{ "status": "source-verified", "compiled": "2026-10-27", "note": "Actions and objectives read in the Quantum Europe Strategy on EUR-Lex, in the portal’s own words, with the section and the page printed on the EUR-Lex PDF. Observed progress lists dated public facts from official EU pages (EUR-Lex, the Commission, its executive agencies, CORDIS, the EuroHPC and Chips joint undertakings, the European Innovation Council, ESA and the Quantum Flagship), each with its retrieval date and a locator. A status other than announced needs a fact that shows it; a fact marked context never changes the status, and an action without such a fact shows that no public evidence was found on the date it was checked. Pending editorial review.", "strategy": { "title": "Quantum Europe Strategy: Quantum Europe in a Changing World", "number": "COM(2025) 363 final", "adopted": "2025-07-02", "url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:52025DC0363", "pdf": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:52025DC0363", "retrieved": "2026-10-22", "page_note": "Page numbers are those printed on the EUR-Lex PDF, whose cover page is unnumbered." }, "statuses": { "announced": "Announced", "in-progress": "In progress (evidence)", "delivered": "Delivered (evidence)" }, "counts": { "announced": 22, "in-progress": 13, "delivered": 2 }, "as_of": "2026-11-03", "actions": [ { "id": "eurohpc-quantum-remit", "kind": "action", "area": "research-innovation", "title": "Amend the EuroHPC regulation to cover all quantum technologies", "summary": "Amend the founding regulation of the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking so that its remit extends to all quantum technologies.", "target_text": "Q3 2025", "target_date": "2025-Q3", "target_kind": "by", "actors": [ "European Commission", "EuroHPC Joint Undertaking" ], "locator": "Section 2.1, action list (p. 4); Appendix, Area 1 (p. 23)", "status": "delivered", "checked": "2026-10-22", "links": { "policy-timeline": [ "eurohpc-quantum-pillar" ], "eu-law": [ "eurohpc-ju", "eurohpc-ju-quantum-pillar" ] }, "progress": [ { "date": "2026-01-16", "recorded": "2026-10-22", "text": "Council Regulation (EU) 2026/150 amended the EuroHPC regulation to add a quantum technologies pillar covering computing and simulation, communication, and sensing and metrology, in force from 20 January 2026.", "evidence": "delivered", "links": { "policy-timeline": [ "eurohpc-quantum-pillar" ], "eu-law": [ "eurohpc-ju-quantum-pillar" ] }, "sources": [ { "title": "EUR-Lex: Council Regulation (EU) 2026/150, document information and text", "url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:32026R0150", "retrieved": "2026-10-21", "locator": "Document information read for the EU quantum policy timeline: date of document 16/01/2026, entry into force 20/01/2026; amended Article 4(1), point (j)" }, { "title": "EuroHPC JU: EuroHPC JU's mandate expanded under new regulation amendment (20 January 2026)", "url": "https://www.eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/eurohpc-jus-mandate-expanded-under-new-regulation-amendment-2026-01-20_en", "retrieved": "2026-10-22", "locator": "News item of 20 January 2026: amendment of Regulation (EU) 2021/1173 adding a quantum pillar; the JU to implement the Union quantum agenda, including the Quantum Flagship funded by Horizon Europe" } ], "evidence_label": "Shows the stated output exists", "display_date": "16 January 2026" } ], "area_label": "Research and innovation", "kind_label": "Action listed in the strategy", "status_label": "Delivered (evidence)", "target_kind_label": "Stated date", "target_upcoming": false, "overdue": false, "ongoing_since": null, "no_public_evidence": false }, { "id": "horizon-quantum-transfer", "kind": "action", "area": "research-innovation", "title": "Move Horizon Europe quantum research and innovation into the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking", "summary": "As a first step under the extended remit, transfer the current quantum research and innovation activities of Horizon Europe Pillar 2 into the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking.", "target_text": "Q3 2025", "target_date": "2025-Q3", "target_kind": "by", "actors": [ "European Commission", "EuroHPC Joint Undertaking" ], "locator": "Section 2.1, action list (p. 4); Appendix, Area 1 (p. 23)", "status": "in-progress", "checked": "2026-10-22", "links": { "funding": [ "eurohpc-quantum-calls" ] }, "progress": [ { "date": "2026-01-20", "recorded": "2026-10-22", "text": "The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking announced that under its amended regulation it implements the Union quantum agenda, including the Quantum Flagship research funded by Horizon Europe.", "evidence": "in-progress", "links": { "policy-timeline": [ "eurohpc-quantum-pillar" ] }, "sources": [ { "title": "EuroHPC JU: EuroHPC JU's mandate expanded under new regulation amendment (20 January 2026)", "url": "https://www.eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/eurohpc-jus-mandate-expanded-under-new-regulation-amendment-2026-01-20_en", "retrieved": "2026-10-22", "locator": "News item of 20 January 2026: amendment of Regulation (EU) 2021/1173 adding a quantum pillar; the JU to implement the Union quantum agenda, including the Quantum Flagship funded by Horizon Europe" } ], "evidence_label": "Shows work under way", "display_date": "20 January 2026" }, { "date": "2026-06-02", "recorded": "2026-10-22", "text": "The joint undertaking opened its first four quantum calls under the new pillar, among them calls on standards, photonic quantum computing and quantum machine learning.", "evidence": "in-progress", "links": { "funding": [ "eurohpc-quantum-calls" ] }, "sources": [ { "title": "EuroHPC JU: Four new EuroHPC JU calls to boost quantum innovation and standardisation in Europe (2 June 2026)", "url": "https://www.eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/four-new-eurohpc-ju-calls-boost-quantum-innovation-and-standardisation-europe-2026-06-02_en", "retrieved": "2026-10-22", "locator": "News item of 2 June 2026: call table (NGC-04, STAND-05, PQC-06, QML-07)" } ], "evidence_label": "Shows work under way", "display_date": "2 June 2026" }, { "date": "2026-08-14", "recorded": "2026-10-22", "text": "The joint undertaking announced six further quantum calls worth EUR 119 million in total, on trapped-ion, superconducting and neutral-atom platforms, next-generation QKD, testing infrastructure and experimental pilot lines.", "evidence": "in-progress", "links": { "funding": [ "eurohpc-quantum-calls" ] }, "sources": [ { "title": "EuroHPC JU: Six new quantum calls launched by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (14 August 2026)", "url": "https://www.eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/six-new-quantum-calls-launched-eurohpc-joint-undertaking-2026-08-14_en", "retrieved": "2026-10-22", "locator": "News item of 14 August 2026: call list TIPT-09 to QEXP-14, opening 13 August 2026, deadline 17 November 2026" } ], "evidence_label": "Shows work under way", "display_date": "14 August 2026" } ], "area_label": "Research and innovation", "kind_label": "Action listed in the strategy", "status_label": "In progress (evidence)", "target_kind_label": "Stated date", "target_upcoming": false, "overdue": true, "ongoing_since": null, "no_public_evidence": false }, { "id": "quantum-act-proposal", "kind": "action", "area": "research-innovation", "title": "Present a proposal for a Quantum Act", "summary": "Present a legislative proposal for a Quantum Act, which is also to set the EU-level governance of the Quantum Europe Research and Innovation Initiative.", "target_text": "2026", "target_date": "2026", "target_kind": "by", "actors": [ "European Commission" ], "locator": "Section 2.1, text and action list (p. 4); Section 2.3.4 (p. 15); Appendix, Area 1 (p. 23)", "status": "in-progress", "checked": "2026-10-22", "links": { "policy-timeline": [ "commission-work-programme-2026-quantum-act", "quantum-act-proposal-planned" ] }, "progress": [ { "date": "2025-10-21", "recorded": "2026-10-22", "text": "The Commission work programme 2026 listed a legislative Quantum Act among its new initiatives, planned for the second quarter of 2026.", "evidence": "context", "links": { "policy-timeline": [ "commission-work-programme-2026-quantum-act" ] }, "sources": [ { "title": "EUR-Lex: COM/2025/870 final, Commission work programme 2026, document information and text", "url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:52025DC0870", "retrieved": "2026-10-21", "locator": "Read for the EU quantum policy timeline: date of document 21/10/2025; Annex I, heading Research and Innovation (Quantum Act, legislative, Q2 2026)" } ], "evidence_label": "Context", "display_date": "21 October 2025" }, { "date": "2025-10-29", "recorded": "2026-10-22", "text": "The Commission published a call for evidence for an impact assessment on an EU Quantum Act, open for feedback until 15 December 2025.", "evidence": "in-progress", "links": { "policy-timeline": [ "quantum-act-proposal-planned" ] }, "sources": [ { "title": "European Commission, Have your say: EU quantum Act (initiative 15512)", "url": "https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/15512-EU-quantum-Act_en", "retrieved": "2026-10-22", "locator": "Call for evidence for an impact assessment: published 29 October 2025, feedback period ending 15 December 2025; read through the public data service of the Have your say portal" }, { "title": "European Commission press corner: Commission invites contributions to shape future EU Quantum Act (MEX/25/2567, 31 October 2025)", "url": "https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/mex_25_2567", "retrieved": "2026-10-22", "locator": "Daily news item of 31 October 2025 announcing the call for evidence; read through the press corner public document service" } ], "evidence_label": "Shows work under way", "display_date": "29 October 2025" }, { "date": "2026-10-22", "recorded": "2026-10-22", "text": "When checked, the Have your say page still listed the proposal for a regulation as upcoming in the fourth quarter of 2026, and no Commission proposal for a Quantum Act was found.", "evidence": "context", "links": { "policy-timeline": [ "quantum-act-proposal-planned" ] }, "sources": [ { "title": "European Commission, Have your say: EU quantum Act (initiative 15512)", "url": "https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/15512-EU-quantum-Act_en", "retrieved": "2026-10-22", "locator": "Stage proposal for a regulation: status upcoming, planned period Q4 2026, no COM number; read through the public data service of the Have your say portal" } ], "evidence_label": "Context", "display_date": "22 October 2026" } ], "area_label": "Research and innovation", "kind_label": "Action listed in the strategy", "status_label": "In progress (evidence)", "target_kind_label": "Stated date", "target_upcoming": true, "overdue": false, "ongoing_since": null, "no_public_evidence": false }, { "id": "quantum-grand-challenges", "kind": "action", "area": "research-innovation", "title": "Pilot two Quantum Grand Challenges", "summary": "Pilot at least two Quantum Grand Challenges with the European Investment Bank and the Member States, the first on fault-tolerant quantum computing and the second on quantum positioning, navigation and timing.", "target_text": "2025-2027", "target_date": "2027", "target_kind": "period", "actors": [ "European Commission", "European Investment Bank", "Member States" ], "locator": "Section 3.1, A Grand Challenge mechanism (pp. 19-20); Appendix, Area 1 (p. 23)", "status": "in-progress", "checked": "2026-10-22", "links": [], "progress": [ { "date": "2025-10-14", "recorded": "2026-10-22", "text": "The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking opened the Quantum Grand Challenge call for European quantum computing start-ups (HORIZON-JU-EUROHPC-2026-QGC-02), with a grant phase and a second phase financed by the EIB under InvestEU, closing on 29 January 2026.", "evidence": "in-progress", "links": [], "sources": [ { "title": "EuroHPC JU: EuroHPC JU opens Quantum Grand Challenge call (14 October 2025)", "url": "https://www.eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/eurohpc-ju-opens-quantum-grand-challenge-call-2025-10-14_en", "retrieved": "2026-10-22", "locator": "News item of 14 October 2025: call identifier, opening and closing dates, phase 2 through the EIB under InvestEU; the item does not use the words fault-tolerant" } ], "evidence_label": "Shows work under way", "display_date": "14 October 2025" }, { "date": "2026-06-02", "recorded": "2026-10-22", "text": "The joint undertaking opened a grand challenge on quantum sensors for inertial navigation where satellite navigation is denied (HORIZON-JU-EUROHPC-2026-NGC-04), with EIB convertible loans in its second phase, closing on 30 September 2026.", "evidence": "in-progress", "links": { "funding": [ "eurohpc-quantum-calls" ] }, "sources": [ { "title": "EuroHPC JU: Grand Challenge on Quantum Sensors for Inertial Navigation", "url": "https://www.eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/grand-challenge-quantum-sensors-inertial-navigation_en", "retrieved": "2026-10-22", "locator": "Call page: identifier, opening 2 June 2026, closing 30 September 2026, aim and phase 2 financing" }, { "title": "EuroHPC JU: Four new EuroHPC JU calls to boost quantum innovation and standardisation in Europe (2 June 2026)", "url": "https://www.eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/four-new-eurohpc-ju-calls-boost-quantum-innovation-and-standardisation-europe-2026-06-02_en", "retrieved": "2026-10-22", "locator": "News item of 2 June 2026: call table (NGC-04, STAND-05, PQC-06, QML-07)" } ], "evidence_label": "Shows work under way", "display_date": "2 June 2026" } ], "area_label": "Research and innovation", "kind_label": "Action listed in the strategy", "status_label": "In progress (evidence)", "target_kind_label": "Stated period", "target_upcoming": true, "overdue": false, "ongoing_since": null, "no_public_evidence": false }, { "id": "quantum-computing-simulation-roadmap", "kind": "action", "area": "infrastructures", "title": "Publish an EU Quantum Computing and Simulation Roadmap", "summary": "Publish a roadmap with benchmarks and a monitoring process to track the progress of the different quantum computing and simulation platforms and guide future public investment.", "target_text": "2026", "target_date": "2026", "target_kind": "by", "actors": [ "European Commission" ], "locator": "Section 2.2.1, text and action list (p. 7); Appendix, Area 2 (p. 