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A ratio above 1 means the pillar weighs more in the projects of the country than in those of the EU27. No count, share or ratio is shown from fewer than 10 projects of the country.", "minimum": 10, "pillar_status": "Pillars follow one method across the portal: the confirmed classification of a project where there is one, else the taxonomy rules on its title, else the snapshot keyword suggestion when a keyword matched; a project that matches none of them is \"Not placed in a pillar\" and is counted apart, not under enabling technologies. A project in several pillars is split evenly between them; post-quantum cryptography is shown apart. 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National and EU cohesion-policy projects are not included. Two organisations or countries share a project when both take part in it: this shows co-participation, not the strength of a relationship.", "source": { "name": "CORDIS, Publications Office of the European Union (CORDIS)", "retrieved": "2026-10-16", "licence": "European Commission reuse notice (Decision 2011/833/EU)", "licence_url": "http://data.europa.eu/eli/dec/2011/833/oj" } }, "programmes": { "registry": { "compiled": "2026-10-27", "note": "A reference list compiled from official announcements of the European Commission, the EuroHPC and Chips joint undertakings, national ministries and agencies, the EIC, and ESA, checked against each source on the date shown. Amounts are as announced, not as disbursed, and appear only where the source states them, in the source's currency. It is not exhaustive: many national programmes and financings are not listed. Not financial or investment advice. Pending editorial review." }, "records": [], "national_sources": [], "openaire_funders": [], "cohesion": { "name": "Kohesio (EU cohesion policy projects)", "publisher": "European Commission, Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy (DG REGIO)", "licence": "CC0 1.0 (Cohesion Open Data Platform, dataset 2014-2020 Kohesio projects)", "licence_url": "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/", "cadence": "Weekly", "last_read": "2026-10-28", "share_alike": [], "records": 38, "records_are": "projects located in this country", "note": "Quantum-related operations co-funded by EU cohesion policy and managed by national and regional authorities; not in CORDIS and not part of the figures above." } }, "infrastructure": { "compiled": "2026-10-27", "note": "Compiled from official EU programme, government, host and project pages on the date shown. Not confirmed by the providers, not an availability or booking service; check the source before applying for access. Pending editorial review.", "entries": [], "euroqci": [], "euroqci_note": "EuroQCI membership means a national or cross-border EuroQCI project located in this country is in the catalogue. Cross-border projects listed as EU-wide are not attributed to a country." }, "pqc": { "covered": true, "status": "not-verified", "status_label": "Not verified", "checked": "2026-10-27", "agency": { "name": "National Cyber Security Centre (Nacionalinis kibernetinio saugumo centras, NKSC)", "url": "https://www.nksc.lt/" }, "documents": [], "joint_statements": [ "2024-11-27", "2025-06-27" ], "note": "The NKSC site and the Ministry of National Defence document answered with a bot challenge (HTTP 403), which was not bypassed, so they could not be read. Search results point to NKSC guidelines on the transition to post-quantum cryptography, which could not be confirmed. Retried on 27 October 2026 with a plain request: still a bot challenge (HTTP 403 or a browser verification redirect), not bypassed. Next attempt: an editor in an ordinary browser at the next 30-day review, by 26 November 2026.", "compiled": "2026-10-27" }, "evidence": { "status": "approved", "observations": [ { "id": "oecd-epo-2025-quantum-rd-share", "topic": "Policy and public funding", "statement": "Quantum's share of public R&D project funding in the OECD Fundstat database rose from about 0.4% in 2015 to 1.1% in 2023, after a peak of 1.2% in 2022.", "value": "approximately 0.4% in 2015 to 1.1% by 2023", "reference_period": "2015-2023", "geography": "19 OECD countries and EU programmes in OECD Fundstat", "status": "Observation", "horizon": null, "review_state": "verified", "checked": "2026-10-22", "citation": "OECD and European Patent Office, Mapping the global quantum ecosystem (December 2025). Printed page 23, PDF page 23, Executive summary, 6. 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