: not stated by the source
Deadlines: Monthly cut-offs of the pilot-mode call.
Announced investment or programme envelope: more than EUR 100 million, Planned total investment in the six quantum computers of the 2023 hosting agreements. Funded by: EuroHPC JU up to half of the cost, from its Digital Europe Programme budget; the participating states the rest. Shared with other records or a wider programme; not the amount of this record. Reviewed documentary evidence (EuroHPC JU news of 27 June 2023: the EuroHPC JU signs hosting agreements for six quantum computers, retrieved 2026-10-27; Passage on the planned investment and co-funding, and the list of hosting sites (public investment registry entry eu-eurohpc-quantum-computers-2023)). Entry in the public investment registry
Acquisition cost as the funder states it: EUR 25 million, Total cost of the two systems of the contract. Funded by: EuroHPC JU, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts; the shares are not stated. Concerns this record. Reviewed documentary evidence (EuroHPC JU: Signature of the procurement contract for the EuroHPC quantum computer located in Germany, retrieved 2026-10-30; Sentence on the total cost of the two systems and their co-funding (news of 15 October 2024)).
Amounts as each source states them; different layers and sources are never added.
The upgrade timing is stated twice: by the end of 2026 in the text of the inauguration page and the system list, and early 2027 in a quotation on the same inauguration page. The earlier date is shown; neither is confirmed yet.
Inaugurated; production operation not confirmed by the source. Inaugurated in April 2026, with final calibration under way at that date. Status as of 14 April 2026. Stale: the latest status statement found is more than six months old.(EuroHPC JU inaugurates a quantum computer in France, Opening paragraphs)
User access
Accepting applications. Through the EuroHPC pilot-mode access call; in France also through GENCI's allocation process (see the HQI entry of the catalogue).
Route type: Call or application for access
Eligibility: not stated by the source
Cost: not stated by the source
Deadlines: Monthly cut-offs of the pilot-mode call.
Announced investment or programme envelope: more than EUR 100 million, Planned total investment in the six quantum computers of the 2023 hosting agreements. Funded by: EuroHPC JU up to half of the cost, from its Digital Europe Programme budget; the participating states the rest. Shared with other records or a wider programme; not the amount of this record. Manual linkage (EuroHPC JU news of 27 June 2023: the EuroHPC JU signs hosting agreements for six quantum computers, retrieved 2026-10-27; Passage on the planned investment and co-funding, and the list of hosting sites (public investment registry entry eu-eurohpc-quantum-computers-2023)). The 2023 release names EuroQCS-France, hosted by GENCI and CEA; the tracker matches it to Lucy.Entry in the public investment registry
Acquisition cost as the funder states it: around EUR 8.5 million, Total cost of the system, co-funded. Funded by: EuroHPC JU 50%; France 50%. Concerns this record. Reviewed documentary evidence (EuroHPC JU: Signature of the procurement contract for Lucy, located in France, retrieved 2026-10-30; Sentence on the total cost and its co-funding (news of 26 September 2024)).
Amounts as each source states them; different layers and sources are never added.
Hosting agreement for EuroQCS-France signed with GENCI and TGCC (CEA). Manual linkage: The 2023 agreement names EuroQCS-France; the 2024 contract page names Lucy as EuroQCS-France.
Announced investment or programme envelope: more than EUR 100 million, Planned total investment in the six quantum computers of the 2023 hosting agreements. Funded by: EuroHPC JU up to half of the cost, from its Digital Europe Programme budget; the participating states the rest. Shared with other records or a wider programme; not the amount of this record. Manual linkage (EuroHPC JU news of 27 June 2023: the EuroHPC JU signs hosting agreements for six quantum computers, retrieved 2026-10-27; Passage on the planned investment and co-funding, and the list of hosting sites (public investment registry entry eu-eurohpc-quantum-computers-2023)). The 2023 release names EuroQCS-Italy, hosted by CINECA; the tracker matches it to SOL by host, city and supplier.Entry in the public investment registry
Acquisition cost as the funder states it: EUR 13 million, Total acquisition cost of the machine, co-funded. Funded by: EuroHPC JU 50%; Italian Ministry of University and Research 50%, through the ICSC centre set up under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan. Concerns this record. Manual linkage (EuroHPC JU: Signature of the procurement contract for the EuroHPC quantum computer located in Italy, retrieved 2026-10-30; Paragraph on the acquisition cost and its co-funding (news of 27 March 2025)). The contract page names the system EuroQCS-Italy; the tracker matches it to SOL by host, city and supplier.
