Austria
- Participations in EU-funded quantum projects
- 218 (rank 7 of 47 countries)
- EU-funded projects with a participant in the country (CORDIS)
- 147
- Organisations in these projects
- 48
- EU contribution
- EUR 146.7 million
Definitions: Participations by country; Rank of a country by participations; Projects and organisations by country; Net EU contribution to participants by country
How projects are counted: the figure above is the number of EU-funded quantum projects in CORDIS with at least one participant in Austria, the definition used across the country pages. National projects are counted separately below. The projects listing filtered by country shows the records whose own country (coordinator or host) is Austria, EU and national together, and the map counts portal records the same way, so their numbers differ.
Quantum at a glance
- National strategy and programmes
- Quantum Austria funding initiative · Until 2026 · EUR 107 million as announced (source)
- Top partner countries in EU-funded projects
- Germany (75 shared projects), Italy (53 shared projects), France (48 shared projects), Spain (46 shared projects), Netherlands (39 shared projects) · collaboration in the policy dossier
- Most active organisations
- Universitaet Innsbruck (34 EU quantum projects), Technische Universitaet Wien (26 EU quantum projects), Universitat Wien (24 EU quantum projects)
- Organisations on this portal
- 18 companies, 16 research organisations and universities, 3 other organisations (of 48 in EU-funded quantum projects)
- Quantum infrastructure
- EuroQCI national quantum communication project: QCI-CAT
- National post-quantum cryptography guidance
- None found on official pages, 0 documents · checked 2026-10-21
- Education and training
- Master degrees: 3; other courses and schools: 1 (course directory)
- Open quantum jobs
- 1 open position in this country on the portal
- More about Austria
- EU Quantum Europe Strategy tracker · Quantum in Austria, in plain words
National quantum landscape
Programmes, agencies, centres and networks of Austria, read on their official pages (checked 2026-10-22). Each item links to the page it was read on; the list is not exhaustive and not an endorsement.
Lead ministries and agencies
- Bundesministerium für Frauen, Wissenschaft und Forschung (BMFWF; Federal Ministry for Women, Science and Research), with FFG and FWF: The Quantum Austria initiative (2021 to 2026) was commissioned by the federal science ministry (BMFWF, formerly BMBWF) and administered jointly by the research promotion agency FFG and the Austrian Science Fund FWF, financed through NextGenerationEU.Source: FWF: Quantum Austria – From Basic Research to Practical Application (closing forum), retrieved 2026-10-22; Section Quantum Austria, first paragraph; FWF: Quantum Austria (funding programme page), retrieved 2026-10-22; Introduction; Funding institution
National centres and institutes
- Institut für Quantenoptik und Quanteninformation (IQOQI; Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information), Austrian Academy of Sciences: IQOQI was founded in November 2003 as an institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, with branches in Vienna and Innsbruck; the Vienna branch was first directed by Anton Zeilinger.Source: IQOQI Vienna: History, retrieved 2026-10-22; History, paragraph beginning In November 2003
National quantum communities
- Quantum Science Austria (quantA), FWF Cluster of Excellence: quantA is a cluster of excellence approved by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, linking quantum researchers in Innsbruck, Klosterneuburg, Linz and Vienna, including IQOQI Vienna and IQOQI Innsbruck. The FWF and partner institutions provide 35 million euros over five years.Source: IQOQI Vienna: New cluster of excellence for foundational questions in quantum science, retrieved 2026-10-22; News article, opening and funding paragraphs
QuantERA research funding network
- QuantERA III consortium partner: Research funding organisations of this country in the QuantERA III consortium, a network of research funding organisations that launches joint calls in quantum science and technologies: Austrian Science Fund (FWF); Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG).Source: QuantERA: Consortium (QuantERA II and QuantERA III partner lists), retrieved 2026-10-22; QuantERA III tab, country entry
Context: population, economy and research spending
| Indicator | Value | Year | Eurostat dataset |
|---|---|---|---|
| Population on 1 January | 9,215,956 | 2026 | tps00001 |
| Gross domestic product, current prices | EUR 518.20 billion | 2025 | nama_10_gdp |
| Gross domestic expenditure on R&D (GERD), share of GDP | 3.34% | 2024, estimated | rd_e_gerdtot |
| Gross domestic expenditure on R&D (GERD) | EUR 16.51 billion | 2024, estimated | rd_e_gerdtot |
| Measure | Value | Based on |
|---|---|---|
| Participations per million inhabitants | 23.7 | 218 participations (CORDIS, projects starting 2015 to 2027) and population 2026 |
| EU contribution per inhabitant | EUR 15.92 | EU contribution (CORDIS, projects starting 2015 to 2027) and population 2026 |
| EU contribution per EUR 1 billion of GDP | EUR 283,167 | EU contribution (CORDIS, projects starting 2015 to 2027) and GDP 2025 |
| EU quantum contribution as a share of GERD | 0.0876% | Yearly averages: EU contribution over the 13 start years 2015 to 2027, GERD over 10 years with figures, 2015 to 2024; includes values flagged estimated |
Method: the CORDIS figures are totals over all EU-funded quantum projects in the catalogue (projects starting 2015 to 2027); population and GDP are the latest single year Eurostat publishes for Austria. Figures per inhabitant and per unit of GDP therefore set cumulative quantum funding against one year of population or output: they correct for the size of the country, not for time. The share of GERD compares yearly averages instead: the EU quantum contribution divided by the number of project start years, against the average yearly GERD over the years of the same span that have a figure. The time windows of the two sources differ, so read these as indicators of relative scale, not as budget shares. Provisional and estimated values are marked as Eurostat flags them. A dash means no figure or no EU contribution; "less than" marks a positive figure too small to show at this precision.
