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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

Education

  • Edu 1

    Outreach

    2024, official
    122
    2030 target
    100
    100% of the 2030 target
    Values as a table
    Official values of Edu 1 as published by the SAB
    YearValue
    20217
    202233
    202338
    2024122

    Target reached The last official value meets the 2030 target.

    Live measure (portal proxy, not the official value)

    Events on the portal, by start year

    90 events (2025) Events on the portal starting in 2025

    How it is calculated

    Published events on the portal counted by the year they start, with the events whose categories name education, training, schools or outreach shown apart.

    Coverage: Events imported from qt.eu and the event feeds the portal reads, and events added by editors.

    • Every event the portal lists, not only those promoted under the Flagship criteria.
    • Category names come from the sources and are not always set.

    Data as of 2026-11-02.

    Definition: Edu 1 live measure: events on the portal by start year

    Details, method and sources

  • Edu 2

    Education: modules

    2024, official
    56 (32)
    2030 target
    180 (90 validated)
    31% of the 2030 target
    Values as a table
    Official values of Edu 2 as published by the SAB
    YearValue
    20210 (0 validated)
    202220 (12 validated)
    202345 (21)
    202456 (32)

    Slower than needed Recent pace +18.7 a year; needed +20.7 a year to 2030.

    Live measure (portal proxy, not the official value)

    Courses and degrees in the course directory

    27 free online offers Free online courses, certificates and schools

    How it is calculated

    Entries of the course directory, with free online courses, certificates and schools as the headline because they are closest to open modules; master's programmes and the other entries are shown apart.

    Coverage: The source-verified course directory.

    • Courses and degrees, not curated and validated open-source modules of the Flagship repository.
    • The directory has no history, so there is no yearly series.

    Data as of 2026-10-30.

    Definition: Edu 2 live measure: free online courses in the course directory

    Details, method and sources

  • Edu 3

    Adoption

    2024, official
    47
    2030 target
    225
    21% of the 2030 target
    Values as a table
    Official values of Edu 3 as published by the SAB
    YearValue
    20211
    202217
    202343
    202447

    On pace only if growth compounds Recent pace +15.3 a year; needed +29.7 a year to 2030.

    Live measure

    No automatic measure. Adoption of the competence framework is reported to the Flagship, not published per organisation; see the framework on the skills page.

    Details, method and sources

  • Edu 4

    Diversity and equity

    2024, official
    18
    2030 target
    90
    20% of the 2030 target
    Values as a table
    Official values of Edu 4 as published by the SAB
    YearValue
    20210
    202210
    202315
    202418

    Slower than needed Recent pace +6.0 a year; needed +12.0 a year to 2030.

    Live measure

    No automatic measure. Contributions reported to the European Quantum Readiness Center are not published as open data.

    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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