{ "title": "Quantum Europe indicator registry", "compiled": "2026-10-28", "note": "One versioned definition per figure published on the observatory, world, dashboard, KPI and country dossier pages. Each definition describes what the code computes. Approval: definitions that match the implemented code are approved by the portal owner (28 October 2026); a definition is provisional where code and definition disagree, where coverage is under 50%, or where the figure is only planned.", "page": "https://odiez-lab.westeurope.cloudapp.azure.com/quantum-europe/about/methods/indicators", "licence": "CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)", "groups": { "funding": "EU funding of quantum projects", "cordis": "Participation in Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe (CORDIS)", "catalogue": "Portal catalogue and activity", "research": "Research output of EU projects (OpenAIRE)", "europe": "Europe in quantum: JRC-style indicators", "world": "Europe in the world", "kpis": "KPI observatory", "country": "Countries: comparison and dossiers" }, "indicators": [ { "id": "funding.eu-contribution-by-start-year", "title": "EU contribution to quantum projects by start year", "group": "funding", "status": "published", "pages": [ { "path": "/observatory/trends", "title": "Funding trends in EU quantum research" }, { "path": "/observatory/at-a-glance", "title": "Quantum Europe at a glance" } ], "numerator": "Sum of the EU maximum contribution (ecMaxContribution, the grant agreed) of the quantum projects, each counted in the year it starts.", "denominator": "None: a count or a total, not a ratio.", "unit": "EUR (commitments, not payments)", "period": "Project start years 2015 to 2027 on 28 October 2026; the last two start years are partial (projects already signed that start later).", "counting": { "rule": "mixed", "text": "A project counts in its start year with its whole EU contribution, not spread over its duration. In the pillar breakdown a project in several pillars is split evenly; platforms and supply-chain segments (keyword matches on the title) are split evenly between those named; programme and coordinator country count the whole amount. Pillars by the portal’s one pillar method (Funding\\ProjectPillars::resolve()): the confirmed classification, else the taxonomy rules on the title, else the snapshot’s keyword suggestion when a keyword matched, else “not placed”. On 28 October 2026, of 1,347 CORDIS and Funding & Tenders projects, 422 were confirmed, 9 placed by title rules, 660 by keyword suggestion and 256 not placed.", "deduplication": "One row per grant number; the CORDIS and Funding & Tenders snapshots have disjoint grant numbers, and a repeated grant number in a file is read once." }, "geography": "All participating countries; the country breakdown uses the coordinator’s country, the eight most frequent named and the rest grouped as “Other countries”. A country filter keeps the projects with at least one participant from that country.", "source": "CORDIS, Publications Office of the European Union (Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe project and organisation datasets); EU Funding & Tenders Portal, European Commission (quantum projects of other EU programmes)", "licence": "European Commission reuse notice (Commission Decision 2011/833/EU) and Commission Decision C(2019) 1655 (CC BY 4.0); the portal’s compilation under CC BY 4.0", "coverage": { "text": "CORDIS projects of Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe whose title, acronym or topic identifier mentions quantum (1,256 projects, retrieved 16 October 2026). Catalogue coverage, not a census of the ecosystem. Funding & Tenders projects of other EU programmes (such as Digital Europe, the European Defence Fund and the Connecting Europe Facility) whose title or topic names quantum technology, or whose objective mentions it at least four times (91 projects, retrieved 21 October 2026).", "completeness_pct": null, "measured": null }, "caveat": "A project whose source states no EU contribution adds nothing to the sum but is still counted as a project. National, regional, private and non-EU funding is not included. The total on the at-a-glance page is this series summed over all start years.", "approval": { "state": "approved", "decision": "approved by portal owner, 28 Oct 2026", "reason": "" }, "version": "1.0.0", "changed": "2026-10-28", "change_note": "First registered version.", "code": [ "src/Observatory/FundingTrends.php", "src/Controller/FundingTrendsController.php", "src/Observatory/Brief.php" ] }, { "id": "funding.projects-by-start-year", "title": "Quantum projects by start