Source: Eurostat, datasets tps00001, nama_10_gdp, rd_e_gerdtot (retrieved 2026-10-21), reused under the Eurostat copyright notice. The normalised figures are calculated by this portal from Eurostat and CORDIS data; Eurostat is not responsible for them.
Quantum areas
| Quantum area | Projects |
|---|---|
| Quantum computing and simulation | 69 |
| Quantum communication | 25 |
| Quantum sensing and metrology | 30 |
| Enabling technologies and supply chain | 7 |
| Quantum-safe security (post-quantum cryptography) | 3 |
| Not placed in a pillar | 16 |
147 distinct projects in all; a project with several areas counts in each. 68 projects are placed by the taxonomy rules on their titles or a keyword suggestion, pending review (they have no reviewed technology tag). 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.
Research output
- Quantum publications in 2025
- 398 (+2.1% since 2021)
- Quantum patent families, earliest priority 2020 to 2024
- 75
Publications: OpenAlex (CC0), retrieved 2026-10-25; patent families: EPO Open Patent Services. A work or family with several countries counts for each. All countries, method and the patent independence bands
Funding over time
EU-funded quantum projects with at least one participant from Austria, by start year and application pillar. The last two years are still being filled. Besides the CORDIS projects (Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe), this chart includes 24 quantum projects of other EU programmes from the EU Funding & Tenders Portal.
- Not placed in a pillar
- Quantum-safe security (post-quantum cryptography)
- Enabling technologies and supply chain
- Quantum sensing and metrology
- Quantum communication
- Quantum computing and simulation
Explore funding trends for Austria by platform, supply-chain segment or kind of organisation, in projects or EU contribution.
Place in the supply chain
Companies from Austria taking part in EU-funded quantum projects of each supply-chain segment, and their share of all companies in that segment. Segments are keyword matches on project titles; public project data, not a census of suppliers.
| Segment | Companies from Austria | All companies | Share | Most active company here |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cryogenics and cooling | 0 | 5 | 0% | - |
| Photonics, lasers and optics | 5 | 117 | 4% | - |
| Control electronics and cryo-CMOS | 0 | 24 | 0% | - |
| Materials, fabrication and foundry | 4 | 82 | 5% | - |
| Qubit hardware platforms | 3 | 76 | 4% | - |
| Quantum software and algorithms | 1 | 72 | 1% | - |
| Quantum communication and security systems | 10 | 201 | 5% | - |
| Quantum sensors and metrology devices | 1 | 111 | 1% | - |
European quantum supply chain · Technology map: supply-chain view
Organisations on this portal
Published on this portal: 37 of the 48 organisations from this country in these projects (Company 18, Higher education 9, Research organisation 7, Public body 2, Other 1). With the most EU quantum projects:
- Universitaet Innsbruck Higher education 34 EU quantum projects
- Technische Universitaet Wien Higher education 26 EU quantum projects
- Universität Wien Higher education 24 EU quantum projects
- Oesterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften Research organisation 22 EU quantum projects
- Institute of Science and Technology Austria Higher education 19 EU quantum projects
- Ait Austrian Institute of Technology GMBH Research organisation 14 EU quantum projects
- Alpine Quantum Technologies GMBH Company · SME 8 EU quantum projects
- Universitat Linz Higher education 7 EU quantum projects
- Infineon Technologies Austria AG Company 5 EU quantum projects
- Parity Quantum Computing GMBH Company · SME 4 EU quantum projects
Quantum infrastructure
- QCI-CAT: Quantum key distribution (QKD) secured communication networks; a national network and tests of quantum security applications (The source says QCI-CAT will establish the first Austrian nationwide quantum communication network and test future quantum security applications, and that it forms the Austrian national project of the EuroQCI initiative. The EU Funding & Tenders Portal gives the project period 2023-01 to 2026-03; the period has ended.)
