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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

Goals and KPIs proposed in the draft SRIA 2026

At a glance

9 of 22 assessed indicators are on pace or have reached their 2030 target.

  • 1 Target reached
  • 8 On pace
  • 4 On pace only if growth compounds
  • 9 Slower than needed
  • 8 Not assessed

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

Ecosystem

  • Eco 1

    Investment

    2024, official
    344 M€
    2030 target
    1000 M€
    34% of the 2030 target
    Values as a table
    Official values of Eco 1 as published by the SAB
    YearValue
    2021344 M€
    2022408 M€
    2023551 M€
    2024344 M€

    Slower than needed Recent pace +14.3 a year; needed +109.3 a year to 2030.

    Live measure (portal proxy, not the official value)

    EU contribution to quantum projects by start year, and announced private rounds

    EUR 345 million (2025) EU maximum contribution of quantum projects starting in 2025, EUR million

    How it is calculated

    Two separate series, never added together. (1) The EU maximum contribution of the CORDIS quantum projects in the portal snapshot, summed by the year each project starts; only CORDIS rows are used, so a project that also appears in the Funding & Tenders snapshot is counted once, as on Follow the money. (2) Publicly announced private rounds of the investor view by announcement year, one total per currency: closed rounds with a disclosed amount only, acquisitions and listings left out, as on the rounds tracker.

    Coverage: The CORDIS snapshot of the portal (Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe projects matched as quantum); the curated rounds file (2023 onwards, not exhaustive).

    • EU grants are commitments to projects, not the venture, seed and public-private investment the SAB counts.
    • The current year is incomplete: projects are still being signed and rounds announced.
    • Rounds are a curated selection, not a census of European quantum investment.

    Data as of 2026-10-16.

    Definition: Eco 1 live measure: EU contribution by start year and announced rounds

    Details, method and sources

  • Eco 2

    Lab-to-market

    2024, official
    101
    2030 target
    250
    40% of the 2030 target
    Values as a table
    Official values of Eco 2 as published by the SAB
    YearValue
    202179
    202295
    202399
    2024101

    Slower than needed Recent pace +7.3 a year; needed +24.8 a year to 2030.

    Live measure (portal proxy, not the official value)

    European companies in EU quantum projects, by year of their first project

    599 European companies Companies based in Europe (EU, EFTA, United Kingdom and countries associated to Horizon Europe) that have taken part in an EU-funded quantum project; companies of any country are counted on the supply-chain page

    How it is calculated

    Companies of the investor view screener (private for-profit organisations in European countries taking part in the CORDIS quantum projects, entities of one company grouped through reviewed links), counted cumulatively by the start year of their first quantum project in the snapshot; SMEs as flagged in CORDIS.

    Coverage: Companies with at least one CORDIS quantum project; companies without EU funding are not seen.

    • The SAB counts SME members of QuIC; the portal counts companies in EU-funded projects, a different and larger population.
    • The first project year is not the founding year.

    Data as of 2026-11-02.

    Definition: Eco 2 live measure: European companies in EU quantum projects

    Details, method and sources

  • Eco 3

    Lab-to-fab infrastructure and value chains

    2024, official
    30
    2030 target
    60
    50% of the 2030 target
    Values as a table
    Official values of Eco 3 as published by the SAB
    YearValue
    20211
    20229
    202322
    202430

    On pace Recent pace +9.7 a year; needed +5.0 a year to 2030.

    Live measure (portal proxy, not the official value)

    Catalogue facilities offering testing or fabrication services

    13 entries Catalogue entries naming a testing or fabrication service

    How it is calculated

    Entries of the infrastructure catalogue whose sources name a testing service or a fabrication service as an access route.

    Coverage: The source-verified infrastructure catalogue: EuroHPC, EuroQCI, Qu-Test and Qu-Pilot, Chips JU pilot lines and national platforms.

    • Several entries are networks or projects that group many sites; the SAB counts research institutions.
    • A named access route is not proof that SMEs can book the service today.
    • The catalogue has no history, so there is no yearly series.

    Data as of 2026-10-27.