year", "group": "funding", "status": "published", "pages": [ { "path": "/observatory/trends", "title": "Funding trends in EU quantum research" } ], "numerator": "Number of quantum projects starting in each year (the “Projects” measure of the funding trends page).", "denominator": "None: a count or a total, not a ratio.", "unit": "projects (fractions where a project is split)", "period": "Project start years 2015 to 2027 on 28 October 2026; the last two start years are partial (projects already signed that start later).", "counting": { "rule": "mixed", "text": "Whole projects for programme and coordinator country; fractional (1/n) for pillars, hardware platforms and supply-chain segments when a project falls in n of them, so a series can hold fractions. Pillars by the portal’s one pillar method (Funding\\ProjectPillars::resolve()): the confirmed classification, else the taxonomy rules on the title, else the snapshot’s keyword suggestion when a keyword matched, else “not placed”. On 28 October 2026, of 1,347 CORDIS and Funding & Tenders projects, 422 were confirmed, 9 placed by title rules, 660 by keyword suggestion and 256 not placed.", "deduplication": "One row per grant number; the CORDIS and Funding & Tenders snapshots have disjoint grant numbers, and a repeated grant number in a file is read once." }, "geography": "As the EU contribution series: all countries, coordinator country for the country breakdown.", "source": "CORDIS, Publications Office of the European Union (Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe project and organisation datasets); EU Funding & Tenders Portal, European Commission (quantum projects of other EU programmes)", "licence": "European Commission reuse notice (Commission Decision 2011/833/EU) and Commission Decision C(2019) 1655 (CC BY 4.0); the portal’s compilation under CC BY 4.0", "coverage": { "text": "CORDIS projects of Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe whose title, acronym or topic identifier mentions quantum (1,256 projects, retrieved 16 October 2026). Catalogue coverage, not a census of the ecosystem. Funding & Tenders projects of other EU programmes (such as Digital Europe, the European Defence Fund and the Connecting Europe Facility) whose title or topic names quantum technology, or whose objective mentions it at least four times (91 projects, retrieved 21 October 2026).", "completeness_pct": null, "measured": null }, "caveat": "Projects without a start date in the source are left out. Platforms and segments come from keywords in the title only.", "approval": { "state": "approved", "decision": "approved by portal owner, 28 Oct 2026", "reason": "" }, "version": "1.0.0", "changed": "2026-10-28", "change_note": "First registered version.", "code": [ "src/Observatory/FundingTrends.php", "src/Controller/FundingTrendsController.php" ] }, { "id": "funding.participations-by-actor", "title": "Participations by kind of organisation and start year", "group": "funding", "status": "published", "pages": [ { "path": "/observatory/trends", "title": "Funding trends in EU quantum research" } ], "numerator": "Number of participations (one organisation in one project) by the activity type of the organisation, counted in the start year of the project.", "denominator": "None: a count or a total, not a ratio.", "unit": "participations", "period": "Project start years 2015 to 2027 on 28 October 2026; the last two start years are partial (projects already signed that start later).", "counting": { "rule": "whole", "text": "Each organisation counts once per project it takes part in; the kind of organisation comes from its CORDIS or Funding & Tenders activity type (Topology\\SupplyChainFlows::actor()).", "deduplication": "Project identifiers of an organisation are de-duplicated before counting; only projects present in the projects snapshot are counted." }, "geography": "All participating countries; with a country filter only that country’s organisations are counted.", "source": "CORDIS, Publications Office of the European Union (Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe project and organisation datasets); EU Funding & Tenders Portal, European Commission (quantum projects of other EU programmes)", "licence": "European Commission reuse notice (Commission Decision 2011/833/EU) and Commission Decision C(2019) 1655 (CC BY 4.0); the portal’s compilation under CC BY 4.0", "coverage": { "text": "CORDIS projects of Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe whose title, acronym or topic identifier mentions quantum (1,256 projects, retrieved 16 October 2026). Catalogue coverage, not a census of the ecosystem. Funding & Tenders projects of other EU programmes (such as Digital Europe, the European Defence Fund and the Connecting Europe Facility) whose title or topic names quantum technology, or whose objective mentions it at least four times (91 projects, retrieved 21 October 2026).", "completeness_pct": null, "measured": null }, "caveat": "A participation is not a measure of funding received; large consortia weigh more.", "approval": { "state": "approved", "decision": "approved by portal owner, 28 Oct 2026", "reason": "" }, "version": "1.0.0", "changed": "2026-10-28", "change_note": "First registered version.", "code": [ "src/Observatory/FundingTrends.php", "src/Controller/FundingTrendsController.php" ] }, { "id": "funding.change-early-late", "title": "Change between the early and the late period", "group": "funding", "status": "published", "pages": [ { "path": "/observatory/trends", "title": "Funding trends in EU quantum research" }, { "path": "/observatory/at-a-glance", "title": "Quantum Europe at a glance" } ], "numerator": "Sum of the chosen measure over the late window of start years.", "denominator": "Sum of the same measure over the early window: the first min(6, half the number of years) start years. The late window has the same length and ends one year before the last start year, which is left out because its projects are still being signed.", "unit": "percent change (ratio minus one)", "period": "Two windows of start years; on 28 October 2026 2015–2020 against 2021–2026.", "counting": { "rule": "mixed", "text": "Same counting as the series it is computed from (EU contribution or projects).", "deduplication": "One row per grant number; the CORDIS and Funding & Tenders snapshots have disjoint grant numbers, and a repeated grant number in a file is read once." }, "geography": "As the series it is computed from.", "source": "CORDIS, Publications Office of the European Union (Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe project and organisation datasets); EU Funding & Tenders Portal, European Commission (quantum projects of other EU programmes)", "licence": "European Commission reuse notice (Commission Decision 2011/833/EU) and Commission Decision C(2019) 1655 (CC BY 4.0); the portal’s compilation under CC BY 4.0", "coverage": { "text": "CORDIS projects of Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe whose title, acronym or topic identifier mentions quantum (1,256 projects, retrieved 16 October 2026). Catalogue coverage, not a census of the ecosystem. Funding & Tenders projects of other EU programmes (such as Digital Europe, the European Defence Fund and the Connecting Europe Facility) whose title or topic names quantum technology, or whose objective mentions it at least four times (91 projects, retrieved 21 October 2026).", "completeness_pct": null, "measured": null }, "caveat": "Not shown when the early window has no value. The window before the last year still holds projects signed but not yet started, so recent growth can be understated or overstated as grants are added.", "approval": { "state": "approved", "decision": "approved by portal owner, 28 Oct 2026", "reason": "" }, "version": "1.0.0", "changed": "2026-10-28", "change_note": "First registered version.", "code": [ "src/Observatory/FundingTrends.php", "src/Controller/FundingTrendsController.php", "src/Observatory/Brief.php" ] }, { "id": "funding.peak-start-year", "title": "Peak start year", "group": "funding", "status": "published", "pages": [ { "path": "/observatory/trends", "title": "Funding trends in EU quantum research" } ], "numerator": "The start year with the largest value of the chosen measure, summed over all series of the breakdown.", "denominator": "None: a count or a total, not a ratio.", "unit": "year (with its value)", "period": "Project start years 2015 to 2027 on 28 October 2026; the last two start years are partial (projects already signed that start later).", "counting": { "rule": "mixed", "text": "Same counting as the series it is computed from.", "deduplication": "One row per grant number; the CORDIS and Funding & Tenders snapshots have disjoint grant numbers, and a repeated grant number in a file is read once." }, "geography": "As the series it is computed from.", "source": "CORDIS, Publications Office of the European Union (Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe project and organisation datasets); EU Funding & Tenders Portal, European Commission (quantum projects of other EU programmes)", "licence": "European Commission reuse notice (Commission Decision 2011/833/EU) and Commission Decision C(2019) 1655 (CC BY 4.0); the portal’s compilation under CC BY 4.0", "coverage": { "text": "CORDIS projects of Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe whose title, acronym or topic identifier mentions quantum (1,256 projects, retrieved 16 October 2026). Catalogue coverage, not a census of the ecosystem. Funding & Tenders projects of other EU programmes (such as Digital Europe, the European Defence Fund and the Connecting Europe Facility) whose title or topic names quantum technology, or whose objective mentions it at least four times (91 projects, retrieved 21 October 2026).", "completeness_pct": null, "measured": null }, "caveat": "Partial recent years can still overtake the peak as projects are signed.", "approval": { "state": "approved", "decision": "approved by portal owner, 28 Oct 2026", "reason": "" }, "version": "1.0.0", "changed": "2026-10-28", "change_note": "First registered version.", "code": [ "src/Observatory/FundingTrends.php", "src/Controller/FundingTrendsController.php" ] }, { "id": "funding.fastest-growing-series", "title": "Series that grew fastest between the two periods", "group": "funding", "status": "published", "pages": [ { "path": "/observatory/trends", "title": "Funding trends in EU quantum research" }, { "path": "/observatory/at-a-glance", "title": "Quantum Europe at a glance" } ], "numerator": "For each series (pillar, platform, segment, programme, country or kind of organisation): its sum over the late window.", "denominator": "The same series’ sum over the early window; the series with the largest ratio is named. Only series holding at least 5% of the total and a positive early value compete; catch-all series, post-quantum cryptography and projects not placed in a pillar are excluded.", "unit": "ratio (×)", "period": "The two windows of funding.change-early-late.", "counting": { "rule": "mixed", "text": "Same counting as the series: on the at-a-glance page the pillar is ranked on EU contribution and the hardware platform on projects.", "deduplication": "One row per grant number; the CORDIS and Funding & Tenders snapshots have disjoint grant numbers, and a repeated grant number in a file is read once." }, "geography": "As the series it is computed from.", "source": "CORDIS, Publications Office of the European Union (Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe project and organisation datasets); EU Funding & Tenders Portal, European Commission (quantum projects of other EU programmes)", "licence": "European Commission reuse notice (Commission Decision 2011/833/EU) and Commission Decision C(2019) 1655 (CC BY 4.0); the portal’s compilation under CC BY 4.0", "coverage": { "text": "CORDIS projects of Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe whose title, acronym or topic identifier mentions quantum (1,256 projects, retrieved 16 October 2026). 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Platforms come from title keywords only.", "approval": { "state": "approved", "decision": "approved by portal owner, 28 Oct 2026", "reason": "" }, "version": "1.0.0", "changed": "2026-10-28", "change_note": "First registered version.", "code": [ "src/Observatory/FundingTrends.php", "src/Controller/FundingTrendsController.php", "src/Observatory/Brief.php" ] }, { "id": "cordis.projects", "title": "CORDIS quantum projects", "group": "cordis", "status": "published", "pages": [ { "path": "/dashboard", "title": "Quantum Europe in data" } ], "numerator": "Number of CORDIS quantum projects in the snapshot.", "denominator": "None: a count or a total, not a ratio.", "unit": "projects", "period": "All start years in the CORDIS snapshot retrieved 16 October 2026 (Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe).", "counting": { "rule": "whole", "text": "Each project once.", "deduplication": "One project per CORDIS project id; organisations by CORDIS organisationID." }, "geography": "Every participating country, inside and outside the EU; EU27, EEA and associated countries and third countries are not separated in this figure.", "source": "CORDIS, Publications Office of the European Union (Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe project and organisation datasets)", "licence": "European Commission reuse notice (Commission Decision 2011/833/EU) and Commission Decision C(2019) 1655 (CC BY 4.0); the portal’s compilation under CC BY 4.0", "coverage": { "text": "CORDIS projects of Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe whose title, acronym or topic identifier mentions quantum (1,256 projects, retrieved 16 October 2026). 