Amounts as each source states them; different layers and sources are never added.
Hosting agreement for EuroQCS-Italy signed with CINECA, to be hosted in Bologna and integrated into Leonardo. Manual linkage: Matched by host, city and supplier: the EuroQCS-Italy procurement and SOL both name CINECA, Bologna and Pasqal, and the SOL inauguration page names the EuroQCS-Italy consortium, but no page states that SOL is EuroQCS-Italy.
Call for tender for a neutral-atom machine (EUR 13 million); applications closed on 5 September 2024. Manual linkage: Named EuroQCS-Italy; see the hosting agreement.
Procurement contract signed with Pasqal; at least 140 qubits in analogue mode at first. Manual linkage: Named EuroQCS-Italy; see the hosting agreement.
The catalogue entry still describes SOL as planned and the system list as to be located in Bologna; both are older than the inauguration of 11 June 2026. The catalogue is corrected in its own review.
The catalogue lists SOL as a simulator; the inauguration page calls it a quantum computer.
Inaugurated; production operation not confirmed by the source. Inaugurated in May 2026; a maintenance pause is announced for the end of the year. Status as of 25 June 2026. (EuroHPC JU call for proposals for quantum access in pilot mode, Maintenance notice on the call page)
User access
Accepting applications. Through the EuroHPC pilot-mode access call, which mentions projects on this machine.
Route type: Call or application for access
Eligibility: European researchers, industry and public users, per the inauguration page.
Cost: not stated by the source
Deadlines: Monthly cut-offs of the pilot-mode call.
Announced investment or programme envelope: more than EUR 100 million, Planned total investment in the six quantum computers of the 2023 hosting agreements. Funded by: EuroHPC JU up to half of the cost, from its Digital Europe Programme budget; the participating states the rest. Shared with other records or a wider programme; not the amount of this record. Reviewed documentary evidence (EuroHPC JU news of 27 June 2023: the EuroHPC JU signs hosting agreements for six quantum computers, retrieved 2026-10-27; Passage on the planned investment and co-funding, and the list of hosting sites (public investment registry entry eu-eurohpc-quantum-computers-2023)). Entry in the public investment registry
Announced investment or programme envelope: EUR 12.5 million, Investment in the EuroHPC quantum computer hosted in Spain. Funded by: EU 50%; State Secretariat for Digitalisation and Artificial Intelligence 50%. Concerns this record. Manual linkage (Ministry of Science: Spain selected to host one of the first European quantum computers thanks to Quantum Spain (11 October 2022), retrieved 2026-10-21; Paragraph on the EuroHPC selection (public investment registry entry es-quantum-spain)). The ministry names the EuroHPC machine to be hosted in Spain, not the name EuroQCS-Spain. No EuroHPC JU contract page for this machine was found, so no acquisition cost is shown; the TED contract award notice 58357-2025 is in the procurement layer of follow the money (read 30 October 2026).Entry in the public investment registry
Amounts as each source states them; different layers and sources are never added.
No tender or contract announcement for EuroQCS-Spain was found on the EuroHPC site; those milestones are left out rather than guessed.
The maintenance notice does not state the year; it is read as 2026 because the call's cut-offs run from August to December 2026.
The call's system list (image, version 3, October 2026) offers 10 to 25 QPU hours per request on EuroQCS-Spain; the catalogue entry names the call as its access route.
Inaugurated; production operation not confirmed by the source. Inaugurated at the end of 2025. Status as of 14 April 2026. Stale: the latest status statement found is more than six months old.(EuroHPC JU inaugurates a quantum computer in France, Paragraph on JADE and Ruby)
User access
Unknown. The system list gives no access link or statement for JADE.
Inaugurated; production operation not confirmed by the source. Inaugurated at the end of 2025. Status as of 14 April 2026. Stale: the latest status statement found is more than six months old.(EuroHPC JU inaugurates a quantum computer in France, Paragraph on JADE and Ruby)
User access
Accepting applications. Through the EuroHPC pilot-mode access call.
Route type: Call or application for access
Eligibility: not stated by the source
Cost: not stated by the source
Deadlines: Monthly cut-offs of the pilot-mode call.