This entry in the filterable catalogue
National programmes and public investment
Strategies, programmes and announced financing for this country, from official sources. Amounts are as announced, not disbursed; the list is not exhaustive.
- Quantum Austria funding initiative · National strategy or programme · Until 2026
National sources
Projects and notices from public sources of this country, read automatically and published with their source and licence. They are national data, not part of the EU figures above. Sources and methods: data sources page.
FWF Research Radar (FWF Open API)
Source: Austrian Science Fund (FWF). Licence: CC0 1.0 (FWF Open API data). Read weekly, last read 28 Oct 2026 (6 days ago). The record at the source is authoritative.
National awards in the last read, as the source states them: EUR 312,642,413 for 664 awards. Records without an amount in a stated currency: 0. National funding, never converted and never added to the EU figures on this page.
664 projects from this source on the portal, newest first:
- Physics-Informed Deep Learning for Molecular Properties · 2027
- Nonequilibrium Universality in Adaptive Quantum Matter · 2027
- Analysis of Magnetically Induced Current Densities · 2027
- QCD phase diagram via kernelled complex Langevin simulations · 2026
- Unsplitting the World: Rethinking the Subject-Object Divide · 2026
- INnovative archiTEctures for next-GeneRation trapped Atom in · 2026
- Intrinsic Losses in Hybrid Systems with Cryogenic Solids · 2026
- Mass generation for the sinh-Gordon Euclidean field theory · 2026
- Confining holographic gauge theories · 2026
- Testing the Quantum Nature of Gravity in Experiments · 2026
Regional and cohesion funding
Quantum-related projects co-funded by EU cohesion policy (European Regional Development Fund, European Social Fund, Cohesion Fund), selected and managed by national and regional authorities and located in this country according to the source. They are not in CORDIS and not part of the EU research figures above. Sources and methods: data sources page.
Source: Kohesio (EU cohesion policy projects), European Commission, Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy (DG REGIO). Licence: CC0 1.0 (Cohesion Open Data Platform, dataset 2014-2020 Kohesio projects). Read weekly, last read 28 Oct 2026 (6 days ago). The record at the source is authoritative.
No Kohesio project located in this country is published on the portal.
Sources and coverage of this profile
Where each part of this profile comes from, the period it covers, how complete it is and when it was last verified. "Unknown" and "none recorded" mean that the portal holds no verified data, not that the figure is zero.
| Part of the profile | Source | Period | Coverage | Last verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EU-funded quantum projects | CORDIS, Publications Office of the European Union | Projects starting 2015 to 2027 | Every EU-funded quantum project with a participant in the country | 2026-10-16 |
| National quantum landscape | Official pages of ministries, agencies, programmes and centres | As stated on each page | 4 facts, read on official pages; not exhaustive | 2026-10-22 |
| National programmes and public investment | Public investment registry (official announcements) | As announced | 1 record, amounts as announced, not disbursed | 2026-10-27 |
| Quantum infrastructure | Infrastructure catalogue (EuroHPC, EuroQCI and official pages) | Current status of each entry | 1 entry, located in the country | 2026-10-27 |
| Post-quantum cryptography guidance | PQC guide (national cyber security authorities) | Current guidance | None found on official pages | 2026-10-21 |
| National funding sources | National funding inventory (#426) | Per source | 1 of 2 sources checked is read by the portal | 2026-10-23 |
| Population, economy and research spending | Eurostat | Latest year published per indicator | Population, GDP and GERD | 2026-10-21 |
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CORDIS projects whose title, acronym or topic identifier mentions quantum, Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe. Catalogue coverage, not a census of the ecosystem. Source: CORDIS, Publications Office of the European Union (retrieved 2026-10-16), reused under the European Commission reuse notice (Decision 2011/833/EU). No endorsement by the source is implied.