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Catalogue coverage, not a census of the ecosystem.", "completeness_pct": null, "measured": null }, "caveat": "An organisation with several CORDIS identifiers (for example separate legal entities of one group) counts more than once.", "approval": { "state": "approved", "decision": "approved by portal owner, 28 Oct 2026", "reason": "" }, "version": "1.0.0", "changed": "2026-10-28", "change_note": "First registered version.", "code": [ "scripts/opendata.py", "src/Controller/DashboardController.php", "templates/qe-dashboard.html.twig" ] }, { "id": "cordis.participations", "title": "Participations in CORDIS quantum projects", "group": "cordis", "status": "published", "pages": [ { "path": "/dashboard", "title": "Quantum Europe in data" } ], "numerator": "Number of participation rows: one organisation in one project, whatever its role.", "denominator": "None: a count or a total, not a ratio.", "unit": "participations", "period": "All start years in the CORDIS snapshot retrieved 16 October 2026 (Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe).", "counting": { "rule": "whole", "text": "Each organisation counts once per project.", "deduplication": "As listed by CORDIS for each project." }, "geography": "Every participating country, inside and outside the EU; EU27, EEA and associated countries and third countries are not separated in this figure.", "source": "CORDIS, Publications Office of the European Union (Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe project and organisation datasets)", "licence": "European Commission reuse notice (Commission Decision 2011/833/EU) and Commission Decision C(2019) 1655 (CC BY 4.0); the portal’s compilation under CC BY 4.0", "coverage": { "text": "CORDIS projects of Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe whose title, acronym or topic identifier mentions quantum (1,256 projects, retrieved 16 October 2026). 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An amount the source does not state or that cannot be read counts as zero in the sum.", "approval": { "state": "approved", "decision": "approved by portal owner, 28 Oct 2026", "reason": "" }, "version": "1.0.0", "changed": "2026-10-28", "change_note": "First registered version.", "code": [ "scripts/opendata.py", "src/Controller/DashboardController.php", "templates/qe-dashboard.html.twig" ] }, { "id": "cordis.funding-by-start-year", "title": "CORDIS funding by project start year", "group": "cordis", "status": "published", "pages": [ { "path": "/dashboard", "title": "Quantum Europe in data" } ], "numerator": "Per start year: the number of CORDIS quantum projects and the sum of their EU maximum contribution.", "denominator": "None: a count or a total, not a ratio.", "unit": "projects; EUR million", "period": "All start years in the CORDIS snapshot retrieved 16 October 2026 (Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe). 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An amount the source does not state or that cannot be read counts as zero in the sum.", "approval": { "state": "approved", "decision": "approved by portal owner, 28 Oct 2026", "reason": "" }, "version": "1.0.0", "changed": "2026-10-28", "change_note": "First registered version.", "code": [ "scripts/opendata.py", "src/Controller/DashboardController.php", "templates/qe-dashboard.html.twig" ] }, { "id": "cordis.participations-by-country", "title": "Participations by country", "group": "cordis", "status": "published", "pages": [ { "path": "/dashboard", "title": "Quantum Europe in data" }, { "path": "/observatory/compare", "title": "Compare countries" }, { "path": "/observatory/countries/{code}/dossier", "title": "Country policy dossiers" }, { "path": "/observatory/country/{code}", "title": "Country profile" } ], "numerator": "Number of participations of organisations located in the country in CORDIS quantum projects.", "denominator": "None: a count or a total, not a ratio.", "unit": "participations", "period": "All start years in the CORDIS snapshot retrieved 16 October 2026 (Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe).", "counting": { "rule": "whole", "text": "Each organisation counts once per project, in the country CORDIS records for it.", "deduplication": "As listed by CORDIS; Greece and the United Kingdom are matched whatever code the source uses (EL/GR, UK/GB)." }, "geography": "Every country in CORDIS, including associated and third countries; the dashboard lists the twelve with most participations.", "source": "CORDIS, Publications Office of the European Union (Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe project and organisation datasets)", "licence": "European Commission reuse notice (Commission Decision 2011/833/EU) and Commission Decision C(2019) 1655 (CC BY 4.0); the portal’s compilation under CC BY 4.0", "coverage": { "text": "CORDIS projects of Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe whose title, acronym or topic identifier mentions quantum (1,256 projects, retrieved 16 October 2026). 