Canada
- Participations in EU-funded quantum projects
- 25 (rank 23 of 47 countries)
- EU-funded projects with a participant in the country (CORDIS)
- 19
- Organisations in these projects
- 17
- EU contribution
- EUR 2.7 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 Canada, 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 Canada, 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
- None recorded in the public investment registry yet.
- Top partner countries in EU-funded projects
- Italy (12 shared projects), Germany (9 shared projects), France (6 shared projects), Poland (6 shared projects), Spain (6 shared projects) · collaboration in the policy dossier
- Most active organisations
- The Governing Council of the University of Toronto (4 EU quantum projects), Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (2 EU quantum projects), University of British Columbia (2 EU quantum projects)
- Organisations on this portal
- 0 companies, 12 research organisations and universities, 0 other organisations (of 17 in EU-funded quantum projects)
- Quantum infrastructure
- No entry located in this country in the infrastructure catalogue; pilot lines and EU-wide programmes are listed there without a country.
- Education and training
- Master degrees: 0; other courses and schools: 0 (course directory)
- Open quantum jobs
- 0 open positions in this country on the portal
- More about Canada
- EU Quantum Europe Strategy tracker · Quantum in Canada, in plain words
National quantum landscape
No national programme, agency or centre of Canada has been compiled from official sources on this portal yet.
Context: population, economy and research spending
Eurostat publishes no population, GDP or research expenditure figures for Canada, so this profile shows no figures per inhabitant or per unit of GDP.
Quantum areas
| Quantum area | Projects |
|---|---|
| Quantum computing and simulation | 8 |
| Quantum communication | 1 |
| Quantum sensing and metrology | 2 |
| Quantum-safe security (post-quantum cryptography) | 1 |
| Not placed in a pillar | 7 |
19 distinct projects in all; a project with several areas counts in each. 8 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
- 814 (+28% since 2021)
- Quantum patent families, earliest priority 2020 to 2024
- 224 (partial: 84% of the publication months read so far)
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 Canada, 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 2 quantum projects of other EU programmes from the EU Funding & Tenders Portal.
- Not placed in a pillar
- Quantum-safe security (post-quantum cryptography)
- Quantum sensing and metrology
- Quantum communication
- Quantum computing and simulation
Explore funding trends for Canada by platform, supply-chain segment or kind of organisation, in projects or EU contribution.
Organisations on this portal
Published on this portal: 12 of the 17 organisations from this country in these projects (Higher education 12). With the most EU quantum projects:
- The Governing Council of the University of Toronto Higher education 4 EU quantum projects
- Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique Higher education 2 EU quantum projects
- University of British Columbia Higher education 2 EU quantum projects
- University of New Brunswick Higher education 2 EU quantum projects
- University of Ottawa Higher education 2 EU quantum projects
- University of Waterloo Higher education 2 EU quantum projects
- École Polytechnique de Montréal Higher education 1 EU quantum project
- Queen's University At Kingston Higher education 1 EU quantum project
- Simon Fraser University Higher education 1 EU quantum project
- Université de Montréal Higher education 1 EU quantum project
Quantum infrastructure
No entry for this country in the infrastructure catalogue; EU-wide programmes such as EuroQCI are listed there.
Quantum infrastructure in Europe, by category
National sources
No national open-data source of this country is connected yet. Every source the portal reads, with its licence, is listed on the data sources page.
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 (5 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 | None recorded (unknown, not zero) | Unknown |
| National programmes and public investment | Public investment registry (official announcements) | As announced | None recorded (unknown, not zero) | 2026-10-27 |
| Quantum infrastructure | Infrastructure catalogue (EuroHPC, EuroQCI and official pages) | Current status of each entry | None recorded (unknown, not zero) | 2026-10-27 |
| Post-quantum cryptography guidance | PQC guide (national cyber security authorities) | Current guidance | Unknown | Unknown |
| National funding sources | National funding inventory (#426) | Per source | Unknown: no national funder has been checked yet | Unknown |
| Population, economy and research spending | Eurostat | Latest year published per indicator | Unknown: no Eurostat figures stored for the country | 2026-10-21 |
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Next steps
Policy dossier for Canada (printable, with JSON export) · Build a consortium shortlist with partners from other countries · Compare with another country · Follow the money: awards and outputs of projects with a participant in Canada · Country map · All countries
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.