{"title":"Quantum Europe at a glance","generated":"2026-10-28T17:17:15+00:00","cordis_retrieved":"2026-10-16","licence":"CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); source data reused under the terms stated on each source page.","facts":[{"key":"scale","figure":"€3.11bn","statement":"EU contribution (maximum grant agreed, EUR; commitments, not payments) to 1,347 quantum projects starting 2015–2027: Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe, and 91 projects of other EU programmes such as Digital Europe. Sources: CORDIS and the Funding & Tenders Portal, retrieved 2026-10-16, 2026-10-21.","source_page":"https://odiez-lab.westeurope.cloudapp.azure.com/quantum-europe/observatory/trends"},{"key":"growth","figure":"+167%","statement":"EU contribution (maximum grant agreed, EUR) to projects starting 2021–2026 against 2015–2020; same projects and measure as the total above.","source_page":"https://odiez-lab.westeurope.cloudapp.azure.com/quantum-europe/observatory/trends"},{"key":"pillar","figure":"Quantum communication","statement":"The pillar whose EU contribution grew most between the two periods (×4.7); pillars by the portal method, projects not placed in a pillar left out.","source_page":"https://odiez-lab.westeurope.cloudapp.azure.com/quantum-europe/observatory/trends?by=pillar"},{"key":"platform","figure":"Photonic qubits","statement":"The hardware platform whose number of projects grew most between the two periods (×1.6), by project titles.","source_page":"https://odiez-lab.westeurope.cloudapp.azure.com/quantum-europe/observatory/platforms"},{"key":"countries","figure":"41%","statement":"Share of the 4,497 participations in Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe quantum projects (CORDIS) held by Germany, France and Italy, the three most active countries.","source_page":"https://odiez-lab.westeurope.cloudapp.azure.com/quantum-europe/observatory/countries"},{"key":"companies","figure":"624","statement":"Companies of any country taking part in Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe quantum projects (CORDIS); 348 of them (56%) are SMEs. The KPI observatory counts those based in Europe (EU, EFTA, United Kingdom and countries associated to Horizon Europe).","source_page":"https://odiez-lab.westeurope.cloudapp.azure.com/quantum-europe/supply-chain"},{"key":"research","figure":"29,486","statement":"Publications linked to EU-funded quantum projects in OpenAIRE, for the 1,256 of 1,256 projects checked so far.","source_page":"https://odiez-lab.westeurope.cloudapp.azure.com/quantum-europe/observatory/research"},{"key":"deadlines","figure":"19","statement":"Opportunities close in the next 30 days: 6 funding calls, 5 public tenders and 8 jobs.","source_page":"https://odiez-lab.westeurope.cloudapp.azure.com/quantum-europe/opportunities/deadlines"},{"key":"events","figure":"15","statement":"Quantum events in Europe and online in the next 60 days.","source_page":"https://odiez-lab.westeurope.cloudapp.azure.com/quantum-europe/events"},{"key":"new","figure":"105","statement":"Items added to the portal in the last 7 days: news, calls, tenders, jobs, events and documents.","source_page":"https://odiez-lab.westeurope.cloudapp.azure.com/quantum-europe/whats-new"}]}