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Lithuania

Participations in EU-funded quantum projects
16 (rank 28 of 47 countries)
EU-funded projects with a participant in the country (CORDIS)
16
Organisations in these projects
10
EU contribution
EUR 5.0 million
Map: location of Lithuania in Europe

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 Lithuania, 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 Lithuania, 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
Germany (14 shared projects), France (11 shared projects), Italy (11 shared projects), Spain (9 shared projects), United Kingdom (8 shared projects) · collaboration in the policy dossier
Most active organisations
Vilniaus Universitetas (4 EU quantum projects), Lietuvos mokslo taryba (2 EU quantum projects), Valstybinis Moksliniu Tyrimu Institutas Fiziniu Ir Technologijos Mokslu Centras (2 EU quantum projects)
Organisations on this portal
4 companies, 3 research organisations and universities, 1 other organisations (of 10 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.
National post-quantum cryptography guidance
Not verified, 0 documents · checked 2026-10-27
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 Lithuania
EU Quantum Europe Strategy tracker · Quantum in Lithuania, in plain words

National quantum landscape

Programmes, agencies, centres and networks of Lithuania, 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.

National programmes and initiatives

National quantum communities

QuantERA research funding network

Context: population, economy and research spending

Lithuania in Eurostat figures, latest year published
IndicatorValueYearEurostat dataset
Population on 1 January2,887,5922026tps00001
Gross domestic product, current pricesEUR 85.11 billion2025nama_10_gdp
Gross domestic expenditure on R&D (GERD), share of GDP1.12%2024rd_e_gerdtot
Gross domestic expenditure on R&D (GERD)EUR 885.4 million2024rd_e_gerdtot
EU-funded quantum projects of Lithuania relative to its size and research spending
MeasureValueBased on
Participations per million inhabitants5.516 participations (CORDIS, projects starting 2015 to 2027) and population 2026
EU contribution per inhabitantEUR 1.73EU contribution (CORDIS, projects starting 2015 to 2027) and population 2026
EU contribution per EUR 1 billion of GDPEUR 58,833EU contribution (CORDIS, projects starting 2015 to 2027) and GDP 2025
EU quantum contribution as a share of GERD0.0692%Yearly averages: EU contribution over the 13 start years 2015 to 2027, GERD over 10 years with figures, 2015 to 2024

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 Lithuania. 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

EU quantum projects on this portal with at least one participant from this country, by quantum area
Quantum areaProjects
Quantum computing and simulation2
Quantum sensing and metrology7
Enabling technologies and supply chain2
Not placed in a pillar5

16 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
31 (+72.2% since 2021)
Quantum patent families, earliest priority 2020 to 2024
0 (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 Lithuania, 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 3 quantum projects of other EU programmes from the EU Funding & Tenders Portal.

Projects of EU-funded quantum projects with a participant from Lithuania by start year and pillar, 2018 to 2027
  • Not placed in a pillar
  • Enabling technologies and supply chain
  • Quantum sensing and metrology
  • Quantum communication
  • Quantum computing and simulation

Explore funding trends for Lithuania by platform, supply-chain segment or kind of organisation, in projects or EU contribution.

Place in the supply chain

Companies from Lithuania 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.

Companies from Lithuania by supply-chain segment
Segment Companies from Lithuania All companies Share Most active company here
Cryogenics and cooling 0 5 0% -
Photonics, lasers and optics 1 117 1% -
Control electronics and cryo-CMOS 0 24 0% -
Materials, fabrication and foundry 0 82 0% -
Qubit hardware platforms 0 76 0% -
Quantum software and algorithms 0 72 0% -
Quantum communication and security systems 0 201 0% -
Quantum sensors and metrology devices 2 111 2% -

European quantum supply chain · Technology map: supply-chain view

Organisations on this portal

Published on this portal: 8 of the 10 organisations from this country in these projects (Company 4, Higher education 2, Research organisation 1, Public body 1). With the most EU quantum projects:

  1. Vilniaus Universitetas Higher education 4 EU quantum projects
  2. Lietuvos mokslo taryba Public body 2 EU quantum projects
  3. Valstybinis Moksliniu Tyrimu Institutas Fizinių Ir Technologijos Mokslų Centras Research organisation 2 EU quantum projects
  4. Eksma Optics Uab Company · SME 1 EU quantum project
  5. Light Conversion, Uab Company 1 EU quantum project
  6. UAB 3 fotonai Company · SME 1 EU quantum project
  7. Uab Teraglobus Company · SME 1 EU quantum project
  8. Vytauto Didžiojo Universitetas 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.

38 Kohesio projects located in this country on the portal, newest first:

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.

Sources, period, coverage and last-verified date for Lithuania
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 3 facts, read on official pages; not exhaustive 2026-10-22
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 Not verified 2026-10-27
National funding sources National funding inventory (#426) Per source 0 of 2 sources checked are read by the portal; national projects are not shown (unknown, not zero) 2026-10-24
Population, economy and research spending Eurostat Latest year published per indicator Population, GDP and GERD 2026-10-21

Something wrong or missing for Lithuania? Suggest a correction with an official source; an editor reviews every suggestion before anything changes.

Next steps

Policy dossier for Lithuania (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 Lithuania · 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.