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Proposal starter pack: HORIZON-JU-EUROHPC-2026-QTI-13-01

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Quantum-Testing Infrastructure for Quantum Technologies

The call

HORIZON-JU-EUROHPC-2026-QTI-13-01 is a Research and Innovation Action (RIA) of the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU work programme (Horizon Europe and Digital Europe funding)), open as the source states, with a planned opening on 2026-08-13 and a deadline on 2026-11-17. Its stated budget is EUR 20,000,000 for 1 expected grant.

Topic
HORIZON-JU-EUROHPC-2026-QTI-13-01: Quantum-Testing Infrastructure for Quantum Technologies
Programme
EuroHPC Joint Undertaking, EuroHPC JU work programme (Horizon Europe and Digital Europe funding)
Type of action
RIA (Research and Innovation Action)
Status
Open
Planned opening
2026-08-13
Deadline
2026-11-17 (single-stage)
Budget (as stated)
EUR 20,000,000 (2026; 1 expected grant; EUR 19,000,000 to 20,000,000 each)
Call
HORIZON-JU-EUROHPC-2026-QTI-13, Quantum-Testing Infrastructure for Quantum Technologies
Technology families
Enabling technologies and supply chain

This action will establish a pan-European open-access testing and experimentation infrastructure for quantum technologies, enabling systematic validation and certification of quantum components and systems. Expected outcomes include: Deployment of distributed quantum testing facilities accessible…

Expected outcome, as the source words it (excerpt).

Source: EU Funding & Tenders Portal, topic HORIZON-JU-EUROHPC-2026-QTI-13-01, Topic header (status, planned opening, deadlines), budget overview and type of action; search API record (read 2026-11-01). Back to the programme pipeline

Who can take part

EuroHPC JU quantum calls (Horizon Europe funded, 2026): Since Council Regulation (EU) 2026/150 the EuroHPC JU runs the EU quantum research and innovation calls. Most 2026 calls are limited to Member States and EuroHPC JU Participating States.

Recorded for this topic: Member States and EuroHPC JU Participating States; control restriction with guarantees.

The topic restricts participation for entities controlled from outside the eligible countries; read its conditions.

Who can take part, by group of countries (rules of the instrument; the topic may restrict them)
CountriesCan take partNoteSource
EU Member States
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden
YesEligible for the open platform, QKD, testing and pilot-line calls (deadline 17 November 2026) and for the quantum machine learning call.EU countries, Country list (27 pages) (read 2026-10-24)
EuroHPC JU Participating States
Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Türkiye, United Kingdom
YesEligible for the open platform, QKD, testing and pilot-line calls (deadline 17 November 2026) and for the quantum machine learning call.Discover EuroHPC JU, Section "Members", public members (read 2026-10-24)
Associated to the whole of Horizon Europe
Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Egypt, Faroe Islands, Georgia, Iceland, Israel, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia, Switzerland, Tunisia, Türkiye, Ukraine, United Kingdom
Only in some parts or topicsAmong open calls, only the quantum machine learning call; the other calls require a EuroHPC JU Participating State (joining before grant signature makes the country eligible).EU Grants: List of participating countries in Horizon Europe, version 4.2 of 7 October 2026, Page 1-2, "Third countries associated to Horizon Europe", entries 1-23 without a Pillar II limitation; Egypt from the 2025 budget, Switzerland from the 2025 budget, United Kingdom from the 2024 budget except the EIC Fund (read 2026-10-24)
Associated to Horizon Europe Pillar II only
Canada, Japan, Republic of Korea, New Zealand
Only in some parts or topicsAmong open calls, only the quantum machine learning call; the other calls require a EuroHPC JU Participating State (joining before grant signature makes the country eligible).EU Grants: List of participating countries in Horizon Europe, version 4.2 of 7 October 2026, Page 1-2, entries 4 (Canada, budget 2024 onwards), 10 (Japan, budget 2026 onwards), 14 (New Zealand, work programmes 2023 onwards) and 17 (Republic of Korea, budget 2025 onwards) (read 2026-10-24)
Low- to middle-income countries automatically eligible for Horizon Europe funding
Morocco, South Africa, Another country on the Horizon Europe low- to middle-income list
Only in some parts or topicsAmong open calls, only the quantum machine learning call; the other calls require a EuroHPC JU Participating State (joining before grant signature makes the country eligible).EU Grants: List of participating countries in Horizon Europe, version 4.2 of 7 October 2026, Page 3-4, "Participants from the following low- to middle-income countries are automatically eligible for funding" (read 2026-10-24)
Other countriesNoNone of the 2026 EuroHPC quantum calls is open to entities established in this country.

Legal basis

Rules checked 2026-10-24. Official list of participating countries. Who can participate?

Projects already funded

On this topic (0)

None found in the stored CORDIS and Funding & Tenders projects.

Under the same call (0)

None found in the stored CORDIS and Funding & Tenders projects.

