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Q-ECHOS: Generation and manipulation of quantum sound

Reviewed pilot case (EU project): An EU-funded frontier research grant with a single beneficiary: the award equals the one partner share, so adding both would count the same money twice.

Source: CORDIS
Funder: European Commission (European Research Council)
Programme: Horizon 2020
Call: ERC-2020-COG
Topic: ERC-2020-COG
Funding scheme: ERC-COG
Instrument: grant
Period: 2021-03-01 – 2026-02-28
Status at the source: SIGNED
Countries: Netherlands
Pillar: Quantum sensing and metrology (keyword suggestion of the snapshot (pending review))
Pages: Project page at the source · Project page on this portal

Funding layers

Each layer separately, with its source; no layer is added to another.
Layer	What the source states	Source
Programme envelope or announced budget	No envelope of the ERC Consolidator Grants call is recorded in the public investment registry; none is shown and nothing is added.	None
Award to the project	EUR 2,374,300 (EU maximum contribution, 2021-03-01 to 2026-02-28). Total cost EUR 2,374,300; it includes the award.	CORDIS project record 101001005 (JSON export of the project page) (retrieved 2026-10-23)
Partner shares of the award	1 organisation. Net EU contribution per organisation: EUR 2,374,300, the whole award, not an additional amount.	CORDIS project record 101001005 (JSON export of the project page) (retrieved 2026-10-23)
Co-funding by other funders	CORDIS records the same figure for total cost and EU contribution; no other funder is stated.	None
Payments	CORDIS publishes the EU maximum contribution, not payments made; no payment data is shown.	None

Beneficiaries

Organisations receiving the award as the source lists them, with their share where the source states it.
Organisation	Country	Role	Share of the award
TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT	Netherlands	coordinator	EUR 2,374,300

Evidenced outputs

Associated: an explicit identifier links the output to this award, which shows a relation, not that the award produced it. Demonstrated contribution: a reviewed document of the funder or the operator states that the award produced or acquired it.

Outputs linked to this award by an identifier or a reviewed document; names alone are never used.
Output	Type	Relationship	Evidence	Access
Low-noise optomechanical single phonon-photon conversion for quantum networks	Publication	Associated	OpenAIRE Graph: publications linked to EC grant 101001005 (retrieved 2026-10-23): 20 publications linked to the grant, newest first; CORDIS lists the same title among the results the project reported. Linked by the grant number only; the article text was not checked for this pilot.	None
No output linked in the sources used	Patent	Not applicable	No patent is linked to grant 101001005 by an identifier in the sources used.	None
No output linked in the sources used	Infrastructure or service	Not applicable	The infrastructure catalogue records no facility or service for this grant.	None
A single-phonon directional coupler	Publication	Associated	OpenAIRE Graph links it to grant 101001005 (identifier link, not checked in the text); retrieved 2026-10-20.	None
A cryogenic chamber setup for superfluid helium experiments with optical fiber and electrical access	Publication	Associated	OpenAIRE Graph links it to grant 101001005 (identifier link, not checked in the text); retrieved 2026-10-20.	None
Time-Resolved Spectral Diffusion of a Multimode Mechanical Memory	Publication	Associated	OpenAIRE Graph links it to grant 101001005 (identifier link, not checked in the text); retrieved 2026-10-20.	None
Long-Range Optomechanical Interactions in SiN Membrane Arrays	Publication	Associated	OpenAIRE Graph links it to grant 101001005 (identifier link, not checked in the text); retrieved 2026-10-20.	None
OpenAIRE links 20 publications to this grant in total.	Publication	Associated	A count of identifier links, not verified results.	None

Sources and method

CORDIS: 1,256 awards, retrieved 2026-10-16.
EU Funding & Tenders Portal: 91 awards, retrieved 2026-10-21.
National funders (national open-data sources and OpenAIRE funders): 7,469 awards, retrieved 2026-10-24.
Reviewed pilot cases: checked 2026-10-23.
Publications: OpenAIRE Graph links to EC grant numbers (CC BY 4.0), read in the background.
Public contracts: TED contract award notices (Publications Office of the European Union, Decision 2011/833/EU), read through the TED Search API and reviewed by hand; QuantERA calls: the QuantERA call pages. Both checked on the date of the layers file.
Not covered yet: payments (no source used publishes them), Funding & Tenders programme and call budgets, contracts that name no facility or award of the chains, and national funders without an open source.

Each project counts once. A total adds the amount each source states for its projects within one measure and one currency only: EU contributions, national awards and other measures are never added together. Total cost includes the award and is shown separately. A country filter keeps whole projects with a participant in the country, so its total is not the country's share. Programme envelopes, partner shares, co-funding and payments are separate layers and are never added to awards; payments are not published by the sources used. Outputs are linked only through an explicit project or grant identifier or reviewed documentary evidence, never by name alone; only a reviewed document can show a demonstrated contribution. CORDIS and Funding & Tenders amounts are one measure, the EU contribution (maximum grant agreed in the grant agreement, not payments). Country codes EL and UK are read as GR (Greece) and GB (United Kingdom). National and regional rows whose title names no quantum technology are left out unless asked for.

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