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skQCI: Slovak Quantum Communication Infrastructure

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 – 2026-06-30
Status at the source: Ended
Countries: Slovakia
Pillar: Quantum communication (confirmed classification (editor, source field or high-precision rule))
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 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 4,999,900.80 (EU contribution (maximum grant agreed)). Total cost EUR 9,999,801.63; 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 4,999,900.83; the source does not say who pays it.	None
Payments	Not available: the sources used publish no payments.	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
Narodne Centrum Pre Kvantove Technologie	Slovakia	participant	Not in the snapshot this page reads
Centrum Vedecko Technickych Informacii Slovenskej Republiky	Slovakia	participant	Not in the snapshot this page reads
Trencianska Univerzita Alexandra Dubceka V Trencine	Slovakia	associatedPartner	Not in the snapshot this page reads
Presovska Univerzita V Presove	Slovakia	associatedPartner	Not in the snapshot this page reads
Institute of Electrical Engineering, Slovak Academy of Sciences	Slovakia	participant	Not in the snapshot this page reads
Technicka Univerzita Vo Zvolene	Slovakia	associatedPartner	Not in the snapshot this page reads
Univerzita Mateja Bela V Banskej Bystrici	Slovakia	associatedPartner	Not in the snapshot this page reads
Fyzikalny Ustav Slovenskej Akademie Vied	Slovakia	participant	Not in the snapshot this page reads
Ustav Experimentalnej Fyziky Slovenskej Akademie Vied	Slovakia	participant	Not in the snapshot this page reads
Univerzita Komenskeho V Bratislave	Slovakia	participant	Not in the snapshot this page reads
Slovenska Technicka Univerzita V Bratislave	Slovakia	associatedPartner	Not in the snapshot this page reads
Slovenska Polnohospodarska Univerzita V Nitre	Slovakia	associatedPartner	Not in the snapshot this page reads
Univerzita Pavla Jozefa Safarika V Kosiciach	Slovakia	associatedPartner	Not in the snapshot this page reads
Astronomical Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences	Slovakia	associatedPartner	Not in the snapshot this page reads
Zilinska Univerzita V Ziline	Slovakia	associatedPartner	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.

Outputs linked to this award by an identifier or a reviewed document; names alone are never used.
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	The infrastructure catalogue records no facility or service for this award.	None

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.

Outcome timeline of this award: dates, events and their sources.
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
2023-10-17	Public contract awarded (procurement layer)	TED notice 650247-2023: contract for SKQCI (Slovak Quantum Communication Infrastructure) awarded to Single Quantum B.V., EUR 1,425,000 (total value of the procurement as the ted notice states it). A separate layer, never added to the award.	Done	TED notice 650247-2023, read through the TED Search API v3 (retrieved 2026-10-30)
2026-06-30	Award period ends	End of the award period.	Done	EU Funding & Tenders Portal
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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