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Recent years still grow as OpenAlex indexes works; coverage of conference papers and of some countries is uneven.", "approval": { "state": "approved", "decision": "approved by portal owner, 28 Oct 2026", "reason": "" }, "version": "1.0.0", "changed": "2026-10-28", "change_note": "First registered version.", "code": [ "src/Controller/WorldController.php", "src/World/WorldIndicators.php" ] }, { "id": "world.publication-share", "title": "Share of the world’s quantum publications", "group": "world", "status": "published", "pages": [ { "path": "/world", "title": "Europe in the world" } ], "numerator": "Works of the country or block in the year.", "denominator": "All matching works with at least one author country in the same year.", "unit": "percent (one decimal)", "period": "First and last publication years (2015 and 2025).", "counting": { "rule": "whole", "text": "Full counting, so shares do not add up to 100%.", "deduplication": "As world.publications-by-country." }, "geography": "As world.publications-by-country; the world is every work with an author country.", "source": "OpenAlex", "licence": "OpenAlex data CC0 1.0; the portal’s calculation under CC BY 4.0", "coverage": { "text": "Quantum research publications in OpenAlex: articles, reviews and conference papers with at least one OpenAlex topic the portal counts as quantum (OpenAlexInstitutions::TOPICS), read on 22 October 2026 (monthly refresh).", "completeness_pct": null, "measured": null }, "caveat": "Shown as a dash when the year has no work with an author country (before 28 October 2026 such a share was shown as 0.0%).", "approval": { "state": "approved", "decision": "approved by portal owner, 28 Oct 2026", "reason": "" }, "version": "1.0.0", "changed": "2026-10-28", "change_note": "First registered version.", "code": [ "src/Controller/WorldController.php", "src/World/WorldIndicators.php" ] }, { "id": "world.publication-growth", "title": "Yearly growth of publications", "group": "world", "status": "published", "pages": [ { "path": "/world", "title": "Europe in the world" } ], "numerator": "Works of the last year.", "denominator": "Works of the first year; compound annual growth rate = (last / first)^(1 / years) − 1.", "unit": "percent per year", "period": "From 2015 to 2025.", "counting": { "rule": "whole", "text": "Full counting.", "deduplication": "As world.publications-by-country." }, "geography": "As world.publications-by-country.", "source": "OpenAlex", "licence": "OpenAlex data CC0 1.0; the portal’s calculation under CC BY 4.0", "coverage": { "text": "Quantum research publications in OpenAlex: articles, reviews and conference papers with at least one OpenAlex topic the portal counts as quantum (OpenAlexInstitutions::TOPICS), read on 22 October 2026 (monthly refresh).", "completeness_pct": null, "measured": null }, "caveat": "A dash when the first year has no works.", "approval": { "state": "approved", "decision": "approved by portal owner, 28 Oct 2026", "reason": "" }, "version": "1.0.0", "changed": "2026-10-28", "change_note": "First registered version.", "code": [ "src/Controller/WorldController.php", "src/World/WorldIndicators.php" ] }, { "id": "world.companies-by-country", "title": "Quantum companies by country", "group": "world", "status": "published", "pages": [ { "path": "/world", "title": "Europe in the world" } ], "numerator": "Quantum companies by country: from the Wikidata company discovery file when installed; otherwise the companies found in open sources and published on the portal (the counts of /supply-chain/companies-by-region.json).", "denominator": "None: a count or a total, not a ratio.", "unit": "companies", "period": "Date of the file or of the count, shown on the page.", "counting": { "rule": "whole", "text": "Each company once, in its country.", "deduplication": "One record per company as published on the portal, or per Wikidata item." }, "geography": "By country, with the 27 EU Member States summed; filterable by region.", "source": "Wikidata, or OpenAlex, ROR, Wikidata, GLEIF, industry association lists, contract awards and patent applicants as published on the portal", "licence": "Wikidata, ROR, OpenAlex and GLEIF CC0 1.0; other sources under their own terms", "coverage": { "text": "Companies the portal could document from open sources; not a census.", "completeness_pct": null, "measured": null }, "caveat": "A missing company is not evidence that it does not exist. 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