In the same technology pillar (most recent first) (51)

In the same technology pillar (most recent first): up to 10 projects
ProjectStartCountriesWhy listedSource
EuroQSS: Universal European Quantum Software Stack2026-10-01AT, CZ, DE, ES, FI, FR, SESame technology pillar: Enabling technologies and supply chain (confirmed by an editor).CORDIS, snapshot 2026-10-16
MechNanoCav_for_QNN: Mechanically tunable nanophotonic cavities for scalable quantum network nodes2026-09-01ATSame technology pillar: Enabling technologies and supply chain (confirmed by an editor).CORDIS, snapshot 2026-10-16
SPEED: Single-Photon Emitters from Engineered Defects for nanoscale quantum optics2026-09-01ESSame technology pillar: Enabling technologies and supply chain (placed by the portal’s keyword rules).CORDIS, snapshot 2026-10-16
FALQON: Fast photonic integrated circuits for continuous-variable quantum key distribution2026-05-01DKSame technology pillar: Enabling technologies and supply chain (confirmed by an editor).CORDIS, snapshot 2026-10-16
Q-PLANET SGA1: Quantum Pilot Line for production of Advanced chips for Neutral atom European Technologies - Specific Agreement 12026-05-01AT, BE, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, IT, PL, PT, SESame technology pillar: Enabling technologies and supply chain (confirmed by an editor).CORDIS, snapshot 2026-10-16
P4Q: Photonics for Quantum Pilot Line2026-04-01AT, BE, CZ, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, IE, IT, NL, NOSame technology pillar: Enabling technologies and supply chain (confirmed by an editor).CORDIS, snapshot 2026-10-16
SUPREME 1: SUPERCONDUCTING EUROPEAN QUANTUM PILOT LINE2026-04-01AT, CZ, DE, ES, FI, FR, IT, NLSame technology pillar: Enabling technologies and supply chain (confirmed by an editor).CORDIS, snapshot 2026-10-16
QuAMP: Democratizing access to Quantum limited microwave parametric AMPlifiers2025-12-01CHSame technology pillar: Enabling technologies and supply chain (confirmed by an editor).CORDIS, snapshot 2026-10-16
QUANTUM-VIBES: An innovative vibration decoupling systems operated at mK temperatures for cryogenic detectors and quantum computing2025-11-01DESame technology pillar: Enabling technologies and supply chain (confirmed by an editor).CORDIS, snapshot 2026-10-16
ASPEQT: Artificial atoms in Silicon Photonics for Error-corrected Quantum Technologies2025-11-01DKSame technology pillar: Enabling technologies and supply chain (confirmed by an editor).CORDIS, snapshot 2026-10-16

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Candidate partner organisations

Organisations only, each with the documented reason it is listed: EU-funded projects in the topic’s pillars (public CORDIS data, through the funding finder’s partner rules), capabilities in the supplier directory (including curated company product pages) and company intelligence an editor verified. At most 3 per country, so the list spans countries. The organisations have not opted in to being suggested; contact them through their own websites.

Candidate partners: 12 of 12 organisations with documented capability
OrganisationCountryDocumented capability and source
Equal 1 Laboratories Ireland LimitedIreland
Freie Universitaet BerlinGermany
Orange Quantum Systems Operational BVNetherlands
Politecnico di TorinoItaly
Technische Universitaet WienAustria
Universitaet SiegenGermany
Universitat Politecnica de CatalunyaSpain
Universitat Politecnica de ValenciaSpain
Universite de LiegeBelgium
Universiteit UtrechtNetherlands
University of GalwayIreland
University of StuttgartGermany

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National contact points

National support services that make Horizon Europe known and accessible to all potential applicants. Each Member State and associated country sets up, runs and finances its own NCP system with a national portal; the EU Funding & Tenders Portal lists the NCPs by country and programme.

Horizon Europe National Contact Points (NCPs) on the Funding & Tenders Portal

This portal holds no list of individual contact points by country, so none is named here.

Source: EU Grants: HE NCP Guide, V3.0, 15 December 2024, Introduction and section on national NCP systems, points (a) and (e): established, operated and financed under the responsibility of the Member States and Associated Countries; national Horizon Europe portal; Funding & Tenders Portal links (read 2026-10-22). Who does what in EU quantum governance