23)", "status": "announced", "checked": "2026-10-22", "links": [], "progress": [ { "date": "2026-04-28", "recorded": "2026-10-22", "text": "A Quantum Computing Advisory Board chaired by Peter Zoller was launched to advise the Commission and to feed into 2026 quantum computing roadmaps, without naming the strategy or a published roadmap.", "evidence": "context", "links": [], "sources": [ { "title": "Quantum Flagship: New Quantum Computing Advisory Board launched to support the European Commission (28 April 2026)", "url": "https://qt.eu/news/2026/2026-04-28_New_Quantum_Computing_Advisory_Board_launched_to_support_the_European-Commission", "retrieved": "2026-10-22", "locator": "News item of 28 April 2026: launch, chair, coordination with the Commission, input to 2026 roadmaps and assessment criteria for platforms" } ], "evidence_label": "Context", "display_date": "28 April 2026" }, { "date": "2026-07-27", "recorded": "2026-10-22", "text": "The Quantum Flagship put a draft quantum computing and simulation roadmap to public consultation, without presenting it as the roadmap of the strategy.", "evidence": "context", "links": [], "sources": [ { "title": "Quantum Flagship: 2026 public consultation open (27 July 2026)", "url": "https://qt.eu/news/2026/2026-07-27_2026-public-consultation-open", "retrieved": "2026-10-22", "locator": "News item of 27 July 2026: six draft roadmaps put to public consultation by the Quantum Flagship, deadline extended to 25 August 2026; the item does not name the Quantum Europe Strategy" } ], "evidence_label": "Context", "display_date": "27 July 2026" } ], "area_label": "Quantum infrastructures", "kind_label": "Action listed in the strategy", "status_label": "Announced", "target_kind_label": "Stated date", "target_upcoming": true, "overdue": false, "ongoing_since": null, "no_public_evidence": true }, { "id": "eurohpc-quantum-systems", "kind": "action", "area": "infrastructures", "title": "Expand the EuroHPC quantum computers", "summary": "Increase the number and capacity of quantum computing systems deployed through the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking.", "target_text": "2026 onwards", "target_date": "2026", "target_kind": "from", "actors": [ "European Commission", "EuroHPC Joint Undertaking" ], "locator": "Section 2.2.1, action list (p. 7); Appendix, Area 2 (p. 23)", "status": "in-progress", "checked": "2026-10-22", "links": { "infrastructure": [ "piast-q", "vlq", "euro-q-exa", "lucy", "euroqcs-spain", "sol", "meluxina-q", "eurohpc-netherlands" ], "policy-timeline": [ "first-eurohpc-quantum-computer", "eurohpc-quantum-hosting-sites" ] }, "progress": [ { "date": "2025-09-23", "recorded": "2026-10-22", "text": "The EuroHPC quantum computer VLQ was inaugurated at IT4Innovations in Ostrava.", "evidence": "in-progress", "links": { "infrastructure": [ "vlq" ] }, "sources": [ { "title": "EuroHPC JU: VLQ, Europe’s next leap towards quantum-powered research and innovation (23 September 2025)", "url": "https://www.eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/vlq-europes-next-leap-towards-quantum-powered-research-and-innovation-2025-09-23_en", "retrieved": "2026-10-22", "locator": "News item of 23 September 2025: inauguration on the day of the item, host and place" } ], "evidence_label": "Shows work under way", "display_date": "23 September 2025" }, { "date": "2026-02-12", "recorded": "2026-10-22", "text": "Euro-Q-Exa was inaugurated at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre in Munich.", "evidence": "in-progress", "links": { "infrastructure": [ "euro-q-exa" ] }, "sources": [ { "title": "EuroHPC JU: Inauguration of Euro-Q-Exa (12 February 2026)", "url": "https://www.eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/inauguration-euro-q-exa-expanding-european-quantum-computing-infrastructure-2026-02-12_en", "retrieved": "2026-10-22", "locator": "News item of 12 February 2026: inauguration, host and place" } ], "evidence_label": "Shows work under way", "display_date": "12 February 2026" }, { "date": "2026-04-14", "recorded": "2026-10-22", "text": "The photonic quantum computer Lucy was inaugurated in Bruyères-le-Châtel in France.", "evidence": "in-progress", "links": { "infrastructure": [ "lucy" ] }, "sources": [ { "title": "EuroHPC JU: EuroHPC JU inaugurates a quantum computer in France (14 April 2026)", "url": "https://www.eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/eurohpc-ju-inaugurates-quantum-computer-france-strengthening-europes-sovereignty-2026-04-14_en", "retrieved": "2026-10-22", "locator": "News item of 14 April 2026: inauguration, host and place" } ], "evidence_label": "Shows work under way", "display_date": "14 April 2026" }, { "date": "2026-05-28", "recorded": "2026-10-22", "text": "EuroQCS-Spain was inaugurated at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center.", "evidence": "in-progress", "links": { "infrastructure": [ "euroqcs-spain" ] }, "sources": [ { "title": "EuroHPC JU: EuroHPC JU inaugurates EuroQCS-Spain in Barcelona (28 May 2026)", "url": "https://www.eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/eurohpc-ju-inaugurates-euroqcs-spain-barcelona-2026-05-28_en", "retrieved": "2026-10-22", "locator": "News item of 28 May 2026: inauguration, host and place" } ], "evidence_label": "Shows work under way", "display_date": "28 May 2026" }, { "date": "2026-06-11", "recorded": "2026-10-22", "text": "SOL, a neutral-atom system hosted by CINECA in Bologna, was inaugurated as the sixth EuroHPC quantum computer.", "evidence": "in-progress", "links": { "infrastructure": [ "sol" ] }, "sources": [ { "title": "EuroHPC JU: Inauguration of SOL, a new quantum computer, together with the LISA upgrade of the Leonardo supercomputer (11 June 2026)", "url": "https://www.eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/inauguration-sol-new-quantum-computer-together-lisa-upgrade-leonardo-supercomputer-2026-06-11_en", "retrieved": "2026-10-22", "locator": "News item of 11 June 2026: inauguration, host, place and its rank among EuroHPC quantum computers" } ], "evidence_label": "Shows work under way", "display_date": "11 June 2026" }, { "date": "2026-07-23", "recorded": "2026-10-22", "text": "The joint undertaking launched the procurement of MeluXina-Q, a spin-qubit quantum computer to be hosted by LuxProvide in Luxembourg, with tenders due on 1 September 2026.", "evidence": "in-progress", "links": { "infrastructure": [ "meluxina-q" ] }, "sources": [ { "title": "EuroHPC JU: EuroHPC JU launches procurement of a quantum computer in Luxembourg (23 July 2026)", "url": "https://www.eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/eurohpc-ju-launches-procurement-quantum-computer-luxembourg-2026-07-23_en", "retrieved": "2026-10-22", "locator": "News item of 23 July 2026: tender, host, qubit technology and deadline" } ], "evidence_label": "Shows work under way", "display_date": "23 July 2026" } ], "area_label": "Quantum infrastructures", "kind_label": "Action listed in the strategy", "status_label": "In progress (evidence)", "target_kind_label": "Stated start (onwards)", "target_upcoming": false, "overdue": false, "ongoing_since": "2026", "no_public_evidence": false }, { "id": "quantum-computing-monitoring", "kind": "action", "area": "infrastructures", "title": "Set up a monitoring framework for quantum