    Definition: Eco 3 live measure: facilities offering testing or fabrication services

    Details, method and sources

  • Eco 4

    Job creation

    2024, official
    5777
    2030 target
    10000
    58% of the 2030 target
    Values as a table
    Official values of Eco 4 as published by the SAB
    YearValue
    2021n/a
    2022n/a
    20233850
    20245777

    On pace Recent pace +1927.0 a year; needed +703.8 a year to 2030.

    Live measure (portal proxy, not the official value)

    Quantum job postings collected on the portal, by year

    16 postings (2026) Job postings added to the portal in 2026

    How it is calculated

    Published job and position opportunities on the portal, counted by the year they were added.

    Coverage: Postings from qt.eu and the public job boards the portal reads.

    • Postings, not jobs created: one job can be posted more than once and many jobs are never posted on these boards.
    • The year is when the portal added the posting, not when the job was created.
    • The current year is incomplete.

    Data as of 2026-11-02.

    Definition: Eco 4 live measure: quantum job postings by year

    Details, method and sources

  • Eco 5

    Patent creation and IP retention

    2024, official
    Top 2 globally
    2030 target
    Top 2 globally
    Values as a table
    Official values of Eco 5 as published by the SAB
    YearValue
    2021n/a
    2022n/a
    2023Top 2 globally
    2024Top 2 globally

    Not assessed The indicator is a rank or a description, not a quantity.

    Live measure (portal proxy, not the official value)

    Published quantum patent documents per year (EPO landscape)

    3,577 documents (2025) Published documents in 2025, Quantum computing (CPC G06N 10/00 and its subgroups)

    How it is calculated

    The patent landscape of technology intelligence: published documents per publication year found by EPO Open Patent Services searches in CPC G06N 10 (quantum computing) and in H04L 9/0852 with H04B 10/70 (quantum communication), shown as two series.

    Coverage: Worldwide publications in those CPC groups, collected a few years per scheduled run while an OPS key is installed.

    • Documents, not patent families, and worldwide: the share of European applicants is not available because applicant countries are not collected yet, so no rank can be derived.
    • The two series can overlap and are not added together.
    • The last two years are incomplete.

    Data as of 2026-11-02.

    Definition: Eco 5 live measure: published quantum patent documents per year

    Details, method and sources

  • Eco 6

    Supply chain and strategic autonomy

    2024, official
    48
    2030 target
    60
    80% of the 2030 target
    Values as a table
    Official values of Eco 6 as published by the SAB
    YearValue
    20210
    202235
    202344
    202448

    On pace Recent pace +16.0 a year; needed +2.0 a year to 2030.

    Live measure (portal proxy, not the official value)

    Parts-tree components with companies in EU-funded projects

    9 of 83 components Components of the parts tree with a company in a matching EU-funded project

    How it is calculated

    Components of the source-verified parts tree for which at least one company takes part in a CORDIS quantum project whose title names the component, as on the technology map.

    Coverage: Components of the parts tree; CORDIS projects and organisations of the portal snapshot.

    • A company in an EU-funded project about a component is not proof that the component is produced in the EU.
    • The SAB counts components formerly imported and now made in the EU; the portal cannot observe imports.

    Data as of 2026-10-16.

    Definition: Eco 6 live measure: parts-tree components with companies in EU projects

    Details, method and sources

Definitions: Official KPI values and 2030 targets; Progress towards the 2030 target; Trajectory towards the 2030 target

How the trajectory is calculated

  • Recent pace: the yearly change from the first to the last numeric official value, (last - first) / years between them.
  • When the official values rise and fall (for example Eco 1: 344, 408, 551 and 344), the first and last values alone would hide the movement between them, so the recent pace is the least-squares slope of all numeric values (a straight line fitted through them), and the compound rate comes from the same fit on their logarithms. The formula of each indicator says which method was used.
  • Needed pace: (2030 target - last value) / years left until 2030.
  • On pace when the recent pace is at least the needed pace; target reached when the last value already meets the target; on pace only if growth compounds when the yearly growth rate of the same years, kept until 2030, would reach the target although the linear pace would not; slower than needed otherwise.
  • Not assessed: ranks, descriptions, indicators with fewer than two numeric values, and targets under review.
  • Progress bars appear only where the value and the target share a unit.

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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