Acquisition cost as the funder states it: no amount stated by the source, Co-funding rule of the machine stated in its hosting agreement. Funded by: EuroHPC JU up to 50% of the total cost, from its Digital Europe Programme budget; the participating state the rest. Concerns this record. Reviewed documentary evidence (EuroHPC JU: EuroHPC JU signs hosting agreements for quantum computers in Luxembourg and in the Netherlands, retrieved 2026-10-30; Paragraph on co-funding: the JU co-funds up to 50% of the total cost from its Digital Europe Programme budget, the participating states the rest; no amount is stated for either machine).
Announced investment or programme envelope: no amount stated by the source, National quantum strategy of Luxembourg, which covers MeluXina-Q; it refers to dedicated budgets without an amount. Shared with other records or a wider programme; not the amount of this record. Reviewed documentary evidence (Luxembourg's Quantum Strategy, Accelerating digital sovereignty 2030 (PDF), retrieved 2026-10-21; Objectives and roadmap section, flagship projects (public investment registry entry lu-quantum-strategy-2030)). Entry in the public investment registry
Amounts as each source states them; different layers and sources are never added.
Acquisition cost as the funder states it: no amount stated by the source, Co-funding rule of the machine stated in its hosting agreement. Funded by: EuroHPC JU up to 50% of the total cost, from its Digital Europe Programme budget; the participating state the rest. Concerns this record. Reviewed documentary evidence (EuroHPC JU: EuroHPC JU signs hosting agreements for quantum computers in Luxembourg and in the Netherlands, retrieved 2026-10-30; Paragraph on co-funding: the JU co-funds up to 50% of the total cost from its Digital Europe Programme budget, the participating states the rest; no amount is stated for either machine).
Amounts as each source states them; different layers and sources are never added.
The tender deadline (24 October 2025) passed a year before the check date; no award announcement was found. This is not evidence of a problem, only of no published award.
Accepting applications. Competitive calls of the Spanish Supercomputing Network every six months; fast-track access always open.
Route type: Call or application for access
Eligibility: Researchers at institutions in the EU and EuroHPC states doing open research, including SME researchers; a team member at a Spanish centre is recommended.
Cost: Free for open research and development, per RES.
Deadlines: The RES page listed September 2026 for the last quantum call, a date already passed at the check; fast-track stays open.
Announced investment or programme envelope: EUR 22 million, Investment with which Quantum Spain started in 2022. Shared with other records or a wider programme; not the amount of this record. Reviewed documentary evidence (Spanish Government press release of 19 May 2026 on the BSC quantum computer, retrieved 2026-10-23; Paragraph on the start of Quantum Spain (the milestone "start" of this record)). A programme amount, not the cost of this computer. The public investment registry entry es-quantum-spain gives EUR 12.5 million for the EuroHPC machine in Spain, a different machine, so it is not shown here.
Amounts as each source states them; different layers and sources are never added.
Milestones of Quantum Spain quantum computer at BSC-CNS
Date
Milestone
State
What the source says
Source
2022
Funded or agreement signed
Evidenced
Quantum Spain started in 2022 with an investment of EUR 22 million.
Expanded with a 35-qubit processor and described as stable and in production for research, public and business users; 45 projects had been granted access through RES.
The RES page does not say where its quantum computers are located; the link to this machine comes from the Government press release.
HQI (France Hybrid HPC Quantum Initiative)
Level
Programme or network
Country
France
Furthest evidenced milestone
Accepting access applications
Technical status
Programme or network, not a single machine. A national platform grouping several machines; Ruby, Jade and Lucy have their own records. Status as of 28 October 2026. (CEA computing complex: Quantum Computing (HQI), Description of the platform)
User access
Access route documented; whether it is open now is not stated. Through GENCI’s DARI allocation process; the page does not say whether a session is open now.
Route type: Call or application for access
Eligibility: French and European academic and industrial researchers who want to evaluate quantum computing.
Cost: Free of charge for evaluation, per the source.
Milestones of HQI (France Hybrid HPC Quantum Initiative)
Date
Milestone
State
What the source says
Source
November 2021
Funded or agreement signed
Evidenced
National award HQI – Acquisition (ANR-22-PNCQ-0001) to GENCI and partners starts, running to November 2027, to acquire Ruby, Jade and Lucy and couple them to supercomputers.
The CEA page dates the inauguration of Ruby to 13 November 2025; the Ruby record keeps the EuroHPC JU wording (end of 2025) until the review queue item is decided.
Review queue: claims to check
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.