computing", "summary": "Set up a monitoring framework that tracks the technological progress and maturity of quantum computing platforms.", "target_text": "2026", "target_date": "2026", "target_kind": "by", "actors": [ "European Commission" ], "locator": "Section 2.2.1, action list (p. 7); Appendix, Area 2 (p. 23)", "status": "announced", "checked": "2026-10-22", "links": [], "progress": [], "area_label": "Quantum infrastructures", "kind_label": "Action listed in the strategy", "status_label": "Announced", "target_kind_label": "Stated date", "target_upcoming": true, "overdue": false, "ongoing_since": null, "no_public_evidence": true }, { "id": "error-corrected-qubits-2030", "kind": "objective", "area": "infrastructures", "title": "About 100 error-corrected qubits per system", "summary": "Scale European quantum computing platforms to about 100 error-corrected qubits per system, with next generation machines acquired mainly from EU providers.", "target_text": "By 2030", "target_date": "2030", "target_kind": "by", "actors": [ "Quantum Europe Research and Innovation Initiative" ], "locator": "Section 2.2.1, text after Table 1 (p. 6)", "status": "announced", "checked": "2026-10-22", "links": [], "progress": [], "area_label": "Quantum infrastructures", "kind_label": "Objective or target stated in the text", "status_label": "Announced", "target_kind_label": "Stated date", "target_upcoming": true, "overdue": false, "ongoing_since": null, "no_public_evidence": true }, { "id": "error-corrected-qubits-2035", "kind": "objective", "area": "infrastructures", "title": "Thousands of error-corrected qubits per platform", "summary": "Make Europe the first continent to reach thousands of error-corrected qubits per platform.", "target_text": "By 2035", "target_date": "2035", "target_kind": "by", "actors": [ "Europe (aim stated by the strategy)" ], "locator": "Section 2.2.1, text after Table 1 (p. 6)", "status": "announced", "checked": "2026-10-22", "links": [], "progress": [], "area_label": "Quantum infrastructures", "kind_label": "Objective or target stated in the text", "status_label": "Announced", "target_kind_label": "Stated date", "target_upcoming": true, "overdue": false, "ongoing_since": null, "no_public_evidence": true }, { "id": "euroqci-interconnected-network", "kind": "action", "area": "infrastructures", "title": "Deploy the first EU-interconnected quantum communication network", "summary": "Deploy cross-border terrestrial quantum links between Member States and ground stations to the EuroQCI satellites, forming a first EU-interconnected experimental terrestrial and space secure communication network.", "target_text": "By 2030", "target_date": "2030", "target_kind": "by", "actors": [ "European Union (EuroQCI initiative, part of IRIS²)" ], "locator": "Section 2.2.2, The EuroQCI Initiative (pp. 8-9) and action list (p. 10); Appendix, Area 2 (p. 23)", "status": "in-progress", "checked": "2026-10-22", "links": { "infrastructure": [ "euroqci-terrestrial", "eagle-1" ] }, "progress": [ { "date": "2025-07-15", "recorded": "2026-10-22", "text": "Call DIGITAL-IRIS2-2025-QCI opened under the Union Secure Connectivity Programme for terrestrial QKD technologies and their certification and the coordination of EuroQCI deployments, with a deadline of 16 October 2025.", "evidence": "in-progress", "links": { "policy-timeline": [ "euroqci-iris2-call-2025" ], "eu-law": [ "iris2-secure-connectivity" ] }, "sources": [ { "title": "European Commission, Shaping Europe’s digital future: Info day on the call for proposals on the European Quantum Communication Infrastructure (EuroQCI)", "url": "https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/events/info-day-call-proposals-european-quantum-communication-infrastructure-euroqci", "retrieved": "2026-10-21", "locator": "Read for the EU quantum policy timeline: event page for the info day of 9 July 2025, call identifier, opening 15 July 2025, deadline 16 October 2025 and topics" } ], "evidence_label": "Shows work under way", "display_date": "15 July 2025" }, { "date": "2025-11-20", "recorded": "2026-10-22", "text": "HaDEA reported 56 projects selected for up to EUR 389 million under the fourth CEF Digital calls, whose topics include EuroQCI cross-border fibre links and ground stations to IRIS², without a separate EuroQCI figure.", "evidence": "in-progress", "links": { "funding": [ "cef-digital-euroqci" ] }, "sources": [ { "title": "HaDEA: 56 projects selected for up to EUR 389 million under 4th CEF-Digital calls (20 November 2025)", "url": "https://hadea.ec.europa.eu/news/56-projects-selected-eu389-million-under-4th-cef-digital-calls-2025-11-20_en", "retrieved": "2026-10-22", "locator": "News item of 20 November 2025: selection decision of 3 November 2025, topic list with the European Quantum Communication Infrastructure, totals for all topics" } ], "evidence_label": "Shows work under way", "display_date": "20 November 2025" } ], "area_label": "Quantum infrastructures", "kind_label": "Action listed in the strategy", "status_label": "In progress (evidence)", "target_kind_label": "Stated date", "target_upcoming": true, "overdue": false, "ongoing_since": null, "no_public_evidence": false }, { "id": "eagle-1-launch", "kind": "objective", "area": "infrastructures", "title": "Launch the Eagle-1 QKD satellite", "summary": "Launch Eagle-1, the first European in-orbit demonstrator of a quantum key distribution satellite, to be tested with the national terrestrial networks.", "target_text": "2026", "target_date": "2026", "target_kind": "by", "actors": [ "European Union (EuroQCI initiative)" ], "locator": "Section 2.2.2, The EuroQCI Initiative (p. 8)", "status": "announced", "checked": "2026-10-27", "links": { "infrastructure": [ "eagle-1" ] }, "latest_official": { "date": "2027-02", "date_text": "February 2027", "by": "European Space Agency (ESA)", "note": "The ESA Eagle-1 project page gives a planned launch in February 2027, later than the 2026 the strategy states; the Commission EuroQCI page gave late 2027 when checked on 19 October 2026.", "source": { "title": "ESA Connectivity and Secure Communications: EAGLE-1", "url": "https://resilience.esa.int/archives/partnership-projects/eagle-1", "retrieved": "2026-10-27", "locator": "Section The impact of EAGLE-1: launch slated for February 2027 (page modified 20 July 2026)" } }, "progress": [ { "date": "2026-10-19", "recorded": "2026-10-22", "text": "When checked for the portal infrastructure catalogue, the Commission EuroQCI page gave late 2027 as the planned launch of Eagle-1.", "evidence": "context", "links": { "infrastructure": [ "eagle-1" ] }, "sources": [ { "title": "European Commission, Shaping Europe’s digital future: European Quantum Communication Infrastructure (EuroQCI)", "url": "https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/european-quantum-communication-infrastructure-euroqci", "retrieved": "2026-10-19", "locator": "Read for the infrastructure catalogue: paragraph on the Eagle-1 satellite and its planned launch" } ], "evidence_label": "Context", "display_date": "19 October 2026" }, { "date": "2026-10-22", "recorded": "2026-10-22", "text": "When checked, the undated ESA Eagle-1 page gave late 2026 or early 2027 as the planned launch.", "evidence": "context", "links": [], "sources": [ { "title": "ESA: Eagle-1", "url": "https://www.esa.int/Applications/Connectivity_and_Secure_Communications/Eagle-1", "retrieved": "2026-10-22", "locator": "Main text under the title; the page carries no date" } ], "evidence_label": "Context", "display_date": "22 October 2026" } ], "area_label": "Quantum infrastructures", "kind_label": "Objective or target stated in the text", "status_label": "Announced", "target_kind_label": "Stated date", "target_upcoming": true, "overdue": false, "ongoing_since": null, "no_public_evidence": true }, { "id": "quantum-communication-roadmap", "kind": "action", "area": "infrastructures", "title": "Publish a Quantum Communication Roadmap", "summary": "Publish a roadmap for quantum communication in Europe.", "target_text": "2026", "target_date": "2026", "target_kind": "by", "actors": [ "European Commission" ], "locator": "Section 2.2.2, action list (p. 10); Appendix, Area 2 (p. 23)", "status": "announced", "checked": "2026-10-22", "links": [], "progress": [ { "date": "2026-07-27", "recorded": "2026-10-22", "text": "The Quantum Flagship put a draft quantum communication roadmap to public consultation, without presenting it as the roadmap of the strategy.", "evidence": "context", "links": [], "sources": [ { "title": "Quantum Flagship: 2026 public consultation open (27 July 2026)", "url": "https://qt.eu/news/2026/2026-07-27_2026-public-consultation-open", "retrieved": "2026-10-22", "locator": "News item of 27 July 2026: six draft roadmaps put to public consultation by the Quantum Flagship, deadline extended to 25 August 2026; the item does not name the Quantum Europe Strategy" } ], "evidence_label": "Context", "display_date": "27 July 2026" } ], "area_label": "Quantum infrastructures", "kind_label": "Action listed in the strategy", "status_label": "Announced", "target_kind_label": "Stated date", "target_upcoming": true, "overdue": false, "ongoing_since": null, "no_public_evidence": true }, { "id": "quantum-internet-pilot", "kind": "action", "area": "infrastructures", "title": "Launch a pilot facility for the European Quantum Internet", "summary": "Launch a pilot facility for testing quantum-safe components, early use cases, quantum cloud services and distributed computing, as a step towards a fully operational quantum-safe network by 2030.", "target_text": "2026", "target_date": "2026", "target_kind": "by", "actors": [ "Quantum Europe Research and Innovation Initiative" ], "locator": "Section 2.2.2, The Quantum Internet Initiative (p. 9) and action list (p. 10); Appendix, Area 2 (p. 23)", "status": "in-progress", "checked": "2026-10-22", "links": [], "progress": [ { "date": "2026-09-04", "recorded": "2026-10-22", "text": "The Commission signed the grant of QIA-Phase2, a EUR 47.5 million Quantum Internet Alliance project running from April 2026 to September 2029 whose objective includes preparing pilot and open-access facilities.", "evidence": "in-progress", "links": [], "sources": [ { "title": "CORDIS: Quantum Internet Alliance - Phase2 (QIA-Phase2), project 101297140", "url": "https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101297140", "retrieved": "2026-10-22", "locator": "Fact sheet: start 1 April 2026, end 30 September 2029, EC signature 4 September 2026, EU contribution, objective" } ], "evidence_label": "Shows work under way", "display_date": "4 September 2026" } ], "area_label": "Quantum infrastructures", "kind_label": "Action listed in the strategy", "status_label": "In progress (evidence)", "target_kind_label": "Stated date", "target_upcoming": true, "overdue": false, "ongoing_since": null, "no_public_evidence": false }, { "id": "gravimeter-network", "kind": "action", "area": "infrastructures", "title": "Deploy a distributed network of quantum gravimeters", "summary": "Deploy a network of ground-based quantum gravimeters across Europe, complemented by gravimeters on high-altitude platforms.", "target_text": "2026 onwards", "target_date": "2026", "target_kind": "from", "actors": [ "European Union", "Quantum Flagship" ], "locator": "Section 2.2.3, Quantum gravimeters (p. 10) and action list (p. 11); Appendix, Area 2 (p. 23)", "status": "in-progress", "checked": "2026-10-22", "links": [], "progress": [ { "date": "2025-06-01", "recorded": "2026-10-22", "text": "EQUIP-G, a Horizon Europe project to deploy a network of quantum gravimeters in Europe, started on 1 June 2025 for four years.", "evidence": "in-progress", "links": [], "sources": [ { "title": "CORDIS: European QUantum Infrastructure Project for Gravimetry (EQUIP-G), project 101215427", "url": "https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101215427", "retrieved": "2026-10-22", "locator": "Fact sheet: start 1 June 2025, end 31 May 2029, EC signature 6 May 2025, topic HORIZON-CL4-2024-DIGITAL-EMERGING-02-01, objective" } ], "evidence_label": "Shows work under way", "display_date": "1 June 2025" } ], "area_label": "Quantum infrastructures", "kind_label": "Action listed in the strategy", "status_label": "In progress (evidence)", "target_kind_label": "Stated start (onwards)", "target_upcoming": false, "overdue": false, "ongoing_since": "2026", "no_public_evidence": false }, { "id": "quantum-sensing-roadmap", "kind": "action", "area": "infrastructures", "title": "Publish a Quantum Sensing Roadmap", "summary": "Develop a coordinated European roadmap for quantum sensing, measurement and testing, with metrology institutes and the Member States.", "target_text": "2026", "target_date": "2026", "target_kind": "by", "actors": [ "European Union", "Metrology institutes", "Member States" ], "locator": "Section 2.2.3, text and action list (p. 11); Appendix, Area 2 (p. 23)", "status": "announced", "checked": "2026-10-22", "links": [], "progress": [ { "date": "2026-07-27", "recorded": "2026-10-22", "text": "The Quantum Flagship put a draft quantum sensing and metrology roadmap to public consultation, without presenting it as the roadmap of the strategy.", "evidence": "context", "links": [], "sources": [ { "title": "Quantum Flagship: 2026 public consultation open (27 July 2026)", "url": "https://qt.eu/news/2026/2026-07-27_2026-public-consultation-open", "retrieved": "2026-10-22", "locator": "News item of 27 July 2026: six draft roadmaps put to public consultation by the Quantum Flagship, deadline extended to 25 August 2026; the item does not name the Quantum Europe Strategy" } ], "evidence_label": "Context", "display_date": "27 July 2026" } ], "area_label": "Quantum infrastructures", "kind_label": "Action listed in the strategy", "status_label": "Announced", "target_kind_label": "Stated date", "target_upcoming": true, "overdue": false, "ongoing_since": null, "no_public_evidence": true }, { "id": "qmri-pilot-infrastructure", "kind": "action", "area": "infrastructures", "title": "Establish a European Q-MRI Pilot Infrastructure", "summary": "Set up a pilot infrastructure 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"retrieved": "2026-10-21", "locator": "Read for the EU quantum policy timeline: news item listed on 27/04/2025 with the dateline 28 April 2025" } ], "evidence_label": "Shows work under way", "display_date": "April 2025" }, { "date": "2025-12-12", "recorded": "2026-10-22", "text": "The Chips Joint Undertaking retained six quantum proposals, one each for superconducting, photonic, semiconducting, diamond, neutral-atom