The key performance indicators that the Strategic Advisory Board of the Quantum Flagship uses to follow quantum technologies in Europe: 25 indicators in six areas, some with parts, from 2021 to 2024 against the targets for 2030.
Each card shows the official 2024 value and the 2030 target as published, the trajectory this portal calculates from the official values, and a live measure from the data of the portal where one exists. Live measures are proxies with their own method and coverage; they never replace the official values.
Source: Key Performance Indicators for Quantum Technologies in Europe (Quantum Flagship Strategic Advisory Board, March 2025). The 2024 values were measured in early 2025 through surveys of SAB, QCB, QuIC and QUCATS members and verified and validated by the SAB (booklet page 2).
Live measures assembled on 2026-11-02 from the stored data of the portal. Pilot, pending editorial review.
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The six areas are those of the KPI booklet, kept as published. The portal’s own technology pillars follow the draft SRIA 2026: Quantum Computing and Quantum Simulation below are the two parts of its computing and simulation pillar, and enabling technologies and the supply chain have no area of their own in the booklet. Why the portal uses four pillars
9 of 22 assessed indicators are on pace or have reached their 2030 target.
30 indicators and parts in total; 16 with a live measure of the portal. Status by the first measure of each indicator, calculated by this portal from the official values, not the colours of the booklet.
Definitions: Indicators by trajectory status; Trajectory towards the 2030 target
Comm 1
| Year | Value |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 2 |
| 2022 | 5 |
| 2023 | 11 |
| 2024 | 12 |
On pace Recent pace +3.3 a year; needed +1.3 a year to 2030.
Live measure
No automatic measure. No source of the portal records communication subsystems or their state of the art.
Comm 2a
| Year | Value |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 1.3 km |
| 2022 | 1.3* km |
| 2023 | 1.3* km |
| 2024 | 10** km |
On pace only if growth compounds Recent pace +2.9 a year; needed +81.7 a year to 2030.
Live measure
No automatic measure. Distances of heralded entanglement come from experiments in the literature; the portal does not track them.
Comm 2b
| Year | Value |
|---|---|
| 2021 | - |
| 2022 | - |
| 2023 | 248 km @1.4 bits/s***; 1 new realized protocol (BBM92) |
| 2024 | 248 km @1.4 bits/s***; 1 new realized protocol (BBM92) |
Not assessed The indicator is a rank or a description, not a quantity.
Live measure
No automatic measure. Key exchange distances and new protocols come from experiments in the literature; the portal does not track them.
Comm 3
| Year | Value |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 1 metropolitan area; 8 nodes |
| 2022 | 15 metropolitan areas; 10 nodes |
| 2023 | 16 metropolitan areas; 10 nodes |
| 2024 | 20 metropolitan areas; 10 nodes |
On pace Recent pace +6.3 a year; needed +0.8 a year to 2030.
Live measure (portal proxy, not the official value)
EuroQCI national projects and evidenced communication deployments
25 countries Countries with a national EuroQCI project
Countries with a national EuroQCI project in the infrastructure catalogue, and quantum communication records of the deployment tracker whose furthest evidenced milestone is delivered, commissioned or operational, against those only planned.
Coverage: The infrastructure catalogue and the deployment tracker, both source-verified.
Data as of 2026-10-28.
Definition: Comm 3 live measure: countries with a national EuroQCI project
Comm 4
| Year | Value |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 |
| 2022 | 9 |
| 2023 | 10 |
| 2024 | 10 |
On pace only if growth compounds Recent pace +1.7 a year; needed +3.3 a year to 2030.
Live measure (portal proxy, not the official value)
Documented quantum communication use cases
5 use cases Documented quantum communication use cases
Use cases of the adoption directory classified as quantum communication, counted cumulatively by the year of their source. Post-quantum cryptography cases are classical security and are not counted.
Coverage: The source-verified use cases of the adoption directory.
Data as of 2026-10-21.
Definition: Comm 4 live measure: documented quantum communication use cases
Definitions: Official KPI values and 2030 targets; Progress towards the 2030 target; Trajectory towards the 2030 target
The booklet marks each indicator with one of these four colours (page 4). The colours are not reproduced here; the booklet itself shows them. Some 2030 targets are still under discussion and shown as n/a; the targets of Communication 2b, Computing 2 and Simulation 3 and 4 are under review (booklet pages 3 and 20).
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