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QUID: Quantum Italy Deployment
- Source
- EU Funding & Tenders Portal
- Programme
- Digital Europe Programme
- Topic
- DIGITAL-2021-QCI-01-DEPLOY-NATIONAL
- Funding scheme
- DIGITAL Simple Grants
- Period
- 2023-01-01 – 2025-12-31
- Status at the source
- Ended
- Countries
- Italy
- Pillar
- Quantum communication (keyword suggestion of the snapshot (pending review))
- Pages
- Project page at the source · Project page on this portal
Funding layers
| Layer | What the source states | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Programme envelope or announced budget | No programme envelope is linked to this award by a source. Envelopes are listed separately and never added to awards. | None |
| Award to the project | EUR 4,723,927.46 (EU contribution (maximum grant agreed)). Total cost EUR 9,447,854.97; it includes the award. | EU Funding & Tenders Portal |
| Partner shares of the award | The snapshot this page reads does not keep the share of each organisation; the project page at the source lists them. | None |
| Co-funding by other funders | The total cost exceeds the award by EUR 4,723,927.51; the source does not say who pays it. | None |
| Payments | Not available: the sources used publish no payments. | None |
Beneficiaries
| Organisation | Country | Role | Share of the award |
|---|---|---|---|
| Telsy S.p.a. | Italy | participant | Not in the snapshot this page reads |
| Thinkquantum SRL | Italy | participant | Not in the snapshot this page reads |
| Qti SRL | Italy | participant | Not in the snapshot this page reads |
| Cohaerentia S.r.l. | Italy | participant | Not in the snapshot this page reads |
| Consorzio Top-Ix - Torino e Piemonte Exchange Point | Italy | participant | Not in the snapshot this page reads |
| Leonardo - Societa Per Azioni | Italy | participant | Not in the snapshot this page reads |
| Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica | Italy | participant | Not in the snapshot this page reads |
| Thales Alenia Space Italia Spa | Italy | participant | Not in the snapshot this page reads |
| Agenzia Spaziale Italiana | Italy | participant | Not in the snapshot this page reads |
| Universita degli Studi di Trieste | Italy | participant | Not in the snapshot this page reads |
| Universita degli Studi Dell'aquila | Italy | participant | Not in the snapshot this page reads |
| Politecnico di Milano | Italy | participant | Not in the snapshot this page reads |
| Telecom Italia Spa O Tim Spa | Italy | participant | Not in the snapshot this page reads |
| Telespazio Spa | Italy | participant | Not in the snapshot this page reads |
| Universita degli Studi di Napoli Federico II | Italy | participant | Not in the snapshot this page reads |
| Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche | Italy | coordinator | Not in the snapshot this page reads |
| Universita degli Studi di Roma la Sapienza | Italy | participant | Not in the snapshot this page reads |
| Universita degli Studi di Padova | Italy | participant | Not in the snapshot this page reads |
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.
| Output | Type | Relationship | Evidence | Access |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No output linked in the sources used | Publication | Not applicable | No publication is linked to this award by an identifier in the sources used. | None |
| No output linked in the sources used | Patent | Not applicable | No patent is linked to this award by an identifier in the sources used. Patents listed on organisation pages are not attributed to awards. | None |
| No output linked in the sources used | Infrastructure or service | Not applicable | See the facilities and access routes this award reaches, below. | None |
Facilities and access routes this award reaches
Funding & Tenders grant agreement 101091408 (Digital Europe Programme: national EuroQCI projects): EUR 4,723,927.46, EU contribution (maximum grant agreed), as EU Funding & Tenders Portal: project 101091408 states it (retrieved 2026-10-21).
Co-funding (a separate layer, never added): The total cost exceeds the award by EUR 4,723,927.51; the source does not split it by funder.
| Facility | Link to the facility | Access routes |
|---|---|---|
| QUID (Quantum Italy Deployment) · milestones | Direct identifier match: Infrastructure catalogue entry QUID: source EU Funding & Tenders Portal, project 101091408 (retrieved 2026-10-21). The catalogue entry cites the project page of grant 101091408. | No access route in the access guide |
Outputs linked to this award: No output linked in the sources used (OpenAIRE is read for CORDIS grant numbers only). Association in the sources, not demonstrated contribution.
Outcome timeline
From the award to the outputs the portal holds, oldest first, with the date as precise as each source. A facility milestone or a contract shows what happened to a facility this award reaches; it is not a result of this award alone. Missing evidence is shown as not available, never as a failure.
| Date | Event | What the source states | State | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-01-01 | Award period starts | Start of the award period as the source states it. | Done | EU Funding & Tenders Portal: project 101091408 (retrieved 2026-10-21) |
| 2025-06-10 | Facility milestone | QUID (Quantum Italy Deployment): A link connecting the Commission's Joint Research Centre in Ispra to EuroQCI through the Italian Quantum Backbone was inaugurated; the project presents it as the first formal link between a Commission site and EuroQCI. | Done | QUID: Connecting the JRC to the future (retrieved 2026-10-23) |
| 2025-12-31 | Award period ends | End of the award period. | Done | EU Funding & Tenders Portal: project 101091408 (retrieved 2026-10-21) |
| Undated | Publications associated (OpenAIRE) | No publication linked in the sources used: OpenAIRE is read for CORDIS grant numbers only. | Not available in the sources used | None |
| Undated | Patents | No patent linked to this award in the sources used: no source links patent families to grants. | Not available in the sources used | 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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