and trapped-ion chips, with more than EUR 314 million of combined EU and national funding.", "evidence": "in-progress", "links": { "funding": [ "chips-ju-quantum" ] }, "sources": [ { "title": "Chips JU: The Chips JU advances quantum and semiconductor innovation with an investment over EUR 659M", "url": "https://www.chips-ju.europa.eu/NewsDetails?id=725344c5-cf21-f111-8342-000d3a27d474", "retrieved": "2026-10-22", "locator": "News item dated 12 December 2025 (publication field 11/12/2025): quantum pilots, six proposals, technologies and funding" } ], "evidence_label": "Shows work under way", "display_date": "12 December 2025" }, { "date": "2026-06-03", "recorded": "2026-10-22", "text": "In the annexes to its Chips Act 2.0 proposal the Commission stated that six quantum chip pilot lines were established as of May 2026: SUPREME, SPINS, P4Q, DIREQT, Q-PLANET and CHAMP-ION.", "evidence": "delivered", "links": { "policy-timeline": [ "chips-act-2-proposal" ], "infrastructure": [ "supreme", "spins", "p4q", "direqt", "q-planet", "champ-ion" ] }, "sources": [ { "title": "European Commission: COM(2026) 504 final, Annexes to the proposal for a Chips Act 2.0 (3 June 2026)", "url": "https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/documents-register/api/files/COM(2026)504_1/090166e52e70cb82", "retrieved": "2026-10-22", "locator": "Annex I, quantum pilot lines, Status paragraph and table of the six pilot lines (pp. 3-4)" } ], "evidence_label": "Shows the stated output exists", "display_date": "3 June 2026" } ], "area_label": "Quantum ecosystem", "kind_label": "Action listed in the 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"evidence": "context", "links": { "policy-timeline": [ "chips-act-2-proposal" ] }, "sources": [ { "title": "European Commission: COM(2026) 504 final, Annexes to the proposal for a Chips Act 2.0 (3 June 2026)", "url": "https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/documents-register/api/files/COM(2026)504_1/090166e52e70cb82", "retrieved": "2026-10-22", "locator": "Annex I, quantum pilot lines, Status paragraph and table of the six pilot lines (pp. 3-4)" } ], "evidence_label": "Context", "display_date": "3 June 2026" } ], "area_label": "Quantum ecosystem", "kind_label": "Action listed in the strategy", "status_label": "Announced", "target_kind_label": "Stated date", "target_upcoming": true, "overdue": false, "ongoing_since": null, "no_public_evidence": true }, { "id": "quantum-chips-roadmap", "kind": "action", "area": "ecosystem", "title": "Release a Quantum Chips Industrialisation Roadmap", "summary": "Release a full-scale roadmap for the industrialisation of quantum chips, towards first quantum foundries.", "target_text": "2026", "target_date": "2026", "target_kind": "by", "actors": [ "European Commission" ], "locator": "Section 2.3.1 (p. 12) and action list (p. 15); Appendix, Area 3 (p. 23)", "status": "announced", "checked": "2026-10-22", "links": [], "progress": [ { "date": "2026-07-27", "recorded": "2026-10-22", "text": "The Quantum Flagship put a draft quantum chip industrialisation roadmap to public consultation, without presenting it as the roadmap of the strategy.", "evidence": "context", "links": [], "sources": [ { "title": "Quantum Flagship: 2026 public consultation open (27 July 2026)", "url": "https://qt.eu/news/2026/2026-07-27_2026-public-consultation-open", "retrieved": "2026-10-22", "locator": "News item of 27 July 2026: six draft roadmaps put to public consultation by the Quantum Flagship, deadline extended to 25 August 2026; the item does not name the Quantum Europe Strategy" } ], "evidence_label": "Context", "display_date": "27 July 2026" } ], "area_label": "Quantum ecosystem", "kind_label": "Action listed in the strategy", "status_label": "Announced", "target_kind_label": "Stated date", "target_upcoming": true, "overdue": false, "ongoing_since": null, "no_public_evidence": true }, { "id": "quantum-standards-roadmap", "kind": "action", "area": "ecosystem", "title": "Publish a European Quantum Standards Roadmap", "summary": "Publish a European roadmap for quantum standards and, with the Member States, support industry in European and international standardisation bodies.", "target_text": "2026", "target_date": "2026", "target_kind": "by", "actors": [ "European Union", "Member States" ], "locator": "Section 2.3.1 (p. 12) and action list (p. 15); Appendix, Area 3 (p. 23)", "status": "announced", "checked": "2026-10-22", "links": [], "progress": [ { "date": "2026-06-02", "recorded": "2026-10-22", "text": "The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking opened a EUR 1 million call on standards for quantum technologies (HORIZON-JU-EUROHPC-2026-STAND-05), which 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"locator": "News item of 27 July 2026: six draft roadmaps put to public consultation by the Quantum Flagship, deadline extended to 25 August 2026; the item does not name the Quantum Europe Strategy" } ], "evidence_label": "Context", "display_date": "27 July 2026" } ], "area_label": "Quantum ecosystem", "kind_label": "Action listed in the strategy", "status_label": "Announced", "target_kind_label": "Stated date", "target_upcoming": true, "overdue": false, "ongoing_since": null, "no_public_evidence": true }, { "id": "quantum-competence-clusters", "kind": "action", "area": "ecosystem", "title": "Expand the network of Quantum Competence Clusters", "summary": "Expand and network the Quantum Competence Clusters so that they cover the whole EU, including Member States without such a cluster.", "target_text": "2026", "target_date": "2026", "target_kind": "by", "actors": [ "Quantum Europe Research and Innovation Initiative" ], "locator": "Section 2.3.2 (p. 13) and action list (p. 15); Appendix, 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"2025-12-03", "recorded": "2026-10-22", "text": "A joint communication on economic security stated that quantum technologies had already been assessed among four critical technologies, without publishing the findings.", "evidence": "in-progress", "links": [], "sources": [ { "title": "EUR-Lex: JOIN(2025) 977 final, Strengthening EU economic security", "url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:52025JC0977", "retrieved": "2026-10-22", "locator": "Dated 3.12.2025; section 3, Advancing Europe’s economic security: high-risk areas, first paragraph" } ], "evidence_label": "Shows work under way", "display_date": "3 December 2025" } ], "area_label": "Quantum ecosystem", "kind_label": "Action listed in the strategy", "status_label": "In progress (evidence)", "target_kind_label": "Stated period", "target_upcoming": true, "overdue": false, "ongoing_since": null, "no_public_evidence": false }, { "id": "open-access-testbeds", "kind": "objective", "area": "ecosystem", "title": "A Europe-wide network of open-access quantum testbeds", "summary": "Turn the pilot facilities of the Quantum Flagship into a centralised Europe-wide network of open-access testbeds for testing, validating and benchmarking quantum devices.", "target_text": null, "target_date": null, "target_kind": null, "actors": [ "Quantum Flagship" ], "locator": "Section 2.3.2, first measure (p. 12)", "status": "in-progress", "checked": "2026-10-22", "links": { "infrastructure": [ "qu-test" ] }, "progress": [ { "date": "2026-08-13", "recorded": "2026-10-22", "text": "The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking opened a EUR 20 million call for a pan-European open-access testing and experimentation infrastructure for quantum technologies (HORIZON-JU-EUROHPC-2026-QTI-13), closing on 17 November 2026.", "evidence": "in-progress", "links": { "infrastructure": [ "qu-test" ], "funding": [ "eurohpc-quantum-calls" ] }, "sources": [ { "title": "EuroHPC JU: Quantum-Testing Infrastructure for Quantum Technologies", "url": "https://www.eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/quantum-testing-infrastructure-quantum-technologies_en", "retrieved": "2026-10-22", "locator": "Call page: details (opening date 13 August 2026) and description" }, { "title": "EuroHPC JU: Six new quantum calls launched by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (14 August 2026)", "url": "https://www.eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/six-new-quantum-calls-launched-eurohpc-joint-undertaking-2026-08-14_en", "retrieved": "2026-10-22", "locator": "News item of 14 August 2026: call list TIPT-09 to QEXP-14, opening 13 August 2026, deadline 17 November 2026" } ], "evidence_label": "Shows work under way", "display_date": "13 August 2026" } ], "area_label": "Quantum ecosystem", "kind_label": "Objective or target stated in the text", "status_label": "In progress (evidence)", "target_kind_label": null, "target_upcoming": null, "overdue": false, "ongoing_since": null, "no_public_evidence": false }, { "id": "quantum-scaleup-investment", "kind": "objective", "area": "ecosystem", "title": "Crowd in investment for quantum start-ups and scale-ups", "summary": "Encourage investment funds, including the EIC Fund, the Scaleup Europe Fund, the EIB Group and InvestEU schemes, to invest substantially in quantum companies.", "target_text": null, "target_date": null, "target_kind": null, "actors": [ "European Innovation Council Fund", "European Investment Bank Group", "InvestEU" ], "locator": "Section 2.3.3 (pp. 13-14)", "status": "in-progress", "checked": "2026-10-22", "links": { "funding": [ "eic-step-scale-up", "eic-accelerator" ] }, "progress": [ { "date": "2025-11-24", "recorded": "2026-10-22", "text": "The EIC Fund disbursed its first two EIC STEP Scale Up equity investments, one of them in IQM Quantum Computers.", "evidence": "in-progress", "links": { "funding": [ "eic-step-scale-up" ] }, "sources": [ { "title": "EIC: First EIC STEP Scale Up investments disbursed (24 November 2025)", "url": "https://eic.ec.europa.eu/news/first-eic-step-scale-investments-disbursed-2025-11-24_en", "retrieved": "2026-10-22", "locator": "News item of 24 November 2025: the two companies" } ], "evidence_label": "Shows work under way", "display_date": "24 November 2025" }, { "date": "2026-05-18", "recorded": "2026-10-22", "text": "The EIC Fund Board selected EQT to manage the Scaleup Europe Fund, a fund of about EUR 5 billion that lists quantum technologies among its strategic areas.", "evidence": "in-progress", "links": [], "sources": [ { "title": "EIC: Scaleup Europe Fund", "url": "https://eic.ec.europa.eu/eic-fund/scaleup-europe-fund_en", "retrieved": "2026-10-22", "locator": "Paragraph on the fund manager: selection confirmed on 18 May 2026, announced on 3 June 2026; target size and strategic areas" } ], "evidence_label": "Shows work under way", "display_date": "18 May 2026" } ], "area_label": "Quantum ecosystem", "kind_label": "Objective or target stated in the text", "status_label": "In 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"ongoing_since": null, "no_public_evidence": true }, { "id": "sensing-space-defence-roadmap", "kind": "action", "area": "space-dual-use", "title": "Develop a quantum sensing space and defence technology roadmap", "summary": "Develop a roadmap for quantum sensing in space and defence that aligns civil, security and defence priorities for gravimetry, navigation and threat detection.", "target_text": "2026", "target_date": "2026", "target_kind": "by", "actors": [ "European Commission" ], "locator": "Section 2.4, Quantum technologies for security and defence and action list (p. 17); Appendix, Area 4 (p. 23)", "status": "announced", "checked": "2026-10-22", "links": [], "progress": [], "area_label": "Space and dual-use (security and defence)", "kind_label": "Action listed in the strategy", "status_label": "Announced", "target_kind_label": "Stated date", "target_upcoming": true, "overdue": false, "ongoing_since": null, "no_public_evidence": true }, { "id": "armament-roadmap-contribution", "kind": "action", "area": "space-dual-use", "title": "Contribute quantum to the European Armament Technological Roadmap", "summary": "Contribute relevant quantum advances, initiatives and programmes to the European Armament Technological Roadmap announced in the White Paper for European Defence.", "target_text": "Q4 2025", "target_date": "2025-Q4", "target_kind": "by", "actors": [ "European Commission" ], "locator": "Section 2.4, Quantum technologies for security and defence and action list (p. 17); Appendix, Area 4 (p. 23)", "status": "announced", "checked": "2026-10-22", "links": [], "progress": [], "area_label": "Space and dual-use (security and defence)", "kind_label": "Action listed in the strategy", "status_label": "Announced", "target_kind_label": "Stated date", "target_upcoming": false, "overdue": true, "ongoing_since": null, "no_public_evidence": true }, { "id": "defence-spin-in", "kind": "action", "area": "space-dual-use", "title": "Launch quantum spin-in initiatives for 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"https://defence-industry-space.ec.europa.eu/commission-continues-strengthen-european-collaborative-defence-research-and-development-additional-2025-12-17_en", "retrieved": "2026-10-22", "locator": "News item of 17 December 2025: spin-in topics and critical technologies" } ], "evidence_label": "Context", "display_date": "17 December 2025" } ], "area_label": "Space and dual-use (security and defence)", "kind_label": "Action listed in the strategy", "status_label": "Announced", "target_kind_label": "Stated start (onwards)", "target_upcoming": false, "overdue": false, "ongoing_since": "2026", "no_public_evidence": true }, { "id": "quantum-skills-academy", "kind": "action", "area": "skills", "title": "Establish the European Quantum Skills Academy", "summary": "Establish a virtual European Quantum Skills Academy as a single contact point for quantum training, with common curricula, fellowships and a Quantum Talent Portal on the Digital Skills and Jobs Platform.", "target_text": "2026", "target_date": "2026", "target_kind": "by", "actors": [ "European Commission" ], "locator": "Section 2.5, text (pp. 17-18) and action list (p. 19); Appendix, Area 5 (p. 23)", "status": "in-progress", "checked": "2026-10-22", "links": [], "progress": [ { "date": "2026-05-11", "recorded": "2026-10-22", "text": "The Quantum Flagship announced the launch of the European Quantum Academy, a four-year EUR 19.8 million coordinating body for quantum education with more than 70 partner institutions, which it relates to the strategy.", "evidence": "in-progress", "links": [], "sources": [ { "title": "Quantum Flagship: The Quantum Academy launches to train Europe’s next generation of talent (11 May 2026)", "url": "https://qt.eu/news/2026/2026-05-06_The_Quantum_Academy_launches_to_train_Europes_next-generation_of_talent", "retrieved": "2026-10-22", "locator": "News item published 11 May 2026: launch, funding, partners, duration and reference to the strategy; the Quantum Talent Portal is not 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"target_upcoming": true, "overdue": false, "ongoing_since": null, "no_public_evidence": false }, { "id": "advanced-digital-skills-competitions", "kind": "action", "area": "skills", "title": "Launch European Advanced Digital Skills Competitions in quantum", "summary": "Develop European Advanced Digital Skills Competitions in which young people co-create quantum-driven solutions to societal and industrial challenges.", "target_text": "As of 2026, onwards", "target_date": "2026", "target_kind": "from", "actors": [ "European Commission" ], "locator": "Section 2.5, text (p. 18) and action list (p. 19); Appendix, Area 5 (p. 23)", "status": "in-progress", "checked": "2026-10-22", "links": [], "progress": [ { "date": "2025-11-04", "recorded": "2026-10-22", "text": "Digital Europe call DIGITAL-2026-SKILLS-09 opened with a topic on European Advanced Digital Skills Competitions that lists quantum among its digital areas, closing on 3 March 2026.", "evidence": "in-progress", "links": [], "sources": [ { "title": "HaDEA: Advanced Digital Skills (call DIGITAL-2026-SKILLS-09)", "url": "https://hadea.ec.europa.eu/calls-proposals/advanced-digital-skills-0_en", "retrieved": "2026-10-22", "locator": "Call page: identifier, opening 4 November 2025, deadline 3 March 2026, topic DIGITAL-2026-SKILLS-09-COMPETITIONS" } ], "evidence_label": "Shows work under way", "display_date": "4 November 2025" }, { "date": "2026-03-11", "recorded": "2026-10-22", "text": "HaDEA reported that the competitions topic of the call received 15 proposals; no award was found.", "evidence": "in-progress", "links": [], "sources": [ { "title": "HaDEA: Digital Europe Programme call completed with 31 proposals received (11 March 2026)", "url": "https://hadea.ec.europa.eu/news/digital-europe-programme-call-completed-31-proposals-received-2026-03-11_en", "retrieved": "2026-10-22", "locator": "News item of 11 March 2026: proposals per topic" } ], "evidence_label": "Shows work under way", "display_date": "11 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"ongoing_since": null, "no_public_evidence": true }, { "id": "researchers-in-residence-pilot", "kind": "action", "area": "skills", "title": "Launch a Researchers-in-Residence pilot in quantum start-ups", "summary": "Launch a European Innovation Council pilot that places researchers in quantum technology start-ups and scale-ups through a dedicated matching platform.", "target_text": "2025", "target_date": "2025", "target_kind": "by", "actors": [ "European Innovation Council" ], "locator": "Section 2.5, text (p. 18) and action list (p. 19); Appendix, Area 5 (p. 23)", "status": "announced", "checked": "2026-10-22", "links": [], "progress": [], "area_label": "Quantum skills", "kind_label": "Action listed in the strategy", "status_label": "Announced", "target_kind_label": "Stated date", "target_upcoming": false, "overdue": true, "ongoing_since": null, "no_public_evidence": true }, { "id": "quantum-talent-mobility", "kind": "action", "area": "skills", "title": "Launch the European Quantum 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"https://marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/whats-new/news/msca-choose-europe-for-science-2025-call-results", "retrieved": "2026-10-22", "locator": "Published line and results paragraph; quantum is not mentioned" } ], "evidence_label": "Context", "display_date": "29 April 2026" } ], "area_label": "Quantum skills", "kind_label": "Action listed in the strategy", "status_label": "Announced", "target_kind_label": "Stated start (onwards)", "target_upcoming": false, "overdue": false, "ongoing_since": "2026", "no_public_evidence": true }, { "id": "bilateral-cooperation", "kind": "action", "area": "international", "title": "Extend and launch quantum cooperation with like-minded countries", "summary": "Extend existing and launch new bilateral and multilateral quantum cooperation, such as joint research, coordinated calls and reciprocal access to infrastructures, with like-minded countries.", "target_text": "2025 onwards", "target_date": "2025", "target_kind": "from", "actors": [ 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"2026-10-22", "text": "The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking launched Q-Neko, an EU and Japan hybrid HPC and quantum computing project with about EUR 4 million from Horizon Europe and Japanese co-funding.", "evidence": "in-progress", "links": [], "sources": [ { "title": "EuroHPC JU: EuroHPC JU launches Q-Neko project to strengthen EU-Japan collaboration in quantum computing (6 July 2026)", "url": "https://www.eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/eurohpc-ju-launches-q-neko-project-strengthen-eu-japan-collaboration-quantum-computing-2026-07-06_en", "retrieved": "2026-10-22", "locator": "News item of 6 July 2026: partners, funding, start 1 January 2026, duration 36 months" } ], "evidence_label": "Shows work under way", "display_date": "6 July 2026" } ], "area_label": "International cooperation", "kind_label": "Action listed in the strategy", "status_label": "In progress (evidence)", "target_kind_label": "Stated start (onwards)", "target_upcoming": false, "overdue": false, "ongoing_since": "2025", 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"https://www.eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/eurohpc-ju-advisory-groups-appoint-new-leadership-start-their-mandates-2026-06-09_en", "retrieved": "2026-10-22", "locator": "News item of 9 June 2026: appointment by the Governing Board on 24 April 2026, first meeting on 8 and 9 June 2026, chair" } ], "evidence_label": "Context", "display_date": "24 April 2026" } ], "area_label": "Governance", "kind_label": "Objective or target stated in the text", "status_label": "Announced", "target_kind_label": null, "target_upcoming": null, "overdue": false, "ongoing_since": null, "no_public_evidence": true }, { "id": "member-state-cooperation-framework", "kind": "objective", "area": "governance", "title": "A structured cooperation framework with the Member States", "summary": "Set up a structured cooperation framework with the Member States to keep EU and national programmes coherent, coordinate annual progress and monitor quantum supply-chain security.", "target_text": null, "target_date": null, "target_kind": 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Every planned date and every fact is taken from a record of the portal’s curated infrastructure milestones or strategy tracker, named in from, with its source, locator and the date read; the summaries are in our own words. A planned date is what a public source stated, never a portal forecast. The status is announced, in progress or delivered as the listed evidence shows; a milestone without such evidence shows that no public evidence was found on the date it was checked. Changes record each revision of a planned date or status with the day the portal recorded it. 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