Infrastructure and access routes

Facilities in the topic’s technology pillars: up to 10
FacilityCountry and hostAccessWhy listedSource
CHAMP-ION
Ion-trap chips with integrated electronic and photonic structures: design, microfabrication and testing, with PDKs
EU, Coordinated by Silicon Austria Labs (SAL); 21 participantsAccess mode documentedSame technology pillar: Enabling technologies and supply chain.Chips JU: CHAMP-ION, Championing a European Advanced Manufacturing Pilot Line of Ion-Traps (read 2026-10-21)
DIREQT
Diamond quantum chips: single-crystal diamond with spin defects, with Quantum Process Design Kits
EU, Coordinated by Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR); 31 participantsAccess mode documentedSame technology pillar: Enabling technologies and supply chain.Chips JU: DIREQT, Diamond for Industry REady Quantum Technologies (read 2026-10-21)
P4Q
Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) for quantum computing, communication and sensing, with process and assembly development kits (PDKs and ADKs)
EU, Coordinated by Universiteit Twente; 29 participantsAccess mode documentedSame technology pillar: Enabling technologies and supply chain.Chips JU: P4Q, Photonics for Quantum Pilot Line (read 2026-10-21)
Qu-Pilot
Pilot fabrication on superconducting, photonics, semiconducting and diamond platforms
EU, Coordinated by VTT; 21 partners from 9 European countriesAccess mode documentedSame technology pillar: Enabling technologies and supply chain.Fraunhofer IAF: Qu-Pilot (read 2026-10-19)
Qu-Test
Network of testbeds for testing and experimentation with quantum technologies; independent third-party validation
EU, Coordinated by TNOAccess mode documentedSame technology pillar: Enabling technologies and supply chain.Fraunhofer IAF: Qu-Test (read 2026-10-19)
SUPREME
Superconducting quantum devices: baseline processes for angle-evaporated and etched junctions, 3D integration and hybrid processes
EU, Coordinated by Teknologian tutkimuskeskus VTT Oy; 23 participantsAccess mode documentedSame technology pillar: Enabling technologies and supply chain.Chips JU: SUPREME, Superconducting European Quantum Pilot Line (read 2026-10-21)
Q-PLANET
Neutral-atom quantum chips and chip-based components, with PDKs and ADKs
EU, Coordinated by Pasqal; 30 participantsNo access mode documentedSame technology pillar: Enabling technologies and supply chain.Chips JU: Q-PLANET, Quantum Pilot Line for production of Advanced chips for Neutral atom European Technologies (read 2026-10-21)
SPINS
Semiconductor spin-qubit chips (quantum dots) in SOI, Si/SiGe and Ge/GeSi, with PDKs and multi-project wafer (MPW) services
EU, Coordinated by Interuniversitair Micro-Electronica Centrum (imec); 25 participantsNo access mode documentedSame technology pillar: Enabling technologies and supply chain.Chips JU: SPINS, Semiconductor Pilot line for Industrial quantum NanoSystems (read 2026-10-21)

Standards and policy actions

Standards and specifications

Quantum Europe Strategy actions

The type of action

EuroHPC JU quantum grant calls (Horizon Europe, quantum technologies pillar, HORIZON-JU-EUROHPC-2026-* topics): general rules, as the sources state them
FactAs the source statesSource
What it fundsThe 2026 amendment added a quantum technologies pillar to the JU, covering R&I, lab-to-fab transition and ecosystem development, fault-tolerant quantum computing, skills and international cooperation across quantum computing, communication and sensing.Council Regulation (EU) 2026/150 of 16 January 2026 amending Regulation (EU) 2021/1173 on establishing the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking, Article 1(3), inserting Article 4(1)(j) (read 2026-10-25)
Who appliesUnder Article 22(5) of Horizon Europe, participation in QEXP-14 is limited to legal entities established in Member States or EuroHPC JU Participating States, which the topic lists.Funding & Tenders portal topic HORIZON-JU-EUROHPC-2026-QEXP-14-01 Quantum Experimental Pilot Lines for Quantum Technologies, Topic conditions, point 2 Eligible countries (read 2026-10-25)
Funding rateEach work programme must include a mandatory component of quantum-pillar Horizon Europe R&I actions up to TRL 5 funded at 100 % of total eligible costs; otherwise the JU may set different reimbursement rates by participant type and action type in the work programme.Council Regulation (EU) 2026/150 of 16 January 2026 amending Regulation (EU) 2021/1173 on establishing the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking, Article 1(7), replacing Article 34(1)-(2) (read 2026-10-25)
Typical sizeBudgets of the August 2026 calls: TIPT-09 EUR 20 million, SPT-10 EUR 20 million, NAPT-11 EUR 20 million (indicative), NQKD-12 EUR 24 million, QTI-13 EUR 20 million, QEXP-14 EUR 15 million (indicative); most projects last 3.5 years.Six new quantum calls launched by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (14 August 2026), Press release of 14 August 2026 (read 2026-10-25)
Technology readinessQEXP-14 activities should validate technologies from TRL 3/4 and take them to TRL 5/7 by project end.Funding & Tenders portal topic HORIZON-JU-EUROHPC-2026-QEXP-14-01 Quantum Experimental Pilot Lines for Quantum Technologies, Topic description, Technology Readiness Level (read 2026-10-25)
ConditionsEntities in eligible countries that are controlled by a non-eligible country or entity are excluded unless the country of establishment approves guarantees that their participation will not harm Union strategic interests.Funding & Tenders portal topic HORIZON-JU-EUROHPC-2026-QEXP-14-01 Quantum Experimental Pilot Lines for Quantum Technologies, Topic conditions, point 2 Eligible countries (read 2026-10-25)

Implementing body: EuroHPC Joint Undertaking

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The General Annexes of the main Horizon Europe work programme do not cover this topic (they leave out the ERC, the EIC, the joint undertakings and other programmes), so no general checklist is shown: the proposal parts are set by the call document and the application form on the topic page. EU Funding & Tenders Portal, topic HORIZON-JU-EUROHPC-2026-QTI-13-01, Topic header (status, planned opening, deadlines), budget overview and type of action; search API record (read 2026-11-01)

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